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This article argues that the AdTech market has undermined the fundamental right to privacy in the European Union and that current legislative and fundamental rights protections in the EU have been unsuccessful in restraining these privacy harms. The article further argues that these privacy consequences have imported additional reductions in individual autonomy and have the capacity to harm the Rule of Law.

This article is about the analysis of novel Age of Ambition Chasing: Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China (2014) by Evan Osnos that focuses on how the main character does the resistance toward the government. The problem in this analysis how far the main character in the novel exposes the issue about defiance. The aim of this analysis is to find out how far Evan Osnos' novel Age of Ambition Chasing: Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China brings up and reveal the issue of defiance which is done by the main character in this novel. This analysis involved the fictional devices that are plot (conflict) and setting to support the issue of defiance. This analysis deals with the concept of power by Michel Foucault.

Arzt-Patient-Beziehung als kommunikative Konstruktion -- Nutzung von Online-Angeboten im Kontext der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung -- Kommunikative Handlungen von Hausarzt und Patient -- Kommunikationsstile im Arzt-Patient-Gespräch -- Formen der gesundheitsbezogenen Medienaneignung -- Beziehungskonstruktionen unterschiedlicher Patiententypen

The aim of the study is to uncover the interactional patterns between "micropolitics" and "education quality" in two rural schools of Karnataka. The patterns thus obtained are used to critique existing policies relating to "quality frameworks" for rural schools as envisaged in The Right to Education Act of 2009 through Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. This ethnographical exploration used micro political perspective on schools as descriptive and analytical lens to understand the manifestation of quality parameters at the village level. Study through the analysis of "quality" and "micro political" interactional pattern signals at the stabilisation of "systemic inefficiency equilibrium" of rural schooling system which has been strategically crafted through existing educational bureaucracy, caste hierarchies and brahminical value systems. Strategies related to enhancing the quality seems to be conceived in a vacuum, disconnected, unreal to the underprivileged, disadvantaged communities in rural educational settings. Thus, the paper brings out the inadequacies in quality frameworks of Right to Education Act in ensuring effective participation to positively influence the long-term growth of the children in rural society.

Television talk shows are very popular in Bangladesh. People want to know descriptively what is happening at home and abroad. On television talk shows, experienced and well known guests analyse contemporary issues and events. These kind of programs can be a public platform where everyone has an equal opportunity to participate in a debate by which democratic decisions are reached. Through creating this kind of public opportunity, television talk shows can create awareness among the country's common people on different political, social, and economic issues. It also plays an important role in drawing attention of the government and policy makers to their activities. In this study, the researcher has used content analysis and survey methods with research tools like in-depth interview for data collection. Two television talk shows like "Tritiyo Matra" of Channel i television and "Ekattor Journal" of Ekushey television. The two talk shows were selected from November 25, 2014 to January 05, 2015. During this time,Bangladeshexperienced a turbulent political situation between the two major political parties. If the talk shows of Bangladeshi television channels play a vital role then one can guess what is going on throughout the country. In this study, the researcher has found that television talk shows are mostly elite centric, male centric and city centric. There is a little public participation in the talk shows. Discussions of talk shows are ill informed and polarised to the political parties, with a few exceptions. Politicians, business people and other decision makers decide what the issues and discussions are.

Health is an important indicator of individual's development and well-being. Irrespective of enormous investments in the sector, subsidies,and free treatment facilities by both government and NGOs, the healthprofile of an average Indian shows a poor status of affairs. The surestway to improve the health profile is to increase the health awarenessaccomplished by health communication. The central government hadimplemented National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) as part ofNational Health Mission keeping urban poor in view to improve theirhealth condition. The present study would throw light upon ProgrammeImplementation Plans of NUHM with specific reference to informationdissemination and programme promotion strategies. This study groundedon theories such as health belief model, theory of reasoned action,social cognitive and agenda setting. The study aims to analyze theobjectives of NUHM and its implementation plans with special referenceto communication aspects incorporated in program execution. Researchwill look into "how communication strategies are made and implementedin NUHM and how does it help in effective implementation?" It is aqualitative research. Data is collected using interview and secondarydata analysis. Research found that NUHM has the potential to improvethe urban health in all perspectives. It had contributed to the bettermentof infrastructure and better staffing. The communication is meticulouslyplanned on paper but the execution lacks at all levels. Communicationtraining would improve the quality of service provided under NUHMand it will accelerate the achievement of NUHM goals.

Population control has become the biggest challenge for Indian Government. The government is making serious endeavors to spread the awareness about birth control measures in rural India. However, the level of awareness is very low in the rural parts of India. Rural women are using unsafe measures of birth control, which are affecting their health in different ways. The Government is spending lot of money on advertisements in order to spread awareness about birth control measures. Unsafe birth control measures are bringing down the productivity and leaving behind a number of long term effects. Therefore, this study will find out the level of awareness among rural Indian women about modern birth control measures. It will analyze the opinion of rural women about birth control measures and their attitude towards them. It will also measure the effectiveness of advertisement in bringing awareness among Indian rural women about birth control measures. The study will provide measures to promote modern birth control measures in a more effective manner.

