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Call for papers May-2014
Trendy transitions and turbulent
times in the Media Spectrum
The Journalism and Mass Communication spectrum is undergoing a
swift yet strategic metamorphosis. Amidst the growing number of media companies
fighting for existence, the mediated world is on a mad rush for new operating
systems and apps. The role and responsibility of the journalists are being
redefined in the increasing digitalization and the influx of media companies.
Technological up-gradations and e-revolutions put forth a challenging as well
as a convenient avenue for the mass communicators. The Broadcasting companies
now encourage the audience to send and share pictures through Instagram and progressively
support the citizen video on their websites and news reporting. CNN started the
move now followed by all the major players.BBC is undergoing massive
restructuring and digitalization on its famous headquarters to its reporting
outlets in order to face the growing challenges of social media turned
community based news disseminators. Fox news is compelled to redefine its
political manipulative and business gimmicks.
Social-networking sites are ruling the process of news
dissemination and discourse initiation accelerating a novel way of
participation. 140 characters revolutionize the news world- Twitter gone public
issue with the much hyped and celebrated stock exchange listing. Fight for
survival and success continues in the social world with Snap Chat, the latest
image-sharing application through mobile apps boldly rejected the 3 billion
takeover offers from Facebook.
Themedia management sector is not devoid of vicissitudes and
revolution. Millionaires are increasingly turning their attention to media
companies that in turn redefine the objectives of the firm - one of the contemporaries
include the millionaire Gina Rinehart, the mining heiress in Australia who have
a significant stake holdings in the media companies. Gina’s predatory buy out
of newspapers and news media against carbon tax is continuing. Those under her
ownership are facing the cannibalistic future. Media moguls continue to expand
their horizon through crossovers and mergers - Ted Turner turned 75, still have
a successive career in the news world with more and more ventures in his
bouquet. Merging and acquisition theories of media world are still a puzzle
with this theory.
Jeff Boze the online
Amazon retailers grabbed the celebrated Washington Post through a dream
bidding. Jeff declared and demonstrated unmanned drones for newspaper
distribution. His Amazon stuck the deal with India Post for speedy and
efficient delivery system of all value added news goods. Newsweek and Forbes
magazines are once again for sale. Blumberg Business world surviving with push
and pull. Wall Street Journal lost its identity by the Murdochian renaissance. Neither a broadsheet nor a tabloid any more
but to a snippet format for easy-go-readers. Rebekah Brooks, his trusted
adopted daughter is facing serious legal trial on intrusion into privacy and
telephone hacking for news sensationalism.
Media is the Middle East is celebrating their liberation due
to the much celebrated and squandered world cup football to happen in the green
oasis. They are going global by quality printing not by content. The jasmine
revolution from the Arab spring through social media is yet to bloom in the
social life. Guardian and Edward Snowden leakage is still making the trouble in
the British parliament. The most respected editor of guardian Alan Rusbridger,
was summoned to testify in front of the British Parliament committee about his
paper’s reporting on the leaks.
On a contrary to all the developments human resources in
media force have been faced with grave challenges and criticisms in the recent
days leading to anapprehension on ethics and morality in the media field.To
quote some -Tarun Tejpal to Rupert Murdoch is under the legal tentacles and
public hatred; the Maha Vishnu on Mount Road,The Hindu,is back again in the hands of family kitchen business.
Debt ridden Time Inc. filed for a public issue, expecting angel investors to
revive it. Slate, Salon, Democracy Now, GigaMedia, News Laundry are still
popular with the news teasers. Times of India style of ‘presstitution’ for
stake hold on advertisers are still thriving like a monolith in the Indian
media scenario.
Considering all the recent changes occurring in the mass
communication and journalism field, this issue of Media Watch focuses on a
wider area of communication not limiting to specific themes and subjects.The topic
includes, but not limited to,
Theoretical issues in
media/communication field (Television, Print, Web, and Film)
Journalism and Journalists – changing
concepts& practices
Media management – trends techniques and
dynamics
News media – Politics, Policies and
regulations
Communication - Moral issues and ethical
concerns
Citizen journalism – challenges,
prospects and diversions
Technologies – Process and products
Web journalism- data journalism to apps
Social Media - networking sites and news
opportunities
Convergent Media – access and reach
opportunities
Film studies- New wave and New
Generations
Last date for the final submission of the
completed papers
February 28th, 2014.
