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Media and Urban Governance: The Quest for Sustainable Cities and Communities
Connectivity becomes the hallmark of network society facilitated by digital technologies. Cities are fundamentally well-connected, fast-growing, communicative, and global in outlook. Cities are also known for media concentration, as the structures and people there extensively create and exchange messages - social, political, economic, and cultural. The urban communication landscape is very complex, and therefore, a robust media and communication infrastructure is required to form, reform, and transform urban communities from a sustainable development perspective. Media not only perform the responsibilities of information dissemination and community building but also facilitate urban governance and public discourses on policies. The policy-making process that consists of policy inputs, policy processes, and policy outputs - is heavily influenced by the public discourses triggered by the media. Media can establish a policy issue at the center of the public sphere, set the policy agenda, and create public opinion. It inevitably leads to the mediatization of public policy. Media can effectively place SDGs at the center of the policy discourse and serve as a tool for urban governance by enhancing citizens' participation and helping to solve complex urban problems. This research paper explores various aspects of the governance-media interface in an urban landscape to create sustainable cities and communities. The Electrochemical Society -
Media Ethics in Times of Demonetization: Framing Debates in English News Channels
Objectivity has been a traditional ideal for journalism. Journalists are trained to be objective; they do not frame stories by themselves????or do they? Faced with the pressure of deadlines, strained resources and the perception that audience prefer reportorial style, journalists resort to amusement or conflict based reporting positioning one side against the other and often aggravating facts and issues. The public today expresses disappointment with current media practices. Media watchers argue that instead of improving the quality of programming, competition has resulted in a race to the bottom, where news channels have conveniently forgotten basic ethical norms. This study is an attempt at re-visioning media ethics. It is believed that ethical journalism is never more important than in the time of crises. Taking India???s recent economic crisis, demonetization, this research aims to answer what makes it difficult for journalists to adhere to ethics especially during crises? With emphasis on situation faced by reporters, pressure imposed on them by various sources and ethical dilemma, this study provides answers to the questions posed on the work of journalists. Content analysis of demonetization debates broadcasted on two popular English news channels and interview responses of experienced journalists of Indian news media goes to explain how demonetization was represented by Indian news channels and to what extent journalistic ethics was reflected in their content. -
Media Framing of Indian Green Fiscal Policy: A Survey of Environmental Policies Across Online News Portals
This research undertakes a framing analysis of news coverage from five leading Indian news portals, focusing on the environmental provisions of India's fiscal budgets for 2022-23 and 2023-24. These budgets marked a significant shift, being the first to prioritize "Energy Transition and Climate Action" and "Green Growth" as central themes. The analysis uncovers a spectrum of portrayals: from highlighting government initiatives and the potential economic windfalls of green policies to critical evaluations and concerns about their real-world implications. Specifically, the Times of India, with its 27 stories, leans heavily towards business and economic perspectives. The Hindu, through its five stories, both praises the government's green initiatives and critiques certain infrastructure projects. Hindustan Times offers a balanced view in its nine stories, juxtaposing government action plans against critiques of infrastructure spending. In contrast, The Scroll and The Wire, each with three stories, delve deeper, providing incisive, critical analyses of the government's environmental commitments. The study underscores that while independent news portals present nuanced insights, their narratives often stand in the shadow of mainstream portals that echo the government's perspective. Given the escalating global importance of environmental challenges, the findings strongly advocate for media outlets to establish dedicated environmental news sections. Such focused coverage could enhance public awareness and pressurize effective governmental action in the domain of green fiscal policies. 2023 by authors, all rights reserved. -
Media in everyday life: review of the series Reply 1988
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MEDIA MOTIVATION BEHIND WATCHING POPULAR BOOK BASED MOVIES
This dissertation explores the one medium that the youth choose to get influenced by when it comes to watching popular fantasy book based movies. It is based on the assumption that the influencers may be many but ultimately the youth rely on one main medium to make their movie watching decision. The books which the movies are based on, advertising media and user generated word of mouth communication were considered as strong individual influencers. The researcher first aimed at finding out which medium motivated youngsters to watch the first fantasy book based movie of the series and consequently whether the same medium influenced the youngsters to watch the remaining movies in the series. The researcher went on further, to find out which advertising medium most motivated youngsters to watch the movie series irrespective of whether advertising proved to be the strongest influencer or not. The researcher chose the Harry Potter book based movie series, the Twilight book based movie series and the Lord of the Rings book based movie series and restricted the target audience to the age group of 18-25 years. 90 respondents were allotted questionnaires out of which 30 respondents each belonged to the Harry Potter, Twilight and Lord of the Rings category. They were further equally divided on the basis of gender to negate bias. The major conclusion was that user generated word of mouth communication proved to be the strongest influencer when it came to watching the chosen popular fantasy book based movies and brought about the importance of TV ads as the ones with the most potential when it came to influencing those respondents in the advertising category. However the researcher cautions the readers that these findings may be applicable to other popular fantasy book based movies only if they fall in the same category as the ones chosen for this research. -
