Communication

2022 will be a year of careful consolidation for a news industry that has been both disrupted and galvanised by the drawn-out COVID-19 crisis. Both journalists and audiences have, to some degree, been ‘burnt out’ by the relentless intensity of the news agenda, alongside increasingly polarised debates about politics, identity, ...

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Media-Comm-PP-Ujjawal Chardhary Click above link By Prof. Ujjwal K. Chowdhury

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A Report by the Reuters School of Journalism 2021 will be a year of profound and rapid digital change following the shock delivered by Covid-19. Lockdowns and other restrictions have broken old habits and created new ones, but it is only this year that we’ll discover how fundamental those changes ...

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In a report titled “China’s Pursuit of a New World Media Order”, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) investigates Beijing’s strategy to control information beyond its borders, a project that poses a threat to press freedom throughout the world. Beijing is also exporting its censorship and surveillance tools, including the Baidu search ...

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Subhash Dhuliya The “headline journalism” is meant to ‘drag the attention” and leave out important details isolating the news from its context. The truth gets buried.  In the process of selecting certain stories to report on while not selecting others or selecting certain details of a story while omitting others, ...

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How Should Politicians Use Social Media? Katie Fallow   Don’t block people from your official account based on viewpoint. If you use a social media account for official purposes, don’t block people from your official social media account, or delete or hide their comments, because of their views Every political ...

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After the Cold War, the wave of freedom swept the globe. Larger number of countries moved towards more liberal and democratic system of governance and resulting enhancement of press freedom. The process of globalization set in with more vigorously and neo-liberal reforms swept the world. But in the later phase ...

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  Om Prakash Das It is the dominant political message which works through the dominant images and it is pushed by a streak of aspirations of the great mass. Now, we need to understand the relation between future aspirations and so called ‘golden past’. In India ‘golden past’ describes a ...

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Access Now releases “Fighting misinformation and defending free expression during COVID-19: recommendations for states While misinformation, disinformation, and state-sponsored propaganda are not unique to COVID-19, in the context of an unprecedented health crisis, these phenomena have posed a serious risk to public health as well as public action The world ...

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Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash Meera Selva “Journalists are still doing extraordinary work, putting themselves at risk to report on a pandemic that is turning global systems upside down on an unprecedented scale. This pandemic must be documented, analysed and recorded. People’s stories must be told and politicians must ...

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ओमप्रकाश दास जब ख़बरें या कोई सूचना, कोई संदेश वाहक एक जगह से दूसरी जगह ले जाता था और उसे सुनाता था तो निश्चित रूप से उसमें उस संदेशवाहक के अपने ज्ञान का समाजशास्त्र शामिल हो जाता होगा। यह भी हम सब जानते हैं कि जब कोई बात आप कहते ...

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ओमप्रकाश दास आज, जब तकनीक तेज़ी से बदल रही है, ऐसे में ये सोचना-समझना बहुत ज़रूरी हो जाता है कि आख़िर तकनीक और उसके लगातार बदलाव ने अपना क्या असर हमारी दुनिया पर डाला है। विशेषकर सूचना के प्रवाह पर, सामाजिक मूल्यों पर और उससे आगे बढ़कर वैश्विक राजनीति पर? ...

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