Charu Uppal

University of Goteborg

Mobilizing information (MI), defined as “information that allows the public to act,” is often omitted in news stories because it is considered partisan. Without relevant MI in media, participation in public discourse is restricted to the politically aware, i.e., to politicians, interest groups, and activists. This paper argues that Lemert’s definit...

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Beyond the ‘Post’ Condition in India: Hailing a New Rashtra ‘Debating the Post Condition in India’ is distilled wisdom of a lifetime of effort to understand east-west ideologies, which even though not always in harmony with each other should not be examined in isolation, but instead, studied in juxtaposition and context. The book applies an Indic...

The Rāmāyaṇa is the older of the two Indian epics that has inspired essays, commentaries, movies, TV series, stage performances, music and poetry for centuries. Characters of the Rāmāyaṇa have lived on for centuries in the hearts of the Indian masses, and come alive even today when generation after generation children are being named after its prot...

From the 1980s, international organizations have devised strategies to develop national media systems to make them more diverse and inclusive so as to both exhibit and preserve local cultures. However, these strategies have not always been successful since information has become a commodity because the interests of private actors prevent equal acce...

Pan-Africanism, a concept that attempts to capture the essence of being an African, needs to be reconsidered in the age of social media. In this article, we examine how Twitter users negotiate the question of African identity through humorous hashtag-driven conversations. We specifically question whether a new kind of Pan-Africanism is emerging on...

Disney animated princesses are broadcasted around the world through Disney Channel and its global affiliates, as well as through numerous other networks that purchase distribution rights. In an attempt to provide diversity Disney in the last 25 years has featured non-western princesses -- such as Aladdin (1992), Pocahontas (1995), Mulan (1998), and...

Rasa, meaning gist, is the essence that one feels when experience an art piece, be it performance or static art. Rasa, in Indian context, applied to both the performer and the audience is considered an alaukika (other worldly) experience. An integral part of aesthetics both Indian and Greek (although European performing arts moved away from the ori...

Pan-Africanism, a concept that attempts to capture the essence of being an African, needs to be reconsidered in the age of interactive social media. In this chapter, we look at how Twitter users negotiate the question of African identity through humourous hashtag-driven conversations. We specifically interrogate the question whether a new kind of P...

Crisis and disaster management organizations in developing countries are facing a challenging problem: the processes of urbanization vis a vis traditional societal organizations need for different approaches to communicate with the population. This paper aims to analyze the channels of communication during crisis situations in Ghana and how the pro...

Previously hailed as one of the two Asian nations with western model of freedom of press, today Indian mainstream media has lost credibility, as it has adopted journalistic ethics of tabloids. The disillusioned public has shifted its attention to news in cyberspace. In the recent years, young Indian audiences have relied on affordances of interacti...

Media use by Diasporas has been linked to maintaining old identities and creating new ones. Indian diaspora is unique because it has always had a link to India through home media. This paper attempts to explore –if varying degrees of globalization (modernity, economics, and global culture), in Indian diaspora can influence the processes of assimila...

Culture is inherently dynamic, even in geographically static populations; however, when a diaspora undergoes significant migration, cultural transformations often occur at an accelerated pace. The Indo-Fijian diaspora, long recognized for its preservation of an "Indian" identity, is currently undergoing a significant socio-political shift resulting...

The paper proposes a methodological study of reception and follow-up action of specifically designed messages, delivered on SMS and Social Media, to mobilize public participation in a cleaning campaign in India. The messages will be geared towards empowering the recipients with a higher sense of civic responsibility. The empowerment here views the...

New forms of storytelling that include game mechanics, such as newsgames and gamification have steadily been incorporated into digital journalism (Bogost, Ferrari, and Schweizer 2010). By adding game-like features that act as persuasive actors in order to motivate young readers to consume news, digital publishers aim to attract readers and foster t...

Crisis and disaster management organizations in developing countries are facing a challenging problem: the processes of urbanization vis a vis traditional societal organizations call for different approaches to communicate with the population. In countries where vulnerabilities, threats, and risks are high, the establishment of channels of communic...

From the 1980s, international organizations have devised strategies to develop national media systems to make them more diverse and inclusive so as to both exhibit and preserve local cultures. However, these strategies have not always been successful since information has become a commodity because the interests of private actors prevent equal acce...

Bollywood, the most prolific film industry has effectively communicated the views of dominant groups to masses, and has played a significant role in arousing a feeling of nationalism. As the priority of India has kept on changing since it got independence in 1947, Bollywood too has adopted and shaped itself accordingly to cater the demands of count...

Development journalism has been a key focus of discussion among journalism scholars for around half a decade, but most of the attention has been firmly on African and Asian countries. This article examines the situation on the little-researched island nation of Fiji, which has experienced considerable political instability since independence in 197...

Indian culture, dispensed through colorful musicals of Bollywood, remains a common thread of emotional connection for the Indian diaspora spread around the globe in more than 100 countries. Indo-Fijian diaspora, unlike its counterpart in the developed nations where Indians migrated of their own choice, and often hold white collar jobs, is formed of...

Environmental Justice Movements

As this edition of Pacific Journalism Review went to press, Fiji was in the throes of conducting a census. Technology is helping the process. Technology is often associated with democratising the political proc- ess, decentralising the status quo, upholding free speech, promoting direct democracy and amplifying voices that often remain silent. Rega...

Our perception of and relationship with our natural environment is shaped by the dominant cultural perspectives held toward the environment. This comparative study is based on the assumption that there is a marked difference between these cultural perspectives in India and the United States, and because journalists carry cultural notions to the new...

While most experiments with animation investigate its impact on learning, this study explores perceptual effects of using animation in instructional material. In a between-subjects experiment, subjects (N = 32) were randomly assigned to two conditions: animated and static. They read a distance-education lesson on the Web that was identical in conte...

Investigates whether memory for an advertisement is related to the medium in which the ad was viewed. Exposes undergraduate students to either a print newspaper front page or an online version of the same content. Finds that print subjects remembered significantly more ad material than online subjects. (RS)

This between-subjects experiment was designed to examine theimpact of physical distance on affect and cognition in a distance educationsituation. Participants were 48 undergraduate students enrolled in communications classes. All subjects were exposed to identical instructional material, but half of the students were told that the material was prep...

Before reviewing the literature it is necessary to examine some of the various definitions of literacy, with an emphasis on how the term has evolved and what being literate implies. One of the earliest definitions of literacy was the "ability to read and write" (Oxenham, 1980, pp.15). However, this definition has evolved to more complex statements....