Vol. 01, July 2013
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Item Strengthening Children Protection System for Redressing Domestic Emotional Abuse of Children: Bangladesh Perspective(2013-12-14) Chowdhury, Mirza Farzana IqbalChildren abuse is a threat to the development of children. Emotional abuse is such a classification of children abuse which kills children’s mind silently but deeply. Although the government and non-governmental organizations are taking many steps to prevent other kinds of children abuse such as physical abuse or sexual abuse, but due to silent killing nature of emotional abuse it is quite unaddressed and un-redressed by them. In this paper I tried to discuss the aspect of emotional abuse elaborately and its impact on children’s psychology. A structured questionnaire survey was conducted to examine the level of emotional abuse among the respondents. The field survey shows that families are not conscious about their treatment of children. So my concentration was to focus on the life-long impacts of the emotional abuse on children and to recommend a strengthened children protection system including community people to prevent and protect children from emotional abuse.Item Smoking Prevalence among Drivers of Dhaka City: Measuring its Socio-Economic Impact(2013-12-14) Bipasha, Munmun Shabnam; Goon, ShatabdiSmoking is an increasingly prevalent habit in Bangladesh, particularly among men with low socio-economic status. Tobacco expenditures exacerbate the effects of poverty and cause significant deterioration in living standards among the poor Bangladeshi people. A cross sectional study was carried out from 15th to 26th March, 2013 to determine the prevalence, pattern, socio-economic impact of smoking among bus drivers of Dhaka city. The prevalence of cigarette smoking was 93% and 20% of total income was spent on cigarettes indicating more than twice as much as per capita expenditure on food, clothing, housing, health and education combined, resulting in illiterate, malnourished household members. Though most (32.3%) of the drivers started smoking before involving in driving profession, excessive smoking was promoted by occupational and environmental stress experiencing hectic work schedule. Tobacco can also worsen poverty among users and their families since most of the drivers reported heart disease (26.9%) and other health complications caused by smoking, depriving families of much-needed income and imposing additional costs of health care. Around 70% smokers wished to quit smoking considering its detrimental effect but unknown of quitting strategy. Interventions and preventions by policy makers, public health experts and other stakeholders should be introduced because smoking was more prevalent among bus drivers with detrimental health sequel.Item Trends of TV News Coverage in Bangladesh(2013-12-14) Shafiul Islam, Sheikh Mohammad; Marjan, Syed Mahfujul HaqueThe media booming especially the rise of satellite television channels is a significant phenomenon in the landscape of Bangladesh media which was initiated after the fall of autocratic regime in 1990. At present, twenty four satellite TV channels are in operation under the corporate ownership. These satellite channels are presenting hour-round news and views on different events and affairs. The state-owned BTV was the sole medium to cover and disseminate news, information and entertainment to the country-wide audience till 1999. Within a period of one and a half decade, ‘the media boom’ that Bangladesh is experiencing is not noticed in many other countries of the South-Asian region. In spite of this significant change in terms of quantity and ownership pattern, there still lacks a comprehensive broadcast policy to guide day-to-day operations of the channels. The article, in this backdrop, presents trend of the ever-growing satellite channels in covering news. The article also explores interests of the TV channels in terms of news selection, treatment and presentation.Item A Comparative Study Of Importance Between Phonological Awareness And Phonics For Reading Skill Development(2013-12-14) Shamsul Hoque, MohammedBoth Phonological awareness and Phonics contribute to developing the reading skill of a learner. But there are subtle differences between the technical forces of the two. The Paper attempts a comprehensive study of comparison between the potential of the foremost devices and reach the final point in order to establish the thesis that Phonics plays a more crucial role in developing the reading skill than Phonological awareness does. A conclusive decision has been drawn after a critical and analytical study of the two that place one over the other in importance, namely Phonics precedes the Phonological Awareness in developing the reading skill.Item The Impacts of Social Network Sites: A Critical Overview(2013-12-14) Sarker, SajeebConnectivity is considered as one of the most desired preconditions of development in a world of technologies developed so far. Communicating using technology is important here. Social Network Sites (SNSs) enhance communication widely as they allow people to stay connected altogether. SNSs are something that create networks and bind societies together by bringing parts of a society together and bridging them. That is what these networks are supposedly doing. As ‘human cannot not communicate’ and ‘man cannot live alone’, this is why these sites are attracting people, and getting more and more popular day by day. Studies conducted worldwide indicate that people not ‘plugged into’ a social network feel ‘out of the loop’. But there are incidents out there that question the ‘all good’ ideas about these sites. Are social networks