Author Submission
guidelines
Contributors
are encouraged to query the editors (sonyjraj@gmail.com,
mediajournal@ymail.com, mediawatchjournal@gmail.com) in a short e-mail
describing their paper to determine suitability for publication. Journal of
media watch will only accept true, original and pure fundamental and empirical
research papers which were not published before in any publications. Media
Watch will not accept book review, commentary without any proper referencing
and citations.
Abstract: The abstracts should define objectives, theoretical
framework and methodological approach, as well as possible contributions for
the advancement of knowledge in the field. As a length measure, each submission
should have an abstract of 150-200 words. All abstract must be accompanied with
key words from 5-8. All abstract submissions must be submitted in advance,
preferably before January 30, 2014 through e-mail. Early submission is strongly
encouraged.
Length: As the journal is primarily print-based, we encourage
articles or manuscripts, including references, tables, and charts, should range
between 20-30 pages (7000-8000 words).
Deadlines: Once the
Abstract is reviewed and if it is found suitable, you will be asked to submit a
completed manuscript by February28th, 2014. Review of the papers will be
completed before April 30th, 2014.
Style: References should also follow APA style (6th
Edition).
Guidelines for
submission are available at:
http://www.mediawatchglobal.com/instructions-for-authors/
Review Process: Authors are informed when manuscripts are received.
Each manuscript is pre-viewed prior to distribution to appropriate reviewers.
Manuscripts are anonymously reviewed. Once all reviews are returned, a decision
is made and the author is notified. Manuscripts should consist of original
material, and not currently under consideration by other journals. Author(s)
have to submit the copyrights declaration permission to Media Watch before final
consideration of the paper.
Cover Page: (for review purposes): Include title of manuscript,
date of submission, author’s name, title, mailing address, business and home
phone number, and email address. Please provide a brief biographical sketch and
acknowledge if the article was presented as a paper or if it reports a funded
research project.
Software Format: Submit papers in both Word (.doc) and Pdf.
Information: For further information and inquiries about the
proposed issue and journal, in case of need, please do not hesitate to contact
the co-editor of the journal, Dr. Sony Jalarajan Raj via e-mail:
sonyjraj@gmail.com
Indexing &
Citations: Journal of
Media Watch is indexed and citied in 15 international database, citation and
indexing agencies including Ulrich, Ebscos, J-Gate, Proquest, Google Scholar,
ResearchBib, MIAR etc. Journal of Media Watch is subscribed in major university
library data base in Asia, Europe and USA. Journal of Media Watch is considered
for inclusion by the famous database such as ISI, Thomson Reuters, Dove Jones,
and Nature.
Plagiarism Check: All the submitted papers will undergo mandatory
online plagiarism check through plagiarism software’s such as Turnitin and Safe
Assign. Contributors are encouraged to do plagiarism check before they submit
for the publication. Any submitted paper with more than 7 % match will be
rejected without any feedback from the editorial board.
Submission &
Acceptance: Any paper published in
any journals, book chapters, monograms or abstracts presented in any conference
or published in any conference proceedings will not be published. We strongly
discourage on the submission of any such.
We strongly
recommend you share this call for papers among researchers who you think may be
interested in submitting papers for the issue of the journal.
If any
organizations and institutions are interested to associate with Media Watch
journal, please write to the Publisher: deepakranjanjena@yahoo.com
• Visit the
journal website: www.mediawatchglobal.com
Dr. Sony Jalarajan Raj
Editor-in-Chief,
The Journal of Media Watch
Graduate
Coordinator
St. Thomas
University, Florida, USA
Email:
sonyjraj@gmail.com
Tel:
001-786-204-1031
Wednesday 11 September 2013
Media Watch Communication Journal Abstract of Articles of September 2013 Issue
Media Watch Communication Journal
Abstract of Articles of September 2013 Issue
Critical
Media Literacy in Media Education: A Debate on the Contribution to Democracy
A. Fulya Sen
Firat University, Turkey
The convergence of media and technology in a global culture is changing
the way we learn about the world and challenging the very foundations of
education. Today, the general trend concerning the main stream media literacy
has focused more on the protectionist approach. This study is aimed at
discussing the importance of critical citizenship awareness by media literacy.
It is argued that critical citizenship and participative democracy are not able
to acquire without seeing the ownership structure of media in the capitalist
system. This study was based on cultural studies, political-economy and
critical pedagogy theories where the concept of media literacy was discussed as
a combination of approaches of critical media and pedagogy.
