Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism

Donald J. Trump’s presidency and Brexit happened to the world in a flash and that flash has refused to wane. The reality of these two major socio-political upheavals has rattled pundits and since posed the question of how the events came to be. This study addresses the tangential role played by populism, which by its amorphousness and lack of any particular ideological depth readily lends itself to the services of various forms of socio-political ends. Therefore, this paper argues that the capacity of populism, as an ambivalent and radical agent of mass movements, to effectively invade the political issues space and sustain or alter the course of sociopolitical action is pivotal to the strategies that energized Brexit and Trumpism, and eventually gave them unlikely victories. Digging into the depths of this agency unearths its strategic communications powers and also establishes its salience to contemporary political ideology and rhetoric.

Bangladesh is the second largest garments exporter worldwide. Because of this success in RMG sector is cheap labor. Bangladeshi labors earn only 68 USD per month. This paper discusses about the problems they are facing due to low wages

ICT appear as primordial motor of changes related to Family concept and its fundaments as well. These technological transformations started designing a new image of modern family far from the typical Arabic and Islamic schema implemented decencies ago. We witness a real restructuration of the family concept in globalized standards which are relatively away, from our Arabic and Islamic culture, as well as the values, ethics, and behaviors that should prevail in the Muslim community. The present paper advocates from the pivotal question: “What are the most important features of the Arab and Islamic culture that the E-magazine “Happy Family” wants to its audience to adhere to through its published articles?” A content analysis of all articles published in the E-Magazine “Happy Family”, will be able to determine the most important values and behaviors that the sender insist on their implementation and maintenance in the family environment in order to preserve the Arab and Muslim identity and preserve the spirit of the Muslim Family.

Freedom of Press and Broadcasting Media is not alike. All indexes regarding press freedom distinctly show the differences between these two countries. Due to economic growth and social perspective, they are not same. But if we keep the keyword “Democracy” in line, both countries are moving in the same direction. Both are practicing democratic government. Journalistic approach is a way to measure a countries’ democratic state

The purpose of this study to examine the role of Radio Cairo as propaganda and political persuasion tools for Egypt’s foreign policy in the era of President Sadat.
The study used content analysis as a research tool to examine how the Egyptian media used propaganda techniques in communicating messages to the Arab audiences in the Middle East in issue regarding Egypt’s leadership in the peace process; the right of the Palestinian people for a national homeland; and Israel’s right to exist. The Arabic materials and the scripts of Radio Cairo programming during three- weeks used for analysis.
Egyptian media concentrated mainly on six major techniques in communicating their messages to the Arab people regarding the Camp David agreements and the separate peace treaty with Israel, which included the following: Focusing Attention or Spotlighting; Testimonial, Division and Name calling; Self-Interest or Ad Hominem; Omission of Material; and Bandwagon.
The study concluded that, Radio Cairo had notable success in affecting the audiences and public opinion therein. The majority of Egyptian people greeted Sadat’s decision to visit Israel and the Camp David Agreements with relief and approval. They hailed Sadat as the “Peace Hero” and the “Savior of the Masses”. Radio Cairo also played a highly important role in bringing the people of the Middle East, including the Israel’s, closer to peace by stimulating positive thinking. Finally, Radio Cairo helped to make Israel for the first time, acceptable to the Arabs, particularly the moderate Arab states and to the Egyptian people themselves.

In the age of connectivity through the double-edge sword in the context of time biased and space biased media, new social media emerged as the most powerful weapon in the hands of political elites to create a unique platform where they can interplay between the knowledge and power. This paper is an attempt to understand national political agenda and social engagement of ten top and most popular political elites in the micro-blogging site twitter in India. Though there are other popular social media sites, twitter is known as the mouth piece of some most influential political elites across all major political parties and can give a minute to minute update to their followers. As the part of data collection and data analysis, tweets from selected ten twitter accounts were collected over a period of one month, before the declaration of one of the national political party’s Prime Ministerial (PM) candidate for the upcoming national election of India and being analyzed by adopting hermeneutics as the method of data analysis to understand the lifeworld of the political elites while balancing the knowledge and power.