Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the public discourses in Iran have been flooded with a series of ideographs which were characteristically vague, and at the same time persuasive or even provocative. One of the key ideographs, particularly within the realm of political communication that saturates...

“Muslims are terrorist”, is one of example of hate speech that occur in cyberworld. Hate speech, also known as malicious expression, is the use of insulting, hostile, or contemptuous words intended towards certain religious practises or groups who share a collective identity, such as sex identification,...

Violence is one of the most common problems in societies now a days. Cases of adolescent violence are increasing in many countries, particularly Jordan. Violence has negative effects on adolescents which has become a major obstacle to the stability and progress of society. While exposure to media and...

Introduction/Main Objectives: This study investigates the role of consumer trust as mediating in the relationship between informativeness, credibility, and entertainment on purchase intention. This study will also look at the effect of consumer trust as a mediator on E-commerce in Indonesia. Background...

Today’s era of communication technology has seen that information plays a very important role. Information is no longer just notification and messages, but it has become an important commodity in almost every aspect of life. Accordingly, this study aims to examine the scenario of the information ecosystem,...

The Food and Beverage (FnB) business in Indonesia experienced a great shock during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was mainly due to the Large-Scale Social Restrictions which required food and beverage businesses to close their businesses and not accept guests to dine-in. After the COVID-19 transmission...

Trust has been perceived as the basis in developing and maintaining long-term relationship. In business context, trust is an important key factor for business to sustain its relationship with stakeholders especially customers. One of the factors that is found to improve trust is corporate social responsibility...

An increased emphasis on comprehensive tourism development has been seen in recent years. In-depth theoretical exploration and analysis on the creation and promotion of comprehensive tourism brands, however, have not been taken into account by the current research, which has primarily focused on the...

The development of the Global Capabilities Framework (GCF) for the public relations and communication management profession was the first globally applicable Capability Framework for practitioner, employer and academic communities. Due to the lack of a global benchmark, GCF was developed in 2018 by a...

In the current era, higher education institutions faced many issues due to its weak and improper education system. Many factors are involved and service quality is one of them which is majorly considered within this paper. To explore its importance, Tangibles, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance and...

The leader-member exchange (LMX) method focuses on the roles that managers and employees exchanged. Although LMX is important in the workplace, the impact of LMX and cooperative communication on team effectiveness in the healthcare setting has received less attention. Social Exchange Theory (SET) was...

This research objective is to identify the relationship between communicating with employees, upward and downward communication, communication problems and remote working. This study applied the Neo-institutional Theory as the main theory to be applied in this study in order to strengthen the relationships...

Public relations scholars and practitioners have raised a concern on the gap between students’ acquired knowledge and skills in the classroom learning and meeting the expectation from employers. There is a call for public relations educators to better prepare students before they enter the industry....

The advent of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in various disciplines brings potential benefits to the users. In the context of education, postgraduate students can get hold of a wide variety of resources for their educational purposes, including images. Nevertheless, one major drawback...

The unprecedented times of a global pandemic have illustrated the need for people to seek interconnectedness of humankind. Given this need, there arises the necessity to explore new ways of understanding “competent” communication that enables people to “live together” with those who speak different languages...

As an academic entity, higher academic institutions provide a distinct atmosphere with different mission and work tasks, unlike corporate organizations. Thus far, only a small number of investigations have turned its focus on self- initiated academic expatriates (SIAEs). Taking this into consideration,...

The establishment of cultural was driven from the past cultural activity which inherited from generation to generation. An individual perception of a culture meaning might vary depending on what they are experiencing. However, the need of good communication skills is important to survive especially in...

The goal of this study was to examine the various social media platforms that are utilised for advertising. The results of the study will demonstrate how variables like market expense, target market, and flexibility relate to the use of a specific advertising strategy. In this study, questionnaires were...

Gender gaps in political participation are universal in democracies around the world. Women constitute half of the world’s population (49.6%). In South Asia, Pakistan has the largest gender gap and discrimination against women in all areas of life. This topic has largely been studied in relevance to...

The study purposely to determine the perception and behaviour among youth who use Facebook as the source to search related information. The study performed the acceptance of active citizenship which elaborately discusses active citizenship and the factors that can increase the awareness of acceptance....

The near-death experience (NDE) is an unusual out-of-body incident taking place on the brink of death which is recounted by a person on recovery. With globalization of media, the retellings of these personal experiences have become a commonplace phenomenon, fascinating many people around the world regardless...

Child online grooming is an act that includes online behaviours of adults that aims to attain some type of sexual contact with a child. Along with the exponential range of research focusing on the information and communication technology (ICT), research involving child online grooming has grown considerably...

Numerous studies have examined the relationship between consumer pro-environmental behaviour and biospheric or egoistical values. For instance, biospheric values define kindness and care for the environment, whereas those who engage in pro-environmental behaviour may seek social status or a positive...

The dominance of traditional media has been challenged by the emergence of a diversity of digital platforms, many of which integrate media content, as a result of media industry digital growth. Customer views regarding entertainment subscriptions have changed as a result of the rise of Over-the-Top (OTT)...