Media
Education in India and United Kingdom:
A
Comparative Study
Anuradha Mishra Gaur
Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies,
Delhi, India
It is possible to gain a lot of media literacy by mere exposure to the
media. In that sense, there is no need for any formal media education. That,
however, is not sufficient to gain professional proficiency in this field. A
lot of systematic training is required to maintain the standards expected from
this fourth pillar of democracy. Presently, the existing structure of media
education is at a crossroads. With the changing technology, social structure
and international relations the rationale behind the media education in India
is getting changed. Under these circumstances we need to form an opinion on
what should be the corresponding changes in media education system in India. This
paper has compared the media education system of India with some universities
of United Kingdom so as to discover the most appropriate path for the future
growth of media education in India.
Exploring
Interdisciplinarity in Indian Media Education and Research: An Analysis
NIDHI
SHENDURNIKAR TERE
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India
ARCHANA
CHANUVAI NARAHARI
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India
The discipline of media and communication studies
has demonstrated its ability to borrow and integrate knowledge from various
theoretical strands in political science, sociology, economics, psychology,
cultural studies and anthropology. The inter-disciplinary nature of media
studies has enabled its growth, expansion and stature as a discipline and field
of academic inquiry in its own right. The inter-disciplinary thrust of media
education owes much to the media’s basic nature and need of being reliant on
social, political, economic and cultural forces in its surrounding environment.
The core argument of the paper favours an inter-disciplinary approach to media
studies and media research for the discipline to flourish. In this paper, the
authors examined four key areas of inter-disciplinary research and education
i.e., political communication, media economics, sociology of communication, and
cultural communication that have contributed to furthering the scope of media
studies. To substantiate this line of thinking, the authors examined course
curriculums of media studies offered by universities in Gujarat.
De-Westernizing
Media and Communication Education in India
Vemulakonda Sai Srinivas
Osmania University, India
Post World War II, many countries liberated themselves from colonial
rule, started looking up to western media as role models. Later they realized
that there has been an information imbalance. NAM also emphasized on
alternatives to western news values. India is one such country which vied to
establish individuality, create an identity and, an image for itself in the
backdrop of its bitter past experience. In this process, developing countries
in general and India in particular started developing alternative perspectives.
In this context, Indian theories of communication such as Sadharanikaran, which
existed 500 B.C., came into prominence. In this background, endeavors to
de-westernize media and communication education started by incorporating
alternative media, traditional folk media, community radio, Indian theories of
communication etc., in the curriculum of mass communication courses. This paper
analyses in detail how efforts are made to de-westernize media and
communication education in India.
Small
Screen in the Indian Subcontinent: A Study on Five Decades of Doordarshan
Rohini S. Kumar
Monash University, Malaysia
The obligation of a public service broadcasting media is very much
crucial and tricky in a fast developing
country like India, where it
has to cater diverse audiences, cultures and languages. Historically, public
service broadcasting has been vested with certain roles—an educator,
entertainer and informer. But this concept is losing ground as 24 hour
satellite channels are altering entertainment and educational needs and
perceptions of the public to a greater extent which result in the tapering
demarcation between commercial and public service broadcasting in India.
The article tries to analyze or review
the progress of Doordarshan (Indian Television) in its 54 years of its journey.
Text to Memory: A Study on Comprehension and Oral Reading
Fluency
Susan R. Massey
St. Thomas University, Florida, USA
Research was conducted to test the hypothesis that there is a
reciprocal relationship between reading comprehension and oral reading fluency.
Previous research indicates that oral reading fluency can aid reading
comprehension. However, more recent
models have questioned the uni-directionality of this relationship. This
research examines this hypothesis by analyzing second grade students’ oral
reading of connected texts. A summary previewing condition was manipulated in
an experiment and the effects on students’ passage reading times were
evaluated. Grade level students were randomly assigned to one of two groups, an
experimental group and a control group. Analyses of Covariance were performed
to test the effects of prosodic modeling on oral reading fluency as measured in
correct words per minute (CWPM) and prosodic reading, while controlling for
students overall achievement in reading as measured by the common state test
score. The results showed differences in CWPM indicating the summary preview
over the no-preview condition for students at lower levels of fluency
performance.
