https://sah.hcommons.org/members/bronwenthomas/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Bronwen Thomas is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:44:39 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2ce5084c58c48e6ec8247df36ec6d3f3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882307/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 03:00:32 -0400 Named for the Ukrainian Orthodox prayer for the dead, the Canadian feminist Decameron Collective’s Memory Eternal | Вічная Пам’ять explores trauma and remembrance. Designed for the Oculus Quest 2, this feminist digital sandbox storytelling project by a group of nine women scholars from Canada reflects on grief at the personal and collective…[Read more]

]]> 0 89da0523137731af6522a2e962d10247 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744449/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 02:30:08 -0400 The study posits a twelve pronged formulation of indices to measure the over coverage and
under coverage of the Indian states and union territories by newspapers on socio-economic,
demographical and political aspects. Union territories (UT), mainly Delhi and Chandigarh
were unjustifiably favoured on all twelve counts which clearly points out…[Read more]

]]> 0 e020de2bf15ed70ba73637eabef8607d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744444/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 02:29:29 -0400 This paper discusses the effect of social media on the occurrence of ‘Arab Spring’. In the
Arab world no country could claim to be truly democratic and most were autocratic coupled
with desertification (68.4 per cent of the total land area), phenomenal rise in population and
scarcity of water. Moreover, about 60 per cent of the population is…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e6376952a3f6f5ac5bbc9ef3d8be76b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744429/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 02:27:38 -0400 Patriotism and national unity have become favorite brand positioning propositions for
advertisers in India. The paper explores the reasons behind the popularity of these patriotic
themes that also embrace notions of nationhood, communal harmony and national unity in
commercials and public service advertisements. While these patriotic themes…[Read more]

]]> 0 8940bfe19d36810e627387a7ea0959c6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744419/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 02:26:38 -0400 This paper analyses the role of community-based media in information distribution in the
Riverside community, a cultural tourism destination in Chanthaburi, Eastern Thailand. It
has started to produce its own media, and to use social networks to promote itself to the
nation. Exploring the role of community media produced by locals will…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfa7d952666952e9ce03335f88d2b4d7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744413/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 02:26:03 -0400 Ethnicity has become a key interest of advertisers in diverse societies. Contrary to the
popular argument that ethnic identities are threatened by the intensified influence of media
and consumer culture, they have become the core sites of representation and reproduction
of ethnic identities. It is arguable that in today’s (mass) mediated s…[Read more]

]]> 0 b64ddd485983572695ad871c49800f4a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744399/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 02:24:24 -0400 Our study compared the use of fear messages on Facebook by Barack Obama and Mitt
Romney during the 2012 U.S. presidential elections. Results show that written fear messages
embedded in photographs posted on Facebook by both candidates affected the degree to
which those photographs were shared. More specifically, photographs containing…[Read more]

]]> 0 8dbd1bf8e5d144604a043c4b5cb055b7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744246/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:30:43 -0400 The games that have become a staple on Facebook provide lessons on how to make websites and
Internet marketing more successful. We highlight these points that gamers have accomplished: Provide
ideological agreement, Create a community, Provide a sense of control or autonomy, Create a way for
people to communicate with each other, Recognize…[Read more]

]]> 0 26a47013e92e19713d27fa31c8a6c7db https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744196/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:26:58 -0400 Creation and maintenance of a favourable image is an essential function of public relations
and social media is emerging as an important weapon in this image management armoury.
The social media environment provides an opportunity to reach out to a variety of public in
a more intimate and interactive way especially in the case of celebrity…[Read more]

]]> 0 c12b60076611a32795056c8d36e27f68 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744191/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:26:29 -0400 This study grounds itself in the communication, information sharing, discussion and cocreation potential of ICTs with reference to social media-Facebook. Taking a qualitative
approach, it explores the above as building blocks of new educational paradigms of learner
autonomy; learner-centered education and co-creation of knowledge through…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1f5ac0a06ce6d12603122ef1aa64370 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744186/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:26:01 -0400 The power of social media is virtually untameable. The advent of social media has shrunk
the world to what Marshal McLuhan once termed ‘global village’. This paper has examined
into the amount of time government and private school students spent on social media
vis-à-vis on physical activities. It has attempted to answer the questions: (i) How…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b78fcb02630ceef57b721625dfa31be https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744180/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:25:22 -0400 This paper is an attempt to measure the impact of social media on the vanity level of
youngsters in India. An experimental research was conducted on a controlled group of 40
participants with an average age of 23 years. Netemeyer’s vanity scale was administered
on the participants and their vanity was measured. A month later, the participants i…[Read more]

