Given the ever-increasing volume of digital Nepali news materials, it is important that they are archived and retained. Two institutions are important for the news archive: Internet Archive and Press Council Nepal. Wayback Machine is a service provided by the Internet Archive to archive worldwide website content since 1996. Press…

We are familiar with the different structural characteristics of journals in overall social science and humanities as well as in sociology and anthropology in Nepal. However, we do not know much about journals related to media and communication studies. So, this article aims to initiate a discussion on media journals…

The colleges and departments offering courses in media studies in Nepal need to make extra efforts to boost the discipline. Many colleges have been running courses in journalism and mass communication, media technology, and media and communication. Enhancing the quality of research done inside and create platforms to share and…

Why do organisations take the initiative to prepare bibliographies? What can we learn from these initiations? Why is making bibliographies important for the advancement of the discipline? These are some questions being dealt here. …

What is the role of presenting papers in an international forum like Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) in expanding a discipline? How can we evaluate the contribution of a person who prepared the first media bibliography in Nepal? …

The debate regarding singer Durgesh Thapa’s new song, “Bicha Bichama -4 (Khyassa Putali)”, released on Youtube on 23 July 2021 on the occasion of Teej show that a group of people are not happy with the use of the words, “Khyassa Putali”. Just a day earlier, the National Folk and…

The use of the term ‘smart’ is increasing day by day, which clearly shows the infatuation of policymakers, administrators and politicians with the word. We already had smart driving licenses, smart cities, smart toilets, smart buses and many more. On 20 June 2021, the government announced a smart lockdown. This…

Can audience be a part of media accountability in Nepal? I think so. This role of audience is possible more in the digital than in the print world. Media accountability systems are the mechanisms to make journalists accountable to the public by pointing out mistakes and malpractices. …

Many scholars have said in the virtual world, people make public many issues that they before a decade or two thought to be the matters of private life. Digital platforms and companies know the deepest secrets which people did not want to share with anybody and these companies are thriving…