Exploring the Built Environment in Tamil Cinema: An Analysis of Architectural Metaphors (2000-2024)
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This research explores the intersection of architecture and Tamil cinema from 2000 to 2024, analyzing how directors have utilized architectural elements as both literal and symbolic components within their films. Architecture, traditionally seen as a backdrop, becomes an integral narrative tool that metaphorically reflects the socio-political, emotional, and psychological landscapes of characters. Drawing on key film...
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Illegal migration is a global issue that impacts various aspects of human life. This study examines the coverage and framing of illegal migration in Ethiopian print media, focusing on Addis Zemen and Reporter newspapers. The researchers used both quantitative and qualitative research methods to analyse the amount and framing of stories about illegal migration published by the two newspapers. The findings indicate that the...
Role of Mass Media and Rural Development: A Case Study of Kalahandi district of Odisha
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This article examines the complex interplay between mass media and rural development in Kalahandi district, Odisha, India. Kalahandi, once infamous for its chronic poverty and recurring famines, has witnessed significant progress in recent years. This article focusing on how mass media, particularly community radio and social media, has facilitated the dissemination of crucial information about government schemes,...
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In the context of globalization, information flows freely through digital medias. The approach for nations to build their national image and strengthen their soft power through cultural communication is changing rapidly. This article tries to explore the ability of the documentary to shape national image by recording and inheriting its culture. It takes the Chinese documentary program CCTV-4 Around China as a case study,...
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This study aims to focus on the Enhancement of Employability through 21st Century Skills (4Cs), using Debate and Mock Interview as Key Pedagogical Tools. The foremost objective o is to help the students get placements in a reputable company by enhancing their through 21 st century skills. Critical thinking, Creativity, Collaboration and Communication are the 4C’s, which play a major role in building the employability...
Democracy in Action: Political Reform, Public Sphere and Mediated Deliberation
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Newspapers demonstrate their commitment to democracy by providing op-ed columns to facilitate public engagement. This study examines the potential of newspaper op-ed columns to function as a public sphere, a concept deeply rooted in the work of Jürgen Habermas. Drawing upon Habermas's theory of the public sphere and relevant scholarly literature, the study examines media democracy in op-ed columns of Ethiopian newspapers...
Harnessing Media for Peace: Strategies for Conflict-Sensitive Journalism in Nigeria
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This paper examines the pivotal role of media in promoting dialogue and resolving intercultural conflicts, with a particular focus on Nigeria’s complex socio-political environment. Given Nigeria’s status as one of the largest media markets globally, the study explores how traditional and new media influence conflict dynamics. The proliferation of social media has transformed conflict escalation, presenting challenges and...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the theory and development of computer systems to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence. The application of Artificial Intelligence via social media use has enhanced digital form of academic learning or e-learning between the students and their teachers or lecturers, which has become an upgraded version of interpersonal or group communication mode of physical learning. It is...
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Deepfakes have a large number of social, political, propaganda, and public opinion influences. As well as its impact on the credibility of television news. This research is descriptive, and the researcher relied on the survey method to study the contact person working in TV newsrooms. The researcher chose the channels (Al-Iraqiya, Al-Raba'a, iNews, Al-Rasheed) as a research community to distribute the contact forms on...
Impact of Mass Media on Nigeria’s National Development: Continuity and Challenges
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This paper examined the impact of mass media on Nigeria’s national development. Media plays an important function in education and information dissemination to the society. The media initiates public participation through knowledge exchange and advocating issue, technologies and skills to the people. While Agenda setting and Framing theories as well as survey method were adopted by the study, findings showed that the...
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Media is a vehicle for social change and development. The inception of Counties in 2010 led to establishment of county development programs. Vihiga County hosts several community radio stations broadcasting in various dialects. This study therefore endeavored to investigate the role of community radio programmes in the implementation of development programs in Vihiga County. This study was guided by the development...
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The paper examined and interrogated the communicative competencies and appropriateness of translations of selected COVID-19 expressions from English to Yoruba in news broadcast and media usages in the Yoruba-speaking region in Nigeria. Thirty concepts were sampled from news bulletins presented by the news presenters across six major Yoruba-speaking states of Nigeria while only sixteen of the samples were extracted and...
News trends and issues in international media realities
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The new media has affected the contemporary practice of journalism and communication studies. Today, there is a paradigm shift in news coverage and flows, with the internet and the smartphone being significant trends in international media and communication. While the new trends have resulted in the globalization of information flows, evidence suggests that the developing nations have immensely been affected by these...
Lightning Disaster in Bangladesh: Analysis of Media Response
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This study aims at analyzing lightning reports published in Bangladeshi mass media in the year of 2019. Two mainstream online news portals, four other web portals of print media, and one news agency have been selected to conduct the study. Content analysis has been applied to understand the lightning hazards in Bangladesh, and 606 stories have been imported for analysis. The study found that media reports significantly...
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This study generally aims to investigate the status of Bahir Dar University students’ social media literacy and associated factors affect developing core competences of social media literacy. A mixed method design was employed in the study. Both descriptive and inferential were used to analyze data gathered from the quantitative design. Data gathered from Focus Group Discussion was analyzed qualitatively. Accordingly,...
