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Patterns of Facebook Use: A Case Study on the Students of Rajshahi University, Bangladesh -Pradip Kumar Panday -Mamun Abdul Kaioum   Abstract The number of Internet user in Bangladesh has been significantly increased in the last ten years. one of the reasons is the increasing availability and popularity of the Social Networking Sites (SNSs) including facebook. The present article seeks to examine patters of facebook use among the students of Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. The study uses survey method using a structured Continue Reading

Reconceptualising the Idea of ‘Power’ in Cyberspace: A (J/L)og in to (Un)real Arafat Mohammad Noman   Abstract Technology seems to incorporate a post-ideological status quo where the 'old politics' of left and right are no longer useful or relevant. The politics are now more associated with ‘real’ and virtual. This politics of existence in real and virtual lives has left some questions vibrant: is technology a revolutionary tool or is it just a new epoch of Lord Clive’s ‘divide and rule’ Continue Reading

Facebook, a Potential Platform for the Dissemination of Newsworthy Facts: A Study on the ‘Shahbagh Movement’ 2013 Rakib Ahmed   Abstract Facebook, a social media network, has turned into a successful medium of communication thanks to its millions of users sharing their personal and socio-cultural details on it every moment. During the ‘Shahbagh Movement’ in 2013, the Bangladeshi facebook users utilized almost all applications available on facebook with a view to encourage people to joining the demonstration and share updated details of Continue Reading

The Emergence and Impact of Social Media on the Mainstream Journalism in Bangladesh Sheikh Adnan Fahad   Abstract The evolution of journalism is concomitant with that of technology. If printing machine was a major breakthrough in the history of journalism, the emergence of the Internet, especially social media, in the last two decades has changed the nature of journlaism to a significant extent. In the West, social media like Facebook and Twitter has already had a huge impact on the mainstream Continue Reading

Beyoncé: Identity, Stereotypes and Cultural Roots of a Southern Diva Sadeka Sabrina Haque Abstract Black identity has always been the acknowledgement of a common history that generated the sense of African-American uniqueness along with the stereotyping notions. My focus will be the issue of the African-American identity as it has been evolved through the years, as well as racial and gender ideologies that formed this identity. And Beyoncé the singing Diva of the American South pompously conforms to these ideologies. The Continue Reading

Formal Innovation and Political Criticism in a Bangladeshi Alternative Film Naadir Junaid Abstract Rarely do we see innovative use of complicated filmic techniques in commercially-motivated films, because in order to maximize profit commercial filmmakers always incorporate specific audience-pleasing elements which serve to amuse and entertain the spectators. By providing glamour and gaudiness, larger than life heroes, unrealistic solutions of social problems, and theatrical acting entertainment-based films hardly enable the spectators to critically perceive the roots of contemporary social and political problems. Continue Reading

Only connect!”: In lieu of an Editorial Mashrur Shahid Hossain Abstract Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. (Forster, 1910, p. 133) Keywords Patriarchy; women's subordination Full Text Continue Reading

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