Resistive Reading of Anti-Islam Movies by Educated American
Audience: An Analysis
Hamid Abdollahyan
University of Tehran, Iran
Niloofar Hooman
University of Tehran, Iran
University of Tehran, Iran
Niloofar Hooman
University of Tehran, Iran
This article provides an assessment
of the dominant meaning inserted in Hollywood movies that offer anti-Islamic
content, compared to the meaning that the American audience attaches to these
movies. Framed by a theoretical synthesis of Gadamer’s approach to reception
and Said’s notion of Orientalism, we employ such concepts as lived experience,
inter-cultural communication and media literacy to indicate how the American
audience is taking a resistive orientation. This analytical model suggests that
any typical American audience seeks to expand their understanding of the lived
experience with Muslims based on their inter-cultural experience with Muslims
and apply it to their readings of the popular anti-Islamic movies. To examine the paper’s theoretical claims we
used an internet-based in-depth interview technique in which 12 women and 10
men participated. Some of the findings reveal that the educated American
audience may not perceive Hollywood fiction as a reliable source of information
about either Muslims or Islam, and that they engage in alternate and resistive
interpretations of movie content.
Relationship
between Facebook Usage and Self-Efficacy among Collegiate Athletes
JONGSUNG KIM
St. Thomas University, Florida, USA
This research investigates the relationship
between Facebook usage and self-efficacy in collegiate athletes. The sample for
this study are St. Thomas University athletes in the United States. The
variables used to represent Facebook usage, Facebook frequency of use, Facebook
number of friends, and Facebook frequency status updates are measured using
Facebook Intensity Scale (Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007). The
dependent variable used in this study is self-efficacy which is measured using
the General Self-efficacy (GSE) developed by Jerusalem and Schwarzer (1995).
Data analyses indicate a statistically significant relationship between the
number of Facebook friends and self-efficacy. The data also indicates a
significant inverse relationship between Facebook frequency status updates and
self-efficacy. The results of the correlation analysis indicate inverse
relationships between frequency status updates and frequency of use, and
frequency status updates and Facebook number of friends. These findings suggest
that once the coaches, administrators, and professors attend to the issue of
Facebook usage for collegiate athletes, it may enhance self-efficacy and
psychological benefits.
Public
Perception and Role of Mass Media in Fight Against Corruption in Nigeria
Barry Nnaane
Afe Babalola University, Nigeria
Afe Babalola University, Nigeria
This paper examined how the Nigerian public perceived the role of the
mass media in the fight against corruption. The research design used was
survey, while Benin metropolis in Edo State, South-South, Nigeria, was the area
of study. The two sampling techniques used were cluster sampling and purposive
sampling techniques. Four hundred and fifty (450) copies of questionnaire were
administered, while 418 copies representing 92 per cent response rate were
retrieved. Majority of the respondents agreed that the media in the country
have played a positive role in the fight against corruption. The study
recommends, among others, that media professionals should be
socially-responsible and abide by the ethics of the profession, so that they
can fight corruption in the country without fear or favour.
Identification
and Analysis of Images in Anjathey
Nithin Kalorth
Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Tamil cinema has undergone a cycle of changes from storytelling to
production technology and marketing strategies. This article finds out the film
language and grammar of movie Anjathey directed by Mysskin. 36 images/shots
were selected from the movie and they have been analyzed on the basis of film
language, narrative aspects of the story
cinematography, sound, and editing. Attempts have been made to understand the
use of visual language and grammar to express the story by the use of
mise-en-scene.
Media Watch
communication journal
Sunday 30 June 2013
Call for Papers : Media Watch January 2014
Call
for Papers : Media Watch January 2014
Inevitable
Social Media and Technological Determinism in a Wired World
Arab springs to the jasmine
revolution, mars exploration to unmanned drones, instant messaging to live
tweets, tumbler to instagram, and robotics to cybernetics the rare nexus of
technology and the tools of communication are making far reaching influence and
impacts in our daily routines. Started with a cool notion of connecting and
networking in a community or a society, social media now paves the wide paths
of withering away of the states and nations. Proved to be a power centre of
unifying and disseminating information social media became the inevitable
presence on our daily rhythms. Content and apps are competing in a world were data
always proved to be the undisputable king. The communication circles of social
media, technology, content and application software’s are in a dynamic flux and
is evolving. The traditional concept of reach, access, noise, feedback,
reception are improvised every now and then on the emerging communication
circle. The new players in the evolving communication circles are already
proven complimentary and contributory to each other but still there exist
hegemony for the power structure in determining each variables importance.
