Mugdha Rai
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mugdha Rai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mugdha |
| FAMILY NAME | Rai |
| SIGNATURE | RAI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6583-7587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The political potential of fun
Movement-based leisure practices and sport are popularly assumed to be ‘fun’. But many analyses of these activities do not examine the idea of fun closely, instead focusing on performance, efficiency or health benefits. This article presents such an examination, analysing how a women-only playground in rural Kerala in India activates an embodied feminist politics of leisure through fun, including the complex tensions it invokes. These politics an…
Television News in Singapore
Global 24/7 news providers
The study of international and global news to date has focused on the operation of foreign news values, the unequal flows and emergent contra-flows of transnational news as well as the phenomenology of 24/7 live broadcasts. Today these debates are often played out under opposing `global dominance' and `global public sphere' positions. Each in its own way is concerned about communications democracy — whether its discerned curtailment by processes …
Television News in South Africa
The emergence of democracy in South Africa has given rise to considerable debate and discussion surrounding the renewed role of the broadcasting media. The role of South African television news in enabling and enacting democratic processes, however, remains largely unnoticed and under-theorised. This article reports on recent research that secures added empirical purchase on South African television journalism today and does so by analytically id…
Global mediations
The last few years have witnessed an explosion in the number of 24/7 satellite news channels around the globe. Some theorists have heralded the arrival of 24/7 news delivery systems and channels as definitive of processes of globalization and foundational in the creation of a ‘global public sphere’. Others view them as simply the latest expansion of Western-led corporate interests and vehicles of cultural imperialism, propagating news flows from …
Television News in India
The `communicative architecture' routinely organizing and delivering television news in India, as with television news internationally, exhibits far more complexity than conventional discourse and framing approaches to news study have thus far acknowledged or explored. The article argues that these communicative structures have direct bearing on debates about `democracy' in India's diverse and fractious polity. Drawing on wider positions of conte…
Australian TV News Revisited
There is, we contend, considerably more complexity in the differentiated field and communicative structures delivering television news today than has so far has been acknowledged or explored. These complexities have direct bearing on debates about 'democracy', whether approached through the conceptual prisms of critical rationalism or cultural populism. This article reports on recent research which secures added empirical purchase on Australian T…
Between display and deliberation
Television journalism serves to display and deliberate consent and conflict in the contemporary world and it does so through a distinctive 'communicative architecture' structured in terms of a repertoire of 'communicative frames'. This proves consequential for the public expression and engagement of views and voices, issues and identities, and exhibits a complexity that has so far remained unexplored and under-theorized. This article outlines our…
Between display and deliberation
Television journalism serves to display and deliberate consent and conflict in the contemporary world and it does so through a distinctive 'communicative architecture' structured in terms of a repertoire of 'communicative frames'. This proves consequential for the public expression and engagement of views and voices, issues and identities, and exhibits a complexity that has so far remained unexplored and under-theorized. This article outlines our…
Global mediations
The last few years have witnessed an explosion in the number of 24/7 satellite news channels around the globe. Some theorists have heralded the arrival of 24/7 news delivery systems and channels as definitive of processes of globalization and foundational in the creation of a ‘global public sphere’. Others view them as simply the latest expansion of Western-led corporate interests and vehicles of cultural imperialism, propagating news flows from …
Global 24/7 news providers
The study of international and global news to date has focused on the operation of foreign news values, the unequal flows and emergent contra-flows of transnational news as well as the phenomenology of 24/7 live broadcasts. Today these debates are often played out under opposing `global dominance' and `global public sphere' positions. Each in its own way is concerned about communications democracy — whether its discerned curtailment by processes …
Television News in India
The `communicative architecture' routinely organizing and delivering television news in India, as with television news internationally, exhibits far more complexity than conventional discourse and framing approaches to news study have thus far acknowledged or explored. The article argues that these communicative structures have direct bearing on debates about `democracy' in India's diverse and fractious polity. Drawing on wider positions of conte…
Television News in South Africa
The emergence of democracy in South Africa has given rise to considerable debate and discussion surrounding the renewed role of the broadcasting media. The role of South African television news in enabling and enacting democratic processes, however, remains largely unnoticed and under-theorised. This article reports on recent research that secures added empirical purchase on South African television journalism today and does so by analytically id…
Between display and deliberation
Television journalism serves to display and deliberate consent and conflict in the contemporary world and it does so through a distinctive 'communicative architecture' structured in terms of a repertoire of 'communicative frames'. This proves consequential for the public expression and engagement of views and voices, issues and identities, and exhibits a complexity that has so far remained unexplored and under-theorized. This article outlines our…
Global mediations
The last few years have witnessed an explosion in the number of 24/7 satellite news channels around the globe. Some theorists have heralded the arrival of 24/7 news delivery systems and channels as definitive of processes of globalization and foundational in the creation of a ‘global public sphere’. Others view them as simply the latest expansion of Western-led corporate interests and vehicles of cultural imperialism, propagating news flows from …
Television News in India
The `communicative architecture' routinely organizing and delivering television news in India, as with television news internationally, exhibits far more complexity than conventional discourse and framing approaches to news study have thus far acknowledged or explored. The article argues that these communicative structures have direct bearing on debates about `democracy' in India's diverse and fractious polity. Drawing on wider positions of conte…
Australian TV News Revisited
There is, we contend, considerably more complexity in the differentiated field and communicative structures delivering television news today than has so far has been acknowledged or explored. These complexities have direct bearing on debates about 'democracy', whether approached through the conceptual prisms of critical rationalism or cultural populism. This article reports on recent research which secures added empirical purchase on Australian T…
Television News in Singapore
Global 24/7 news providers
The study of international and global news to date has focused on the operation of foreign news values, the unequal flows and emergent contra-flows of transnational news as well as the phenomenology of 24/7 live broadcasts. Today these debates are often played out under opposing `global dominance' and `global public sphere' positions. Each in its own way is concerned about communications democracy — whether its discerned curtailment by processes …
Television News in South Africa
The emergence of democracy in South Africa has given rise to considerable debate and discussion surrounding the renewed role of the broadcasting media. The role of South African television news in enabling and enacting democratic processes, however, remains largely unnoticed and under-theorised. This article reports on recent research that secures added empirical purchase on South African television journalism today and does so by analytically id…
The political potential of fun
Movement-based leisure practices and sport are popularly assumed to be ‘fun’. But many analyses of these activities do not examine the idea of fun closely, instead focusing on performance, efficiency or health benefits. This article presents such an examination, analysing how a women-only playground in rural Kerala in India activates an embodied feminist politics of leisure through fun, including the complex tensions it invokes. These politics an…
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