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In the era of organizations or institutions of all kinds and disciplines, the subject of communication has become the main engine of any organization seeking to impose itself in a market economy and competition era. The need for effective strategic communication has never been more important at the moment. In order to ensure strategic coherence, and in this important work of strategy development, implementation, review...
Perceived use of social media by registry staff of federal universities in Southwestern Nigeria
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Nigeria universities are experiencing changes in administration because of innovation arising from Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to promote effective communication and efficient administrative services delivery. Timely information flow and effective communication are prerequisite of efficient policy dissemination. However, engagement of traditional or manual communication to disseminate information is...
Suitability and recall of radio jingles for malaria control among rural people in South-West Nigeria
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Communication plays a key role in the creation, gathering and sharing of information that can influence people to adopt malaria prevention behaviours. However, content of such information has not been sufficiently studied to know their suitability. This study therefore investigated the suitability and recall of radio jingles for malaria control among rural people in south-west Nigeria. Survey, focus group discussion and...
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The African National Congress (ANC) at the helm of the current South African government may have succeeded towards the end of 2013 in using its majority voting clout inside the country’s national parliament to forcibly push through the passing of the controversial and now infamous 2010 Protection of Information Bill / Secrecy Bill, and thereafter declared it tame enough, ready to be signed and enacted into law by the...
The Effect of Communicative Grammar on Students’ Writing Development
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Language skills are taught at all levels with varying degrees of attention. The teaching of grammar is, however, contested although one can hardly find an English lesson without grammar at all. However, the grammar explanation efforts as in English as a foreign language classes is an arguable issue that research indicating whether a writing class involving grammar lessons pertaining to the kind of the text students want to...
Smartphone Practice and Lifestyle: The Case of urban Iran
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This paper explores the relationship between smartphone practices and lifestyle in urban Iran. Recently, the use of smartphones has dramatically increased in Iran and this trend is expected to impact users’ lifestyle in the everyday context. So to test this hypothesis, I follow use the notion of “lifestyle†advanced by Pierre Bourdieu to offer an analysis of this changing trend. I choose the sample based on purpose...
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The political climate in Nigeria towards the build-up to the 2015 presidential elections were charged with language of hate and abuse. The definition of political communications in Nigeria was re-evaluated within the contexts of the elections. Language is a potent tool of engagement in political communication. This study thus examine the intent and content of hateful words as language of political change, the framing of...
Potrayal of cultural values in Jan cartoon: a content analysis
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This paper is the study of portrayal of cultural values through Jan cartoons. This is an effort to explore how Jan cartoons are depicting our cultural values. The main focus of study was the content that is being portrayed in Jan cartoons and see how cultural values are implanted in programs and to which extent children are getting information after watching these cartoons. We collected our data through content analysis in...
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF MEDIA ON HEALTH PROBLEMS
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Media are usually used to make fun and to spend enjoyable time, but they are the most effective instruments in a society. Media always convey attractive and interesting messages, but people want to learn from media too. This study examines social responsibility of media on health problems and evaluates responsibility of media by warning people about health risks. Media are the most common instruments in social life and...
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The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of the Internet and satellite channels on the behaviours of Moroccan high school pupils. It explores the implicit and denotative consequences of modern media upon the values, behaviours and lifestyles of young Moroccans. This article tries to ascertain whether the dissemination of global cultural products influences teenagers’ attitudes towards their own cultural...
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Though the relationship between the environment, security and development has long been established, it is often overlooked. Though complex, it can be noticed that there is a direct correlation between environmental degradation, social disruption and conflict and consequently the level of development a society attains. This paper brings this relationship to the fore in the light of the current environmental, security and...
STUDY VIEWING BEHAVIOUR OF TELEVIEWERS REGARDING ASSAMESE CHANNELS
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The present investigation was conducted to study the “Study viewing behaviour of televiewers regarding Assamese channels†with the objectives (i) to study the personal and demographic characteristics of viewers, (ii) to analyze the viewing behaviour of the respondents, (iii) to rank different programmes that preferred by the respondents.The study was conducted in Jorhat district of Assam. A purposive multi stage...
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This study aims to investigate the influence of internet on family connections in joint family & relative system in Pakistani society. The findings of the study showed that internet has very strong impact on the social capital of low income & middle income demographics with having slight influence on high income class in Pakistan. The researchers also found that internet has great impact on females; students and youths as...
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Freedom of information is one of the fundamental human rights, the right of every citizen to express his or her opinion through the written and the spoken word. It is clear today that the technology of communication has revolutionized the spread of information, making it instantaneous and allowing it to reach an ever-widening public. Thus a new power is born, the power of global journalism and social media. What is the...
Exploring Channels of Cultural Communication between Pakistan and China
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This paper traces the channels of intercultural communication between China and Pakistan, the oldest strategic allies in the region. The study explores two government’s initiatives, academic programs and projects aimed at promoting intercultural communication through the opening up of Chinese language and cultural centers. The globalization has opened new channels of interaction with nations, societies, cultures and...
Ethical dilemmas in journalism practice in Nigeria: The way forward
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The unethical attitude, behaviours and practises exhibited by most Nigerian journalists in recent times is a matter of concern. Most journalists are so irresponsible that one begins to imagine if there is actually any professional code of ethics guiding the profession in Nigeria. However, based on the x-ray done on the position of journalism ethics in Nigeria, this study found that there is in fact code of ethics in the...
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