The effects of digitization have led to unimaginable changes in journalism, radio and television journalism as the world’s mainstream media. In this connection, there is an opportunity to publish the content published or disseminated through all these social media like Facebook, YouTube and other social media, said the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Mostafa Jabbar. He called upon the students to prepare themselves for the challenges of the future by acquiring skills in the digital age.
The minister made the call while addressing a seminar on Media Convergence organized by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Daffodil University in Dhaka on Thursday.
Journalist Mustafa Jabbar, chairman of ‘Abas’, the first online news medium in Bangladesh, said that journalism was not in its original form during Corona pandemic, and nor will return to its previous place in post Corona period.
He said that digitization would take away the analog existence of paper from the whole civilization. You just have to be more discriminating with the help you render toward other people. There is no need to be a digital expert. You just have to be more discriminating with the help you render toward other people. It does not matter who is reading the text. Mostafa Jabbar, a pioneer in the development of computer technology, said that besides acquiring the knowledge gained in textbooks, publishing skills are important.
Mentioning that Bangladesh has achieved the ability to live in the digital age, Mostafa Jabbar, a pioneer of digital transformation in education, said. Digital Bangladesh is on the verge of implementation today under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and on the advice of Sajeeb Wazed Joy, Information and Communication Technology Adviser to the Prime Minister.
In this connection, Bangladesh missed three industrial revolutions of the past and overcame hundreds of years of backwardness and reached the leadership position of the fourth industrial revolution, the minister said. Mostafa Jabbar, the father of publishing Bangla Patrika on computer, said that the era of writing Bangla in lead letters in the country came to an end in 1987 with the introduction of Bangla script in computer. Following this, Bijoy Bangla Key Board was officially adopted as a Scientific Keyboard. He said Bangla is the mother tongue of 35 crore people of the world. In collaboration with the Unicode Consortium, we have now been able to establish Bangla as compatible for writing on any digital device.
Daffodil International University’s Department of Journalism, Media and Communications Adviser and Editor of the Daily Ajker Patrika, Prof. Dr. Golam Rahman; Juliana Abdul Wahab, Associate Professor, School of Communication, Universiti Science Malaysia; Mofizur Rahman, Professor, Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka; Kazi M. Anisul Islam, Acting Chairman, Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Comilla University; Dr. Sheikh Mohammad Shafiul Islam, Chairperson of Journalism and Media Communications, Green University were present as session chair.
Juliana Abdul Wahab presented an article titled ‘Streaming TV and New Viewing Culture’. Professor Dr. Ghulam Rahman commented that as long as Bangla font, Bangla language exists on the computer, Mostafa Jabbar’s name will remain immortal. He said that the beginning of revolutionary change in Bengali printing is a historical milestone for the development of our Bengali language.