Democratic Challenges
Multicultural Content in a Seamless World: A Perspective on Children’s Media in India
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Neha Hooda
The Indian media market has undergone a drastic transformation on the side of production, distribution, and consumption in a rapidly transforming global media market that is digital, seamless and timeless. The study aims at understanding the paradigm shift that has happened in the children’s media market from 2000 to present. India has become a melting pot of content from across the world. Programs like Shin Chan, Doraemon, Oggy & the Cockroaches and Chota Bheem are reflective of how the narratives have evolved and how they address the needs of Generation Z. The television programs with their images, portrayals, and creative story-telling are not merely passive entertainment but a means of propelling further thought and action. The study relies on primary information collected through a research survey conducted with 495 children in India. It maps and explores the media preferences of the children. A total of 118 TV shows being played on the Indian television were sampled, reviewed and analyzed. The programs analyzed were found to have content drawn up in India and foreign content that is localized for India. My work focuses on how children’s media has evolved historically in the light of social, economic and technological changes from an interdisciplinary point of view.
Women World Leaders: Obstacles and Opportunities
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Nichola Gutgold
President. Prime Minister. Chancellor. These words evoke images of power, leadership and tradition. They also bring to mind the male dominance that has been a part of those offices since their inception. Yet, in parts of the world, women leaders are gaining ground. Indeed, women’s leadership is not new. As Robert Watson points our, history has witnessed the leadership of Cleopatra, Saint Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Queens Isabella, Elizabeth and Victoria. The world over, women have led.In the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo succeeded Corazon Aquino and in Nicaragua, Violeta Chamorro was president. Angela Merkel leads Germany and Mireya Mosoco leads Panama. Recently, South Korea elected its first female president, Park Geun-hye. In Croatia, Kolinda Grabar-Keterovic is president. Have these women faced the same gender constraints as women running in the United States? In more than thirty other countries women serve as president or prime minister. But in the United States, Secretary of State is the glass ceiling for women and leadership. What has kept the United States from having a woman president? Is it the harsh press treatment? The history of male dominance? Is it the power of money in electoral politics? Do other governmental structures make it easier to elect women? Perhaps there is something the United States could learn from countries that have elected women leaders? This study considers how women around the world have successfully communicated leadership, with special focus on the role of the digital age.
How Do Online Social Networks Mediate in Developing Migrants’ Transnational Identities?: Comparative Studies
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Sunyoung Park
Online Social Network (OSN) provides borderless connections with the origin society to migrants, but also enables them to create new social networks with the people who can echo their thoughts and feelings gained in migration process (Wellman 2000; Castells 2011). While migrants are embedding in the new society, they learn how 'the others' define them and where they are belong. Migrants’ transnational identity can be, therefore, diversified by social positioning within and across home and destination society (Lametal 2012). My research strives to understand how migrants develop their complex transnational identity in different online social networks, by comparing three OSN platforms mostly used by the migrants communities. The technological evolution of internet, defined by Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 are considered to classify the different types of OSN (O’Reilly 2005; Graham, 2005). Recently the first case study has been carried out, regarding the social movement led by Korean migrants group in Germany against an ethnic/gender-stereotyping advert of a German company. During the incident, their major OSN has been dominated by the relevant postings–to share the feelings, thoughts, and the experiences found on the same line with the message from the ad. The research adapted Content Analysis (Elo & Kyngaes, 2007) based on Straussian Grounded Theory (Morse et al., 2009). Most similar system different outcomes find changes on the timeline. The results indicate that each platform has a predominant opinion on the case, in light of a particular identity (e.g.Traditional Korean, East Asian, and Global Citizen, respectively).
