Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism

This study was conducted to assess the effects of watching cable television on some characteristics of women. Population of the study was the educated women between ages 18-30 of District Swat, Khyber Pathtunkhwa was selected. Purposive sampling method was used to select sample from the population. Total Eighty-nine respondents were selected from the population as a unit of analysis to investigate the effects. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the information from the respondents. Descriptive statistics was used to present the data through tables. The result was generalized to the population through chi-square test of association. The result analyzed, that the variables; domestic activities, culture and role of women were significantly associated to the exposure of cable television. Government and private companies have the responsibilities to promote the culture, domestic activities and role of women of Pashtun society by introducing special channel on cable television or frame programs on the existing channels.

The research paper dwells mainly about importance of Radio as a medium of mass communication, particularly
used by different countries to safeguard their strategic and cultural interests in times of peace and war. The paper refers to instances when radio waves were used in fighting war of words by different countries across the globe. It makes a special mention of propaganda and counterpropaganda unleashed by India and Pakistan by using radio against each other since 1947.

One of the dilemmas faced by online newspapers is how to handle readers’ comments. The interactive nature of the Internet encourages online readers to express their ideas, feelings and opinions freely without fear of negative outcomes resulting from crossing the restrictions of freedom expression that have been set by the government or by online editors. Arab online editors encourage their readers to comment on news stories but censor what they consider to be offensive, anti-nationalist or blasphemous against Islam. An attitudinal study involving online content analysis found those readers’ comments in the first Kuwaiti online newspaper, Alaan, encourage enmity among its readers and lead to increased religious and ethnic bigotry among Kuwaiti students.

The study Portrayal of Pak-US Relations in elite press of Pakistan and United States during Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Regime (June 2012-December 2012) is focused to study the relations between Pakistan and United States of America in the government of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf who took charge as Prime Minister in June 2012. In this study the content analysis of the two newspapers is made where the editorials of elite pres i.e. Daily Dawn from Pakistan and Washington Post from United States were analyzed. In this study the framing theory is used in the theoretical framework. There are total 82 editorials regarding Pak-US relations that were analyzed, 29 editorials of Washington Post whereas 53 editorials of Daily Dawn. The study has shown that the newspapers of both the countries has mostly shown the unsatisfied behavior towards the issues and has criticized the foreign policy of their respective countries.

This article is a sustainable programmatic communication framework which links lessons from Indonesia in the
era of the Laskar Jihadists (a militant Muslim faction) and “Boko Haram Sect “insurgence in Nigeria. The article
verifies a previous peer group conference paper conceived at Ohio University in 2005. Original empirical data sets derived from authentic personal communication and professional instructions guided the translation of the lessons to realistic socio scientific knowledge. Social mobilization model was used to conceptualize this article. Security forces have not been able to control or prevent or adequately address religious conflict violence, peace and freedom in Indonesian and Nigerian. Programmatic communication campaign should be used to promote inter-religious peace and freedom in these countries’ contemporary relationships between Muslims and Christians.