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Journalism and Mass Communication

Mass communication is the investigation
of spreading data to a substantial gathering of people through the
different methods for communication. Journalism is the action of
expounding on ongoing advancements for papers, magazines and so forth.
It has encompassed detailing done through radio and TV.
Along these lines, there is a contrast between the two projects. Mass
Communication is a more extensive field while Journalism is a restricted
field. Mass Communication manages the technique of passing on or
transmitting a message to the all-inclusive community through media like
radio, papers, magazines, TV, web, etc.
 

Digital Journalism

Digital Journalism is a contemporary type of journalism where article
content is disseminated by means of the Internet, instead of
distributing by means of print or communicates. Digital journalism is
debated by researchers; in any case, the essential result of
news-casting, which is news and highlights on flow issues, is displayed
exclusively or in blend as content, sound, video, or some intuitive
structures like news games, and spread through computerized media
technology. Less boundaries to passage, brought down dissemination
costs, and assorted PC organizing advances have prompted the across the
board routine with regards to computerized journalism. It has
democratized the progression of data that was recently constrained by
customary media including papers, magazines, radio, and television. 

The
digital viewpoint might be fundamental to the journalistic message and
stays, to some degree, inside the innovative control of the essayist,
manager, as well as publisher. The desires for society for moment data
was critical for the development of digital journalism.

Device that make you wise (part-1)

Mobile Phone

There are many discoveries in the world that has  made our life super easy and comfortable. We have come a long
way in technological advancement with time that has affected our life and has
changed it in many ways.  World has become
a global village where many things seems to be just a click away. Life has
become more convenient and easy with it and undoubtedly one of the major being
invention of mobile phone.  

Anytime-any place, is
what defines a cell phone as it is one of the portable and fast medium of
communication. Or in other words it can be said as, one of the major invention
that has become the lifeline of the masses. It has brought communication
revolution around the world and changed the way people connect to each other. Earlier people had to
wait to send and receive a message where was a chance of losing the cognitive
and emotional connect, which has now reduced to zero with the invention of
mobile phone.  Apart from enhancing
social connection, mobile phones are widely used in industry work that saves
time and money as well.  Previously it was just
a device used to receive and send a message but with the evolution of internet
it has become a multitasking device used for various purposes making it more
impact in both good and bad sense.

Be it information,
entertainment, education, mobile phones have now become a portable computer
that can perform many task in one go. It is best device to boost up knowledge
on any particular topic be it a subject-related or any issues and happening
around the world. Nothing can be a better choice for social gathering than mobile
phone these days as its makes people more approachable amid friends and
relatives. It’s a best device to socialize anytime soon. Life seems little less
complex with the invention of mobile phone.

But as the coins have
the other side- mobile phone too has its demerits. Easy access on internet has
also made it a device for isolation. Teenagers and adults can be witnessed
frequently messaging gaming,posting updates, clicking pictures, or watching videos. According to a survey on the most popular smart phone activities in India in 2017 almost 50% of the respondent accessed social media via mobile. India recorded the world’s highest number of
selfie death, accounting more than any other countries in the world. high use of mobile phone is leading to many health issues. people who tend to use mobile phone on bed seem to have interrupted sleep and health disorder. Children are becoming more dependent on search engine rather than being creative. It is affecting their creative skill making them dependent on internet. Mobile phone has its impact on people life style and living as people are becoming more fake and cunning.
 Like any other technology,mobile phones too can be choice to lead a good life but as said excess of everything is bad. It can also lead to destruction of personal and social relation, so ot is important to use it wisely. 

Preparing for the Interview (part 3)

In last articles of this series, we gave you
glimpses of the interview process. By now, we have discussed why interview
process is important for the interviewer and for the candidate. We have
discussed what the interviewer is looking for in the interview process. We have
also discussed how to mentally prepare and present yourself at the interview
venue. In one phrase-
“Be professional and mean Business.”
In an
earlier article we had also talked about the two types of interview and gave
you a brief idea on how to prepare for the technical round of the interview. If
you are preparing for technical roles and not very high in the organization
chart roles, then the two-three articles will take care of you perfectly fine.
But everybody progresses and sooner or later (we will pray sooner) you will be
dealing with the most grueling parts of the interview.

