Author: newswriters

Mill Lawrenz We live in an age of information overload. Bombarded by messages on radio and television, billboards and magazine ads, phone mail, email, text messages, Facebook, and Twitter, each of our days is like crossing a river with a strong and unpredictable current. Shut your eyes and just think for a moment how many voices and messages are pounding their way into your eyes and ears. The messages contain truth and error, grace and malevolence, healing and hurting. Marketers will do anything to get us to buy products. They play on our fears and insecurities and loneliness. Some journalists…

PRAMOD RANJAN An artist is known and respected for her art. But she is equally or even more so, known and respected for her social concerns. An artist’s social concerns or in other words, her worldview, give a direction and purpose to her art. History remembers only such artists whose social concerns are deep, reasoned, and of durable importance. Lata Mangeshkar (28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was a celebrated playback singer of the Hindi film industry. She was the uncrowned queen of Indian music for over seven decades. Her popularity was unmatched. Her songs were heard and admired not…

Dr. Kirsten Eddy & Dr. Richard Fletcher On 24 February, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, marking the start of the biggest war in Europe since the Second World War. Major news organisations around the world have embedded journalists in Ukraine to cover bombings and violence in hard-hit towns and cities across broadcast, digital, and print media. Journalists, civilians, and politicians – most notably Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – have also taken to social networks like TikTok, Telegram, and Twitter to document the horrors of the war for a global audience in real-time. The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine,…

Dr. Pradeep Mahapatra———————————————————————————————————–“‘Digital News Report 2022’ covered a representative sample from half of the world population to collect information about digital news consumption.  In  India, 72 percent of online consumers access news through smartphones and 35 percent via computers. The most popular platforms include ‘You Tube’   53 percent and ‘WhatsApp’ for 51 percent”———————————————————————————————————–While the spread of mass media and daily audience engagement time is on the wheels of consistent rise as a result of the popularisation of social media, statistics on avoidance of news platforms or particular forms of news have turned to be a cause of concern by the…

Dr Pradeep MahapatraFor the first time in the history of the Internet, a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) launched on November 30, 2022 could attract 10 crore unique users within a period of two months, calculated a report published by internet traffic research platform ‘SimilarWeb’. ‘SensorTower’, another research platform explained that the other two popular applications ‘Tik-Tok’ took nine months to gather 10 crore users, while ‘Instagram’ toiled two years to reach the mark. The United States San Francisco-based ‘OpenAI’ has developed an AI-powered image generator ‘Dall-E2’ along with the language model ‘ChatGPT’.Taking into consideration unprecedented consumer interest on generative AI,…

Dr. Pradeep Mahapatra“End of BuzzFeed News creates suspicion about the future of big media outfits worldwide. Failure of traditional business models indicates a search for innovations that will create a new chapter in the media landscape”The closure of the leading digital news platform United States-based BuzzFeed News was announced during the second half of April 2023. Jonah Peretti, Chief Executive Officer of BuzzFeed explained that there was no option left, but to lay off employees due to a business slowdown that will gradually lead to the shutdown the internationally acclaimed news site. Basing upon the unprecedented popularity of social media in…

शिवप्रसाद जोशी।शीत युद्ध में वर्चस्व और विचार की लड़ाई सबसे ऊपर थी। 1990 के दशक से संसाधनों पर कब्ज़े की लड़ाई का दौर शुरू होता है। जब दशक की शुरुआत में अमेरिका ने इराक़ पर हमला बोल दिया। रासायनिक हथियारों को नष्ट करने की आड़ में हुए इस हमले में देश और उसकी संस्कृति को ही तबाह कर दिया गया। 1990 के दशक में सोवियत संघ पूरी तरह टूटफूट गया था और अमेरिकी रेटरिक और विदेशी नीति का अधिकांश काउंटर प्वायंट गायब हो गया था: शीत युद्ध उन्माद, कम्यूनिज़्म को लेकर अमेरिकी चिंताएं और एटमी तबाही का डर आदि विदेशी…

सुभाष धूलियातानाशाहियों की तुलना में मुक्त समाजों में  सेंसरशिप    असीमित रूप से कही अधिक परिष्कृत और गहन होती है क्योंकि  इस से असहमति को चुप कराया जा सकता है और प्रतिकूल तथ्यों को छिपाया जा सकता है- जोर्ज ऑरवेलआज की दुनिया औपचारिक रूप से अधिक लोकतान्त्रिक है लेकिन फिर भी लोगों को लगता है की उनके समाज के बुनियादी फैसले अधिकाधिक उनके नियंत्रण से बाहर होते जा रहे हैं- रॉबर्ट मैकचेस्नीपिछले तीन दशकों में मानव विकास की दिशा और दशा मैं बुनियादी परिवर्तन  आये हैं । समाज पर व्यापार के आधिपत्य की नवउदारवादी विचारधारा आज विश्व राजनीति के केंद्र में हैं । नवउदारवाद का  आधार एक …

सुभाष धूलियामीडिया उद्योग एक तरह के सांस्कृतिक और वैचारिक उद्योग हैं। इन उद्योगों पर नियंत्रण का अर्थ होता है किसी देश की राजनीति और संस्कृति पर नियंत्रण. दुनिया के अनेक देशों में अमेरिकी सांस्कृतिक आक्रमण को लेकर असंतोष पनप रहा है जिनमें केवल विकासशील देश ही नहीं  बल्कि यूरोप के अनेक विकसित  देश भी शामिल हैं. नव उदारवादी भूमंडलीकरण के झंडावरदार विश्व व्यापार संगठन में यह मांग भी उठाई गई थी की इन संस्कृति को व्यापार से अलग रखा जाए लेकिन इसे स्वीकार नहीं किया गया और आज विचार और संस्कृति दोनों ही व्यापार के अधीन दिखाई  पड़ते हैं.  व्यापरिकृत मीडिया मुनाफे से संचालित होता है.…

Study in International Communication:Chapter -2 of Many Voices One World, also known as the MacBride report, was a UNESCO publication of 1980 but still relevant to understand contemporary communication issues. The publication is a classic in the study of communication. The commission was chaired by Irish Nobel laureate Seán MacBride. Among the problems the report identified were concentration of the media, commercialization of the media, and unequal access to information and communication. The commission called for democratization of communication and strengthening of national media to avoid dependence on external sources, among others. Subsequently, Internet-based technologies considered in the work of…