]]> 0 7eb722dc629bab703c7e730a16a83095 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744176/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:25:08 -0400 On 28 April 2012, ‘Bersih 3.0’, a rally calling for freer and fairer elections estimated that 250,
000 people gathered to support its cause. Government controlled newspapers the New
Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia accused this rally attended by 20, 000 demonstrators as a
plot to destabilise and overthrow the ruling coalition through chaos and…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf6b0d51def0df91b5881c0097cfc134 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744166/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 02:24:15 -0400 Social media use is ubiquitous in the United States. Not surprisingly, an academic debate
has emerged about whether or not computer-mediated communication facilitates or hurts
interpersonal relationships. This exploratory case study adds to the conversation by
assessing how Twitter users in the Wichita, Kansas community view the impact of…[Read more]

]]> 0 3237a206167a8fe7a131ffa718dec543 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744037/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:29:07 -0400 The digital literacy and awareness are now not just bound with education. The digital expansion is now a part of social, political, cultural, economic, community, and intellectual life. The education systems at business schools need to help future managers to understand and benefit from their engagement with digital technology and digital…[Read more]

]]> 0 490e2ad969c436db5c58cf40186d1002 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744032/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:28:28 -0400 As continued production and rendering of service is enabled, in this instance, through varying product range as it pertain mobile tele-communication, MTN in Nigeria is attempting to further its CSR bid through the “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” programme. The need to evaluate its efficacy is premised on continued programming, participation and…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ca805e685229482a182c3ffbb3d173f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744023/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:27:39 -0400 In most African states, political openness and tolerance is measured by the non-existence of government censorship, and also the ability of the media to operate without fear. In agreement with the debate posited by Wasserman (2013) including other scholars suggests that the media is capable of building democratic structures as it provides a…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddc99c8eaf7ecac576e1ca1ccfd5deaf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744007/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:26:07 -0400 VICE Media has risen from a local Canadian counterculture magazine to an international corporate giant. Bloomberg Business has valued the company at over $1 billion, while other reputable outlets have placed VICE’s worth at many times that. Remarkably, through its ascension to mainstream relevancy and despite getting into bed with some of the w…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9c706844f4ed27a093e4e5ea2a81433 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743992/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:24:16 -0400 The internet as a communication platform for netizens has become the hybrid space for social mobilization to forward political agenda. A take-off from Manuel Castells’ hypotheses on power and counter-power in the network society, this paper is a reading of “Boycott SM Baguio” Facebook Group Page as a space and site for social mobilization. Using…[Read more]

]]> 0 b57178be11f408c475a29a178de3872d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743822/ Sun, 27 Jun 2021 02:29:15 -0400 Bribery among journalists could be seen widely in many places but is a comparatively less
researched topic. It would be surprising for an average news consumer to know that the
sometimes news story he reads in print or views on television might be the product of a
bribe or some sort of incentive received by the journalist who covered that news.…[Read more]

]]> 0 7faecdab8ebebaf8922ccc2caff82a95 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743813/ Sun, 27 Jun 2021 02:28:14 -0400 In contemporary era social media and mass movement are playing a crucial role
in global public sphere. Statistics shows that in the countries of Asian continent
active social media penetration is flourishing with times. The paper will attempt
to conduct an explanatory research by using analysis of Twitter Revolution (Iran),
Umbrella Revolution…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8f269adf576875ba125ff8604193234 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743807/ Sun, 27 Jun 2021 02:27:36 -0400 Among the emerging economies, India is the most promising market for
Generation Y, because majority of Indian’s population belongs to this segment
(those born between 1980 and 2000). These individuals are tech-savvy and
extensively use mobile phones. This study aims to uncover the role of mobile
phone that has emerged along with the e…[Read more]

]]> 0 042e865d2f88759e3b24b50128556fa3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743802/ Sun, 27 Jun 2021 02:27:07 -0400 The retirement of Sachin Tendulkar, unarguably one of the greatest cricketers
the world has ever witnessed, was a major landmark in the recent history of
sport and generated a widespread media discourse across the world. This paper
analyses how differently Indian and foreign media engaged with this celebrity
discourse through a comparative…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc04169360ebe6f0c29be6f92a3c3363 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743798/ Sun, 27 Jun 2021 02:26:48 -0400 This article traces the new channels of communication being used as intercultural
communication tool to enhance the existing bond of friendship between China
and Pakistan, the oldest strategic allies in the region. The study explores
government initiatives, academic programs and projects aimed at promoting
Chinese language and culture in…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a80104833e6953094994fd6e1d2f9d8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743645/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:24:50 -0400 The purpose of this study was to provide information regarding a venue for exercise
adherence motivation toward physical activity via social media support. The five themes
identified that positively affected participants’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to adhere
to exercise through a social media fitness application were: accountability…[Read more]

