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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on the film industry in 2020. Films that tell the story of the pandemic by giving independent commentaries are important to our understanding of l...

Movie industry has been booming ever since early days. But not all movies are great and worth users' time. Hence people depend a lot on movie reviews before watching a movie. Classically movies are rated on the basis of rating score. And in addition users also provide comments for review. But the reviews aren't made full use of to add to its rating score and recommendations. And people are very short of time these days so comments are hardly read. So, sentiment analysis are applied on reviews/comments so that they can also add to the ratings of a movie and hence result in better recommendation. In this project, a Sentiment analysis system is built based on the TMDB dataset and used SVM to predict positive negative sentiment from the user's movie review and then movies are rated based on the sentiment analysis and scoring of the reviews.

There is an increasing communication gap between citizens of India who speak vernacular languages and scientists who read and write in English using a lot of scientific and technical terminology. It is up to the scientists and science journalists to bridge the linguistic divide and tackle the challenge of translating scientific jargon into vernacular languages so that people can understand science communication. There is no nodal agency or service of science communication available in India to provide scientific and technological content from laboratories to national or vernacular media. Challenges faced by journalists to communicate science in vernacular media, need of a nodal agency to provide science news, training of scientists and journalists in science communication and utilisation of trained science communicators in scientific organisations should be seriously considered if we wish to reduce the gap. This chapter deals with the approach to bridge the gap between science and society connected by vernacular media.

Energy is the backbone for sustainable development. Any nation cannot progress without adequate resources of energy i.e. must have energy security. In various sources of generating power, i.e. nuclear, coal, hydro, geothermal, wind, solar, crude oil and biomass etc., nuclear is one of the source of energy which is less understood source of energy among our masses. Many misconceptions and rumours are associated with the nuclear energy like nuclear energy fosters nuclear weapons, nuclear radiation is deadly and nuclear reactors are not safe for human being and environment etc. This technological awareness gap of understanding Nuclear Power is the most challenging area for science and technology communication in India today. India faces formidable challenges in meeting its energy needs and providing adequate energy of desired quality to consumers in a sustainable manner at a reasonable cost. Nuclear power can play a bigger role offering sustainable solution to global energy problems. Those working in nuclear technology field face increasing scrutiny from public, the media, political authorities and NGO’s. This paper deals with the need of science and technology communication on nuclear energy for better understanding on the issue and a communication strategy adopted by Vigyan Prasar under ‘Public Awareness Campaign on Nuclear Energy’ as an important way in which a nation can stave off from the misconceptions, fear and uninformed societies.