Role of communication media in nutrition knowledge and awareness. An Indian urban study

1992 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Ramadasmurthy ◽  
M. Mohanram ◽  
K. Visweswara Rao ◽  
N. Balakrishna
2021 ◽  
pp. 109019812110041
Author(s):  
Prageet K. Sachdev ◽  
Jeanne Freeland-Graves ◽  
Nalini Ranjit ◽  
Mahsa Babaei

Dental caries is a chronic oral condition that disproportionately affects low-income women. The aim of this research was to investigate relationships between dental nutrition knowledge, socioecological factors, and prevalence of dental caries in low-income women. This quantitative cross-sectional study involved 220 women who were recruited from Central Texas. Participants completed demographics, the Dental Nutrition Knowledge Competency Scale, United States Adult Food Security Survey Module, and the Multidimensional Home Environment Scale. Two dentists measured dental caries via the Decayed, Missing, Filled Teeth Index. Regression models were conducted to test the effects of dental nutrition knowledge and Multidimensional Home Environment Scale factors on dental caries. Finally, mediation analysis explored relationships between dental nutrition knowledge and dental caries, adjusting for Multidimensional Home Environment Scale scores. Results showed that dental nutrition knowledge and Multidimensional Home Environment Scale score were significantly associated with dental caries. Subscales of self-efficacy for eating healthy, oral hygiene practices, emotional eating, availability of unhealthy foods at home, and social support were related to dental caries. The relationship between dental nutrition knowledge and caries was mediated by Multidimensional Home Environment Scale scores. This research emphasizes the role of dental nutrition knowledge and socio-ecological factors on prevalence of dental caries. Public health interventions to reduce dental caries should involve strategies that increase dental nutrition knowledge and encourage behavior change in low-income populations.


2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gunder

The article considers how planning, in its various dimensions of engagement with popular communication media, plays an important role in helping to ideologically constitute a polity’s desired spatial reality. In doing so it will consider the historical deployment in public relations of psychoanalytical theory to facilitate the construction of public issues and beliefs, as well as to engineer consent for planning and related policy. The article will consider the role of contemporary media in shaping public aspirations as to what is desired for the future of our cities and settlements. The article will conclude that psychoanalytical insight gives us one effective handle from which to begin to understand planning’s ideologically shaping role in the formulation of our desires for our future communities.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruihong Liu ◽  
Yuanqiong He ◽  
Xiu-Hao Ding ◽  
Jianhong Li

PurposeBased on media choice theories and real option theory, this study aims to explore the role of communication media portfolio in achieving collaborative innovation with suppliers.Design/methodology/approachUsing data of the Study of Competitiveness, Technology and Firm Linkages 2002 collected by the World Bank and the Enterprise Survey Organization of the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, this study employed logit model to test the hypotheses. Moreover, some robustness analyses were conducted.FindingsThis study suggests that media multiplicity increases the probability for a firm to achieve collaborative innovation with suppliers on the basis of real option theory. Furthermore, distance from the suppliers and relationship formality make media multiplicity further important in collaborative innovation with suppliers.Originality/valueThrough investing how communication media portfolio affecting collaborative innovation with suppliers and the contingency factors, this study complements existing studies just concentrating on supplier capabilities, relationships with suppliers and characteristics of supplier network. Moreover, this study contributes in the information system field by exploring the role of media portfolio rather than individual media.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Schofield Clark ◽  
Angel Hinzo

To explore the role of contestation in mediatization processes, this article utilizes digital and visual methods to analyze instances of Indigenous digital survivance. Focusing on recent examples at the heart of the #NoDAPL movement allows us to flesh out and argue for a decolonizing approach to the study of mediatization, which we define, following Clark (2011), as the process by which collective uses of communication media (1) extend the development of independent media industries and their circulation of narratives, (2) contribute to new forms of action and interaction in the social world, and (3) give shape to how we think of humanity and our place in the world. The article therefore concludes with suggestions regarding the further development of methodological approaches to studying processes of mediatization in relation to contestations over normative claims and pragmatic concerns regarding the role of media systems in our collective future.


2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Dein

The scholarly literature on millennialism commonly employs Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance to understand how groups deal with failed prophecy. For many years Lubavitcher Hasidim held that their spiritual leader, Menachem Schneerson—the Lubavitcher Rebbe—was the Jewish Messiah and that he would reveal himself as such, ushering in the redemption. He died, however, in 1994 without fulfilling his followers’ messianic expectations. The author presents recent ethnographic data from fieldwork among Lubavitcher Hasidim illustrating the role of ritualistic performances and modern communication media (television, radio and the internet) in maintaining a sense of the Rebbe’s continuing presence. This ritualised reaffirmation of belief—a collective experience of symbolic fulfilment—provides disappointed followers with social and psychological support to render such an experience less cognitively distressing.