]]> 0 84bb69d35c398385d25abc0d48d8bc94 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743640/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 02:24:11 -0400 In 2014, the MH370, MH17 and QZ8501 flight crash tragedies become a viral issue
and attract the attentions of media and stakeholders, globally, and raise many
crises to the airlines companies, respectively, including the risk of losing their
stakeholders’ trust. The study is to identify the crises management approaches
used for the tragedies…[Read more]

]]> 0 f61336be76bdd534323dbbc1a49c6f95 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743502/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:28:22 -0400 The contemporary debate between patriotic nationalism and the freedom of
expression has sparked off in the wake of JNU students’ union president arrest on
the charges of sedition post the organization of a cultural program. The incident
infuriated debate amongst the country’s highest intellectuals, parliamentarians,
journalists and many others…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8f2d5e6f846a54fc2eacf9413122062 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743497/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:27:54 -0400 This study explores the portrayal of Islam and Muslims in the western media talk
shows, CNN and BBC from January 2012 to December 2012 and draws the required
data from their online editions. It is a content analysis of 50 programs focusing on
Islam and Muslims from Piers Morgan Live, Fareed Zakaria GPS, HARDtalk and
Newsnight. The findings…[Read more]

]]> 0 686222e11efec61225713a749a975ee2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743487/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:26:51 -0400 The current article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of the information materials
of the popular German mass media covering the Ukrainian crisis in 2014. Special
attention is paid to the formation of the Russian and Ukrainian images in the
framework of the information-psychological confrontation through psycholinguistic
processing of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7ceed38d0731644e56af0c462b1631b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743482/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:26:15 -0400 New arguments found ground after the revolution of Gutenberg and importance of
reading being elevated in comparison to addressing, delivering original hand
writings to masses by copying (Warschauer, 2007) and after centuries, reaching
the point of electronic literacy with many innovations. These arguments reached
a point suggesting that…[Read more]

]]> 0 050b8240d594b75557cd531d71d537bb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743462/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:24:10 -0400 In this digital age of online news, objective journalism is increasingly treated
as unnecessary, if not obsolete. In the liberal West, news portals can offer
different views to counter the political economic status quo proffered by
traditional hyper-commercial corporate media. In more authoritarian Asian
countries like Malaysia, “alternative”…[Read more]

]]> 0 e15c9eb3e2412039bebc09278e972952 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743379/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:31:04 -0400 Commercial interests invariably become entwined with making films, with reporting
the news and with other forms of information and entertainment. Pervasive mediagenerated gender and racial stereotypes distort cultural representations and
negatively impact users’ perceptions of society. As students learn to create various
forms of media, their…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca915cb19e51cf3daf3d44fa2b119c12 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743363/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:29:05 -0400 The concept of social capital is quite complex and every scholar defined it differently. Taking into consideration the idea of social capital discussed by Robert Putnam, James Coleman, Michael Woolcock, etc. the current study has determined the variables affecting the social capital. These variables are demographics (social network, education…[Read more]

]]> 0 3289d9da05b1e6d2b1641cc78deac04e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743353/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:28:10 -0400 In India, the practice of permission-based SMS advertising is yet to evolve as a marketing practice and mobile users resist SMS advertising in its current format due to unauthorised spamming. Given this context, what factors constitute the acceptance or rejection of SMS advertising is still unclear. So, the study investigated the factors…[Read more]

]]> 0 18bf61b2bf9ed63840d4cafc35f25d66 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743343/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:27:11 -0400 New technology has been credited with the ability to extend human senses. However, adaptation and use of technology has been reported to be intricately mediated by usefulness and ease of use of technology among other contingencies. While Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has provided the theoretical basis for adaptation and use of technology in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3d70f808000fdf1e9212aa8177119e7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743319/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:24:16 -0400 The “civility crisis” has been a big concern in the U.S. and abroad at least since the 1990s. Evidence suggested that uncivil attacks in political discourse have a negative impact on political trust. Administering an online survey with an experiment embedded in it, the study seeks to find out whether source and uncivil commentary in a news sto…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a72e896b5d2a9b77c6397f948e81391 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743211/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 02:28:41 -0400 The guerrillas of the modern day marketing arena have been eyeing the innovative
strategies to promote their products. They aim to grab the maximum attention
with least amount the capital spent. This is what guerrilla marketing revolves
around. YouTube has evolved as one such platform. It is being used as a powerful
medium by the marketing…[Read more]

