Pub Date : 2019-12-31DOI: 10.3126/bodhi.v7i0.27904
S. Dahal
Nepali media intend towards neutral projections of their institutional stance covering politics in a balanced way despite a long practiced political parallelism in the country. The media also project both dark and bright sides of Nepalese politics for strengthening democracy in post-conflict period of Nepal. This study has examined editorial contents covered by two leading Nepali newspapers: The Kathmandu Post daily and Nepali Times weekly, both published in English language. The focus of this research has been to examine the editorials appeared during election campaign of Constitution Assembly, 2008. The study has chosen two dominant framing concepts: thematic vs. episodic framing, in order to explore the phenomenon of media autonomy in the Nepalese context. The findings show a mixed result where the media appear more likely to an instrumentalized phenomenon while projecting government/political parties’ policies and decisions. Their issues and activities were framed thematically putting public issues in general context, and also detracting political issues from negative stereotyping in their institutional viewpoints. At the same time, media portray the issues and activities focusing on particular events and occurrences while framing political parties/governments and their leaders with negative attributes of conflict and personalization frame. It can be Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7 (1) 36 argued that some external forces such as increasing dispute among political actors and increasing volume of impunity against journalism could be the consequences of media’s less likely instrumentalized appearance to political forces.
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This is a case study of Nepalese journalists' perceived democracy building roles and their news coverage practices. The content of two national daily newspapers, Kantipur and Nagarik, was selected to analyse to know the consequences whether Nepalese journalists’ news coverage practice reveals their perceived democracy building roles. Existing literature reveals that Nepalese journalists perceive their roles for democracy building as disseminator, populist mobiliazer, interpreter, and adversarial, respectively. The findings of this study suggest that Nepalese journalists give more importance to provide accurate and timely information, and interpretation of complex problems in terms of Constituent Assembly (CA) related issues in their coverage. They give less importance to investigating statements and claims made by the governments or political parties, as well as provide ordinary people a chance to express views to public affairs in news coverage for enhancement of democracy. It is noted that changing Nepalese political situation from less democratic authoritarian ruler to republican democratic system and increasing number of media landscape might be the influenting factor of changing journalists' perceived democracy building roles reflection in their coverage.
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Introduction The world develops terrifically fast: Technologies, media, states... But do humans develop as fast as their inventions? Which effects does the globalization have on the understanding of the individual and humanity? We have to choose between lots of possibilities - thanks to technology and research, but: What should we do now? How should we handle the potential which is available for us? My book „Global Humanism – possibilities and risks of a new humanistic model“ appeared in 2010 and discusses the possibilities and risks of a new, ethical model, a Global Humanism, which puts the individual as a global being in the centre of attention. Humanism is a big idea which everyday life puts to the test. I have recently returned from travels all around the world and to keep your humanistic attitude while travelling is a special challenge. It also showed me the necessity of a global ethical concept, which can apply in a lot of human environments. Nevertheless, the important question to be discussed remains: What can an ethical model like the Global Humanism really perfom? This question caught my interest as a scholar. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v6i0.9241 Bodhi Vol.6 2013: 17-20
{"title":"Global Humanism: Possibilities and Risks of a New Humanistic Model","authors":"L. Hirn","doi":"10.3126/BODHI.V6I0.9241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/BODHI.V6I0.9241","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction The world develops terrifically fast: Technologies, media, states... But do humans develop as fast as their inventions? Which effects does the globalization have on the understanding of the individual and humanity? We have to choose between lots of possibilities - thanks to technology and research, but: What should we do now? How should we handle the potential which is available for us? My book „Global Humanism – possibilities and risks of a new humanistic model“ appeared in 2010 and discusses the possibilities and risks of a new, ethical model, a Global Humanism, which puts the individual as a global being in the centre of attention. Humanism is a big idea which everyday life puts to the test. I have recently returned from travels all around the world and to keep your humanistic attitude while travelling is a special challenge. It also showed me the necessity of a global ethical concept, which can apply in a lot of human environments. Nevertheless, the important question to be discussed remains: What can an ethical model like the Global Humanism really perfom? This question caught my interest as a scholar. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v6i0.9241 Bodhi Vol.6 2013: 17-20","PeriodicalId":186006,"journal":{"name":"Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129548223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After these lines of Neo, a character in the semi virtual movie The Matrix, I went to my desk to write this paper. The reason is not far to seek. My mind was seeking the possibilities of such worlda world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world ...where anything is possible. I saw the modern cultural world as the world of immense possibilitieswith conflicts, assimilation and appropriation. A world which has commands, requests and at the same times this world is virtual too. This is the world of machines and humansthe world of cyborgs. A world of life and death, of ambivalence, of cultural identity crash, of hybridity, of doubtful convictions, in shortthe world of liminality.
