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    The communication pattern of bureaucracy in Bangladesh internal and public dealings
    (©University of Dhaka, 2024-05-06) Hossain, Mohammad Jahangir
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    Role of media in national elections in a multicultural society: a case study of Mauritius
    (©University of Dhaka, 2024-05-06) Jooseery, Harreenarainsingh
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    সাংবাদিকতা ও রাজনীতি ১৯৪৫-১৯৫০
    (©University of Dhaka, 2024-05-06) খান, সাখাওয়াত আলী
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    Internet Use in Bangladesh: A Study of Activities and Attitudes of Youths
    (©University of Dhaka, 2023-10-11) Chowdhury, Mohammad Ali Asgar
    Internet has become an increasingly vital component of the live of all types of people, especially the youth of today's society. There have been very few empirical studies that look into the Internet use of Bangladeshi youths. This study investigates the Internet usage activities of Bangladeshi young people, with a focus on their attitudes toward Internet use, the prevalence of compulsive Internet use and its impact on their lives. It also examines the relationship between Internet attitude and compulsive Internet use, and youths' perceptions of the benefits and risks of using the Internet. In this quantitative study, 448 youths of age 15 to 35 were surveyed through stratified random sampling. In addition to descriptive statistics, inferential techniques such as the chi-square test, T-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson correlation, and hierarchical regression analysis were employed to interpret the data. Results showed that the majority of young people engaged in Internet activities for content pleasure, followed by social and process gratifying, and validating the prevailing patterns in young attitudes. The findings revealed that the Internet has a substantial impact on young people's daily lives, as time spent watching television, sleeping, and reading for academic or other purposes has reduced since youths began using the Internet. The Internet Attitude Scale (IAS) showed that the young people have overall positive attitudes on Internet use. Social Network Sites (SNS) activities and gender were revealed to be statistically significant predictor variables for Internet attitudes in hierarchical regressions. As per Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS), 25.89 percent of the respondents were found Internet addicts. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that SNS activities, duration of Internet use, profession, and frequency of Internet use were significant predictors of youths' compulsive Internet use. A significant positive relationship was found between Internet attitude and compulsive Internet use. With the rapid development of new areas of Internet use that expand at the speed of time, new concerns arise concurrently with old ones. More research is required to address behavioural concerns associated with Internet attitude and compulsive Internet use among young people, who represent the majority of Internet users.
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    Information, reception and film: A reader-response analysis of Rashomon
    (University of Dhaka, 2016-09-05) Pervez, Anis
    The dissertation is aligned to current changes in the academia, notably the transdisciplinary interpretation and understanding of human phenomena. Grounded in communication, the dissertation has drawn on concepts from information science, film studies, and cognitive science as well as philosophy and other disciplines. The objective of this research is to unravel the way film as an environment is observed, marked, and indicated by spectators and thus how meaning is assigned to a film. This transdisciplinary approach draws on autopoiesis, laws of form, reader response and cybernetic communication. The research employs a constructivist approach to understand how viewers assign meaning to the films they watch. The research is based on two premises: information emerges from people’s indications of an environment as they observe it, and film is an environment for observation that attains meaning, in other words become informative as spectators make indications of their observations of film. Rashomon, the celebrated film of Akira Kurosawa, is the vehicle to understand the process of sense-making as constructing form. Viewers’ comments at Amazon.com provide evidence of how these individuals observe the film and make sense of it by making distinctions. A reader-response analysis was used to interpret the comments; this researcher’s analysis is yet a higher scale of indication of observation.In the process of reader-response, the researcher as an observer is cued or perturbed to indicate that Rashomon, an impressionistic film noted for its cinematic style, has taken an expressionist form because of the discourse constructed, and being constructed, by various observers generating meaning over an open-ended palette. This research stresses the functional necessity for transcending disciplinary borders in order to understand communication as multistage observation constructing meaning and thereby constantly generating forms for observation. Such forms are made intelligible by virtue of our having structural coupling, i.e. a shared set of tokens such as language. Humans as observers are constant producers of forms and diligent generators of tokens that expand our horizon. Communication is thus an ever-emerging, meaning-construction process. We observe the world—tangible and intangible—that we interpret, make distinctions, and externalize through indication; these are in turn observed, distinguished, and indicated by other observers. This observational understanding of communication in fact facilitates the unending emergence of horizon and therefore communication is emergent, sense-making, and horizon-expanding.
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