Vibodh Parthasarathi
Biographic Data
| ID | 381381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vibodh Parthasarathi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vibodh |
| FAMILY NAME | Parthasarathi |
| SIGNATURE | PARTHASARATHI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jamia Millia Islamia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3873-407X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Curating Video-on-Demand
The platform phenomenon could be apprehended as an evolutionary process, one that re-institutionalises legacy market systems. This article delves into one such site of media platformisation in India that of the Video-on-Demand (VoD) market. I demonstrate this market being curated by “digital dislocations” in the legacy video business, but equally to involve and impart “digital dependencies” of various sorts in the online media economy. Rather tha…
Introduction
Recent developments in digital technologies in South Asia require special attention on the restructuring of industries based on creativity, arts and culture. More specifically, powerful players from the communication industries have been at the heart of changes in the legacy creative industries. The aim of this special section is twofold. On the one hand, to critically assess transformations taking place in the industrial and policy dynamics shap…
Institutional constraints and accordant interests
This article unravels an unacknowledged moment in the public history of media regulation in India. In recovering this moment, the article speaks to us at two levels. Most immediately, it speaks to anxieties of ownership in the news media that have long marked scholarship of varied hues in media policy. In parallel, the article converses with wider debates on the role of institutional constraints and accordant interests in policy studies on the me…
Labyrinths behind the screen
The anxieties of consolidation and concentration have been central to the study of the media business across the world. Debates on media ownership have either pointed at business models and regulatory conditions leading to market concentration or the increasing accumulation of interests by political actors in the media business. This paper delves into the simultaneity of such dynamics in India, as refracted in the business of TV distribution. Onc…
Dismembering media diversity
How does the governance of the newspaper business in mid-20th century India enrich our understanding of contests over media diversity? This essay examines the anxieties of media diversity in regulatory debates in India during the decades between the two Press Commissions of 1954 and 1982. I argue the contests spawned during these debates being driven as much by normative standpoints on the press as a modern institution as by enumerations of the a…
Platform Capitalism in India
Rein and Laissez Faire
India’s hybrid media milieu provides a plentiful turf to engage with the regulatory framework marking the worlds of digital journalism. On the one hand, are the provisions and silences in inherited regulatory frameworks spilling over to scar digital journalism. On the other hand, are challenges triggered by new actors and dynamics characterising digital journalism. Across these, this article brings out two tendencies marking the regulatory framew…
Market matters
In the complex operations of the Indian media economy, the phrase 'media markets' requires careful consideration as an analytical concept. As a noun, 'media markets' is typically used to refer to a spread of media businesses and/or consumer sectors. Closer examination reveals that there tend to be multiple markets operating simultaneously within any media business (for products, capital, labour, audience, etc.). This implies an 'economy of market…
The Politics of Digital India
Transforming India into a digital state has been an objective of successive governments in India. However, the digital, by its very nature, is a capricious, multi-dimensional entity. Its operationalization across multiple sectors in India has highlighted the fact that the digital compact with publics in India is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, devices such as mobile phones have enabled access and efficiencies, and on the other, they have incr…
Introduction
No abstract available
Digitalization as formalization
Like any technology-related choice, digitalization contribu tes to, inter alia, streamlining and standardization in the TV industry, thereby leading to formalization of an industry as a whole and creating new configurations of interest. If digitalization, at any stage, level or place in the value chain, is made mandatory it will not only accelerate this transition but, more significantly, define the very personality of formalization. This article…
Public Spheres and the Media in India
This themed issue of MIA highlights the complex nature of evolving, emerging, mediated public spheres in India, a large, imperfect democracy that is home to the most diverse mediated public spheres anywhere in the world. The history of the public sphere in India has followed a trajectory that is very different from - even at odds with - the history of this sphere as described by Habermas
On the Constituted Contexts of Public Communication
This article provides a pathway to engage with the enabling environment of public communication in India. It scrutinises debates around press policy in the first four decades after Independence (1950-90) to reveal the trajectory of contests between dominant strands of liberal and progressive standpoints. This will help unravel the constituted contexts of the public sphere of marketed print in pre-liberalisation India. The central interest in doin…
Deciphering Chindia
Digitalization as formalization
Like any technology-related choice, digitalization contribu tes to, inter alia, streamlining and standardization in the TV industry, thereby leading to formalization of an industry as a whole and creating new configurations of interest. If digitalization, at any stage, level or place in the value chain, is made mandatory it will not only accelerate this transition but, more significantly, define the very personality of formalization. This article…
Rein and Laissez Faire
India’s hybrid media milieu provides a plentiful turf to engage with the regulatory framework marking the worlds of digital journalism. On the one hand, are the provisions and silences in inherited regulatory frameworks spilling over to scar digital journalism. On the other hand, are challenges triggered by new actors and dynamics characterising digital journalism. Across these, this article brings out two tendencies marking the regulatory framew…
Market matters
In the complex operations of the Indian media economy, the phrase 'media markets' requires careful consideration as an analytical concept. As a noun, 'media markets' is typically used to refer to a spread of media businesses and/or consumer sectors. Closer examination reveals that there tend to be multiple markets operating simultaneously within any media business (for products, capital, labour, audience, etc.). This implies an 'economy of market…