Media's influence on suicide: Building a safer online world for all
In 1999, World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a global campaign focused on suicide prevention. In collaboration with International Association for Suicide Prevention, WHO compiled recommendations and resources intended to educate various societal and groups with the potential to impact suicide prevention, and this included the media. In order to combat the alarmingly high incidence of suicides (Tandon and Nathani, 2018), it is imperative to institute guidelines outlining how the social media forums ought to disseminate altruistic, essential educational content while. This work is a step toward achieving the same by laying down guidelines that could potentially reduce the suicide rate. 2023 Elsevier B.V. -
Media's portrayal of women activists - A comparative case study on Malala Yousafzai & Irom Sharmila /
Media has always played a major role in depicting various sections of the society, various aspects of life and people and thus enabled the common man have various perspectives. Sometimes, media becomes selective and refuses to properly execute certain news. Media can play a useful role in dissemination of information, but it when it comes to the process of portraying the women who have stood up for something, is the efficiency same? -
Mediating and moderating variables of employee relations and sustainable organizations: a systematic literature review and future research agenda
Purpose: This study aims to perform a systematic literature review to organize the abundance of information on employee relations (ER) and sustainable organizations. Moreover, this study identifies the research gaps by investigating the review of ER mediating and moderating variables and the relationship between ER and sustainable organizations. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on the systematic literature review methodology involving 257 studies in the final stage. The Scopus and Google Scholar databases with search criteria employee relations and employee relations and sustainable organization were used to achieve the research objective. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, researchers come to the distribution of the articles based on the subthemes, geographical region, types of methods, top authors with affiliation and complete research articles based on the citation. In the final stage, this study concluded with the conceptual model comprising mediators and moderators of ER as well as the mediating and moderating variables of the relationship between ER and sustainable organizations. Findings: The reviewed literature shows that employee relation is an optimal strategy for retaining employees via proper disclosure of human resources (HRs) and ER Index. This study included the top six publishers, namely, Emerald, Elsevier, Sage, Springer, Taylor and Francis and Wiley Online Library, to do an exhaustive review on a specific topic. The findings indicate that after COVID-19, the ER index, HR disclosures and the sustainability of ER are among the new and required paradigm shifts needed to manage a crisis impact and perform productively. The mediator and moderator variables that can improve employeeemployer relationships are organizational trusts, organizational justice, perceived job satisfaction, organizational structure and firm ownership. On the other hand, variables that mediate and moderate the relationship between ER and sustainable organizations are organizational climate, organization trust, organization culture, perceived organization support, psychological empowerment, firm ownership, leadership behavior and attitude, respectively. The findings concluded that harmonious and cordial ER are pertinent in building sustainable organizations and accomplishing organizational goals. Practical implications: The mediating and moderating variables that have been identified can be helpful for enthusiastic researchers in contributing to empirical research. Practitioners and managers can use the findings in making an effective organizational model that develops good employeeemployer relationships and helps create a culture of trust and harmony. This study focuses on exploring the variables of ER, which strengthens employeeemployer relationships and supports organizations to stay agile and attain sustainability to endure in the future. Originality/value: This study insights on the specific mediating and moderating variables of ER and sustainable organizations. Till date, studies exploring constructs of ER and sustainable organizations are still in deficit. Better employee relation reflects and leads to a more resilient organization. Future researchers should explore the connection between pandemics and ER which is done insufficiently in the present time. 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited. -
Mediating Effect of Brand Relationship Quality on Relational Bonds and Online Grocery Retailer Loyalty