Digital revolution and technological
upgradations have placed mankind at an amazingly challenging juncture, where
they are made to take the way that the technologies are chasing for them.
Though the proponents of sociological theory, mainly those who still uphold the
human-centric models like ‘Social Construction of Technology’ and
‘Actor-network Theory’, denounce the medium-oriented theory, the recent social
media explosion unquestionably shows the capacity of a medium in defining and characterising
the cultural of a society from the inherent properties of these technologies.
This never means that human will surrender to technology, neither does it mean
technology seizes the power from mankind, but mankind is slipping into a
dependency level on technology where they are left with no choice, but to
accept and incorporate the media-specifies in their daily life.
On one side, when scientists are busy
replacing man power with digital human machines and robots, one the other side
is the proliferation of social media platforms that more or less makes humans a
self-developed android-robot dancing with the tune of technology. In the
initial stage of the development of a social media, social constructivists
claimed this as a mechanism developed by the society’s need and action.
However, as social media platform became cluttered the positions of these
proponents are taking a back seat, and there is a strong wave of a social-media
culture, where people are in a constant search of personalisation and ubiquitousness
for such a platform. Social media platform have reached such a point that they
have detached themselves from the static computer and laptop, to mobile devices
which enhances their connectivity and reach. Mobile phone marketing and
research are based on these social-connectivity mechanisms, and made
decision-making a process based on incessant connectivity with the
fellow-beings. Paradoxically, when a group of people complain the detachment of
man from social life with the inflow of technology, these same technology are
determining them to be social in a cyber-world, unravelling from the worldly
life. From ‘Facebook’ to ‘Wats app’, people are seeking to connect and converse
with the world in an anonymous and self-proclaimed identity. As the characteristics
of these social media goes – connected throughout the world – the main aim of
the users also is to connect and converse with as many as possible, with least
botheration about context and reason for conversing. The most radical
aspect of this medium-centred theory is that is this impact of technology on
the characteristics of the user.
This volume of the Journal of Media
Watch invites papers on this contemporary issue of social media and
technological determinism. The issue is not limited to the below but can cover
the board spectrum of human and social communications.
·
Social media and cultural
change
·
Technology and community
engagement
·
Cultural impact of social media
·
Social media and activism
·
Technological intervention and
human society
·
Public and private space in a
social media world
·
Personalization of social media
– from computer to mobile phones
·
Medium theory – does it
substitute the social constructivist theory
·
Technology and Culture – who
rules who?
·
Social media, public sphere and
technology
·
Diversity, race, sexuality,
ethnicity and social media
·
Pedagogy and the social media
·
Market forces and communication
technology
·
Social media and organisation
communication
Contributors are encouraged to query the editors (sonyjraj@gmail.com, mediajournal@ymail.com,
mediawatchjournal@gmail.com) in a short e-mail describing their
paper to determine suitability for publication. Journal of media watch will
only accept true, original and pure fundamental and empirical research papers
which were not published before in any publications. Media Watch will not
accept book review, commentary without any proper referencing and citations.
Length: As the journal is primarily print-based, we encourage articles
or manuscripts, including references, tables, and charts, should range between
20-30 pages (7000-8000 words).
Deadlines: Once the Abstract is reviewed
and if it is found suitable, you will be asked to submit a completed manuscript
by September 15, 2013. Review of the papers will be completed
before October 15, 2013.
Style: References should also follow
APA style (6th Edition).
Visit: http://www.mediawatchglobal.com/information-for-author/
Visit: http://www.mediawatchglobal.com/information-for-author/
Guidelines for submission are available
at:
http://www.mediawatchglobal.com/instructions-for-authors/
http://www.mediawatchglobal.com/instructions-for-authors/
Review
Process: Authors are informed when
manuscripts are received. Each manuscript is pre-viewed prior to distribution
to appropriate reviewers. Manuscripts are anonymously reviewed. Once all
reviews are returned, a decision is made and the author is notified.
Manuscripts should consist of original material, and not currently under
consideration by other journals. Author(s) have to submit the copyrights
declaration permission to Media Watch before final consideration of the paper.
Cover
Page: (for review purposes): Include
title of manuscript, date of submission, author’s name, title, mailing address,
business and home phone number, and email address. Please provide a brief
biographical sketch and acknowledge if the article was presented as a paper or
if it reports a funded research project.
Software
Format: Submit papers in both Word (.doc) and Pdf.