Agriculture is a way of life and not mere an economic activity in theIndian sub continent. Agriculture and allied activity is also the majorsource of employment generation in India as well as Karnataka.Therefore, government has taken several programmes to developagricultural sector. One of the important programmes of Agriculturedepartment of Government of Karnataka is Raitha Samparka Kendrasthat provide information to the farmers related to agriculture and alliedsector. The main objective of this study is to review the RSK interventionin the development of agricultural sector. The study is based onsecondary data. The data is collected from the department of agricultureand cooperation in Karnataka and various published journals. Thisstudy tries to outline the working of Raitha Samparka Kendra (Farmer'sCommunication Centre) and come up with suggestions to strengtheningits working. The study believes that, it is imperative to provide relevantinformation continuously to farmers at grassroots level by establishingcentres at gram panchayat (village governance) level.

This study examines the coverage of the 2014 legislative election in Aceh by two Indonesian national newspapers; Kompas and Republika. The objectives are to identify the dominant frame used by the two newspapers and the changes in the use of frames during the campaign and after the polling. Online news articles were selected using purposive sampling for a period of 128 days starting from 11 January to 18 May, 2014, with a total of 193 articles analyzed. This study used quantitative content analysis to achieve the objectives of the study. The results show a significant difference in the use of news frames (i.e: conflict, horse race, regional perspective and constitutional crisis frames) between Kompas and Republika. There was no significant difference in the use of human interest and issue/policy frames. It was found that issue/policy frame was the most dominant frame used by both newspapers. The study also found a significant change in the use of news frames for the two periods; during and after the election. The use of all frames was significantly higher during the election as compared to after the election except for horse race. This frame appeared more frequently after the election as the highlights of the election shifted to issues concerning victories and accomplishments of the contesting political parties and candidates.

Migration has always been a significant phenomenon across SouthAsia. The historic ties that link the various populations across theregion, accentuated by the modern day dynamics of migration hasgiven rise to multiple forms of population movement ranging fromvoluntary to involuntary, internal to external, long-term to temporary.This paper examines the flow of international labour migration toAsian countries and this study is based on secondary data. Secondarydata has been collected from different sources for selected years 1990,2000, 2010 and 2103. GDP per capita (US$), population data takenfrom the World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI). TheUNCTAD's dataset provides the nominal exchange rates in US$ ofsource and destination countries. Distance between capital cities (inkm) data collected from the CEPII's database. The data on religionwas obtained from the World Religion Map. Official language data ofthe sample countries were collected from the Central IntelligenceAgency's (CIA) the World Fact Book. The study found that over theyears, emigration from India to other Asian countries is on the increaseand immigration to India is decreasing. Another finding of the studyis there is gender discriminatory trend in the labour migration amongAsian countries. There are many reasons for this trend and some are;political instability in some of the neighbouring countries, religion iscrimination in receiving countries and migration policies of thereceiving countries. Gender discriminatory trend in the immigrationto India from Asian countries is much less compared to emigrationfrom India.Many push and pull factors are playing a significant role inemigration and immigration. This study applies the gravity model asthe empirical tool to ascertain the determinants of emigration andimmigration decision from and to India. Both emigration andimmigration model includes nine variables. In this gravity model forimmigration to India, except GDP of the destination country,remaining variables like population of the destination and ...

The 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments opened up the governance structures in PanchayatRaj Institutions and urban local bodies to women, by reserving 33 percent of the seats for them. In fact it was the first step towards gender inclusive governance. Though India has had a long tryst with Panchayats, women were not represented in these governing bodies for centuries. In fact it was the state of Karnataka that took the lead in setting special spaces for women in PRI institutions. It was the Karnataka Zilla Panchayat, taluk Panchayat Samiti, Mandal Pnanchayat and Nyaya Panchayat that paved theway for the 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments. The entry of women into power politics that was facilitated by the 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments no doubt gave them a voice and visibility in the decision making process, but the path of powerwas strewn with many hurdles that included a change resistant patriarchal value system, the reluctance on the part of male politicians to share power and interference of male members of their families. But many women PRI members have taken the initiative to introduce proactive measures that have especially tried to address issues that are of special relevance to women. This article brings to light the need and significance of a gender inclusive governance policy and how it could empower women.

Reservation is indeed the process of setting aside a certain percentage of seats vacancies in educational institutions, government institutions and legislative institutions for the members of weaker sections in a pluralistic society like India. At the national level, the reservation policy originated in the form of Montague-Chelmsford Reform (1919). In 1925 the British Government decided to earmark certain quota in Government jobs for minority communities. The Indian Government implemented reservation policy in 1950. The Supreme Court has favored the combi¬nation of social and economic criteria for extending the benefit of reservation to the weaker sections of India. There is a reservation of 15 per cent for the, scheduled castes and 7.5 per cent for the scheduled tribes in the matter of admission in all the educational institutions. The reservation of 12½ per cent for scheduled castes and 5 per cent for scheduled tribes continued after the coming into force of the Constitution of India. Reservations have also been provided in posts filled by promotion. The benefit of reservation in various posts and services under the Central or State Government has not been derived uniformly by all the SC/ST communities. Articles 330, 332 and 334 provide for reservation of seats for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies for a period of ten years after the commencement of the Constitution of India.