{"title":"Confrontations and Limitations on the Freedom of Expression in Pakistan","authors":"Jawwad Riaz, Zakia Suleman, Z. Cheema","doi":"10.31703/GMCR.2020(V-IV).10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/GMCR.2020(V-IV).10","url":null,"abstract":"The significance of the right to free speech is evident from the fact that the societies that curb and limit the freedom of expression are more prone to crimes and incidents of torture, ill-treatment and disappearances. Almost every state has imposed restrictions on the right to free speech on account of national security, defamation, religious hatred, extremism or radicalism. This article starts with the general discussion on the topic of free speech under the Pakistani laws and current regime. It examines the limitations on the freedom of speech under judicial interpretations. The article explores the confrontations in the context of defamation, blasphemy laws and contempt of court in Pakistan. It concludes that the limitations and restrictions imposed on the right to free speech must be clearly defined and reasonable.","PeriodicalId":347941,"journal":{"name":"Global Mass Communication Review","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126289841","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}
{"title":"Digital Revolution and its Impact on Working Women of Pakistan","authors":"Shazia Ismail Toor, Savera Shami, Yasir Chughtai","doi":"10.31703/GMCR.2020(V-IV).12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/GMCR.2020(V-IV).12","url":null,"abstract":"In this era of advancement and digitalization, active use of social media and online services has become an integral part of life. Today, educated working women of Pakistan use Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, Uber, Daraz, Foodpanda, Tinder and many other applications and online services without any social hurdle. Online socialization has opened up some new financial and social opportunities for working women in Pakistan, making them more confident and independent than in the past. This study is an effort to examine the changes brought by the digital revolution in the lives of working women of Pakistan and to highlight its impact. Under the umbrella of uses and gratification theory and using in-depth interview method, findings indicate that using different digital platforms has become the personal and professional need of working women in Pakistan, and this digitalization has entirely changed their everyday routine.","PeriodicalId":347941,"journal":{"name":"Global Mass Communication Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130728391","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}
{"title":"Relationship between Social Factors and Students' Self-Efficacy in Choosing Media Studies: A Case Study of Female Students","authors":"S. Hussain, F. Shahzad, Saleha Sadaf","doi":"10.31703/GMCR.2020(V-IV).09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/GMCR.2020(V-IV).09","url":null,"abstract":"This research study aimed to explore how social factors influence and motivate female admission seekers in media studies. Additionally, the study has been conducted to investigate the factors that female admission seekers perceived to be important while choosing their career in media studies. The survey-based on 300 female students of 18 to 38 years of age enrolled in various colleges and universities of Rawalpindi. The study used a quantitative method for data collection, data analysis and presentation of results. The Pearson correlation reveals that social factors influence and motivate admission seekers in media studies. Furthermore, the correlation indicated that there is a strong influence of parents' support, peer group and role models on students' career choices. The influence of Role models on student's selfefficacy has been found as the most influential social factor which shape and help in career selection as compared to Peer Group and Parents and Family Support.","PeriodicalId":347941,"journal":{"name":"Global Mass Communication Review","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124445681","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}
{"title":"Usage of Social Media Applications and Social Interaction Patterns among Teenagers","authors":"Abdul Rehman Qaisar, Maryam Shahid, Sajjad Ali","doi":"10.31703/GMCR.2020(V-IV).11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/GMCR.2020(V-IV).11","url":null,"abstract":"The present finding aimed at studying \"Usage of Social Media Applications and Social Interaction Patterns among Teenagers\". Keeping in view the major concepts of the study, Uses and Gratification theory and Dependency theory is applied. In the current study, data were collected from the students of schools and colleges through the survey research method. A well-designed questionnaire is used for data collection. A purposive convenient sampling technique is used. A sample of 400 students is selected. The analysis of findings reveals that teenagers more frequently use WhatsApp (81%). Teenagers like Education-related content on social media applications (66%). The findings also reveal that teenagers agree that the use of social media applications has reduced Indoor Activities (79%). A correlation test is applied. The hypothesis of the study is that there is a negative relationship between times of using social media applications with content liking on social media applications. Times of using social media applications are negatively correlated with the reduction of Indoor Activities, Offline Friendship, Outdoor Activities and Sports.","PeriodicalId":347941,"journal":{"name":"Global Mass Communication Review","volume":"337 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122840874","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}
{"title":"Issues and Problems in the Procedure of Quality Assurance Practices in Public and Private Universities of Punjab, Pakistan","authors":"Muhammad Ahsan ul Haq, Uzma Shahzadi, Sadia Ayaz","doi":"10.31703/grr.2020(v-iii).02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(v-iii).02","url":null,"abstract":"This study was undertaken to find issues and problems in quality assurance practices in public and private sector higher education institutes of Punjab Pakistan. There was a total of 156 faculty members (male & female) in the selected four departments of 10 selected universities (5 from public and five from private) which constitute an accessible population of this study. All the teachers and head of departments of those selected departments were the respondents of this study. The self-constructed instrument was validated by expert opinion and pilot testing. The responses of the faculty members were measured with the help of frequency and their percentages, mean and standard deviations. Each table is formed on the basis of the variables of the study. It was concluded that the biggest hurdle in quality assurance identified by this research is the unavailability of data for quality assurance. It was recommended by the researcher that the financing system by the HEC should be revised to even the playing field even more. This could be done by expanding the needs-based scholarship program for students attending private HEIs.","PeriodicalId":347941,"journal":{"name":"Global Mass Communication Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126347622","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}
Rana Imran Ali, Muhammad Shah Nawaz, Muhammad Imran
