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Communication for Development: Need for Collective Vision
Chandrasekher, Devan - eSocialSciences - 2006
Review of: Communication Technology and Human Development: Recent Experiences in the Indian Social Sector by Avik Ghosh; Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2006; Rs. 340.
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Mapping Exercise of Home Based Workers in Maharashtra
Gartenberg, Indira - eSocialSciences - 2012
Home-based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working from his/her home. This essential service is tied in with a larger chain of forward and backward linkages that enable the value addition till the goods reach their final destination of sale. The...
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Gender, Value, and Signification: Women and Television in Kerala
Usha V.T. - eSocialSciences - 2006
surveys the impact of prime time television's impact on a sample of urban of rural women. Identifying television as an … messages communicated through commercials regarding women, and the gender insensitivity of television programs around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341706
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Consultation Paper on Policy Guidelines for Television Audience Measurement (TAM)/ Television Rating Points (TRP)
TRAI, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India - eSocialSciences - 2008
Reliability of audience measurement reports both from the perspective of viewers and competitive relations between broadcasters have been of concern to the Regulators in most countries. Internationally, countries have largely come up with self-governing, not-for-profit institutions drawing...
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Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages
Olken, Benjamin A. - eSocialSciences - 2006
In "Bowling Alone," Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital …'s decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To identify the impact of exposure to television … watching television and listening to radio, is associated with substantially lower levels of participation in social activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487646
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Consultation Paper on Quality of Service Issues for Cable TV Services in Non-CAS Areas and DTH Services
TRAI, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India - eSocialSciences - 2008
aspects of cable television service in non-CAS area. Additionally, some new quality of service issues have recently emerged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528108
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Consultation Paper on Issues Relating to Mobile Television Service
TRAI, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India - eSocialSciences - 2007
The key to making mobile TV a reality lies in combining traditional broadcast standards with features specific to handheld devices: mobility, smaller screens and antennas, indoor coverage, and reliance on battery power. In India, Doordarshan, a public service broadcaster, has already launched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528151
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Consultation Paper on Media Ownership
TRAI, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India - eSocialSciences - 2008
The objective of the paperis to obtain the inputs of stakeholders and to generate a discussion on the appropriate policy relating to cross media and ownership restrictions in India. The comments of all stakeholders on the issues discussed in this Consultation Paper is sought. The paper has been...
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Broadcasting Services Regulation: Draft of Proposed Bill
Information, Ministry of; MIB, Broadcasting - eSocialSciences - 2007
The Broadcast media is a powerful purveyor of ideas and values and plays a pivotal role in not only providing entertainment but also disseminating information, nurturing and cultivating diverse opinions, educating and empowering the people of India to be informed citizens. The Government has...
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An Investigation of Incongruency and Distraction Hypotheses: The Context of Dubbed TV Commercials
P, Venkatesh; Sinha, Piyush Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2008
The current study seeks to understand the effectiveness of commercials that are basically nation-wide commercials dubbed in the regional languages, while not changing any part of the visual: thus they are ‘national’ with their visuals and regional with their sound track. Here...
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