The current study aims to identify how brand relationship quality mediates the relationship between different online relational bonds, and attitudinal and behavioral loyalty. A total of 316 valid questionnaires from respondents aged 2035 were collected using quota sampling from five different clusters in Bangalore, India. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling. This study finds that convenience bonds and structural bond have no impact on brand trust and attitudinal and behavioral loyalty. All five relational bonds namely, convenience, structural, financial, empathy, and social bonds are seen to influence their sense of community and attitudinal attachment. Sense of community is the primary influencer of brand loyalty. This study reveals that brand dimensions of brand quality relationship mediate the effect of financial, empathy, and social bonds on attitudinal and behavioral loyalty. It also illustrates the role of different relational bonds as a stimulus, and relationship quality dimensions as an organism that lead to improved customer loyalty in online grocery retailing. Managers of online grocery stores can consider these new relational bonds, along with the traditional bonds, to develop positive emotions and achieve competitive advantage. 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. -
Mediating Effect of Digital Literacy Between Attitude Towards AI and Job Insecurity Among HR Professionals
As businesses continue to incorporate technologies that use AI into a variety of business processes, the connection between employee attitudes towards AI and job insecurity has attracted some attention. However, a critical aspect that has not been covered in the existing literature is the potential mediating role of digital literacy in shaping this relationship. This study investigates the interplay between attitudes towards AI, job insecurity, and digital literacy among HR employees through an online survey. Utilizing established scales, including Attitudes Towards AI (ATAI), Job Insecurity, and Digital Literacy, significant results reveal a substantial mediated relationship. Finding also states a significant impact of attitudes towards AI on job insecurity. Acceptance AI attitude indirectly reduce job insecurity through heightened digital literacy. Also, the pivotal role of digital literacy as a mediator, emphasizing its importance in alleviating job insecurity concerns amidst AI integration. These findings offer practical insights for organizations seeking to foster employee confidence in AI-rich workplaces. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. -
MEDIATING EFFECT OF PERCEPTION OF POLITICS BETWEEN DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND TURNOVER INTENTION OF EMPLOYEES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS
During the past few decades, organizational researchers have increasingly focused their attention on the subjective work issues and their impact on various work related outcomes. One of the most prominently studied factor perception of organizational politics has received much recent conceptual and empirical attention. Political work environment are responsible for a variety of harmful work consequences like higher stress, lower job satisfaction and commitment, diminished worker productivity and higher rate of turnover (Ferris et.al 1989, 2002; Kacmar and Baron, 1999) Some researchers focused on the distributive justice aspect as predictors of important outcomes here they pursued studies from the opposite perspective while they examined Perception of politics (Ferris and Kacmar, 1992; Kacmar , Ferris, 1991). Thus research has demonstrated the independent influences of politics, distributive justice, on turnover intention, job satisfaction etc (Cropanzano et.al 1992; Mcfarlin and Sweeney, 1992). Very few studies attempted in finding out how these elements of fairness influence each other in predicting outcomes. In the current study, the mediating effect of perception of politics between distributive justice and turnover intentions has been examined. This study extends the previous research efforts and fills a gap in the reviewed literature by simultaneously investigating the mediation effect of perception of politics between distributive justice and turnover intention of employees in Information technology organizations. 343 employees from the top 10 IT organization as listed by NAASCOM were involved in the present study. The purposive sampling technique was adopted. Employees with minimum 2 years of experience in the organization was chosen as respondents. The major objectives of the study are, to measure employees perception of politics and employees perception of distributive justice; to study the turnover intention of IT employees; to find if perception of politics mediates the relationship between distributive justice and turnover intentions; to find out the significant effect of distributive justice on the dimensions of perception of politics and finally to find out the difference in perception of politics and distributive justice across demographics. Hypothesis was framed in accordance to the objectives stated. The tools of measurement adopted were (i) Perception of organisational politics were measured with the fifteen item Perception of politics scale (POPS), developed by Kacmar and Carlson (1997).( ii) Five item Perceptions of distributive justice were measured with the Distributive Justice Index, developed by Price and Mueller (1986). (iii) Turnover intention was measured using a categorical item developed by Dilys Robinson, Sarah Perryman, and Sue Hayday, (2004). The Crobachs alpha for perception of politics dimensions and distributive justice were above 0.90. The level of perception of politics and distributive justice was found to be moderate. In terms of the logistic regression analysis performed, it was found that there was partial mediation of perception of politics between distributive justice and turnover intention. The result indicated that, even though the employees perceived their work environment to be political, they will have the intention to stay back, as long as the fairness in distribution of rewards exists. Perception of politics which always carried a negative label showed partial mediation in the relationship between distributive justice and turnover intentions, where it explained only 13.9% of the intention to leave factor. This means, even when the environment is political, employees will stay back in the organization when they experience fairness in distribution of rewards. Keywords: Information technology, Organizational behaviour, Human resource management, Perception of politics, Mediation, Distributive justice, Turnover intention. -
