Declining Bargain Power: Streaming, Production, and Entertainment Labour

The fluidity of time and space, diverse collection, and personalized recommendations of streaming (OTT players) would mean a lot to a viewer looking for instant entertainment. On the other hand, such transitions from traditional viewing platforms pose a diverse challenge to everyone involved in entertainment productions. The remote select button is replaced with a scrolling option, but the difference is in the platform's 'thinking' or analytical algorithm, which was not part of traditional TV or Cinema hall. This global shift might be beneficial to a few and yet, lowers the number of personnel involved in productions. This is a conceptual paper looking into the interaction between streaming and the entertainment industry labour

A Perspective Study on Fame of Pakistani Tele-Serials in India

Zindagi TV also know as, Zee Zindagi is an Indian Hindi-Urdu general entertainment channel, owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL) was started in June 2014. This channel broadcasts Pakistani Soaps to Indian sub-continent. Since its beginning, these shows were attracted by viewers and with increasing TRP, more shows started getting recognized. This research paper tries to analyze the reasons for the rising popularity of these Pakistani soap operas among Indian viewers inspited of different political climate around both the countries. To focus on micro manifestions of visual media, the paper has focused on one show Zindagi Gulzar Hai

The Jallikattu Fiasco: Week Long Protest against the Ban Enforced and the Role Played by Print Media

As the fourth pillar of democratic governments, media has a significant influence in the formation of general conclusions among the masses. The bull has stomped its way into featured news story in Tamil Nadu several times in the last decade. From the time that people of Tamil Nadu prepared to celebrate Pongal in 2017, a large number of individuals from different urban communities of the state came together in open spaces, such as coastal areas and playgrounds, challenging a Supreme Court directive prohibiting the essentially provincial spectacle of Jallikattu. Convenient conclusions have frequently been drawn with regard to debilitating injuries and even deaths. The ‘game’ has never been directed by anyone with precise control. The present paper is an attempt to understand how a section of media, mostly newspapers, portrayed this sensitive issue. The review conducts a comparison between one English daily and one vernacular daily, both covering the Chennai locale in Tamil Nadu and attempts to examine the stand taken by print media in the projection of Jallikattu

Performance of university level kho-kho players in relation to selected cognitive variables

The purpose of the study was to performance of university level kho- kho players in relation to selected cognitive variables the investigator have selection of the samples was selected from those who participated in the south zone Inter University Kho-Kho Tournament from different state. Selected 06 teams form Karnataka, 3 teams form Kerala, 1 team from Pondicherry, 5 teams from Andrapradesh and 4 teams from Tamilnadu collected the data from one hundred and fifty (180) kho-kho players from different category. Chasers=80, Dodgers=80 and All-rounders=80 kho-kho players. The investigator had selected in this studies Reaction time and intelligent the data collected through test and analyzed by using Descriptive statistics One-Way ANOVA/ Duncan’s Multiple Range Test and Pearson’s product moment correlation

Content Analysis of Newspaper Framing of Chief Minister of Karnataka

A newspaper is a powerful tool that has the potential to not only inform but create public opinion on an issue, person, or political movement. There are many past examples of the effect of newspaper coverage of politics on the outcome of elections. Every media organization would have its political leanings, and such leanings act as a selection criterion in portraying an individual, opinion leader, or a political aspirant. This study is intended to see if the ideology of the newspaper has a relationship with the coverage given to political parties and leaders. The study would compare, using content analysis and framing theory, the coverage of the CM in an English newspaper, The Times of India, and a Kannada newspaper, Prajavani, to see if there is any bias that can be due to the political ideology of the two newspapers