really making people ‘more social’? Are these sites all good? – These are the questions now experts are raising and examining throughout the world. There arises the question: what measures should be taken to settle that problem most effectively? – These are the concerns of this essay.Item A Bibliometric Analysis of Daffodil International University Journal of Science and Technology: A Study of Articles Published from 2006 to 2012(2013-12-14) Khan, Md. MilanThe study presents a Bibliometric analysis on “Daffodil International University Journal of Science and Technology (DIUJST)”. The study has been conducted on 142 articles published in the DIU Journal of Science and Technology during the period 2006-2012. A good number of articles were found to cover the field of Computer Science and Engineering. Most of the articles are written by Bangladeshi author(s). The authors who have published the maximum number of articles and research papers distributions on different criterion have been identified. The important foreign and Bangladeshi articles having maximum number of citations have also been observed.Item Redefining Media: The Reality Speak(2013-12-14) Choudhury, Biplab LohaThis article, based on changing trend of “mediamorphosis”, discusses an institutional viewpoint on media. It elaborates why a new definition to solve the problems of law making, drawing communication and media position in the state and society, and to liberate its users from the notion of single technology dominance in regulations is the need of the hour. It proposes that media may be envisaged as a process institution for transforming information into knowledge for the audience by creation and enlargement of message through instruments of process and delivery.Item LFS as an Effective Tool To Teaching: DIU Experience(2013-12-14) Barman, Binoy; Shahriar, Md. ShibliIn recent times a tremendous emphasis has been laid worldwide on the use of technology in teaching. As far as teaching English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) is concerned, a good number of teaching methods based on information technology have emerged, e.g. Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Network-Based Language Teaching (NBLT). Learning Feedback System (LFS), alternatively called Social Web, has been developed by Daffodil International University in order to increase interaction between teachers and students of all courses through the use of technology. The interaction is mostly off-campus and may be round the clock. In LFS the teachers assign various tasks, which the students complete as per instruction. This LFS has added a new dimension in the mode of interactive teaching and has proved useful to the teachers who are using it to improve students’ reading and writing skills in terms of composition, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. This paper attempts to explore various aspects of LFS focusing on its operation and benefits and the extent of its effectiveness in developing students’ writing and reading skills. A survey, which has been conducted among the teachers and students on the usefulness of LFS, reveals that majority of students and teachers like the system and find it useful as far as students’ reading and creative writing abilities are concerned. And, the benefits of LFS will outweigh its limitations if the recommendations prescribed in the study are followed for the betterment of the teachers and students, and overall the teaching-learning system.Item Youth On The Move: Editorial Management And News Reporting(2013-12-14) Vaagan, Robert W.Media is going through a massive change globally as an impact of burgeoning information and telecommunication technology. Increased global ICT penetration and media convergence are posing new challenges to media organizations, news desks and staff. In this backdrop tertiary educational institutions need to calibrate their study programs to reflect these developments. This paper highlights how four institutions in the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey and Norway are developing their study programs in Media and Communication Studies and in Journalism Studies to meet some of these challenges.Item Transforming Journalism and Communication Education: A Focus on Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea(2013-12-14) Rahman, Md. GolamThe study focuses on Journalism and Communication education in developing countries that indicates a compromise and balance of traditional outlay and modern technology but resulted to a mismatch of ‘slow march to fast music’. Expansion of media is not commensurate with the population in both the countries studied. It has been observed that with thriving democracy, the growth of mass media is reflective with the growth of media education in Bangladesh, whereas the growth of media and the state of democracy both are in formative stage in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It was examined that media in Bangladesh have been contributing potentially to create pluralistic democratic values to a densely populated country. Newspapers and TV channels draw communication graduates from public and private universities. The study envisaged that Papua New Guinea, an independent country in 1975, and world’s most diversified nation with highest number of languages, 823 languages among 6.5 million people, craving for a working democracy with meager state of media in the country. On the other hand, alternative media education as conceptualized as ‘Civic Journalism’ got a trial in one of the public universities. It has been focused to rural areas and on the issues like human rights, good governance, gender, democracy, rule of law and justice, and environment.