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Saturday, August 7, 2010

Inter personal machno communication

INTERPERSONAL MACHNO COMMUNICATION
Ratheesh Kaliyadan

We were discussing about types of communication. While talking on interposed communication learners contributed certain examples like using of telephone, mobile etc. it was a 15 year old girl in my class at Govt.Girls Higher Secondary School, Thalassery twisted our discussion into a chaos. “How do you name the process of communication between a person and a computer? Is it interpersonal mediated / interposed communication?” the question troubled me for a while. As a revelation I told it is “interpersonal machno communication”. Yes, it is interpersonal machno communication because a person is interacting with a machine.
Communication experts are blurred in defining the process of communication that happens between a person and a machine like computer. Somebody call it as computer mediated communication. It is not an apt term to define the process because some other machines also intervene in this process. So I may call it as interpersonal machno communication. I used the term in latest edition of my book, Principles of Mass communication.

This is a new addition to the world of communication discourses. Here the sender and the receiver is one and the same. But a machine is frequently involving in the process of communication. A sender feeds information in a computer. She/he uses text, audio, video, graphics, animation… and any other forms. The idea comes from the mind of the person who sits before the computer. The messages are loaded and recorded in a computer, instead of her/his brain. The sender can retrieve and reuse the same piece of information whenever she/he likes, provided the machine is with. This is unlike using a telephone in communication. In telephone conversation at the other end a receiver is present in person.
The machine may be anything with the retrieving ability like high definition mobile phone, iPod, computer etc. Posting and retrieving of most of the files depend on the person’s own memory. This is a unique type of communication sponsored by techno centered environment.
Read more on types of communication in Principles of Mass Communication by Ratheesh Kaliyadan. Contact: mediafolkmarc@gmail.com

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

NOW LEAK JOURNALISM

AND NOW LEAK JOURNALISM
Ratheesh Kaliyadan
Scoops and investigation goes beyond the boundaries. When a scribe brought forth a minor scam attempt, media managers celebrated it with 'Exclusive Explodes. Here a man leaked thousands of web pages in a war document. The custodian is not an ordinary authority. The leak had happened in the US defence documentation which is marked top secret. Julian Assange's attempt marks a new face and phase in online journalism.
WikiLeaks bombard is observed as " the emergence of open source journalism". According to Sevanti Ninan,"Julian Assange makes it possible for anybody anywhere in the world to submit secret documents for publication". The most interesting and stunning episode of the bombard leakage is the online posting of video which showed airborne Americans in Iraq killing civilians including two Reuters journalists in 2007.
Wikileaks is not a stand apart journalistic intervention. It is a means of active participation. the web journalists  group becomes a movement. Each and every pages of the war documents on the website is a link.It seeks financial,legal and technical support. "help us extend and defend this work".
And now we have a new era in the history of journalism. Thanks to Julian Assange, online journalism flies in the wings of top secret documents. In the midst of alarms on 'national security', the war documents leaked by WikiLeaks pave a newer way in media interventions. It is a wonderful question: If nobody have a secured life, can US nationals only have it? A stateless movement is not responsible to care about US national security is the philosophy behind the bombard leakage.