Information: For further information and
inquiries about the proposed issue and journal, in case of need, please do not
hesitate to contact the co-editor of the journal, Dr. Sony Jalarajan Raj via
e-mail: sonyjraj@gmail.com
Indexing
& Citations: Journal of Media Watch is indexed and citied in 15
international database, citation and indexing agencies including Ulrich, Ebscos, J-Gate, Proquest, Google Scholar, ResearchBib,
MIAR etc.
Journal of Media Watch is subscribed in major university library data base in
Asia, Europe and USA. Journal of Media Watch is considered for inclusion by the
famous database such as ISI, Thomson Reuters, Dove Jones, and Nature.
Plagiarism
Check: All the submitted papers will undergo mandatory online
plagiarism check through plagiarism software’s such as Turnitin and Safe
Assign. Contributors are encouraged to do plagiarism check before they submit
for the publication. Any submitted paper with more than 7 % match will be
rejected without any feedback from the editorial board.
Submission
& Acceptance: Any paper published in any
journals, book chapters, monograms or abstracts presented in any conference or
published in any conference proceedings will not be published. We strongly
discourage on the submission of any such.
We strongly recommend you share this
call for papers among researchers who you think may be interested in submitting
papers for the issue of the journal.
If any
organizations and institutions are interested to associate with Media Watch
journal, please write to the Publisher:deepakranjanjena@yahoo.com
Dr.
Sony Jalarajan Raj
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Media Watch
Graduate Coordinator
St. Thomas University, Florida, USA
Email: sonyjraj@gmail.com
Tel: 001-786-204-1031
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Media Watch
Graduate Coordinator
St. Thomas University, Florida, USA
Email: sonyjraj@gmail.com
Tel: 001-786-204-1031
Monday 29 April 2013
Abstract of May 2013 Issue of Media Watch
FAHEEM HUSSAIN
MOHAMMAD SAHID ULLAH
This article looks into the privacy perception and vulnerability among Bangladeshi urban youth using mobile and computing devices. Based on a survey it shows a significant number of the youths are unaware about the concept of privacy in the ‘Digital Age’ and also has little or no idea about possible risks relating to shared voice and data communications. Amid the absence of any clear-cut privacy framework at the national level, this article has found that the level of trust on existing mobile telephony to be significantly higher than the Internet. This research concluded that the long term user experience (or absence of it) in mobile phone and Internet do not have any impact on Bangladeshi youths’ perception on possible privacy related vulnerabilities. Concern over data manipulation has also been identified a major influential factor in deciding youth’s online behavioral patterns.
Redefining the Virtual Self: Analysis of Facebook Discourse of College Students in Kolkata
UMA SHANKAR PANDEY
One way in which Facebook is unique for creating perceptions of individuals is the degree to which private information is presented by avenues other than revelation by the person himself. Discourses, are not just insulated linguistic ‘objects,’ but are constitutive parts of communicative acts in a particular sociocultural situation. The present study looks at a particular set of socio-economic factors which influence the Facebook discourse of undergraduate and post graduate communication students in Kolkata , India
Networked Publics and Identity Construction: Towards an Era of Virtual Socialization
BIDYARANI ASEM
Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi , India
In the era of digital age where the rate of information exchange and sharing have gone extremely high, the line of demarcation between the sender and the receiver in a communication act came to be less existent. With the rise of new media technologies, social networking sites (SNS) such as Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn, etc. have increasingly become a common platform for networking mong people. The term ‘networked publics’ became a more appropriate term for the broad category of users in these virtual networking platforms. One of the most important characteristic features of social networking is the issue of self constructed identity and representation. This emerging trend has become the key towards virtual socialization amongst the networked publics. Based on strong theoretical backgrounds of self and identity construction, this paper tries to explore the various aspects of socialization in the virtual space through a wide array of literature surveys. Notwithstanding their privacy concerns, the willingness to self expose themselves among the public and to what extent people reveal their “self” in the process of identity construction will be highlighted thoroughly in the paper.