Mediating Role of Financial Literacy in Relationship between Financial Stress & Financial Resilience among MSME in Bangalore
The outbreak of COVID-19 virus brought down the economies of various countries and the livelihoods of the public. World economy witnessed a lower amount of the economic growth. Indian economy also fared poor during the pandemic. The pandemic generated unemployment, job loss, pay cut, and closure of many business organizations in India. Unemployment and low income caused psychological stress and financial stress among the public and among the businessmen especially micro, and small entrepreneurs (MSES). The Indian economy is bouncing back to normalcy. MSES exhibit stronger resilience during the hard time. The study is interested to measure and analyse the determinants that promote financial resilience among the MSES in India. Based on existing literature, financial literacy is chosen to study the nexus between financial stress and financial resilience of the entrepreneurs. 2023, Indian Institute of Finance. All rights reserved. -
Mediating Role of Mathematics and Science Engagement in the Relationship between Attitude toward STEM Education and Subjective Well-being of Adolescents
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has become a focal point of global discussions in the field of education. It emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to learning. Subjective well-being of adolescents is characterized as joy to learn, close connectedness in schools, perception of the purpose of education, and the estimation of academic efficiency. This study investigates the mediating role of mathematics and science engagement in the relationship between the attitude toward STEM education and subjective well-being of school students in Kerala. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks from psychology, education, and sociology, this study employs a quantitative approach to data collection and analysis. A sample of 363 secondary and senior secondary students was administered standardized survey tools, measuring attitudes toward STEM education, subjective well-being, and their engagement in mathematics and science classes. Regression and mediation analyses resulted in indicating the positive, mediating effect of mathematics and science engagement in the relationship between the attitude toward STEM education and subjective well-being. Practically, the study suggests that educators should foster positive STEM attitudes through engaging teaching techniques and hands-on activities. Cultivating a positive STEM culture in schools can contribute to students well-being and equip them for future success in STEM fields. 2025 International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE). All rights reserved. -
Mediating role of resilience on the relationship between meta emotions and emotional regulation among neglected adolescents
Background: Adolescence is a pivotal stage in human development, marked by significant biological, cognitive, and emotional transformations that shape an individual's character and future behaviour. The emotional strategies and behavioural patterns inculcated during this phase become integral aspects of one's personality, influencing how one navigates through various life challenges. For vulnerable adolescents, such as neglected children in institutional care or orphans, negative life experiences can heighten the risk of developing psychological concerns. This heightened vulnerability is often exacerbated by impaired emotional regulation and low resilience, which may contribute to the emergence of internalising disorders. Methods: The present study was conducted to examine the relationship between meta emotions and difficulties in emotional regulation among neglected adolescents and to analyse the mediating effect of resilience on this relationship. The participants of the study were 667 neglected adolescents: 335 males (50.2%) and 332 females (49.8%) who belong to the age group 13 to 17years (mean age = 14.60, S.D = 1.16) years from various institutional homes across Bangalore. Results: The results of this study confirm that in the presence of increased levels of negative meta emotions in an individual, despite the mediating effects of resilience, difficulties in emotional regulation will be further worsened. This was substantiated by the positive correlation between negative meta emotion and difficulties in emotional regulation. Contrastingly, elevated positive meta emotions in an individual, along with the mediating effects of resilience, reduce the difficulties in emotional regulation. This was also reinforced by the strong relationship between positive meta emotions and difficulties in emotion regulation. Conclusion: The findings of the study highlight the prevalence of increased negative meta emotions and poor emotional regulation among neglected adolescents, which is of utmost importance from a psychological, social and policy-making perspective. This calls for the need for tailored and individual-focused interventional strategies to improve the psychological health of these vulnerable children. Moreover, the critical period of adolescence is a crucial time for implementing effective policies in order to shape the behavioural and cognitive aspects of personality with much-needed care, support, and professional guidance. The Author(s) 2025. -
Mediating role of self-concept on character strengths and well-being among adolescents with specific learning disorder in India