The Interview

In the previous article we discussed what
preparations you need to do before reaching the interview venue or rather
interview room. Once you are called for interview, gather your things from the
lobby, follow the person who called you. Unless you are showed inside, it is
always better to knock and ask for permission before you enter the room. Firmly
shake hands if the interviewers are offering, or a polite hello would suffice.
Take chair when you are offered. Try not to
drag the chair a lot, but do not be uncomfortable. Appropriately distance the
chair from the table. You may place the file on the table. Pass it to
interviewer when they ask for it. They probably already have your resume, but
it is always better to carry an extra copy at the top of your file. If you want
water, you may ask for it politely. But it is better to do so at the beginning
of the interview process itself.
Now, we are ready to face the interviewer.

Introduce Yourself

Invariably, 95% of the interviews begin with
customary “Tell me about yourself.” This may seem mundane, even unnecessary.
After all they have your full CV and your file. There is everything that you
ever did or achieved! Why they cannot just go through that. Why this stupid
question! But remember, there are no unnecessary questions. This first
open-ended question is your opportunity to give direction to the interview
process.
Since this is such a common question, it is better
to practice answering such questions. Self-introduction reveals lot many more
things about you than you can imagine. Practice short crisp answers. Something
between 1-2 minutes is a decent length introduction. Do not rush, go
chronologically. Leave no important details out, but do not drag the answer.
And most importantly, personalise the answer. Do not sound like machine. Speak
clearly and calmly. Add personal details such as hobbies, your city etc
wherever suitable.
We will be discussing few more of such common
questions in the latter articles.
Good Luck!

Preparing for the Interview (part 2)

In last article of this series, we gave you
some advice on the first type of interviews that is technical round. To recap
in a couple of short lines-
1.      
Be
calm.
2.      
Be
systematic and organized in your thought process.
3.      
Showcase
this clearly to your interviewers.
4.      
State
the assumptions clearly to your interviewer if any.
In this part, we will look into the other type
of interviews- that is the behavioral interviews. One thing that we would like
to mention here is that even when there is no apparent behavior based
question, you are continuously being monitored. You definitely need to be ready
for this.

 

Homework for the interview
process

The process starts way before you enter the
room. You have to dress properly, groom properly, no loud makeup- unless your
job demands it. Look professional, sharp and attentive. There is no need to be
someone that you are not but looking professional and meaning business does no
harm. After all that’s what you are going for.
The next thing is the documents you have to
carry with you. If there was a list given to you before the interview date or
at any stage of the selection process- normally colleges and Government jobs
share the list of documents that candidates are required to bring with them at
the prospectus stage itself. Prepare according to list, double check to be
sure. Arrange them in reverse chronological order- i.e. the latest documents go
first. Make sure that the documents are arranged neatly and do not fall our
when someone opens the file.
Once you are done with the preparations at your
home. The next thing to do is to reach the interview venue. Be punctual, better
be early and wait for a while than be late and give a bad impression. If God
forbid, you are running late because of any reason, or you cannot make it to
interview venue; please inform your interview coordinator as early as
possible. Be apologetic and communicate clearly that you understand the
importance of the interview process, but because of such reasons you will not
be able to make it today, or you will be late. If you are comfortable, give
them gist of the situation but do not drag them into details.
When you arrive at the interview venue, you may
be asked to wait for a while. There may also be many other candidates who may
be interviewing for your job or some other jobs. Whatever the case maybe, be
patient, do not get nervous. Avoid any chit chat with other candidates. If you
are talking, keep the talks professional. Talk softly, maintain the decorum of
the place. And as far as possible, do not run after the candidates leaving the
interview room to bombard them with questions. If they are your friend it maybe
alright, but if they are strangers- it does not say anything nice about you.
We will be continuing this series in later
articles.
Good Luck!

Sports Journalism

Sports journalism is a type of composing that provides details regarding
brandishing themes and rivalries. Sports journalism is the fundamental
component of numerous news media associations. Sports journalists
consistently face more due date weight than different journalists in
light of the fact that games will in general happen late in the day and
closer to the due dates numerous associations must watch.
 However they
are relied upon to utilize indistinguishable devices from news
journalists, and to maintain a similar expert and moral guidelines. They
should take care not to demonstrate predisposition for any group.
Sports journalists work in all media, including print, TV broadcasting
and the web.

