The issues of professional accountability, faculty member development, and enhancing higher education quality in universities are gaining importance. A strategy that could increase personal control over teaching practices in addition to improving professional development among faculty members is peer review of teaching (PRT). Five themes that are important in determining the feasibility of PRT are (a) benefits of peer review in developing faculty members, (b) barriers to peer review of teaching, (c) gaps in literature, (d) potential problems to teaching practice, and (e) opportunities. Of the 65 studies identified, 34 were selected for further analysis, and drawing on PRT and the SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat) framework, 27 studies were selected for content mapping. Textual narrative synthesis was used to further categorize the review findings into the four quadrants of the SWOT framework. This analysis highlights a positive strategy in promoting PRT in higher education.
Media and communications technologies play a significant role in disaster management procedures in regards to the mobilization of resources in emergency situations. While the dissemination of warning messages relayed via broadcast technologies have had some positive outcomes in terms of reducing casualties in emergency situations in Bangladesh, there remain some specific problems in regards to the manner in which these messages are distributed within this developing nation. These problems are addressed within this paper. Examining the existing cyclonic warning dissemination system and the manner in which warning information is distributed and received, this study addresses citizen responses to mediated warning messages in the vulnerable coastal regions of Bangladesh. The results indicate that attitudes towards mediated warnings held by Bangladeshi citizens in these environs differ depending upon their access to media, type of dwelling and differing levels of literacy. This study also provides recommendations for media professionals and policymakers in regards to disseminating more effective warnings to the inhabitants of Bangladesh's cyclone-prone coastal belt.
Historical films are a widely discussed genre of visual narration as it poses the challenge of a reliable balance between history, myth and truth. Indian history and independence have been one of those themes that have been adapted into filmic narration, not only as a national oration, but from an international lens. Unlike any other historical moment, Indian Independence is the most celebrated and recurring themes of historical movies and still continuous to be a vibrant subject for Indian film makers. Dealing with the narration of a nation, often these films are looked at with a skeptical attitude, mostly because of its colonizer's view of the colonized. This article addresses Bhabha's (1994) interstitial perspective and mimicry of ambivalence positing that these films neither dominate nor propagate certain colonial ideologies, nor does it make the colonizer as a virtuous subject, but rather create an ambivalent identity, which is neither colonizer nor colonized, but a hybrid of it. Apart from some English productions on Indian colonial rule and independence, some Indian films are also taken as a case study to elucidate the concept of hybridity in cultural meaning. When the 'object' of history or the colonized reacts with their perception, it creates an ambivalence that is far different from the colonizer's perception.
The theme of subalternity with its inherent ramifications is yet to find favour among film makers in India. Progressive film makers of the 1960s attempted to address the theme of subaltern and dared to give the subaltern a voice, but they remained singular attempts. Through a case study on a Malayalam film (a regional film industry from the state of Kerala in India) Papilio Buddha this article tries to analyze the representation of Dalit community in Indian cinema. Though Malayalam film industry has tried to address the concern of Dalits, they have been stereotyped in many ways and reduced to being sidekicks to villains or unskilled labourers having no identity. They remained as instruments to idolize the hero, to act as a contrast to the elite protagonist or as the poor helpless victims who offer the protagonist an opportunity to display his heroism. Papilio Buddha grabbed media attention when it was denied clearance by the censor board as it explores the territory of Dalit consciousness by focusing the lens on the land strike by the Dalit communities and creating a counter narrative to the hitherto idealized images created by the state.
This article investigates how Bollywood cinema represented girlhood experiences in India in the early 1970s. It argues that the films during this time focused on representing girls who displayed a variety of new fashion styles and attitudes, some of which were borrowed from western cultures. This was a sign that there was a new way of representing girls which broke with the submissive, dull and melancholic sari-wearing Indian female stereotype entrapped within domestic settings. The immediate result of this was the emergence of new style leaders and popular icons in Indian popular cinema. This study uses Stephen Greenblatt’s concept of self-fashioning and Guy Mankowski’s idea of self-design to examine how Indian girlhood was renegotiated in the 1970s as an individual-centric idea with more agency and power. Here, self-fashioning refers to the way girls adopt new elements of fashion, styles and attitudes to distinguish their identity from earlier archetypal modes of representation in film and culture. It specifically analyses the emergence of Jaya Bhaduri in Guddi (1971) and Dimple Kapadia in Bobby (1973) as case studies to understand the transformation of girlhood representations in early 1970s Bollywood that opened a new space for girls to redefine their selfhood through the assimilation of consumerism, western culture and fashion styles.
Information pervades our lives now. A tweet or a comment takes us to a world of information that advances in any field, though initially brings confusion and criticism, plays an important role in initiating changes in the mundane life. Alberts and Papps (1997) who considered change and complexity as the two main factors of information change, posited that success of any community or society largely depend on the ability to adapt on real time to complex and dynamic situations, which in turn will be the major characteristics of an information society.What really counts here is the demarcation of a tweet, a comment or a posting on any online social forums with a piece of information. The explosion of the new media concepts and platforms evidently retorts this concern that any networked public has the potential to distribute information that makes this world in its entirety an information society, i.e. a society driven by information. This is an advancement of social communication, a public communication or talk that primarily was nonmediated and personal, but now becoming mediated participatory activities in social networking sites and discussion forums.A connected and wired/wireless world, the so called Information Society has its own impact on almost all sectors of human endeavor -education, politics, culture, entertainment and social life. Several postulates have aroused since the inception of information society at the wake of globalization. For some, globalization in an information age results in the homogenization of the world, but for some it creates a further diversification of culture and politics. Thomas Friedman in his book The World is Flat opines that every individual gets equal opportunity and hence geographical, cultural and political divisions become gradually blurred. According to him such a homogenous world is possible by the inception of technological up-gradations like fiber-optic cable and the increased personalized communication gadgets including personal computer and smart mobile phones. He termed this period as globalization 3.0, which according to him is the third phase of globalization-the first two being globalization 1.0 (globalization by countries/stat) and globalization 2.0 (by multinational and corporate). Despite gross criticism from across the world on this concept of a networked and swift world, new media technology and the new information dissemination has altered all sectors of human life. This new form of social organization through information and technology places new opportunities and challenges, a new vision, a new system that can be positive or negative.The definition of media has expanded and become lot more ambiguous giving more scope to Marshall McLuhan's illustrious phrase 'medium is the message'. Whether it is television or newspaper, the definition is no longer based on its physical presence as a distinct piece of medium, but as a medium that can be delivered through internet or mobile phone. Such a cross-media delivery of information (multi-platform) blurs the bounda...
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