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S. Tuladhar, Khem Raj Shresta, Nimesh Regmi, A. Shrestha, B. Ban
With the introduction of the New Communication Policy 1992, the number of both electronic and print media has increased i n Nepal. The p rint among other media is important because of its ability to present news and views in detail, thus stimulat ing individual's level of understanding. As in other fields, the importance of newspapers in health is also significant, suggesting n eed of research on the quality and the quantity of health reporting in the Nepali press. The Health News Clipping Project studied 11 dailies and 7 weeklies for 28 months , to understand the range of health related topic s covered in the press. Out of 5,968 health news stories captured by the project, the contribution of the Gorkhapatra , the Kantipur and the Annapurna Post was prominent. More than 90% of the reporting was news stories and 83% of these stories' placement was in inside pages, and mostly these s tories covered national issues. The project tracked 42 health related key words in the reporting where health facility, health worker, ministry of health and population, district public health offices, and drug supply were ranked the top five issues. Conte nt analysis of sample coverage revealed that the main portion of reporting was about communicable diseases, health system, service delivery, and governance issues . Eventhough h ealth journal ism in Nepal has a long history, any empirical research has yet to be conducted . Monitoring of health reporting in print media is an important aspect of quality improvement of the health reporting as well as increasing awareness on health to people. It is suggested that the Project could be a role model for the Ministry of Health and Population
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It is customary to think that every culture around the world has its own distinct communication style or pattern. People, for instance, talk of Chinese, Japanese, Nepalese or American communication style indicating that there exists a generalizable pattern of communication within each of these cultures or countries. A lot of research works in the field of intercultural communication uphold this and similar ideas about intercultural communication style. But my study complicates such notion and contends that both cultural and intercultural communication styles are rhetorical choices of the interactants therefore dynamic and/or non-generalizable in terms of some pre-existing assumptions about cultural or intercultural communication styles.
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For Hindus mother is treated as Goddess.There should be no error in the duties towards the gods and females. Women must be honoured to ensure the gods are happy, to maintain a family unit and for happiness (Manu Smriti, Chapter 3). Let your mother be a goddess unto you. Let your father be a god unto you. Let your teacher be a god unto you. Let your guest be a god unto you. The works that are not blameworthy are to be resorted to, but not the others (Taittiriya Upanishad).
{"title":"Portrayal of Women in Major World Religions","authors":"Eak Prasad Duwadi","doi":"10.3126/BODHI.V6I0.9245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/BODHI.V6I0.9245","url":null,"abstract":"For Hindus mother is treated as Goddess.There should be no error in the duties towards the gods and females. Women must be honoured to ensure the gods are happy, to maintain a family unit and for happiness (Manu Smriti, Chapter 3). Let your mother be a goddess unto you. Let your father be a god unto you. Let your teacher be a god unto you. Let your guest be a god unto you. The works that are not blameworthy are to be resorted to, but not the others (Taittiriya Upanishad).","PeriodicalId":186006,"journal":{"name":"Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115593968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses the role of radio in agricultural development of Nepal. The work is based on the review of some selected texts. The author’s main position here is that Nepal's present radio boom bears a high scope for a significant role in the promotion of agriculture, and that discoursing this issue should get due importance since Nepalese economy is highly dependent on agricultural products. Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 5, 2011, Page 201-206 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v5i1.8054
本文讨论无线电在尼泊尔农业发展中的作用。这项工作是基于对一些精选文本的审查。作者在这里的主要立场是，尼泊尔目前的无线电热潮在促进农业方面发挥着重要作用，并且由于尼泊尔经济高度依赖农产品，因此讨论这个问题应该得到应有的重视。《Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal》，2011，第201-206页DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v5i1.8054
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Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 5, 2011, Page 1-15 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v5i1.8042
《Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal》，2011，第1-15页DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v5i1.8042
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