Preparing for the Interview! (part 1)

Interview process is normally one of the last
rounds of the selection process. Be it college or job or even getting
admissions for your children in some schools- you have to pass through an
interview round. It involves face to face interaction with current employees of
the organization who have held the roles similar to what you have applied for,
or they have an experience in that area. Since this is a face to face round, a
lot of things become visible which could have been hidden during written tests
or other phases of candidate screening. While most of us are scared of this
additional stage, this is not necessarily a bad thing. You have a perfect
opportunity to showcase the things about you which you could not show in
earlier stages of the selection process. You can show the interviewers what
sets you apart and why they should prefer selecting you over other similar or
even higher scoring candidates of the earlier rounds.

The interviews mainly are of two types.
Technical and behavioural. There can be multiple rounds for each of these or
within the same round both the aspects of the interview can be handled. This
varies with the organization you are interviewing for and the level you are
interviewing for. If you are interviewing for above manager level, you should
be prepared to handle more than 4-5 rounds of the interviews. So, it is obvious
how important interview plays nowadays in candidate selection. Love it or hate
it but you can not ignore it. Therefore, it is only wise to be prepared for the
interviews.

Technical Round of
Interview

The technical rounds are not much different
from pen and paper rounds except that the interviewer tends to improvise on the
questions and understand your thinking process. On a real job, one can not
expect to deal only with the situations that have come in at some point of
time. There are new challenges every day, therefore it is a fair ask to
evaluate the thinking process of the candidate. Therefore, our advice is
definitely to learn your subject well. You anyway did that for pen and paper
rounds.
But the one extra thing, that we would like to
advice you, is to showcase your thinking process. Take the interviewer through
your thought process and approached the problem. Of course you need to be clear
and organized in your thinking. Only a clear and systematic thinking can be
translated into solving newer problems at work. Therefore, organize your
thought process and practice to express it in a systematic way to your
interviewers. If you are making any assumptions about the question asked,
mention them clearly or ask your interviewer if you can make those assumptions.
If you can showcase your thought process to
your interviewer, there is nothing to bother you in the technical round. Be
calm, and even if you are not sure about the final answer, proceed in steps, in
a systematic way to the most reasonable conclusion you can think.
Good Luck!

Being Human: An evolutionary Story (Part 2)

Introduction
In the earlier chapter we saw how a small
counter-intuitive evolution that shifted our voice box, probably due to
inherent habit of gossiping, made us better at communicating. Apart from
biological evolution like opposing thumbs, upright walking; our ability to
communicate was the first turning point in history of human evolution.

Chapter 2: Communication and Co-ordination

With shifted voice box, we developed ability to
produce hundreds of sounds. More complex and organized than any other animals.
This enormously improved our ability to communicate.
 After
sounds, probably came word and sentences. Writing technique, even in pictorial
forms, came much later as far as we can tell. But we already had evolving brain
and memory. So even without our inability to communicate with written words, we
could easily store massive memories compared to other animals. We started
planning, we started coordinating, we started creating processes. This
enormously improved our ability to work together. From a group of 10-20
individuals like most animals, we became a group of thousands of individuals.
And now we could achieve what smaller groups could not even imagine.
We could hunt the biggest animals.
Archaeological evidences show humans hunted even largest mammoths, boars and
wildest and scariest animals. We could clear our paths, build safe parameters
define our territories. We passed them on as stories and advices. We started
communicating with each other. We formed very large groups who coordinated
according to set processes and wisdom of hundreds of man-years.

What makes us special?

What makes us special. Co-ordination or
communication is not unique to us. All animals, even plants communicate in
their own way. Bees can communicate miles about discovery of nectar. Birds can
communicate spotting of lion etc. Sharks can smell slightest traces of blood in
an ocean. But these all instances of communication are very limited-
mono-syllabic if we may call this. Imagine being able to say only “yes” or
“no”. How limited we would become! So, the depth, dimension and lucidity give
our communication method a unique superiority.
Same goes for co-ordination. All animals
co-ordinate at some scale or the other. But we co-ordinate in scale of billions.
Traffic lights, law and order, stock market trading, currency notes… all are
the proof of efficiency of our co-ordination. But again, this is not just about
number. Bees and ants can communicate in huge numbers as well. But then, as
mentioned earlier, their communication is mono syllabic. So, their numbers and
their abilities as a team is very limited.
If you look closely, even the smallest units-
like a family or a relationship or the largest units- like countries,
religions, markets- they are all based on only these two things only-
Communication & Co-ordination. Of course, we can develop methods and invent
modes to do these better, faster and in more High-Definition- but at the heart
of this all- there are only two things- Our ability to communicate and our
ability to co-ordinate.

