The Effecting Factors in The Mass Media in the Sultanate of Oman: A field study on Omani Journalists This study aimed to look into the most important factors that affect the media in Oman; such as the Press and Publications Law (1984), Finance and Advertising as well as social environments such as cultural aspects. In order to answer the study questions, the researcher applied a questionnaire t…
German journalism is facing major challenges including declining circulation, funding, trust, and political allegations of spreading disinformation. Increased media literacy in the population is one way to counter these issues and their implications. This especially applies to the sub-concept of journalism literacy, focusing on the ability to consume news critically and reflectively, thus en…
A year-long study of journalism education directed by Betty Medgser produced a report called 'Winds of Change: Whither Journalism Education?' that reveals that the trend is toward training general communicators rather that journalists. Journalism teachers with advanced degrees are replacing teachers with professional experience in the field. Programs are emphasizing mass communications theory i…
In recent years, Arab news industries have been confronted with an unparalleled increase in demand for journalistic offers. In parallel, Internet penetration throughout the Arab world has increased significantly, leading to a shift of consumption away from traditional channels towards the digital realm. This article addresses the impact of those recent developments on a shared transnational com…
Journalism education in colleges in the 1990s has existed on a high level since 20 years back and it provides newsrooms with 80% of their staff. Journalism courses in colleges have been observed to be more relevant to jobs in newspaper offices than in broadcast media where the former have thrice the number of jobs as compared to the latter. The low salaries in some offices are among some existi…
People and organizations determine the course of the future, not computers. As a form of communication, the Internet can be used by individuals and businesses for good or bad but it cannot influence the direction society chooses to take. The Internet only reflects the society that created it. The development and use of the telegraph and the telephone provide a possible pattern for how the newes…
The structural penetration of written media, thanks to Gutenberg's completion of the printing industry from Europe, on the world's newspapers and press, is an undeniable issue. Based on the researches and findings of Persian written media experts, especially the geographical area of Iran, Tajikistan, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, etc., where the Persian language is…
The development of information and communication technologies has led to a considerable change in the competition map in the field of journalism, in particular that of electronics. This has enabled the electronic press to benefit from technological developments following the improvement of the offer in terms of content, form, printing and distribution. This study aims to identify the uses o…
The role of information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly in the domain of education (ICTE), has been recognized to benefit learning. This article aims to investigate the influential factors that affect the introduction of technology in an Indian rural primary school. The objective was to address current gaps in research by illuminating specific community factors that influenc…
Journalist right of access to information The speedy progress in sciences and technology, beside of using new communications tools in our daily life make a new environment for cross-borders global cyber space, which is one of the main features of our era. We can say the absolute sovereignty of states is now out-of-date argument, because most of communications sector run from outside the country…