Wondimu Legesse
This study has aimed to investigate the practices of development journalism in South Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional state Radio and Television Agency. The study employed the combination of quantitative and qualitative research approach. The data collection method consist questionnaire, focus group discussion, in-depth interview, and review of sample broadcasted news and program documents (Archive) used as a tool for data collection. Purposive sampling is used to select informants and documents. The finding of study shows the misunderstanding of the concept of development journalism, by the majority of the journalists and media leaders. The pillars of Development Journalism are not clearly articulated in the editorial policy. As the finding revealed, the majority of the development issues focused on success rather than malfunction stories in the media. Event oriented reporting has dominated the long term development process in SRTA.
Dr. Ritesh Chaudhary1*
Media is also relevant as long as there is a human society. The curious tendency of human beings is important behind this. Man has been curious since the beginning. For this reason, he needed communication. He invented the first language. Then made information carriers like pigeons, messengers and hawkers. The evidence found in the excavation of Mohenjodaro, Harappa testifies that the media was in some form among us even in the beginning of civilization. Written information on the walls of the place is well appreciated. The inscriptions of Emperor Ashoka also appear to tell the story of the curious tendency of media and human society. However, since then, there has been a difference of ground and sky in today's era. With the increasing influence of information technology, new changes are being seen in the media.
Sara S. Elmaghraby
In the 90s of the past century, there was like never before a great political and entertaining communication. A new reality of the political content is becoming obvious through a form of a public and mass media delivered communication in which political actors, themes, processes and meaning, identities are created. This new reality constructs the sphere in which normal citizens realize politics and where citizens are becoming more and more part of the political culture. Politainmnet has gained importance in the age of mediatization, digitalization, globalization, and Americanization of politics. TV shows and tabloids were first to include Politainment. Conventional formats of political magazines and news programs needed to change to win more attention.
In the one month following the abrogation of Article 370, there are major discrepancies in the reporting of the two largest English newspapers, i.e., The Hindu and The Times of India. These distinctions are viewed in the light of gate keeping theory, as well as the paid news phenomenon to understand the streamlining of information. Gate keeping is utilized to streamline information on accounts of political ideologies or appeasement of investors. The paid news phenomenon is also used to understand the same. The unit of analyses is the news items and the headlines. Tabulation of this news on the basis of the positions is done. Positional scoring on the basis of circulation is carried out and frames are decided upon, to highlight the predispositions of the newspapers. Moreover, this analysis is accompanied by the Chi-square test to determine the newspaper’s statistical association with the ruling party, with Article 370, and local political parties of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sandeep Kumar Gupta* , and V. Santhi Siri
Mostly television channel’s commercials were flooded with the trend of product-centric advertisements. We have observed that the commercials in general, laud the product specifications and its features, which repeat the same product features again and again. Interestingly, in the last decade commercials have been shifted moreover from product-centric ads to more creative ads that talk about an idea, which is close to the brand values. Some popular television commercials talk about certain ideas and take up deeper consumer insights instead of harping on the product solely. Television Commercials (in short i.e. TVCs) are going beyond the product features’ details by setting with a new advertising communication strategy. TVCs are being used for the social approach along with their commercial motives. Therefore in this study, we have traced these changes of television commercials and analyzed also the television commercials’ aesthetics values, the presentations style, and the social content behind it, which made this type of commercials worth watching.
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The quandary of fake news continues to scare governments, media, journalists, nongovernmental organizations and audiences across the world. Various institutions and individuals have developed mechanisms to spot and counteract fake news that range from anti-fake news laws, social media policies, facts checking applications and reverse search technologies. However, fake news remains an enigma to the world of communication and information management [1]. One management strategy that has been overlooked over the years is media and information literacy as proposed by Grunwald Declaration on Media Education in 1982 by 19 nations during the UNESCO’s International Symposium on Media Education. This theoretical review paper focuses on the role of media literacy in managing fake news [2]. Since most of the fake news spotting and counteracting practices have focused on the place of journalists, media houses, governments and social media owners without definitive success, this study focuses on empowerment of the consumer of fake news though media literacy [3]. The review concludes that, if audiences of fake news are empowered through media literacy, then they can source, process, consume and archive information only after verification. This study recommends a paradigm shift from focusing all the attention on spotting and counteracting fake news from media, journalists, legal systems and social media owners to empowerment of news consumers though media literacy [4].
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This paper analyses the new informative consumptions and uses of social media among university students in Colombia. From the analysis of various surveys carried out in 2018 and in 2019, Colombian university students will be able to study how the processes of news reading and the uses of social media have evolved. Since the arrival in our lives of social networks sites and the use of numerous hours of the cell phone with an Internet connection, reading habits and news consumption have changed considerably; to the press, to the radio and to the television, the mobility of the news is added through the newsfeed of Facebook and Twitter. With this research, it is desired to observe the evolution in the uses and informative consumptions from the use of social networks sites by means of the quantitative survey technique and a selected sample of university students in the city of Bogotá.
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Demelash Mengistu
Binge-watching video streaming services is on the rise, especially for college students whose demographic makeup 24% of Netflix users (Iqbal, 2019). The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the binge-watching of video streaming services and college student behavior. Participants noted that binge-watching video streaming had an impact on their day-to-day activities and perceived behaviors, differing on exactly how much time spent consuming video streaming should be considered binge-watching.
Chinenye Nwabueze* and Anthony Onyima
This paper appraises the Nigerian media environment and the extent it can create awareness for climate change. It provides conceptual explanation of climate change globally and how it affects the country. It examines the different sides of the global debate on climate change, pointing out the consequences of climate change with particular reference to Nigeria. Its basic postulation is that Nigeria and African countries have not done enough in the climate change debate and battle. The paper lists strategies of how the media can create more effective awareness for climate change issues and subsequent mitigation of and adaptation to the adverse environmental conditions, particularly in an era of digital culture.
Adam James
To comprehend the extent of the magazine business, it is important to characterize the expression "magazine." And while the interpretation of "magazine" may just be "a storage facility," mechanical advances continually challenge how individuals characterize the word as far as they could tell. In the cutting edge world, online sites and transmissions are viewed as magazines, however in the conventional sense, a magazine is imprinted on paper. At the most fundamental level, a magazine gives data that might be more top to bottom however less convenient than that of, for instance, a paper. A magazine can regularly zero in on patterns or issues, and it can give foundation data to news occasions.
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