http://management.eurekajournals.com/index.php/IJTMJMC/issue/feed 2024-04-17T09:32:24+00:00 Eureka Journals admin@eurekajournals.com Open Journal Systems <p style="text-align: justify;">International Journal on Transformations of Media, Journalism &amp; Mass Communication&nbsp;(IJTMJMC) is a Peer-Reviewed journal that publishes articles on Media, Journalism and&nbsp;Mass Communication. It covers aspects from fundamental principles to practical implementation, intending to bring up-to-date, emerging and active developments, issues, and events to research, educational, and professional communities. The journal focuses on a fast peer-review process of submitted papers to ensure accuracy, the relevance of articles and originality of papers.</p> http://management.eurekajournals.com/index.php/IJTMJMC/article/view/797 2024-02-27T16:08:18+00:00 Paul Andrew Bourne info@eurekajournals.com Edward Lambert info@eurekajournals.com

<p>Social networking (media) has radically transformed traditional communication. People can now access immediate correspondence and dialogue with others across a vast geo-political landscape. The new era of social networking brings with it benefits and disbenefits. This means that social media usage affects people’s well-being. Studies have found that social networking positively influences people’s mental health as well as negatively affects psychological well-being. There is no research-based consensus that social media only positively or negatively influences well-being. There are over 1.4 million social media users in Jamaica, and a search of the literature at the time of this research did not review a single study on whether social media influences Jamaicans’ psychological well-being (or mental health). This lack of research-based information retards planning and the implementation of needed interventions if needs be. The objective of this research is to evaluate whether social media usage influences the mental health status of Jamaican social media users, and what is the direction of this relationship if one exists.</p> <p>A web-based cross-sectional survey was used to examine the research objective. Using Survey Monkey’s sample size calculator, the computed sample size was 1,068 Jamaicans. The researcher utilizes social media (WhatsApp, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter) to obtain the respondents. A team of data collectors was trained and each was responsible for collecting data from social media users for a particular parish. Social media was found to be negatively associated with the mental health status of Jamaicans. On average, youths (ages ? 24 years) spent approximately 6±5 hours, adults spent 4±5 hours, and seniors used 3±4 hours on social networking daily. This research provides research-based information on how excessive social media usage is reducing the mental health of Jamaicans. This study is the platform for understanding the effect of social media usage and should be the catalyst for needed change before the matter becomes an epidemic.</p>

http://management.eurekajournals.com/index.php/IJTMJMC/article/view/881 2024-04-17T09:32:24+00:00 Dr. Ajay Krishna Tiwari info@eurekajournals.com

<p>The globalization of communications has its roots in philosophical and economic thinking, dating back to the writers of the Age of Enlightenment and classical economics. As early as 1833, the author of a reference work on colonization, publisher of Adam Smith and one of the founders of the Commonwealth, E.G. Wakefield wrote: "The whole world is before you". Thus, this means that thanks to the colonies, there was almost unlimited potential for development in the capitalist economic system. The capitalist system is naturally one of permanent expansion. Globalization appears to be embedded in capitalist economic logic. Globalization of communications is one of the modern forms adopted by capitalism in its insatiable pursuit of growth and expansion, establishing itself first in the 19th, then in the 20th century. The first part of this article will emphasize that the globalization of communications is a long-term process, which characterizes the history of capitalism, but which is structured from a technological perspective during the 20th century and which actually took shape as the deregulation movement began. Takes. From 1984, the second part of the text will show that far from standardization and the global village, globalization is made up of conflict and conflict.</p>