July 2009

Consensus building through role playing from the perspective of self persuasion

  Engineering public consensus based on voluntary participation in public discussion is a useful, albeit difficult, method to resolve social conflicts. Active participation such as group discussions, public hearings, task force teams and committees for conflict resolution, is more effective in changing attitudes and behaviors than are negative strategies. Even with its importance, the effects and efficiency of...

Author(s): Hyun Soon Park

July 2009

Does globalization affect media role in a democratic country? Bangladesh perspective

  Based on reviews of secondary literature, the present paper intends to analyze the effect of globalization in determining the role of media in a democracy from the theoretical points of view. It is established through the findings that media can play a prominent role for the establishment of democracy and can act as a bridge between people and the government. However, in the globalized era, the role of the...

Author(s):   Pradip Kumar Panday