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Item A Development Model which can be made of Folk-Media for the Rural Community Development Programme in Sri Lanka(The Issues and Challenges of the 21st Century,10th Anniversary international Symposium. Sri Lanka, 4th-8th July 2006. Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2006) Jinadasa M P K; Rajapaksha CItem A Study of Characteristics of Soap Opera in Sri Lankan Teledrama (With special reference to the Dudaruwo Teledrama )(Postgraduate Research Symposium, Faculty of Arts, University of Kelaniya, 2006) Jinadasa M P K; Samarakoon AThe origin of the concept of ?Soap opera ? dates back to 1930 in the U.S.A There was something called ?serial format? on Radio which catered to the women and family. They became popular rapidly among the American people. Many American Soap powder companies sponsored them as a result of their increasing popularity. This popularity has remained through a long period and esterblished the concept of Soap Opera which came to Television after some time. This was also called soap opera in Television. There are basically several characteristics of a soap opera (Brown, Marry Allen, 1987) There are as follows: Multiple characters and plots, Action parallel real time, serial form, little sense of narrative closure, Female characters tend to be independent and influential, Male characters tend to be sensitive men, the home or surrogate at a home in the main setting for the show, Emphasis on dialogue, conversation and problem solving rather than action, Simple cuts between narrative strands ,No caption , No Music or other devices to signal change. There are some other traits beside these intrinsic features of a soap opera. They are the prominent leadership role of women in the family, the many colorful ceremonies enacted in the family environment, need to protect the family even if there are some constraints behind it, and life is defined primarily in relation to marriage and the family. These traits are also found in this Sri Lankan soap opera as well. The above features are endemic to present Sri Lankan Teledramas such as Yashorawaya,Dudaruwo, Sathpurawesiyo, Suriyadaruwo and even Wasuda and Chitti. Soap opera characteristics are endemic to these tele-dramas and have gradually acquired association suitable to the Sri Lankan context. As the research methodology we used the Qualitative method. In this we use relevant book reference and content analysis relevant to Sri Lankan Teledramas.Item A Study of the Use of Psychological Theories and Concepts for Understanding the Nature and Impact of Media and Communication; Media Psychological Perspective(International Conference on Social Sciences, Sri Lanka,18-20 July 2008.Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya. Kelaniya,Sri Lanka, 2008) Jinadasa M P KItem A Study on the Multidisciplinary Nature of Mass Communication Research Dimensions(?Modeling The Issues and Challenges Towards Sustainable Development?,2nd international Symposium. 8th-12th July 2008. Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2006) Jinadasa M P K; Rajapaksha CItem Communicational Meanings of Bali Ritual: An Analysis of Communication Perspectives(11th International Conference on Sri Lanka Studies,1-3November 2007.University of Portsmouth. Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 2007) Jinadasa M P KItem English Education in Sri Lanka; English department of the universities and their contribution.(International Conference on Social Sciences, Hotel Galadari, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2014) Jinadasa M P KThis paper looks at the contribution of the departments of English of the universities and their impact on the local English education. Even though more than thirteen years of period of English teaching in the school, amount of acquired knowledge in language skills in English have been much less in comparison to other language learning and acquisition. Moreover, even after the school at the university education there is a separate particular place for English education as the department of English in the university. As a result of the lack of its capacity and failure, another different placeas English Language teaching Unit(ELTU) has alsobeen established in the university set-up as a remedy. This assumes that there is an imbedded problem behind the contribution of the department of English in the universities in Sri Lanka even though the said departments remain consistent with sufficiently trained academics including senior chair professors, professors and other PhD holders who have been wellqualified in most prestigious and full-pledged first class universities in the world. Based on the critical theory within qualitative discourse analysis as the key research methodology and survey analysis using questionnaire and interview method, this study concluded that the departments of English do not extent their support in developing English language atthe students who are coming from the rural villages in lower middle class. Academics of the English of the said departments are always keeping their monopoly on the English education without extending their chairs to others. Instead of extending their skills to local students they always put their hand on protecting their places from local rural Sinhala Buddhist people. Instead of creating flexible methods to grasp Englisheffectively they try to maintain their class interest and the well-made traditions of those first class English universities. In addition to trivializing local students? abilities at the language learning they put their western perspectives at preparing English language modules, course books and syllabi fromschool to university postgraduate courses.This infers of a colossal feudalism in their contribution to extend and expand English education in this land. Finally this says that they maintain their personal interests of dominant ideological perspectives of postmodern colonialism including safeguarding their class and religion within feudalism. Despite of the fact that they emphasis on a modern culture of most free & liberal and open to gender & feminism and all sort of sophisticated democracies from which they expect public?s emancipation, they do not give the chance to local students so do improving English in the country.Item How Should We Analyze The Communicational Meanings of Bali (Ritual)(Annual Research Symposium 2005, 09th December 2005. Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya. Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2005) Jinadasa M P KItem Media Impact on Psychiatric Condition and Mental Disorders; Qualitative Analysis of Media Psychological Perspective(10th Annual Research Symposium 2009, 17th and 18th December 2009. Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya. Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2009) Jinadasa M P KItem Media Impact towards Psychiatric Illness(Fundamental and operational research for Development, Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences in Sri Lanka .17th- 18th October 2008. National Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (NCAS). Colombo -07, Sri Lanka, 2008) Jinadasa M P KItem The Impact of Media on Abnormal Sexual Behaviors(11th Annual research Symposium 2010, 30th November and 1st December 2010. Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya. Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2010) Jinadasa M P KItem The Study of the Potentials of Folk-Media Performances as a Form of Effective Communication in Community Mobilization(07th Annual Research Symposium 2006, 08th December 2006.Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya. Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2006) Jinadasa M P K