Author(s):  
Enjang Pera Irawan

The dynamic of democracy has been widely open in Indonesia after the reformation was launched in 1998. Nowadays, Indonesian are already politically literate and become political subjects. Based on these conditions, the researcher is interested in conducting research related to the dynamics of the role of volunteer as political communicator in the election of Jakarta governor in 2017. The purpose of this research is to know how the communication dynamics of the volunteers in raising public support in the governor election of Jakarta 2017 using descriptive qualitative as the research method. The results show that the political communication strategy applied by the volunteers of Agus-Sylvi is to prioritize approaches such as: a) Creating togetherness b) making consensus with the community, and c) highlighting the character of SBY as part of strengthening the character of Agus. The message of political communication Agus-Sylvi volunteers are  vision mission and work programs that are delivered and packaged in a rational and emotional message. Political messages are delivered by volunteers through various meetings and dialogues, community service, social service, and casual conversation. Communication media used include conventional communication media such as banners, calendars, t-shirts. Then, digital media such as WhatsApp, website and application MataHati. Volunteer communication patterns used are internal coordination activity of volunteer and candidate (implementing vertical and horizontal communication pattern), and activity of message transfer from volunteer to society (implementing formal and informal communication pattern).


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-252
Author(s):  
Rahmawati Rahmawati ◽  
Kasim Yahiji ◽  
Choirul Mahfud ◽  
Jauharoti Alfin ◽  
Much Koiri

This article aims to explore the Chinese ways of being Muslim, from buildingthe Cheng Hoo mosque to serving Islamic education and media literacy. Inthe current millennial disruption era, the role of communication medialiteracy in the contemporary Indonesian Chinese Muslim community needsto be studied further, especially its role in supporting the status of being goodChinese Muslim. This article is also intended to discuss the Chinese ways offostering converts and Chinese Muslims through both communication medialiteracy and information technology literacy. Through media analysis method,communication media literacy is part of communication which is based on whosays what, in which channel, to whom, with what effects. This research finds outthat communication media literacy is used by the Indonesian Chinese Muslimcommunity through the publication of Cheng Hoo magazine, WhatsApp ForumPITI Jatim, website, and Facebook. All of these media are used and have asignificant effect on the relation, interaction, aspiration, and communicationbetween the Chinese Muslim community and Chinese non-Muslim community,and the Chinese Muslim community with non-Chinese Muslims in Indonesia.Moreover, the Chinese ways of being good Muslims could also be understoodfrom various ways in establishing Cheng Hoo Mosque, Islamic educationservices based on Chinese community from Kindergarten, Islamic ElementarySchool, Pesantren, and routine or regular discussions.Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi bagaimana cara-cara orangTionghoa menjadi Muslim dari upaya pembangunan masjid Cheng Hoo hinggapelayanan pendidikan Islam dan literasi media. Di era disrupsi milenial sepertisaat ini, peran literasi media komunikasi dalam komunitas Tionghoa Muslimdi Indonesia kontemporer perlu dikaji lebih lanjut, khususnya perannya dalammendukung menjadi muslim Tionghoa yang baik. Paper ini juga bertujuanuntuk membahas cara Tionghoa dalam pembinaan mualaf dan MuslimTionghoa melalui literasi media komunikasi dan teknologi informasi. Melaluimetode analisis media, literasi media komunikasi merupakan bagian darikomunikasi yang berbasis pada siapa bicara apa, kapan, di mana dan melaluimedia apa serta apa dampaknya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa literasimedia komunikasi yang digunakan komunitas Tionghoa Muslim di Indonesiamelalui penerbitan majalah Cheng Hoo, WhatsApp Forum PITI Jatim, Website dan Facebook. Semua media tersebut digunakan dan memiliki dampak signifikanbagi relasi, interaksi dan komunikasi antara komunitas Tionghoa Muslimdengan Tionghoa non-Muslim dan komunitas Tionghoa Muslim dengan non-Tionghoa Muslim di negeri ini. Lebih dari itu, cara Tionghoa menjadi Muslimyang baik juga terlihat dalam beberapa pelayanan pendidikan Islam berbasiskomunitas Tionghoa di Indonesia dari Taman Kanak-Kanak, Sekolah DasarIslam, pengajian rutin, dan Pesantren.


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