Among the emerging economies, India is the most promising market for
Generation Y, because majority of Indian’s population belongs to this segment
(those born between 1980 and 2000). These individuals are tech-savvy and
extensively use mobile phones. This study aims to uncover the role of mobile
phone that has emerged along with the e…[Read more]

This article traces the new channels of communication being used as intercultural
communication tool to enhance the existing bond of friendship between China
and Pakistan, the oldest strategic allies in the region. The study explores
government initiatives, academic programs and projects aimed at promoting
Chinese language and culture in…[Read more]

New media networks have led to a personalization of the political sphere as
affordances provided by the virtual space give precedence to the significance of
the ‘self ’ over the ‘masses’. Through this paper an attempt has been made to
understand how the LGBT community uses new media technologies to transcend
the boundaries of the traditi…[Read more]

In 2001, CEO and owner of Black Entertainment Television (BET) Bob Johnson,
sold majority ownership to Viacom with much controversy. Many people in the
black community questioned the appropriateness of a network that claimed to
represent black life being under the defacto control of a white dominated
corporation. This study seeks to assess the…[Read more]

This paper is about how cybercafés in small and medium Asian towns highlight
new aspects of modernity. Especially in the context of Asian modernity, the
introduction of ICT-shaped social spaces in the form of cybercafés leads to
multiple conflicting rhetoric of empowerment and progress on the one hand,
and risk and moral degeneration on the o…[Read more]

With the rise of populism, both in American and European politics, one question
seems to circulate on a regular basis. Are voters, particularly American voters,
being conned by false promises and needless fear mongering?

Riots broke out in Ferguson, Missouri (USA) after a white police officer shot and
killed a black citizen of Ferguson. We explain how a breakdown of popular
sovereignty in Ferguson contributed to the preexisting hostility in Ferguson. The
rhetorical appeal of “Black Lives Matter” will hopefully lead to the restoration
of a democratic municipal…[Read more]

This paper theorizes a model for the representation of risks in online news media.
Its practicability is demonstrated using Malaysian alternative online newspapers.
Anxiety and uncertainty about a risk event are naturally rooted in discourse and
count as discursive event because they appear on the discourse planes of politics
and the media…[Read more]

The study was aimed at ascertaining the level at which broadcast journalists in
South-East Nigeria deploy the social media in news gathering and transmission.
The survey research method was used while the questionnaire served as the
measuring instrument. The entire 867 broadcast journalists in the South-East
geopolitical zone of Nigeria…[Read more]

The purpose of this study was to provide information regarding a venue for exercise
adherence motivation toward physical activity via social media support. The five themes
identified that positively affected participants’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to adhere
to exercise through a social media fitness application were: accountability…[Read more]

The study of journalism and Students’ choice for learning has hardly recognised in
the age of technology and proliferation of media industries. India has witnessed
unprecedented growth of private vocational journalism institutes, where Students’
choice for learning in journalism education remains inadequate attention. The
paper brings an…[Read more]

The current article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of the information materials
of the popular German mass media covering the Ukrainian crisis in 2014. Special
attention is paid to the formation of the Russian and Ukrainian images in the
framework of the information-psychological confrontation through psycholinguistic
processing of the…[Read more]

New media technologies have immense opportunities as well as challenges in
enriching teaching-learning processes which involve the teachers and the taught.
Undoubtedly, the effective use of new media technologies would depend on the
teaching faculty as they are the ones who have to become adept in innovative use
of new media technologies so as…[Read more]

In this digital age of online news, objective journalism is increasingly treated
as unnecessary, if not obsolete. In the liberal West, news portals can offer
different views to counter the political economic status quo proffered by
traditional hyper-commercial corporate media. In more authoritarian Asian
countries like Malaysia, “alternative”…[Read more]

This research explores how integrating course modality changes through blended
learning technologies impacts the framework of public speaking curriculum. Public
Speaking is a unique area of study, as it involves a large number of student
performances, requires a small class size, and incites increased communication
apprehension in students.…[Read more]

This article draws on the challenges confronting community media in South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria to propose a ‘rethink’ in media policy conception and the political processes for policy-making. It suggests an ‘ethical-political’ policy model as best suited to the contribution of community media towards sophistication in media policy discour…[Read more]

The concept of social capital is quite complex and every scholar defined it differently. Taking into consideration the idea of social capital discussed by Robert Putnam, James Coleman, Michael Woolcock, etc. the current study has determined the variables affecting the social capital. These variables are demographics (social network, education…[Read more]

New technology has been credited with the ability to extend human senses. However, adaptation and use of technology has been reported to be intricately mediated by usefulness and ease of use of technology among other contingencies. While Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has provided the theoretical basis for adaptation and use of technology in a…[Read more]

An online survey is reported that was carried out with more than 385 social media users aged 18 and over and extracted from nine Arab countries; Bahrain, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Jordan and Yemen. This research focuses on the use of Facebook by a selected group called Open Media Library (OML) which have interests in social media…[Read more]

This paper examines the divergence and impact of Chilean news media and their uses of Facebook as a tool to deliver news and information and engagement with their audience. It also looks at the emergence of new digital media organizations during the last decade in Chile as a response to a concentrated duopoly market in the country. To do so, this…[Read more]