Divanka Randula Podduwage

Divanka Randula Podduwage
University of Kelaniya · Department of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Arts
USAGE AND PRACTICE OF STREAMING MEDIA, WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY, NEW MEDIA TRENDS.

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Introduction
Divanka Randula Podduwage currently works at the Drama & Theatre and Image Arts Unit, University of Kelaniya. Divanka does research in Visual Arts, Film & Television, Photography, Digital Media, Ecology, and Zoology. His current projects are 'Usage and Practice of Streaming Media', 'Online Video Culture', 'Concepts on Wildlife Photography', and 'Odonata of Sri Lanka'.
Additional affiliations
May 2018 - present
University of Kelaniya
Position
  • Lecturer
December 2016 - January 2017
University of Kelaniya
Position
  • Fellow
January 2016 - present
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
Position
  • Lecturer
Description
  • Photography, Videography and Multimedia.
Education
January 2012 - December 2016
University of Kelaniya
Field of study
  • Image Arts
January 1996 - December 2010
D.S.Senanayake College
Field of study
  • Arts Stream

Publications

Publications (12)
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Wildlife photography or filming is associating with nature and wild animals capturing them in their natural habitat. When dealing with nature and animals, photographers have to be circumspect about themselves as well as the knowledge of flora fauna and their environment. They should support to conserve and protect the nature and its wildlife. There...
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Wildlife photography is one of the most popular genres in photography. Although the history of wildlife photography goes back more than 100 years, until recently there was no internationally accepted definition for it. Since 2015, a number of leading photography organizations around the world have filled this gap, establishing the wildlife photogra...
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Among many streaming media platforms, "YouTube" is the largest and most popular video-sharing platform. YouTube is the key reason behind online video culture. YouTube has given an opportunity to video creators to earn through their video content. Accordingly, creating videos for YouTube freelancers, nowadays identified as ‘YouTubers’, is one of the...
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Video Streaming is the modern way of delivering and viewing video works through the internet using various website platforms. These videos are viewed by people who connect with internet to fulfil their different expectations whenever they wish to. Watching videos online has become a new medium of sharing information as well as entertainment. The us...
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Wildlife photography or filming is associating with nature and wild animals capturing them in their natural habitat. When dealing with nature and animals, photographers have to be circumspect about themselves as well as the knowledge of flora fauna and their environment. They should support to conserve and protect the nature and its wildlife. There...
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Streaming media" is a new media platform which has shown a striking growth around the world within the last five years. This technology is used to deliver audio and video through the internet that reaches millions of people who use their computers and smart phones. Present day media organizations, especially which are based in western countries use...
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Wildlife photography has a history of more than 100 years. Through these years its aims and shape was changed gradually. Its roots begun from hunting animals and today proceed as a major tool of animal conservation. Also it has been getting more complicated and advanced in the modern world. Hence to understand the current position and shape, an acc...
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Video Streaming is the modern technological advancement of broadcasting video contents using the internet one end to another. This advancement have made the modern digital society people to surf through the internet to watch video contents than ever in the history before. They are getting a habit of watching videos through their laptops or Smart ph...
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Sri Lanka is a tropical island nation with a rich Odonata fauna. About 50% of the recorded species from the country are currently known to be threatened with extinction at the national level. Many threatened species and newly discovered Odonata species in Sri Lanka lack reliable faunistic data, which is highly important for proper conservation asse...
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Elattoneura leucostigma is one of the rarest damselflies in Sri Lanka. It is endemic to the montane zone of the country and is categorized as a Critically Endangered species at both national and global level. Apart from the limited knowledge on distribution and flight season, nothing is known of the natural history of this species. We present a sum...
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The study area of the bio diversity assessment is a wet land area, known as the Thalangama wetlands consisting of a man built irrigation tank (reservoir), a few canals, paddy fields and some marshlands. This study area is within 15km zone from Colombo city and is a one out of the two remaining irrigation tanks controlled by the Colombo divisional o...
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Bellanwila-Attidiya marsh is one of the residual fragments of the extensive marshlands around Colombo district. The area provide a habitat for a large number of animals, including 168 species of both migrant and resident birds, 77 species of butterflies, 33 species of freshwater and brackish water fish, 27 species of reptiles, 27 species of mammals...

Questions

Questions (2)
Question
We all have experienced in rejecting or accepting a research paper in the process of submitting to a conference or a journal. There are three options to a reviewer to accept a paper as accepting with Major corrections, Minor Corrections or without any correction.
How ever I would like to know your opinions about the major factors that we should consider when rejecting a paper than accepting it.
Is there any standard to follow when rejecting a paper ?
Thank you.
Question
My Research Interest score on RG have dropped from 20 to 1.4.
What could be the reason for it ?
Thank you.

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Projects (5)
Project
Understanding the remaining biodiversity around the highly urbanized capital city, Colombo. support to take conservation efforts on those identified areas.
Project
A. Study the depths of wildlife photography as a conservation tool. B. Application of wildlife photography in Sri Lanka for the conservation of its biodiversity and preventing the its misuses.
Project
Exploring the new generation mainstream media platform, Streaming Media - special refering to Sri Lanka.