Deciphering Chindia
Institutional constraints and accordant interests
This article unravels an unacknowledged moment in the public history of media regulation in India. In recovering this moment, the article speaks to us at two levels. Most immediately, it speaks to anxieties of ownership in the news media that have long marked scholarship of varied hues in media policy. In parallel, the article converses with wider debates on the role of institutional constraints and accordant interests in policy studies on the me…
Labyrinths behind the screen
The anxieties of consolidation and concentration have been central to the study of the media business across the world. Debates on media ownership have either pointed at business models and regulatory conditions leading to market concentration or the increasing accumulation of interests by political actors in the media business. This paper delves into the simultaneity of such dynamics in India, as refracted in the business of TV distribution. Onc…
Introduction
No abstract available
On the Constituted Contexts of Public Communication
This article provides a pathway to engage with the enabling environment of public communication in India. It scrutinises debates around press policy in the first four decades after Independence (1950-90) to reveal the trajectory of contests between dominant strands of liberal and progressive standpoints. This will help unravel the constituted contexts of the public sphere of marketed print in pre-liberalisation India. The central interest in doin…
Deciphering Chindia
Public Spheres and the Media in India
This themed issue of MIA highlights the complex nature of evolving, emerging, mediated public spheres in India, a large, imperfect democracy that is home to the most diverse mediated public spheres anywhere in the world. The history of the public sphere in India has followed a trajectory that is very different from - even at odds with - the history of this sphere as described by Habermas
On the Constituted Contexts of Public Communication
This article provides a pathway to engage with the enabling environment of public communication in India. It scrutinises debates around press policy in the first four decades after Independence (1950-90) to reveal the trajectory of contests between dominant strands of liberal and progressive standpoints. This will help unravel the constituted contexts of the public sphere of marketed print in pre-liberalisation India. The central interest in doin…
Digitalization as formalization
Like any technology-related choice, digitalization contribu tes to, inter alia, streamlining and standardization in the TV industry, thereby leading to formalization of an industry as a whole and creating new configurations of interest. If digitalization, at any stage, level or place in the value chain, is made mandatory it will not only accelerate this transition but, more significantly, define the very personality of formalization. This article…
The Politics of Digital India
Transforming India into a digital state has been an objective of successive governments in India. However, the digital, by its very nature, is a capricious, multi-dimensional entity. Its operationalization across multiple sectors in India has highlighted the fact that the digital compact with publics in India is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, devices such as mobile phones have enabled access and efficiencies, and on the other, they have incr…
Introduction
No abstract available
Platform Capitalism in India
Rein and Laissez Faire
India’s hybrid media milieu provides a plentiful turf to engage with the regulatory framework marking the worlds of digital journalism. On the one hand, are the provisions and silences in inherited regulatory frameworks spilling over to scar digital journalism. On the other hand, are challenges triggered by new actors and dynamics characterising digital journalism. Across these, this article brings out two tendencies marking the regulatory framew…
Market matters
In the complex operations of the Indian media economy, the phrase 'media markets' requires careful consideration as an analytical concept. As a noun, 'media markets' is typically used to refer to a spread of media businesses and/or consumer sectors. Closer examination reveals that there tend to be multiple markets operating simultaneously within any media business (for products, capital, labour, audience, etc.). This implies an 'economy of market…
Dismembering media diversity
How does the governance of the newspaper business in mid-20th century India enrich our understanding of contests over media diversity? This essay examines the anxieties of media diversity in regulatory debates in India during the decades between the two Press Commissions of 1954 and 1982. I argue the contests spawned during these debates being driven as much by normative standpoints on the press as a modern institution as by enumerations of the a…
Institutional constraints and accordant interests
This article unravels an unacknowledged moment in the public history of media regulation in India. In recovering this moment, the article speaks to us at two levels. Most immediately, it speaks to anxieties of ownership in the news media that have long marked scholarship of varied hues in media policy. In parallel, the article converses with wider debates on the role of institutional constraints and accordant interests in policy studies on the me…
Labyrinths behind the screen
The anxieties of consolidation and concentration have been central to the study of the media business across the world. Debates on media ownership have either pointed at business models and regulatory conditions leading to market concentration or the increasing accumulation of interests by political actors in the media business. This paper delves into the simultaneity of such dynamics in India, as refracted in the business of TV distribution. Onc…
Curating Video-on-Demand
The platform phenomenon could be apprehended as an evolutionary process, one that re-institutionalises legacy market systems. This article delves into one such site of media platformisation in India that of the Video-on-Demand (VoD) market. I demonstrate this market being curated by “digital dislocations” in the legacy video business, but equally to involve and impart “digital dependencies” of various sorts in the online media economy. Rather tha…
Introduction
Recent developments in digital technologies in South Asia require special attention on the restructuring of industries based on creativity, arts and culture. More specifically, powerful players from the communication industries have been at the heart of changes in the legacy creative industries. The aim of this special section is twofold. On the one hand, to critically assess transformations taking place in the industrial and policy dynamics shap…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (5 works) · Law (4 works)