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Authors: Ven-hwei Lo; Joseph Man Chan; Zhongdang Pan (2005) - This is a comparative survey study of journalists’ attitudes and perceptions concerning various types of conflicts of interest in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Journalists in all three regions are found to be receptive to freebies in the form of small gifts, meals and trips. However, they almost unanimously agree that monetary benefits from news sources are unacceptable. Compared with freebies, moonlighting seems to be a less serious problem in the three regions. Most journalists think that their colleagues do not commonly practice moonlighting. The journalists strongly agree that they should not solicit advertising on behalf of their employer or work for public relations firms or the government as a second job. With regard to self-censorship, journalists in the three regio...
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Authors: Hye-Jin Paek (2005) - Based largely on McCracken’s ‘cultural meaning transfer’ model (1989), which stresses the cultural meanings of celebrity endorsers, this study explores the characteristics that differentiate celebrity-endorser strategies in South Korean newspaper ads from those in US newspaper ads. With Hofstede’s cultural typology*/uncertainty avoidance and power distance*/as a theoretical framework, this study finds that ads in South Korea with a high uncertainty avoidance and a high power distance culture present a higher proportion of celebrity endorsers than those in the US with a low uncertainty avoidance and a low power distance culture. However, US ads have a greater proportion of product-related celebrity endorsers in both high- and low-involvement product ads. The study also provides detai...
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Authors: Lakshmi Subramanian (2022) - The paper looks at the circulation of music in new spaces produced by technologies of recording, amplification, and transmission. It argues for the making of new categories that go beyond ‘classical’ and ‘popular’ especially in the context of southern India and the tradition that is identified as Carnatic music. It looks at Radio and televisual broadcasting to capture new listening communities and their acoustic aspirations. It argues for new radio geographies that reinforced identity of regions and their practices and gave them greater leverage in relation to the nation and national pool of resources. In contrast the television as a medium of spectacle and entertainment impacted listening experiences quite differently even as it expanded the viewership beyond the confines of the na...
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Authors: A. M. ZakariaKhanAssistant Professor (2005) - Following on from Henningham’s inquiry into the personality of journalists, an attempt is made here to provide a wider theoretical platform for analysis of news people’s characteristic tendencies along the lines of their unusual occupational activities. This study, which uses only Bangladeshi samples, also aims at broadening the domain for psychology based research more closely related to the actual performance of journalists with a view to putting forward this particular issue to the cross-cultural arena. Eysenck’s test of three personality dimensions was applied to a sample of 100 journalists from various media organizations in Bangladesh. The personality trait of extraversion was significantly related to engaging strongly with news sources. Neuroticism, another dimension of perso...
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Authors: Wei-KuoLinAssistant Professor (2005) - The present study tested inoculation theory in international context. Core inoculation concepts and variables were examined, especially focusing on relationships among inoculation treatments, issue involvement, perceived threat, resistance to counter-attitudinal attack, attitudinal confidence, and change of attitude.
A two-wave telephone survey of 206 randomly sampled citizens was conducted in Taiwan. The method of field experiment in a context of the formation of public opinion regarding Taiwan’s political future was performed. Results from the panel data supported major hypotheses of this study. Inoculation strategies elevated people’s resistance to attitude change. People who identified themselves with higher party identification were more resistant to counter-attitudinal politi...
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Authors: KaraChanAssociate Professor; Fanny Chan (2005) - The current study was an update of Chan’s (1995) study of television advertising conducted in 1993 in China. A content analysis of 386 Chinese television commercials in 2002 was conducted. The Resnik and Stern evaluation criteria were adopted to determine the level of advertising information content in television commercials. Compared to the previous study in 1993, Chinese commercials were becoming less informative. The percentage of informative ads dropped from 58% in 1993 to 55% in 2002. The average information cue dropped from 1.5 cues in 1993 to 1.3 cues in 2002 in each commercial classified as informative. The three most frequently used information cues were the same as in the last study, namely, performance, components/contents, and quality. Non-durables and pharmaceutical adv...
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Authors: Cheolhan Lee; William L. Benoit (2005) - This study applied the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to the 2002 Korean presidential debates. These messages stressed acclaims (positive statements) more than attacks; defenses were the least common function. Policy (issues) occurred more frequently than character (image). General goals and ideals were used more to acclaim than attack. The incumbent party candidate acclaimed more and attacked less than challenger party candidates (and acclaimed more and attacked less on past deeds in particular). The most common form of defense was simple denial. These results were contrasted with the most recent American presidential debates to reveal similarities and differences between presidential debates in these two cultures.
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Authors: Ritika Pant (2022) - Globalization and transnationalism have expanded the physical ter-ritory of television and are responsible for global reshaping of media industries and cultures. In the contemporary mediascape, Indian television industry is an interesting site for excavating new transna-tional patterns wherein the circulation of Indian TV content extends beyond the diaspora and caters to non-diasporic audiences, espe-cially, in South Asia and South-east Asia. The popularity of Hindi language TV soaps in Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, etc., have aided in mapping a new ‘tele’-visual geography of popular culture that deems Western media influence as almost insignificant, if not absent. Chronicling the success of two Indian TV programmes – the story of a ‘child-bride’ Balika Vadhu (2008–16) in Vietnam a...
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Authors: Pragya Trivedi (2022) - Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se (1998), 22 years after its release and its sub-sequent flop in the Indian box office, was included in Hollywood Insider’s ‘Master of Cinema Archive’ in 2020. Its songs appeared in surprising places, including Spike Lee’s Inside Man (2006), and in 2020, Canadian music artist Tesher’s mashup video, ‘Young Shahrukh’. Ratnam’s use of fantasy-like scenes places the film and its songs in an earlier pre-2000 genre of the song sequence. Song picturizations in pre-2000 Hindi cinema, usually filmed after the song was recorded, were called ‘situations’ and song composition often took place around them (Morcom 31). Film songs and their picturizations functioned as the forerunners of ‘non-resident’ media, a term used to designate media not intended for the audi-ence consumin...
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Authors: Suhaan Kiran Mehta (2022) - This paper argues that while fusion music in Shoaib Mansoor’s film Khuda Kay Liye (KKL) (2007) serves to reclaim Pakistan’s South Asian heritage, there are moments in KKL when non-Muslim South Asians are othered. I examine these contradictory elements in the film with respect to two songs. I first look at ‘Bulleh Nu’, an anti-casteist ‘kafi’ attributed to the seventeenth/eighteenth century Sufi poet Baba Bulleh Shah, born in present-day Pakistani Punjab. I then contrast ‘Bulleh Nu’ with the film’s problematic representation of the Sikh as a ‘villainous’ other. Subsequently I analyze ‘Neer Bharan’, a ‘bandis ki thumri’ associated with the cosmopolitan ethos of the nineteenth century kingdom of Awadh, now located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Alongside my analysis of ‘Neer Bha...
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