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Rise of Digital Authoritarianism? Exploring Global Motivations Behind Governmental Social Media Censorship

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Abstract Social media has been a crucial online space, yet our comprehension of government censorship remains limited by insufficient research. This study addresses this scholarly gap by probing two key inquiries: censorship’s motives and evolutionary course. An analysis of 360 censorship incidents from 2006 to 2023 across 76 countries examines three primary rationales: political, social, […]

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Investigating political news coverage patterns in Bangladesh during 2013-2022 using computational methods

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Abstract The political landscape in Bangladesh is complex and multifaceted, with limited exploration in relation to the rapidly growing news industry. This study aims to address this gap by analyzing 15,801 news articles, utilizing trend analysis and topic modeling. The findings reveal a consistent decline in political news coverage, with sporadic increases during parliamentary election

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A Dataset on Social Media Users’ Engagement with Religious Misinformation

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Abstract This dataset comprises Facebook data on five cases of religious misinformation in Bangladesh. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first publicly accessible dataset on Facebook-based religious misinformation in the country, featuring 7350 comments contributed by unique users. As online religious misinformation has been implicated in causing interreligious violence and tension in

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Print Newspapers will Die – Examining the Rhetoric in the Context of Bangladesh

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Abstract This study has tried to explore the perception of the news managers working in media houses of Bangladesh on the future of print media in the country. The study has taken Displacement Theory and Constancy Hypothesis as its frameworks, and the author has conducted in-depth interviews of 10 news managers from newspapers, television channels

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Harassment experiences of university-going female Facebook users in Bangladesh

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Abstract Cyber-harassments on social networking sites have become an everlasting issue in present situation and women using Facebook have been found as the victim of these harassments (Choja & Nelson, 2016). Intended to identify the harassment patterns on university-going female Facebook users of Bangladesh by taking the Muted Group Theory and the Standpoint Theory as

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Art and environmental communication in Bangladesh: perceptions of artists and environmentalists

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Abstract Although art as a communication medium has a rich tradition in Bangladesh and the environment is a critical concern, no scholarly endeavor has connected these two research areas. This exploratory study, therefore, seeks to understand how artists and environmentalists perceive the role of art in environmental communication. Based on interview data, we explored two

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Journalism in Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Governance and Coping Strategies of Newspaper Journalists

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Abstract This paper is about newspaper journalism practices under the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Based on two separate theories — Communication Competence Theory, and Risk and Crisis Communication Management Theory, this study intends to understand the challenges that newspaper journalists faced while discharging their professional responsibilities and governing the newsroom operations during the first six

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Indian General (Lok Sabha) Election 2019: Presentation of news in national dailies of Bangladesh Focus on major parties and presence of random partial elements

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Absract Considered as the largest democracy of the world (Mishra, 2019), General Election of India which is popularly known as Lok Sabha Election is always in the bird’s-eye view of media houses of the world. Media of Bangladesh had focused on the events of political parties and candidates participating in the Lok Sabha Election 2019

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Social Media News in Crisis? Popularity Analysis of the Top Nine Facebook Pages of Bangladeshi News Media

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Abstract Social media has become a popular source of information around the world. Previous studies explored different trends of social media news consumption. However, no studies have focused on Bangladesh to date, where social media penetration is very high in recent years. To fill this gap, this research aimed to understand its popularity trends during

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Presence of Bangladeshi and Indian Entertainment News in Selected Dailies of Bangladesh

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Abstract In present article, the quantitative comparison between Bangladeshi and foreign entertainment and cultural news of 10 days of September’14 and 10 days of September’16 is revealed by using content analysis method of entertainment page of three national dailies of Bangladesh. And also, the quantitative comparison of Indian entertainment news and other international entertainment news

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