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  Media Geography systematically analyses the relationship between geography and Media communication and shows how geographical approaches open up familiar and unfamiliar aspects of communication for analysis and discussion. Their link have closely studied since 16 th century. It has changed and have evolved with ever more growing technology and instruments of measurements. Back when printing press was invented it took a sharp changes in media landscapes along with that of geography and the cartography. Then came the phase of industrialisation when handmade printing press shifted to mechanical and electrical mode printing which started printing things more efficiently and precisely. Followed by this came another form of mass media which took these form to great length. And now the still emerging digital landscape of media and communication though, brings shared values for a better of understanding in this form. Although the given discipline are not closely related or have simi...

  The ongoing Pandemic has impacted some very big sectors of Indian Economy. Of those is the Education sector, which have been forced to be on a hold since the nation-wide lockdown began on second week of March. The schools and universities across India were shut down with a hope of lockdown to be over soon. Unfortunately this did not went as planned and the lockdown is still in-effect till date. Board and university exams were postponed and the results were declared on the basis of ‘how the student performed in previous semester/yearly exam’. Realizing no sight of improvement in the situation, some schools and colleges began teaching students on group video calls via different available platforms. On the other hand teachers were laid off their work indefinitely via Emails. Some universities refused to cancel exams for the final year students and were poised to conduct examination under any circumstances. UGC issued guidelines for conducting online exams using open book system. The...

We all must have heard about the contest of who invented the Radio in reality? Some credit Nikola Tesla, others say it was Russian physicist Aleksandr Popov but officially Guglielmo Marconi is regarded as the sole inventor of Radio. Irrespective of people involved in the invention of this great device, it marked a phase of revolution in communication at the time when world was connected with wires and where the only source of deliverance of information was through print. With time its usage changed considerably. We all must have listened to radio during our childhood days. If not today, then just around a decade ago it was still considered as a best medium for the transfer of information in our country. But in some developing and under-developed countries as well, it is still the best mode of communication to the masses. In this world of internet where radio is slightly being replaced by other services of audio communication like podcasts and streaming, the popularity that radio has ac...