Hindi cinema has always been a better citation for Indian culture. Now it is an
accepted proof for the changing scenarios of modern India. The cinema has shaped
and portrayed Indian culture to the extent that the sixth art forms could ever
achieve. Hindi cinema has a great influence on common man who sees the different
symbols of daily life…[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]

India though being the birthplace of the ancient science of sex, it is really a matter
of shame that the post British India, considers it a taboo, to talk and discuss it in
the public. Like many other ancient scriptures and technologies that were all
initiated by India, but are now used and further developed by the western world,
India, in…[Read more]

The purpose of this article was to examine the perception of the audience regarding
the portrayal of women in Indian TV advertisements and the perception difference
among them on the basis of their gender. 125 young adults comprising of 63 males
and 62 females were selected randomly as the sample for the study. Primary data
was collected…[Read more]

This article describes the context that the city of Chihuahua, Mexico witnessed
during the years 2007-2012 regarding the war that took place between the Mexican
government and organized crime groups; centering the analysis on the particular
role that the different types of newspapers (digital and printed) played on
informing the violence that…[Read more]

The potential to reach out to large mass of people in considerably shorter periods
of time, though resulted in acceleration of news production, it also paved way to
a sudden boom in circulation of fake news. The attempt made here is to understand
the various factors that influence the propagation of fake news. With the assistance
of an online…[Read more]

While the Internet and multimedia applications have made it easy to produce and
spread media, they have also made it possible to distribute fake news to masses.
With over 200 million active users in India and growing, WhatsApp’s reach and
features make it a top choice to spread fake news. This not only influences public
opinion in India but…[Read more]

A participative and representative democracy like that of India cannot deny media’s
significant role in strengthening its democratic fabric. However, while media has
offered a huge platform for creating awareness, educating and sensitising people,
the quality of knowledge disseminated, the kind of awareness created, the way of
connecting with…[Read more]

The paper deals with the problems and prospects for the development of television
broadcasting in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the context of the information society.
The author suggests the mechanisms for controlling and forecasting socially
responsible television and discovers its role in democratic modernization of
society. The paper…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Lectura psicoanalítica de la película ‘Black Swan’ (Darren Aronofsky, 2010), con algunas observaciones relacionadas sobre su gestión del sistema de estrellato de Hollywood, y una comparación de la misma con otro ejercicio de ‘psicótica’ fílmica en ‘Spiderman 3) (Sam Raimi, 2007) _____…[Read more]

Sexual harassment is a recurrent issue in any modern society. The increasing
cases of sexual harassment against women have become a menace in Nigeria.
This study sought to determine the potential place of Yoruba as a form of localized
communication in promoting psychological support on issues of sexual harassment
against women. The study…[Read more]

The present paper aims at analyzing the inevitable relationship of patriarchal
impunity with counterpublic in India with reference to Onaatah of the Earth (2017) by
Paulami Duttagupta. It is apparent that much of the discourse on counterpublic
emphasizes on either countering the existing state agencies as mentioned by
Nancy Frazer where she…[Read more]

The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements are sexual misconduct survivor movements,
interrogating in particular the entertainment and media industries. These
movements aim to dismantle power structures in these industries by raising-up
systemically silenced voices of victims (survivors) of sexual misconduct. I analyze
comedian Louis CK’s apology for…[Read more]

Hindi cinema has been the most celebrated form of entertainment source around the world and since time immemorial. Behind the lyrics of pseudo romantic songs, dialogues, scenes of love and affection display, courtship, and so on, sexual harassment has been seen spreading it’s sickening aura to create some of the meanest examples in Hindi cinema. S…[Read more]

Based on questionnaire responses from a purposive sample of 400 Jordanian young viewers, this study attempts to examine reality perceptions of the events portrayals on Korean TV drama among them, and to explore how they relate to this drama such as realism perceptions, utility, and identity. The results revealed that viewers’ gender has a s…[Read more]

Are degrading sexual references more prevalent than non-degrading references in music popular with adolescents? The purpose of this study was to perform a content analysis of contemporary popular music with particular attention paid to the prevalence of violent, misogynistic, profane, and/or demeaning colloquial references. Billboard magazine was…[Read more]

In an era of rapid economic transformations and attendant anxieties, the quest for sustainable development has been a major discursive engagement. This article uses three case studies to discuss how electronic media promotes the discourse of ecological entrepreneurship (EE). Three case studies are undertaken: (i) The UN’s new media engagement, (…[Read more]

The study examines the discourse of ISIS propaganda during its rise and dispersion
periods, to conclude its ability to convince, when it is devoid of power, compared
with its speech that was at the rising of the organization. The study’s methodology
based mainly on Teun A. van Dijk’s and Norman Fairclough’s approaches to Criti…[Read more]

This paper examines the social construction of gender by Gulzar in the film
Aandhi and maps it with the cultural and socio-political changes that took place
in the country during that era. Aandhi1
is the first Hindi film that narrates the
dilemma of a modern woman politician – a space largely occupied by men.
Gulzar went against the norms o…[Read more]

Cinema for social change is not a new approach. Odia cinema, earlier known as
Oriya cinema, has been intrinsically connected to the essence of Odia language
and culture in the Indian state of Odisha. Since the inception of Odia cinema, it
has been endeavoring to send social messages by employing visual
communication for social change and…[Read more]