Annual Methodological Archive Research Review

Different Areas of Study in the Field of Communication for Social Change and Development

Ali Khan — 2024-06-30

This piece talks about the different areas that make up the field of communication for social change and growth. We want to find out which areas of communication science are good for the whole field by doing this study. This research looks into the practice-based subfields of communication for development and social change. These include rural communication, health communication, environmental communication, and farming extension. The goal of this study is to get a better sense of the current state of knowledge and to find out what needs to be done in the future. To reach this goal, the study looks into the current development and communication strategies used by the different subfields.

Keywords: Subdisciplines, Communication, Development, Social Change, and Sustainability.

There Is Fake Talk In The Media and in the Way That Media Language is Used.

Afreenish Khan — 2024-09-11

The purpose of this research is to assess the weight of using media discourse and media linguistic practices to deploy and actively propagate misleading, fake reality in order to control the audience. Several dangers that highlight the detrimental impacts of fake discourse in the mass media on linguistic practices and consciousness can be identified through an investigation of medialinguistic practices in the realm of fake media reality. This paper examines the structure and strategies of discourse "within the framework of linguistic practices of communicative interaction" through the use of content analysis, pragmatic analysis of speech and communicative acts, rhetorical and stylistic analysis, genre analysis, and other text structure specifics (news, parliamentary debates, lectures, advertising texts, etc.).

Critique of Policing Strategies for Combating Organized Crime

Ashar Hashim — 2024-09-13

There has been a drop in organized crime, according to recent claims made by federal law enforcement officers. There is no solid proof to back up this claim, though, so take that with a grain of salt. The unshakable dedication of law enforcement and policymakers has contributed to the perpetuation of a false belief about the source of organized crime in the United States: the alien conspiracy hypothesis. The film depicts organized crime as a shadowy network that operates outside of the law and involves multiple ethnic and cultural groups working to undermine legitimate government and business. The reality is that American crime organizations are often small in scale, highly compartmentalized, very adaptive to illegal market dynamics, and characterized by fluid organizational structures. Instead of just being corruptors of professionals and government officials, criminal organizations might be seen as entities that engage in mutually beneficial partnership, resembling equal partners. In the end, a person's ethnic background doesn't help them grasp the nuances of teamwork or the inner workings of a company. Taking cues from the extraterrestrial conspiracy paradigm, "headhunting" involves tracking out and arresting gang leaders and members in an effort to seize control of criminal organizations and their resources. Although many key players in organized crime have been apprehended, prosecuted, and punished as a result of the headhunting strategy, its overall effectiveness in reducing the presence of organized crime remains limited. Specifically, it is suggested that law enforcement organizations prioritize crucial areas inside illicit sectors when gathering intelligence on organized criminal operations, in order to take a more pragmatic and efficient approach. The law enforcement goal of limiting the scope of illicit trade should be given less weight than the practical goal of decreasing the accumulation of wealth and influence among illicit entrepreneurs. Focusing on prominent supra-national entities that, when compromised, allow individuals engaged in illicit activities to amass and spend substantial financial resources using authorized strategies to conceal income and disguise the use of illegal leverage is one way to realize this proposed goal.

So, what Exactly is cultural About Criminology?

Akbar khan — 2024-06-30

In this paper, I analyze and critique cultural criminology's most prominent arguments. I contend that the project is plagued by widespread confusion regarding what is meant by "culture" when discussing criminal and deviant conduct. Both recent theoretical frameworks that attempt to analyze crime from a cultural perspective and large-scale empirical research of cultural criminology contain these flaws. In this article, I argue that cultural criminology's claim that the cultural lens is a critical tool for understanding criminal acts is undermined by the field's superficial engagement with classic debates in social anthropology. Gouldner's (1975) accusation that cultural criminologists are just "zoo-keepers" of modern-day deviance is easy to make because of the lack of a comprehensive theoretical explanation of culture.

Keywords: cultural criminology's, social anthropology, criminal acts, cultural perspective.