Month: December 2015
Celebrity Cinema and Hallyu 2.0
Korean directors such as Im Kwon-Taek are synonymous with Korean national Cinema. They have raised the country’s cultural profile internationally …
The Relationship Between Social Support and Self-Esteem to the Self-Disclose of Social Media on Older Adults
Social Media has profoundly changed people's daily life experiences. Whether it is to collect information, consumer trading, and express their …
Visions of Postwar Fascism
For Japan, 1960s were a troubled decade, kept between modernization and national identity. Intellectuals as well as Japanese “Nouvelle Vague”’s …
New Media/New Films: Smartphones and Evocative Documentary Practices
Smartphones are part of a convergence culture which is reconfiguring our relationship with media and arguably shifting our understanding of …
A Case Study on the Religious Model Reporting Style and Mediated Moral Panics in Malaysia
The issues concerning moral panics and music subcultures have often been overblown in the press coverage in Malaysia. Various models …
Street Art as Political Media Literacy: About Geneng Street Art Project 2014 in Yogyakarta
Geneng Street Art Project 2014 (GSAP) was a project undertaken by street art artists in Jogjakarta. GSAP used people houses …
Rise of Media Technologies and Emergence of a New ‘Political’ Popular Culture in South Asia
The advent of media technologies changed the whole course of communication and its dissemination. The convergent global media brought a …
Daily Pleasures: Intensity, Significance, and Modality Specific Features of Auditorily and Visually Induced Emotions
Visual communication in various digital medias, and increasingly personalized usage of such medias has become an extensive part of daily …
Media and Human Rights: India’s North East in National India Media
With the dawn of India’s independence in 1947 and subsequent consolidation of its territory, and reorganisation of international border with …
Friends with Benefits: A Discourse Analysis on Framing US-Philippine Relations through Print Media’s Coverage of EDCA
This study examines discourse production in the reportage of foreign affairs. In early 2014, Philippines announced the planning and signing …
Power and Silence: Australian Media Portrayal of Israeli and Palestinian Casualties during the Gaza War of 2014
At one stage of the long-lasting Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Israel launched a military operation, Protective Edge, on the Gaza Strip in …
Discourses of Democracy and Freedom in the Election Manifestos of the Political Parties in the Turkish General Elections of 2015
This study had been focused on the democracy and freedom discourses in the election manifestos of four political parties which …
Hate Speech in Reader Comments Made on News Regarding the Turkish General Elections of 2015
The main problematic of this study is to reveal how the political hate speeches directed to a political opinion or …
Communication of Anti-Violence and Anti-Vengeance Themes in Revenge Films
Narrative film is potentially a powerful means to reflect, reinforce or alter attitudes within society. In Asia, popular martial arts …
The Construction of City Image in Micro-Filmsthe: The Case of Taipei City Government
Due to the emergence and the widespread of the Internet and the mobile device technology, micro-film has become one of …
Uses and Gratifications of Live Streaming Apps Amongst Indonesian Youth: An Exploratory Study of Periscope
Indonesia, with a total online population of 93.4 million people in 2015, is one of key regions to watch in …
Bread Maker-Turned-Breadwinner: Representations of Gender and Power in the Canadian Television Series Bomb Girls
This research explores the representation of gender roles in the Canadian prime-time television series Bomb Girls, which depicts the lives …
A Study of the Effect of Using Social Networks on the Quality of Family Interpersonal Communication (with an Emphasis on the Relationship between the Couple)
Social networks played an undeniable role in everyday life and human relationships and social networks .Iranian's interest to join, like …
When Terrorism Enters the Theatre. A Reflection on the Terrorist Attack to the Dubrovska Theatre in Moscow in 2002
In October 23, 2002, forty two Chechen Terrorists attacked the Dubrovka theatre in Moscow and took 850 people hostage during …
Socio-Political Influence on The Ideologies in Daniel Craig’s Bond Films: The Power That Lies Within
James Bond is arguably one of the widest-reaching, longest-standing and most influential film franchises of our time. In this sense …
From Censorship to Rating System: Negotiations of Power in the Thai Film Industry
This is a conceptual paper to analyze the transformation of Thai film censorship in Thailand. The study reviews literature on …
A Documentary Film on the Lives of Families of Filipino Journalists in Quezon Province Who Died in Line of Duty
This study is about the lives of the families of Filipino journalists is Quezon Province who died in line of …
Who is Afraid of Gays and Lesbians? : Power and Politics of Queer Visibility in Kingsley Iruoegbu’s Law58
While most countries in Europe, America and Asia are taking a more critical look at their homophobic positions and granting …
My Own Little Television: Implications of the Conflation of Internet Broadcasting and Television Broadcasting in the Korean Context
Internet broadcasting jockey (BJs) has been a lucrative occupation in Korea, but it has not necessarily been a legitimate job. …
The Role of Community-Based Media in Strengthening and Promoting Community Identity: A Case Study in the Thai Public Sphere
This paper analyses the role of community-based media in the Riverside community, an old and scenic location in Chanthaburi, Eastern …
Mobile Telephony for Community Networking: A Study of Thai, Rohingya and Hmong Communities in Multicultural Australia
In situations of displacement from beloved landscapes and acquired tastes to the unfamiliar land, it is common for immigrants to …
The Reception of the Weird Sisters in Welles’s ‘Macbeth’ and Kurosawa’s ‘Throne of Blood’
This presentation will focus on the reception of the Weird Sisters of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606) as supernatural beings with …
Shumang Leela A Platform for Cultural and Development Communication Discourse
Shumang Leela which means ‘Courtyard performance’ is a Manipuri theatrical art form considered to have developed in the 19th and …
Government Officials Perceptions of Public Relations in Indonesia
This research attempts to illustrate the perception of Public Relations (PR) profession in Indonesia. Adapting past research from Sterne in …
Internet Users Attitudes towards Online Targeted Advertisements
Users leave their footprints about their interests while they are surfing on the internet. Companies have the opportunity of capturing …
Police-Community Relationship in Kuwait: Public Relation Approach
Police force is an important element of society which has been vigorously investigated by scholars and thoroughly examined by social …
Insights into the Coverage of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis in Japan’s English-Language Newspapers
In this presentation, Ms Finn-Maeda outlines the initial findings of the research she has conducted over the past two years …
Digitizing Local Trip: Global Connectivity of Spatial Narratives in Indonesian Web-Series
Indonesia’s local film creation has further flourished into many kinds of innovative narratives, giving them power to be autonomous and …
Advertorials as a Public Relations Tool and its Impact on Newspapers and Readers
Advertorials are regarded a potent form of communication, albeit with a reputation for deception. It is a portmanteau of two …
Wartime Colonial Paradise and Postwar Doom: The Uses of Place, Time, and Memory in Mikio Naruse’s ‘Floating Clouds’
Japanese director Mikio Naruse made over 89 films over the course of his career and many of them are considered …
Left Behind: The Rural Children of Chinas Alternative Cinema
Against the narrative of success propagated by the Chinese government, China's independent filmmakers have committed themselves towards articulating an alternative …
The Undercurrents of Media Convergence and Development of Viewers’ Gratification to News Consumption
A linkage between media convergence and a transformation to digital television (TV) is increasingly becoming a driving force to the …
Critical Discourse Analysis of Thailand’s Film Acts (B.E. 2473 and B.E.2551)
Critical discourse analysis of Thailand’s Film Acts was studied by using the Critical discourse analysis of Norman Fairclough as an …