New Media Impacts on Journalism: Revisiting the Dynamics of News Production
PITABAS PRADHAN
The Arab spring of 2011, the Indian Civil Society campaign for Lokpal 2012, and the ongoing campaign for capital punishment to the Delhi
Adolescents and the Media: Teenagers Talk about Television and Negative Representations
DOROTHY HOBSON
Young people are an elusive and exciting audience and user of all media. They are both the most desirable yet indefinable set of groups and individuals who must be attracted, intrigued and held in thrall if media organizations are to succeed in their quests to keep in step with their ever moving interests, This article presents the views of diverse groups of young people aged between nine and nineteen in Birmingham, United Kingdom in the winter of 2010/11 and reveals in their own words how they feel about the way that they are represented in British media. They are avid watchers of television and even more active users of new media. They reveal their eclectic and heavy viewing habits. While they are diverse in their education, social backgrounds and ethnicity, they are united in expressing their unhappiness and discontent about the way that they are represented on British television both in news coverage, documentaries and in dramas directed at them. More worrying is the fact that they feel and give evidence that this negative view of teenagers, affects the way they are perceived by other members of the public. While they are critical of British television they do single out American television as being more aspirational and optimistic.
Bollywood Nuances Affecting Italian Television
MONIA ACCIARI
Since the 1990s, Bollywood cinema arrived in Europe and successfully settled away from the Indian subcontinent, proposing a diverse, variegated and multisensorial experience not only for South Asians living abroad, but also for the locals. Interestingly, the plural mediatic nature of these kinds of films have penetrated European countries in different ways; some were enthusiastic for the joyfulness of songs, others began reviving connections between hippy culture and Bollywood atmosphere, while Italy, the country under investigation in this article, initiated a series of television programs profoundly inspired by the new and compelling Bollywood wave. The television programs analyzed in this article have the scope to unearth how Bollywood cinema has penetrated the small screen of Italy
CBC and the Science Academy
NICOLE BLANCHETT NEHELI
Sheridan College Institute of Technology , Canada
The publicly funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has a unique, participatory relationship with the science academy that showcases scientific discovery on the Geologic Journey II website—a site run by CBC. Although academics work on interesting projects that have great relevance to those outside academic circles, their work is generally published in journals or texts that are not often accessed or, in some cases, understood by the general public. On Geologic Journey II, a site created in conjunction with the development of a documentary project, contemporary research is highlighted in a manner that makes it easily accessible to a much wider audience. Through the lens of media logic, using the theories of convergence culture and the public sphere, in this paper, I explore how the partnership between CBC and the science academy invigorates public discourse, and why building relationships with community partners makes good business sense for a public broadcaster.
Freshman 15: Are Universities Doing Enough?
STEVEN McCORKLE
STEVEN McCORKLE
KEVIN ARMSTRONG
MARK GOODMAN
Freshman 15 has been identified as a major medical issue on college campuses for over a decade. Scholars have indicated that Freshman 15 treatment options need to include physical fitness, nutrition, and counseling. Our analysis of the web sites of 45 major universities indicates that most schools need to improve their communication methods if they are going to successfully provide intervention to their students.
Audience at Play: An Inquiry into the Song Kolaveri Di
SHUBHDA ARORA
Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad , India
The discourse in communication studies has looked at audiences as active seekers of pleasure through communicative play. This perspective has been talked about extensively by William Stephenson (1988) through his play theory of mass communication. Stephenson refutes Freud who considered play to be an unconscious, passive and an escapist defence mechanism. This paper furthers this understanding of play in the present day of digitization and virtual media technologies. The study proposes that the users of the Internet (virtual audiences) get actively co-opted into the creation and recreation of media content through play. Participative play on the Internet can be equated to what Caillois (2001) has described as Paideia (primitive, pure play of carefree gaiety). Paideia in its new Internet avatar may manifest itself in the form of shares and likes, posts and reposts, comments and recommendations on content sharing and social networking sites. This carefree act of pure play can be attributed to the absence of a proper regulatory framework on social interactions in the cyberspace which in turn makes the play elusive and the players’ (audience) behaviour very unpredictable.
Constraints in Screen Translation: The Socio- Cultural Dimensions of Dubbing and Subtitling
LOVJI K. N
Whether domesticating or foreignising in its approach, any form of audiovisual translation ultimately plays a unique role in developing both national identities and national stereotypes. The transmission of cultural values in screen translation has received very little attention in the literature and remains one of the most pressing areas of research in translation studies. (Mona Baker and Braño Hochel 1997:76) The term audiovisual translation refers to both the translation of the distribution format and its contents. Even though the technical responsibilities of audiovisual translators may become limited, their creative and linguistic abilities, as well as their capacity to match words with both images and sounds continue to be tested. The present paper reflects the pace and breadth of the linguistic and cultural challenges that the translators encounter while translating, subtitling and dubbing films.
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