During the pandemic, Indonesia has a new actor in digital activism, namely K-pop fans. Participating in digital activism is actually nothing new for K-pop fans in Indonesia. Before the pandemic, the Gejayan Memanggil action was also enlivened by K-pop fans in voicing the action on Twitter to become a...

United States of America or USA has always been the fitting example of using basics human rights as the supreme law. Nevertheless, USA were still struggling to prove their human rights ideology to life. The emergence of protest movements based on human rights abuses hits a record high during the presidency...

In recent years, network literature has developed at an amazing speed, bringing to an increasing number of network literature audiences. These phenomena were particularly common in China. From the perspective of the uses and gratifications theory, this paper postulated that “relaxing yourself to enjoy...

The stories built into soap operas are distinctive in that they are always related to (domestic) household problems and are full of emotional scenes (hate, longing, love, anger, laughter, etc.). The story is dense with patriarchal values, with women almost always cast as victims and oppressed groups....

Malaysia is a multicultural nation with different races in Southeast Asia. It has rich and diverse cultural and heritage treasures; the Chinese constitute around 25%. As a cornerstone for traditional Chinese religion and culture, traditional Chinese temples have undergone the evolution and incorporation...

Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) policies Indonesian policies that will apply migration from analog systems to digital or what is commonly called switch off (ASO) on November 2, 2022, seem to be still requiring a considerable process. One problem was that the digital television socialization...

This study discusses the design and development of student attendance using QR-code for Kolej Komuniti Segamat (KKS). The current or manual attendance system in KKS requires lecturers to keep track of students’ attendance using timesheets, manually evaluate the percentage of student attendees and by...

Students’ engagement and social presence are the most critical components for effective online learning. Despite all technological advancements online teaching and learning is still a challenge, especially during emergencies. The pandemic COVID-19 situation has unlocked new dimensions of research in...

The COVID-19 pandemic has rendered nearly every aspect of society incapacitated. However, the advancement of communication technology has given rise to a substitute that can ensure the continuation of numerous industries, particularly education. Synchronous communication tools like Webex, Zoom, Microsoft...

Using the backdrop of economic crisis following COVID-19 pandemic, this study measures Malaysian youth perception toward trust and the characteristics of social media used in government online crisis communication. Youth, just like other group of citizens, is directly and indirectly affected by the COVID-19...

On April 11, 2022, there was a demonstration with the main demands of rejecting the discourse on postponing the elections in Indonesia. The discourse has been widely discussed on social media, especially Twitter, with various narratives and opinions. This article aims to analyze the actors involved in...

The hoax has evolved into a formidable foe in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic that is sweeping the globe. Indonesia is no different. Hoaxes not only cause public distrust but also jeopardize important government strategies to combat the disease threat currently sweeping the world. The goal of...

Recently, designing games for educational purpose has attracted much interest. Game-based learning (GBL) offers an alternative approach to learning that implements game elements in the learning environment. In addition, persuasive technology has been used to persuade users to change their attitudes and...

This article reports on the development of a corporate video for DAE Consultancy and Services. The video was produced to promote and spread the existence of the company and their services. In today’s era of rapid and developing technological advancement, corporate video is one of the platforms for companies...

Dyscalculia is a specific sort of learning impairment that affects mathematic processes such as counting numbers, recalling phone numbers, and understanding speed, time, and distance. In order to help the learning of dyscalculic children, a mobile game-based learning application named Lost Boy Calculic...

This study seeks to investigate how mobile phone addiction affects academic performance. It focuses on mobile phone addiction, including internet addiction, game addiction, and ‘mobile youth culture.’ In this study, a conventional survey using a questionnaire was distributed face-to-face to 200 students...

e-KuPang is an interactive mathematics education courseware that employs the representation concept to promote Kuda Kepang and enable Level 1 (Year 1 to 3) students to learn mathematics in a creative way. Students find the existing education system to be rather tedious since study sessions are too lengthy...

Scam activities has existed long before the advent of modern technology and today, it is still a growing concern that is happening across the globe due to the fast-growing technologies such as phones, the internet, and social media. Modern scams can either be physical (i.e., phone scam) or online (i.e.,...

There are still very limited studies in proving communication medium and team interaction style that could contribute towards pandemic Covid-19 in the context of organization. This research also seeks to determine the relationship between communication medium and team interaction style with pandemic...

Political branding equity is communicating with voters using the cognitive psychological technique which is, creates promise, presents competency of political party and impacts attitude of the voters. Therefore, political branding equity is a strategy increase opportunity to achieve in elections. The...

This paper reports the ongoing project related to the development of ARCare4NGO mobile application for promoting NGO services. Nowadays, people might know about a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) but did not know what services they had provided and where to donate the supplies. Besides, the awareness...

This research paper aims to study on the use of social media marketing (Instagram) by local businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the midst of pandemic, many local businesses were forced to cease operation in order to adapt to the uncertainty due to COVID-19 pandemic. Only some local businesses...