http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/6082 2026-04-28T22:21:05Z http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/8572 Preliminary Pages 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/8317 Online platforms, digital tools, and ethics in Biomedical research Wickramatilake, C.M. Research opportunities have been expanded and the feasibility of doing research and accessibility to data has been increased over the past few decades with the development of online platforms and digital tools. The use of the online platform to collect data has become a popular mode recently with the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers and ethics review committees both need to be aware of the measures to be taken to implement ethically sound online research. Moreover, researchers need to understand that though the data collection is done differently, basic ethical principles (autonomy, justice, beneficence and non-maleficence) apply to any research endeavour (WMA, 2013). 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/8314 Political Uprising of Tamil Youth in the 1970s : A Historical Analysis Gamage, L.; Amarasinghe, S.W. A segment of the Tamil youth population started to engage in aggressive anti-government activities in the Jaffna peninsula beginning from the early 1970s. Various researchers have observed from diverse perspectives the reasons for the emergence of militancy among the Tamil youth. This study will attempt to find the reasons for the Tamil youth’s political uprising and whether it was triggered at least in part by the deprivation they suffered in the society. To do that the study will analyze how the deprivations they had to face led to frustration among the Tamil youth. It was this frustration that acted as a strong influence and the motivating factor behind the emergence of the militancy. This is a qualitative research on this topic based on content analysis and the theory of relative deprivation that uses the case study method. Data were collected from text documents and supplemented by conducting interviews. Field surveys were conducted in the three villages of Meesalai, Valvettithurai and Varani of Jaffna peninsula. Altogether 44 individuals were interviewed. Most of them were elderly people who had experiences of the issues of the 1970s in Jaffna peninsula. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with them. This research revealed that both “egoistic” and “fraternalistic” relative deprivation existed among Tamil youth in the 1970s because of the disadvantageous position in which they found themselves in comparison to the privileged reference group within the same society. Both individual-centered and group-centered relative deprivation existed among the Tamil youth. However, group-centered relative deprivation played the most prominent role. Lower caste Tamil youth had to suffer “double deprivation.” Various forms of relative deprivation-based grievances existed among Tamil youth in the 1970s and these compulsions acted strongly to steer them along the militant path. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://ir.lib.ruh.ac.lk/handle/iruor/8313 TV Narrations of Ratupasvala : A Case Study Amarasinghe, J.; Amarasinghe, S.W.; Palliyaguru, C.; Kariyakarawana, S.M. Multiplication of media establishments in a country does not necessarily make that country more democratic and its content of the media pluralistic. Television is the most popular one among the electronic media in Sri Lanka. It can be observed that as a result of deregulation of the media since 1992, some 72 radio channels and about 21 television channels have been thrived. The objective of the present study is to examine through the content of news whether the abundance of broadcasts has had an influence on their content so as to make it pluralistic. This research can be called as an analysis of the media content in particular, the content of news telecast by six Sinhala medium television channels during a period of 10 days relating to a public conflict occurred in Gampaha District. The clash which affected 22 Grama Niladhāri Divisions namely Ratupaswala, Nadungamuwa, Imbulgoda, Walivēriya, Ambaraluwa and Galoluwa in Gampaha and Mahara Divisional Secretariats over an issue of pollution of water went on from 12.07.2013 to 01.08.2013. The main cause of the above crisis was the complaint of the residents of the above-mentioned area against the discharging of polluted water by the factory, Dipped Product Plc. established in this locality in 1994. Consequently, a mass protest was organized by the residents of the affected area by blocking the Kandy road and new Kandy road compelling the government to remove the factory. Further, a fasting was organized by way of protest by the Buddhist clergy in the Veliveriya playground. The present study concentrates on examining the pluralistic differences of media content of the news broadcasts pertaining to the above on the basis of the mode of its reconstruction of 6 Sinhala television channels. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z