Women Politics

Women in politics in the cutting edge time are underrepresented in many
nations around the world. Ladies have insufficient open doors in social
interest, particularly in taking a stab at political rights and power in
the administration and diverse institutions. This verifiable
inclination still perseveres, in spite of the fact that ladies are
progressively being politically chosen to be heads of state and
government. All through the world ladies face deterrents to their
investment in governmental issues. These boundaries are to be found in
winning social and financial routines, just as in existing political
structures.
 Women, as the traditional essential overseers of youngsters,
frequently have a more unmistakable job than men in upholding for kids,
bringing about a twofold profit as far as the advantages of women
representation. Women delegates advance women rights, yet additionally
advance the privileges of kids.

Digital Media

Digital media can be made, seen, circulated, changed and saved on
advanced hardware gadgets. Digital media frequently appears differently
in relation to print media. This type of media has a noteworthy
expansive and complex effect on society and culture. Joined with the
Internet and individualized computing, digital media has caused
problematic development in distributing, news coverage, advertising,
etc. Digital Media is a mix of innovation and substance, and building
advanced media items requires groups of experts with different
aptitudes, including specialized abilities, aesthetic aptitudes,
scientific and creation coordination abilities. 
These abilities should
be adjusted in a group, with all colleagues concentrated on making the
best client experience.  Digital media has likewise presented new
difficulties to copyright and licensed innovation laws, encouraging an
open substance development in which content makers deliberately
surrender a few or the majority of their legitimate rights to their
work.

Fake News

Fake news is a kind of sensationalist reporting or purposeful publicity
that comprises of intentional disinformation or deceptions spread by
means of customary print and communicate news media or online social
media. The incorrect information is frequently brought about by
correspondents paying hotspots for stories, an exploitative practice
called checkbook news coverage. Digital news has brought back and
expanded the use of fake journalism. The news is then frequently
resonated as falsehood in online life however at times discovers its way
to the predominant press also. 
The significance of fake news has
expanded in post-truth legislative issues. For news sources, the
capacity to pull in watchers to their sites is important to create web
based publicizing income. Simple access to online commercial income,
expanded political polarization, and the prominence of web-based social
networking, basically the Facebook News Feed, have all been embroiled in
the spread of phony news, which contends with genuine news stories.
Fake news is composed and distributed for the most part with the goal to
deceive so as to harm an office, substance, or individual, as well as
addition monetarily or politically, frequently utilizing dramatist,
unscrupulous, or by and large created features to build readership.
Likewise, misleading content stories and features win promoting income
from this action

Photojournalism

Social media encourages you interface
up with individuals everywhere throughout the world. The positive impact
of online networking on kids incorporates, adapting new things,
interface with more distant family and companions. It gives powerful
stage to upgrading tyke’s information. Web based life rouse youngsters
to show signs of improvement at correspondence and supports opportunity
of self-articulation. Online networking encourages the advancement of
specialized ability and handy comprehension of innovation in the tyke.
The impermeability of social media guarantees that there is no control
on the extent of data. Such circumstances can prompt kids chancing upon
disgusting, unsafe or realistic sites that may influence their reasoning
procedure.
Digital harassing is
another developing pattern among internet based life sites. Cyber bully
can have perilous and conceivably lethal impacts. It claims numerous
exploited people every year.

Numerous children are affected by the ground-breaking promoting they see
via social media sites, and it unequivocally impacts their purchasing
propensities. These youngsters and their folks should know about how
they are focused on so more brilliant decisions can be made around their
ways of managing money. Investing an excess of energy can likewise
influence your youngster contrarily and regularly lead to web based life
dependence. Enslavement can show itself as different indications and
may even influence your youngster’s physical health. An excess of social
media can influence the kid’s capacity to create solid relational
connections. The children are flexible, and the torrential slide of data
can overpower them. Even though there are positive effects of social
media on children but on the other side the social media sites have
negatively affected the minds of children.