{"title":"Impact of English Language on Career Opportunities in the Private Sector of Pakistan: A Case Study of Jazz Digital House Multan","authors":"Rana Imran Ali, Muhammad Shah Nawaz, Muhammad Imran","doi":"10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-iii).15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-iii).15","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigated the impact of English language on career opportunities of employees of Jazz Digital House Multan Pakistan,working in various domains. A quantitative approach was applied to obtain the employees' perceptions as an individual’s perspective. Data were collected through a four-point Likert scale questionnaire from 111 Jazz employees. A survey form was circulated through Google form, and the respondents’ responses were collected online. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the respondents’ responses. The results revealed that the English language skills of hiring candidates make an impact on the interviewers’ committee, mandatory for finding a suitable candidate for the employer. The results also showed that English language skills increase the chances of one’s career success, break the barriers for jobseekers to find good jobs, and have a very significant impact on career-boosting opportunities in the private sector. Inferential statistics results showed that there is no significant variance at gender level in scores on English language impact on career opportunities. It is recommended that there must be training sessions for the new employees to enhance their English language skills like these (skills) play a significant role to the working environment.","PeriodicalId":347941,"journal":{"name":"Global Mass Communication Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124110170","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}
{"title":"Thematic Analysis of the Editorials of Pakistani Print Media during the General Election, 2018","authors":"Riaz Ahmad, Bin Yamin Khan, Widad Mustafa El Hadi","doi":"10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-iii).16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-iii).16","url":null,"abstract":"Print media has been a major source of information for people across the globe. It has played a vital role in every field of life by highlighting issues and promoting positive images. Likewise, its role in the elections cannot be ignored. The current study investigates the topic of discussion in the editorials. Public issues were discussed, the frequency of supported political parties and the differences in the editorials among the newspapers during the general election 2018. The data analysis revealed marginalized importance of public issues for the editorial writers. The analysis also indicated a strong heedlessness towards public issues and welfare. Thus, it is concluded that both priming and framing of international issues are overemphasizes the financial situation. Theeditorials have been found focused on Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf and Pakistan Muslim League (N) while, public issues such as poverty, childlabour, education, and others remained highly underrepresented","PeriodicalId":347941,"journal":{"name":"Global Mass Communication Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132627051","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}
{"title":"Propaganda and Lobbying against the Future Prospect of Pakistan: Causes, effects and its Implications","authors":"Shabnam Gul, M. Asghar","doi":"10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-iii).13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-iii).13","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of propaganda and lobbying is not new to researchers. Historically, propaganda was used by many states to manipulate policies in their own favors and to oppose the other states. During WW1, WW2 and the Cold war, media was used as a propaganda tool to demoralize opponents. Gradually lobbying was initiated as foreign policy tools. Like Israel, Saudi Arabia and Russia was the most powerful lobbyist in the USA. Indian lobbyist started an anti-Pakistan campaign in the USA based on rivalry since the creation of Pakistan. This is true focuses on destabilization of the US-Pakistan relationship and to weaken the strong lobbyism between the US and Pakistan.","PeriodicalId":347941,"journal":{"name":"Global Mass Communication Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129819104","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}
{"title":"Healthcare Service Delivery News in Pakistani Print Media: A Comparative Analysis of Daily Jang and Daily Dawn","authors":"A. Mehmood, Sajjad Ali","doi":"10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-i).03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-i).03","url":null,"abstract":"Health conditions in Pakistan are very bad. Government and non-governmental organizations are trying to meet international standard of health services. Some healthcare providers are educated, trained and certified from the government but some are unqualified and not certified. In this research two national newspapers are analyzed the daily Jang Urdu and the daily Dawn English. These newspapers cover healthcare services such as indoor patient, outdoor patient maternity and other health services in news stories. These services are also seen in the Literature Review. The researcher analyzed on coverage of healthcare in newspapers the daily Jang and the daily Dawn. This research has been performed by using content analysis technique under quantitative methodology. Media agenda setting theory was adopted in the theoretical framework as in the literature review. The statistical analyses of data analysis have been done in the form of frequency distribution and correlation analysis. SPSS is used to analyze the content of data. The results show that daily Jang is giving more coverage to health-related news stories than daily Dawn.","PeriodicalId":347941,"journal":{"name":"Global Mass Communication Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133224297","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}
Abida Noureen, Tanveer Hussain, Haseeb ur Rehman Warrich
{"title":"Hollywood Interpretative Overview on Communism: An Analysis of Pre, During & Post-Cold War Era","authors":"Abida Noureen, Tanveer Hussain, Haseeb ur Rehman Warrich","doi":"10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-i).01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2020(v-i).01","url":null,"abstract":"The US communist or socialist fright began in the late 1800s, the moment when blue-collar workers stood up in opposition to get their fundamental integrity, remuneration betterment etc., and the attainment of such integrities from intercontinental supremacies, and to have remained in opposition to such economical way of mechanism. The fears of communism and their followers of anti-harmony to US community were seen among the structural class systems of ethnic interconnectedness. The elementary struggle is related to the portrayal of Communism and their followers in Hollywood productions. It relates to exacerbating negatively frame about their ideological depictions, communist countries and the individuals interlinked with it.","PeriodicalId":347941,"journal":{"name":"Global Mass Communication Review","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131694297","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}