]]> 0 47f5a1c6ad5279f13e6d43342dd6c225 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743196/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 02:27:17 -0400 Literary multilingualism has been dexterously used by the Indian English writers to
reflect the cultural and behavioral style of the characters and make the setting
realistic. The paper attempts to identify and analyze the kinds of literary techniques
used in Indian English fiction and how through the use of these techniques, the
writers have…[Read more]

]]> 0 34dbc7654fa0107cdac30fb1998e01eb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743186/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 02:26:15 -0400 India though being the birthplace of the ancient science of sex, it is really a matter
of shame that the post British India, considers it a taboo, to talk and discuss it in
the public. Like many other ancient scriptures and technologies that were all
initiated by India, but are now used and further developed by the western world,
India, in…[Read more]

]]> 0 651f5c325f7824c5ddf1effed360f0ad https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743171/ Wed, 23 Jun 2021 02:24:43 -0400 This study examines the significance and the favorability of brand placements in
Indian film industry (Bollywood) movies that would generate revenues and reduce
the risk of production costs for the decision makers (film production houses). A
theoretical model built on Cue utilization theory is used to assess the number of
brand placements in…[Read more]

]]> 0 721a00e4fa5e420354e018f69560478f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743073/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:37:50 -0400 This study aims at appropriating the social and print media construct and coverage
of human rights violations in the post Eelam war between Indian Tamil fishermen
and their conflict with Sri Lankan Navy in the Palk Bay. The alleged intrusion of the
Indian trawlers into the Sri Lankan water and the rebuttal by Sri Lankan Navy
leading to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f7c1ca2546eba82f2218865a4d32fa8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743064/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:36:55 -0400 Fake news and its repercussions are now a global concern, especially in the wake
of the recent incidents that have shook the credibility of media, be it regional,
national or global. Media is now a web of propagandas and there are more views
then news. Three stories (Myanmar coup, Dimapur Lynching, and Grenfell Tower
fire) were taken as case…[Read more]

]]> 0 96fbe68ba9cd038ff39cf172e7e3c0bd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743053/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:35:27 -0400 This study is a comparative content analysis of news content of Aljazeera English
(AJE) and BBC News on China’s national political affairs in their online news
editions from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2014 after the assumption of power by
Chinese president Xi Jinping. The study compares the patterns of news coverage
by two international…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac0e92a4a3343d70257acf0af8d739f5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743048/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:34:57 -0400 Digital technology tools like any computerized system have a viral tendency and
what awaits the Indian Elections in 2019 is a Trump style sophisticated digital
computational propaganda. Such tools are emerging as threats to democracies,
especially like India, with a free media and a booming population, connecting to
the web through smart…[Read more]

]]> 0 33c792c8e024ab588fee133bdd351d0a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743040/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:34:18 -0400 The idea of this study has been emerged from the importance of school press in
enriching and enhancing the educational press, and it also contributes in detecting
talents early. The researcher has conducted this study on a random sample of 360
students from intermediate school in Kuwait. The results have revealed that the
majority of students…[Read more]

]]> 0 b30f419e1aa6271066ae720654ae98c8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743036/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:33:49 -0400 This study investigates the perceptions of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) students
and professional journalists regarding the quality of curriculum and training
sessions that they received at the University and afterwards by looking at
curriculum, training sessions and practical programmes related to journalism
education, as well as the…[Read more]

]]> 0 59ef4b209361c4dbd89a97208c7d3bf2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1742996/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:28:38 -0400 The purpose this study is to explore school students’ videogame playing and its
correlation to aggressive behaviour. Four hundred and six (406) videogame playing
students from different socio-economic background in Chennai city of India and
its suburban areas participated in the study. Data on aggressive behaviour from
the students were…[Read more]

]]> 0 dccdc92ac524c6515b3b4236264acfe5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1742980/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:26:37 -0400 This paper brings together the perspective of social production of space as a
‘category’ which creates the ‘inter-subjective’ world of virtual reality where
interaction is subjected to individual’s virtual ‘privacy’ and in turn shapes their
extended ‘self and identity’. This reality keeps on negotiating with the actor as an
external entity…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb421e575f6d8342ac7973748ce70691 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1742975/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:26:06 -0400 Taking a selfie as a social phenomenon is a way that people try to feel better
about themselves. Selfies say us something important about the people who take
them, and then share them and offer useful insights into the uses of social media
in general. It seems that young Kuwaitis are obsessed with taking selfies. Young
Kuwaitis, especially…[Read more]

]]> 0 97a98635adf284bc716e038e3b96bdd9 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1742830/ Mon, 21 Jun 2021 02:27:51 -0400 The relevance of the research is determined by the rapid development of the
information society and the growing need to receive new information. The research
aims to consider information coverage tools, as well as to reveal their role and
place in the system of information space. The conducted research enabled to
determine the role and place…[Read more]

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