Increasing Distrust in Mainstream Media and the State of the Online and Social Media in Nepal
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The impact of mainstream media is declining globally in this age of digital technology.It is not the obstruction of technologies but the mainstream media themselves that detach them from common people.They obstruct the role of the "Fourth Estate" in a society.As a Gallup poll shows, the USA has a high percentage of distrust of mainstream media.In Nepal, social and online media have been gaining a strong presence.Like in other countries, mainstream media did not change them based on changing context in society; second, they have ignored the role of representing the voice of common people; and third, they have not prepared to deal with the aggressive posture of social and online media.But, due to less formality and no regulated framework, misuse of social and online media has increased exponentially.The finding of this paper is that misuse of social and online media poses a threat to the peace, order, and harmony of society.So the initiative of the government aiming to make social and online media socially responsible is certainly a positive effort.Relevant legal provisions to regulate social and online media are inevitable.This paper is based on qualitative methods, and secondary data are used in it.Due to the descriptive nature of the paper, it analyzes all relevant and related perspectives and comes to a pragmatic conclusion of the research questions.
Author: Buddhi Prasad Sharma
Language: English
Topic: Journalism and Media Studies
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412732194