Abstract War, i.e., the use of physical violence against an opponent, was taken for granted as being as much a part of the whole makeup of man as sex. A...
Read MoreAbstract The Trickle-down Theory proposes that as a country develops, there is a natural cycle of economic inequality driven by market forces which at first increases inequality, and then decreases...
Read MoreAbstract Information-Formation-Transformation can be the core guiding principle in education. A teacher obviously imparts new information to the students. Today the world is full of information. But information must be...
Read MoreAbstract Till the 1990s, the international community seems to have been aware only of hard power, even when they weren’t familiar with the term ‘hard-power’. Joseph Nye is credited with...
Read MoreAbstract Shalom religious media had a very small beginnings. From the size of a mustard seed it has grown to be a large tree (to use a Biblical imagery) with...
Read MoreAbstract: At its inception spin-doctoring was mainly used by private corporates to serve their business interests. In the 1980s the political classes began to enthusiastically take up the marketing techniques...
Read MoreAbstract Since the US elections in 2008 the close connection between Social Media and political communication has been brought to the fore. The effective role that Social Media has been...
Read MoreAbstract Humans are rationally communicating animals. As social animals, people have always relied on communication to strengthen their relationships. Over millennia they have devised various channels to interact with family...
Read MoreAbstract We live in a world of signs and symbols – of past and present. The science of symbols - Semiotics or semiology – helps us to understand deeply and...
Read MoreAbstract Development has to be understood holistically. It is very closely connected to culture, which of course is very difficult to define. Cultural factors have powerfully affected the pace of...
Read MoreAbstract Generally, the Church was media shy; it sought to keep the media at an arms’ length fearing bad consequences. Some in the Church saw the media as devil’s work....
Read MoreAbstract The internet revolution has enabled the coming in to existence of a very powerful alternative media, the world over. So too in India in the last few years, especially...
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