Nigeria, with one of the most robust and freest media in Africa, provides a
fertile ground for unencumbered investigative journalism. In the last five years,
except for episodic exclusives in one or two newspapers, investigative stories
have waned. Why are Nigerian newspapers not engaging in investigative
reporting, and what implication does…[Read more]

The Uri attack in 2016 and the Pulwama attack in 2019 by terrorist in Jammu and
Kashmir have brought to the center-stage the Kashmir conflict as a core issue between
the two South Asian neighbors, India and Pakistan. This research analyzes the
mediatized indulgence of terror in reporting of these two incidents in television and
print media.…[Read more]

There has been a recurrent rate of prevalent and pervasive violent conflicts
between herders and farmers in Nigeria. Issues emanating from environmental
degradation, and socio-political disorder have shifted pastoralist migratory
patterns and increased tensions between farmers and herders. This, however,
has influenced conflicts and hostility…[Read more]

Journalism, the “first draft of history” (i.e. Barth, 1943, p. 667), often drafts a
history of tragedy and violence – “the oldest kinds of stories” (Coté & Simpson,
2000, p. 3). Throughout history, war and storytelling are intractably linked:
“Because of the far-reaching effects of war, we want to know as much about it
as possible. Fo…[Read more]

The period between 2014 and 2016 saw the rise of the radical Islamist terrorist
group Islamic State (IS), which committed acts of terrorism in not only Syria and
Iraq but also unleashed violence in the rest of the world. Twitter took the lead
in being the source of receiving and giving quick updates on terror news. However,
a key question that…[Read more]

The present study critically investigates the single case media reporting of the
Chapel Hill shooting incident in North Carolina, USA. Eight newspaper reports,
including BBC, Fox News, Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times,
Huffington Post, and among which two from CNN were assessed, using the Critical
Discourse Analysis (CDA)…[Read more]

Research originally developed in the 1970s to make television and mass media
advertising more effective has involved into a contemporary system of
propaganda manipulation. Agents use social media to convince people that
fake news is a valid reason for people to act and to vote. While the Russian
manipulation of the U.S. presidential election…[Read more]

The reflection of the idea of the leading role of native land is decided by the fact
that the primary attention is determined by the interest in the concept of the
revival of national identity. The aim of the article is addressed to the formation
of ideas about the reflection of native land during periods of socio-economic
upheaval. The…[Read more]

The article discusses some features of information technologies used by Kazakh
media during election campaigns of different years. The purpose of this work is
to analyze the peculiarities and factors behind the increasing role of the Kazakh
media in the process of democratic elections. The article shows that since 1991-
1996 transitional…[Read more]

The visionary Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) is India’s most famous director. His visual
style fused the aesthetics of European realism with evocative symbolic realism,
which he based on classic Indian iconography, the aesthetic and narrative
principles of rasa, the energies of shakti and shakta, the principles of dharma,
and the practice of d…[Read more]

News media studies, especially in the field of the political economy of media,
have traditionally been looking at frames used by news media. Structures are
usually examined as follows: the words or phrases emphasized; the images
excluded or trivialized; and what these frames suggest about the mediated
image of public issues. Recent studies in…[Read more]

The industry of public relations (PR) within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is
lagging corresponding to the advancements which are happening in the external
world. In this context, social media has been regarded to be the primary catalyst
in terms of pushing the PR industry of the UAE to cope with the continuous
alterations of the external…[Read more]

The article examines the cultural and educational mission of modern media
related to the spiritual and cultural education of youth in Kazakhstan. Over the
past two decades, the socialization problems of Kazakh youth have been removed
from the state’s social policy agenda. Methods of comparative and complex
analysis were applied in this s…[Read more]

Two-way symmetrical communication has been described as the best practice in
modern public relations. The advent of new media, specifically social media,
provides public relations practitioners with the opportunities of engaging in
effective two-way communication with their publics because of its interaction
potentials.The aim of this paper,…[Read more]

Despite the importance of football as an effective means of developing physical
activity and fitness, routine data of football-related injuries are either
inadequate or underreported, particularly in Nigeria. To develop an
understanding of the football-related injuries and determine the prospects for
prevention, logical and useful information…[Read more]

A crucial question that has arisen is whether the involvement of Web users can
be extended to the funding of news organizations aimed at their financial
independence from traditional funding practices. The evolution of multimodal
media websites, the media crisis and the growing dissatisfaction of the citizens,
create the conditions for online…[Read more]

Governments have often sought improved ways to market their policies, which
are variedly viewed as adequate or inadequate, in a bid to get the citizens
actively engaged in the process of development. Digital media usage has
inundated the social media space with both individual and governments
presences. However, despite strong digital media…[Read more]

This study examined how Nigerian newspapers reported the herdsmen and
farmers’ conflict in Nigeria. It analyzed the contents of six newspapers to explore
the primary sources, the prominence accorded the conflict reports, and the themes
focused on their reportage. Findings show that out of the 159 stories considered
for the study, newspapers r…[Read more]

The study investigated the effects of Korean cultural products – namely drama,
popular music, and celebrity – on Malaysian metrosexuals’ attitudes to Korean
grooming products and also their consumption behaviour. In this study, we
developed a conceptual model depicting the relationships of critical variables
deduced from the Cultural Diamo…[Read more]

In recent years, we have witnessed an increase in the spaces for content written
by audiences in the news media and the growing integration of such material in
areas that had been reserved for news professionals until now. And, without a
doubt, political issues have been one of the ones that have generated the most
debate on the networks. And,…[Read more]