TIME!

What is time? The passing seconds, hours and
days? The past, the present and the future?
We do not
exactly know, yet. But the concept of time has been around in all
civilizations, Religion, philosophy, science even poetry and arts. The concept
of time has always been there.  After all
it is the time that spends us. Nobody sane (and human) can ignore thinking
about this.
By common
sense, we all understand there was a past, there is a present and most likely
there will be a future. The events are interconnected the past affects the
present and the present will affect the future.
There is a
causality, and anything can only affect the future events it cannot have any
impact on the past.
Such
concept also make it interesting to think about paradoxes when we consider the
time travel.

Concept of time in Philosophy
and Religion

All religions deal with the concept of time in
their own way. While some are quite similar, others differ from each other. But
most of them go like, at t=0; God created the stars, earth etc. He set the
things in motion. Some religions also talk about cyclicity of time. How eras
come and go. And how they will come again. They talk about a past- where we did
something, and we are being rewarded or punished for it now. It also talks
about how our present behavior will influence our future.
Time helps religion to establish a good
behaviour norm in society. It helps them calm the quirky minds who would
otherwise fall into despair or revolt.
Astrology, which hovered very closely between
religion, philosophy and sometimes even science, is a way to predict one’s
future based on one’s past and present.

Concept of time in Science

Time was considered absolute and sacrosanct in
the world of physics until Einstein came along in the early 20th
century. What he said was something more fundamental and purer about the nature
of the universe. His entire reasoning was based on the logic that “laws of
physics would be same for everyone irrespective of their nature of
(non-accelerated) motion.”
This therefore posed a new challenge. From
different experiments and observations, we had found that speed of light
remains constant through all conditions. So, if somebody is moving and still
observing the same speed of light as we do- then they must experience the space
and the time differently.
This opened up a new branch of science. Time
cannot be absolute. Every observer will experience it differently so that their
experience about the laws of physics remain same. It further goes on to talk
about the factors of time dilation, space dilation etc. It also gave raise to
topics of paradoxes like “Twin brother paradox”.

Conclusion

Time is definitely a fabric that helps us
understand a lot about the universe. But, as physics puts it, perhaps our
experiences of physical laws are more fundamental than the time itself. And
that goes in sync with philosophy also.
You may be 50 years old, but how many days have
you lived? How many days do you remember? Only that part is the meaningful
life.
As an old dialogue goes-
“Do not count the life in days but count the
days in life.”

Being Human: An evolutionary Story (Part 1)

How did we get here?
Sometimes this is the most important question
one can ask oneself. Corporations, individuals and even nations do this
introspection. But most of the time this is done post a failure to draw lessons
and improve in future. But what if we do not know what failure looks like?
For example, we have generation(s) who think
that they were happier in their childhood, in their villages, living the lives
of their parents. Nothing stops them from going back to that world, from
burning their mobile phones and deactivating their Facebook accounts. But
nobody does. We march forward- even when we know we have left our happiest
habitat. What kind of success is this? Why do we move in wrong direction
despite having all the signs that happiness lied the other way? Are human
beings destined to be doomed?

Chapter 1: Making of the Human

Humans were a nobody among
thousands more powerful species 70000 years ago. How did we climb so high so
fast? Brains you say- but that does not help against lions or floods. Human
beings learned to make and use stone tools thousands of years later. Brains may
be the reason for our might today, but it definitely was not for many thousands
of years.
The ingredients of the rise of
humans is a perfect story of butterfly effect.
It all started with human’s
ability to speak. The voice box moved up in the throat allowing us to generate
thousands of different sounds- much more than any animal ever before. We
started producing sounds, talking to each other, gossiping, adding more details
to our communications. If we wanted to inform a fellow human being that a group
of lions is approaching, we did not just say lions like most other animals did.
We added much more information- how many, what age, how hungry, what gender?
This helped us prepare well, prepare for defense and counterattacks.
We started creating stories, that
we would pass on to our children, and they to their children and so on. Our
knowledge was not limited by knowledge of one individual- as it was in case of
most other animals- but our knowledge was the collective knowledge of our
present tribes and our forefathers. If one human being invented fire, no one
else ever had to do it again! The knowledge would automatically come through
tribe, through generations! Thus, humans had more time to learn new things, and
expand horizons. If we are sitting today in a comfy room on a laptop- it is on
the shoulder of millions of our fellow humans and forefathers that we are
sitting.
And of all things, how it
started- Habit of gossiping!

