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 …
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 …
A Dataset on Social Media Users’ Engagement with Religious Misinformation Read More »
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 …
Print Newspapers will Die – Examining the Rhetoric in the Context of Bangladesh Read More »
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 …
Harassment experiences of university-going female Facebook users in Bangladesh Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Presence of Bangladeshi and Indian Entertainment News in Selected Dailies of Bangladesh Read More »
Abstract The US presidential elections 2016, like previous occasions, drew global attention in which Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the country. The eyes of Bangladeshi media were upon that elections too and they published news on the last US presidential polls with due importance. Presidential candidate Donald Trump accused global news …
US presidential polls 2016: Presentation of election news on Bangladeshi newspapers Read More »