The contemporary debate between patriotic nationalism and the freedom of
expression has sparked off in the wake of JNU students’ union president arrest on
the charges of sedition post the organization of a cultural program. The incident
infuriated debate amongst the country’s highest intellectuals, parliamentarians,
journalists and many others…[Read more]

This study explores the portrayal of Islam and Muslims in the western media talk
shows, CNN and BBC from January 2012 to December 2012 and draws the required
data from their online editions. It is a content analysis of 50 programs focusing on
Islam and Muslims from Piers Morgan Live, Fareed Zakaria GPS, HARDtalk and
Newsnight. The findings…[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 arguments found ground after the revolution of Gutenberg and importance of
reading being elevated in comparison to addressing, delivering original hand
writings to masses by copying (Warschauer, 2007) and after centuries, reaching
the point of electronic literacy with many innovations. These arguments reached
a point suggesting that…[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]

This paper seeks to study the changing relationship between news and public
policies. It would address the changing modes of reporting along with changes in
different strands in public policy, its instruments and actors. Conventional literature
in the field provides a broader perspective related to news and public policy. It is
claimed that…[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]

Commercial interests invariably become entwined with making films, with reporting
the news and with other forms of information and entertainment. Pervasive mediagenerated gender and racial stereotypes distort cultural representations and
negatively impact users’ perceptions of society. As students learn to create various
forms of media, their…[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]

Binge TV-watching marks a new era of TV-watching behavior among youth. It is a result of dependence on new media and the widespread usage of smart phones connected to the Internet. The study investigates binge-watching among a sample of Arab residents in United Arab Emirates. It examines how binge-watching might correlate to depression and…[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]

Recent years have seen a sequence of “moral panics” regarding accessibility of information on the internet and its exercise for criminal/harmful activity. Such problems and wider availability of internet raises the public policy concerns among governments over whether the internet should be regulated or not. Some believe it should not, con…[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]

The “civility crisis” has been a big concern in the U.S. and abroad at least since the 1990s. Evidence suggested that uncivil attacks in political discourse have a negative impact on political trust. Administering an online survey with an experiment embedded in it, the study seeks to find out whether source and uncivil commentary in a news sto…[Read more]

This paper, attempted to answer, how, in the age of totalizing mediated
communication, the role of a cultural expert (i.e. a person with knowledge and
competence for interpreting the cultural phenomena encountered by a non-reflexive
person in everyday life) is transformed. Terms ‘communicative capitalism’ and
‘digital labour’ were used in this…[Read more]

Uses and gratifications research helps in finding out how audience makes use of
mass media to gratify their needs. Media research can help both the industry and
the academia to map audience behaviour which is very much connected to various
factors such as geography, culture, education and socio-economic circumstances.
This research conducted…[Read more]

Literary multilingualism has been dexterously used by the Indian English writers to
reflect the cultural and behavioral style of the characters and make the setting
realistic. The paper attempts to identify and analyze the kinds of literary techniques
used in Indian English fiction and how through the use of these techniques, the
writers have…[Read more]

The 1960s was a period of social change in countries around the world and in
hundreds of cities in the United States. We argue that music played a rhetorical
role in bringing a vast array of people together behind a wide range of issues. The
music of Bob Dylan unified people together, making Dylan a kind of prophet that
put into music the…[Read more]