This is also interesting to note that this
evolution was kind of counter intuitive. The upward movement of voice box meant
that we ran a risk of choking. We developed ability to cough a few thousand of
years later. So, this seems like a counterintuitive step of evolution. Or,
perhaps the habit and need of gossiping is far deeper inside us than we know….

Hindi as a National Language

Annual Hindi Diwas

14th September has been designated
as “Hindi Diwas”- meaning “Hindi Day”. Authors, speakers and various
contributors of different capacity towards promotion of Hindi, are recognized
and awarded on this day. Like many other festivals and days of the country,
this day has also lost its meaning and purpose. But even while this day has
failed to achieve anything significant, it always manages to achieve one thing-
that is attracting the supporters and criticisers of “Hindi as a National
Language”.
This year, the feud got kicked off by Home
Minister Amit Shah, while he was speaking at a ceremony on Hindi. He said, “While
diversity in languages is the strength of our nation, a national language
needed so that foreign languages and cultures do not overpower our own”.
He recognized Hindi as the most capable national language candidate.  Of course, this got twisted by all degrees by
various leaders for their interests. But Honorable Home Minister is not the
first person to say this. Many greater leaders have said similar things and
more passionately. Mahatma Gandhi- who was perhaps the first true National
Leader, said exactly similar things. Even his first language was not Hindi.
Interestingly, Hindi is not first language of Home Minister either. So, it is
interesting to understand why Hindi brings out such divisions? Why some
non-native speakers of Hindi vouch for Hindi, while others fight it fiercely.

History of Indian
Languages

Art XVII of the Constitution of India designates
Hindi as the official language of the Union and a clause “or in
English” is added for carrying out daily official work. Though English was
to be phased out in 15 years post the implementation of the constitution, but
such proposals have faced severe protests from non-Hindi speaking states.
In addition to official language, constitution
also recognizes 22 scheduled languages- English is not part of this list. Below
is the count of language wise speakers as per the Census 2011.
Language
Speakers (in lakhs, 2011)
Hindi
5280
Bengali
972
Marathi
830
Telugu
811
Tamil
690
Gujarati
555
Urdu
507
Kannada
437
Odia
375
Malayalam
348
Punjabi
331
Assamese
153
Maithili
136
Santali
73
Kashmiri
68
Nepali
29
Sindhi
27
Dogri
26
Konkani
22.5
Manipuri
18
Bodo
14.8
Sanskrit
0.2

What should be our way
forward?

As you can see, Hindi is the largest language
spoken by almost 40% Indians. If you add Hindi-family languages together, the
count would be even higher. So naturally Hindi has the highest potential of
becoming the language that can thread the pearls of India.
So why are there protests? Welcome to democratic
freedom!
Every voice matters. So does every choice. Why
would anyone give up their choice unless they see any gain from it? And this
cannot be done by force or law. That is where policymakers have been making
mistake. Hindi does not offer any more advantage than the other Indian
languages as far as work is concerned. In fact, the widely availability of
texts, research and other materials in English- makes English more efficient
language than most other languages of the world. There is no harm or shame in
acknowledging this.
So, in such scenario, what role Hindi can play?
Well, English can be language of minds, but matters of heart belong to Hindi.
There is no better option than this. But encouraging matters of heart is
totally different from encouraging matters of mind.
The pure Hindi is hardly spoken by a handful of
people in informal environment. There are tens of thousands of dialects of
Hindi and they all come to together in this beautiful language. We have
incorporated words from Awadhi, Brij, Magahi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Punjabi,
Marathi, Bengali, Urdu, Farsi and even English. We will have to go further- we
can incorporate more languages. This can only happen when interaction between
two different cultures happen more often. School meets, sports meet, Melas and
other such informal gatherings can be the perfect way to do this.
Hindi deserves to be the language of hearts,
and this cannot be done formally. We have to be informal, experimental and
open-minded about this. Otherwise petty politicians will keep using this topic
as to create divide in the society.