Background: Adolescents with Specific Learning Disorder (SLD) are at higher risk of academic underachievement, stigmatization, and mental health issues. However, the complete elimination of disorder-related deficits and external challenges is an impracticable solution for enhancing their well-being. Aim: The study adopts a strength-based approach to understand the role of an innate factor, i.e., self-concept, in the association between character strengths and well-being of adolescents with SLD. Methods: A correlational research design following a mediation analysis was adopted to examine the association between the study variables on a sample of 115 adolescents with SLD from India. Results: Self-concept functioned as a partial mediator between the life-satisfaction construct of well-being and six character strengths: Appreciation of beauty and excellence, Perseverance, Judgment, Leadership, Perspective, and Zest. Gender differences were identified with regard to the study variables. Conclusions and implications: Self-concept of adolescents with SLD could partly contribute to enhanced character strengths awareness to protect well-being. Further, the crucial role of internal factors like self-concept and character strengths in improving the well-being of this population was highlighted. Thereby encouraging future research on SLD to adopt approaches that focus on innate strengths rather than deficits and external sources of well-being. 2022 Elsevier Ltd -
Mediating role of teacher confidence between support system and satisfaction
Online education in India has witnessed a shift due to the ongoing pandemic, compelling the Indian education sector to adapt to new advancements. The study's main purpose has been to find the relationship between the support systems of institutions, teachers support and students, leading to instructors' satisfaction. It further analyses the mediating role of educators' confidence in linking support systems and leading to teachers' satisfaction. The sample for our research consisted of 129 teachers from Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). We found that there is a significant relationship between support systems and teacher satisfaction. Among the three support systems, institutions support had a significant influence. On the other hand, teachers' confidence had a partially mediating effect on their satisfaction, even though they could translate to higher effectiveness in online teaching. Further, this study inferred that educational institutions are quick to adapt to online teaching due to the ongoing pandemic. Copyright 2022 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. -
Mediation of Perceived Innovation Characteristics on ERP Adoption in Industrial Cluster
An industrial cluster, due to its close network of institutions, will experience various pressures that force the industry to have a homogeneous structure, norms, and practices. These pressures can also lead to adoption of innovative technologies. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is perceived as a sophisticated technology and diffuses across the cluster by its innovative characteristics. However, firms in the industrial cluster will have different rate of adoption of technologies due to the varying level of knowledge spillover and a heterogeneous absorptive capacity. This study empirically tests how absorptive capacity mediates the institutional forces and the perceived innovation characteristics towards the ERP adoption in an industrial cluster. Mediation effect and the model validity are tested using SEM technique. The results show that absorptive capacity complements the forces of institutional pressure and the perceived innovation characteristics on ERP adoption. The implications of managing the absorptive capacity for better ERP adoption are discussed. 2016 World Scientific Publishing Company. -
Mediation of perceived innovation charaterstics on ERP adoption in industrial cluster /
International Journal Of Innovation And Technology Management, Vol.13, Issue 3, ISSN: 0219-8770. -
Medical aptitude and its assessment
The assessment of the suitability of an individual for the profession of medical science is carried out worldwide on the basis of several yardsticks. While a few methods assess domain knowledge of sciences, others focus on evaluating the cognitive aptitude skills of the candidate, while few others assess communicative skills. Though it has been considered that the possession of an aptitude for the profession is a prerequisite, considering its strenuous demands from the candidate, a comprehensive assessment of these areas under the construct of medical aptitude has not been analysed so far, though medical aptitude has been socially defined. This article attempts to develop a comprehensive construct to Medical aptitude, meant for the pre-medical student, which has been encapsulated with respect to the areas of its assessment. We did an extensive survey of the literature pertaining to the mode of selection of students towards medical profession and analysed their areas of assessments for admittance. This enabled to identify similarities in the areas of assessment which were then classified under several domains of assessment. Special reference to the keywords involving Aptitude and Medical Aptitude was made. We analysed the definitions to the construct of aptitude from the literature with respect to its relevance in the profession of medical science to be possessed by the premedical aspirantin context. From this, a new construct of medical aptitude was formulated incorporating the existing construct of medical aptitude. Medical aptitude is a comprehensive construct that encompasses the dimensions of a consistent core, a peripheral content and the support of a scaffold. Each of these dimensions have their importance and distinct objective in being assessed in the pre-medical student. A perfect intertwining of these 3 dimensions can prove beneficial in assessing individuals to be fit for the profession of medical science. The National Medical Journal of India 2018.