Subin Paul
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Subin Paul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Subin |
| FAMILY NAME | Paul |
| SIGNATURE | PAUL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | IE University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4879-5573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Smartphone-Based GenAI and the Ruralization of Indian-Language News
This paper investigates the impact of smartphone-based generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on the editing and increasing representation of rural news in Hindi-language speed news in India. As an innovation, speed news refers to the recitation of news summaries by presenters at an accelerated pace across mobile, television, and digital platforms such as YouTube. Drawing on the anthropological conception of “ruralization” and fieldwork in no…
Peace for Sale: An Analysis of Ikea's Efectos Colaterales Advertising Campaign in Spain
This study examines how an IKEA advertising campaign in Spain titled Efectos Colaterales (“Collateral Effects”) interacts with structural violence and socio-cultural peace in the country. For this investigation, we conduct a visual analysis on all four advertisements comprising Efectos Colaterales . While the campaign was found to effectively utilize humor and several other narrative techniques to portray a lifestyle adhering to the brand's ident…
Monsoon News: From Science to Storytelling
This essay is concerned with the study of journalistic vocabularies and tropes (or what is sometimes referred to as “vernaculars”) used in weather reporting, a domain that until recently was neglected in journalism studies. It interprets and thematizes the vernaculars employed in reporting on a dominant seasonal weather phenomenon in South Asia: the monsoon. As an atmospheric-aqueous phenomenon, the monsoon is central to the Indian subcontinent’s…
Science Journalism in Postcolonial India: Mapping the Political Economy of Ayurveda in Digital News
Reckoning with subaltern science: The case of India’s T he W ire S cience
In light of the dominance of “Western” scientific discourse in English-language news media, the question arises regarding how and to what extent a prominent Global South-based science newsmagazine such as India’s The Wire Science positions itself with respect to indigenous cultural practices. Addressing this question, our essay critically examines The Wire Science ’s “The Science of the Seas” feature series as one form of “subaltern science” stem…
Is it Just Fluff? Topics, News Values, and Normative Democratic Implications of BBC’s The Happy Pod
A growing number of legacy news organizations are experimenting with ways to address the widespread perception that news is too negative. While many of these initiatives claim to apply traditional news values with a solutions-oriented twist, this study explores one that makes no such claims: the BBC’s The Happy Pod. Using a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of one year of Happy Pod episodes, we analyze the topics and news values the p…
Linguistic Capital and the Production of Vernacular Digital Journalism: The Case of Malayalam-Language News
The transition of vernacular language newspapers from print to digital formats has been largely overlooked in journalism studies. I suggest that studying this transition can help us better understand, from a production standpoint, the prevalence of both print and digital newspapers in the Global South. This article examines vernacular news production in the Global South by focusing on Malayala Manorama (MM), one of the most widely circulated Mala…
Cultures of Restraint and Towards an Appraisal of Non-Western News Values
Research on Western European and North American news media continues to dominate scholarship in the field of journalism studies. The remedies sought to rectify this imbalance notably include comparative studies across non-Western and Western countries using large-scale surveys or content analyses. At an epistemological level, such studies adopt—often inherently—an Enlightenment-inspired normative frame that makes the comparisons and transposition…
The view from the hinterland: Caste, gender and press freedom in Hindi news reporting
The limits to press freedom in India are usually surveyed from the top-down, with a focus on government efforts to censor journalists, particularly English-language journalists. In this essay, we instead examine India's restrictive press culture by focusing on the sociological workings of Hindi language news production, studying ways in which everyday journalism practices intersect with freedom of expression. The paper first traces the history of…
Engaging with News: Print Media and Literacy Practices in Kerala, India
Malayalam-language newspapers published in the southern Indian state of Kerala are known for their contribution to the vernacular public sphere. However, while the popularity of commercial Malayalam-language newspapers has steadily increased over the past decades, “community-based” publications such as Deepika have experienced decline. Using the case of Deepika and drawing on the New Literacy Studies scholarship, we examine how print newspapers e…
News as religion: Practices of mediation in a Catholic community in South India
This article examines the relationship between religion and news media through a case study of Deepika, a Malayalam-language daily published in the South Indian state of Kerala. We “thickly describe” the practices of mediation and meaning-making processes of this newspaper’s editors and readers, most of whom are “Syrian Catholics.” Our analysis shows that news functions as, or very similar to, religion for Deepika’s partakers. We thus argue that …
A field theory approach to international journalism: The case of Indian journalists in the middle east
Interest in Bourdieu’s field theory has been steadily growing within the field of journalism studies. Today the application of this theory is not limited to the Global North; journalism studies scholars employ it—rather unreservedly—to study news practices even in the Global South. This leads to the fundamental question whether “Western” media theories have universal relevance. Contributing to this longstanding debate, this article demonstrates o…
Each fairy-tale, each myth: The collapse of vertical media into a welter of disequilibrating horizontal media
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Gandhi's Newspaperman: T. G. Narayanan and the quest for an independent India, 1938–46
The expansion of the colonial public sphere in India during the 1930s and 1940s saw the nation's English-language press increasingly serve as a key site in the struggle for freedom despite British censorship. This article examines the journalistic career of T. G. Narayanan, the first Indian war correspondent and investigative reporter, to understand the role of English-language newspapers in India's quest for independence. Narayanan reported on t…
Digital Archiving as Social Protest: Dalit Camera and the mobilization of India’s “Untouchables”
The relationship between journalism and social marginalization is a relatively understudied area in digital journalism studies. Our case study of Dalit Camera (DC), an online news archive and chronicle based in India, examines how historically disadvantaged Dalits, or “Untouchables,” are leveraging digital tools to narrate their oppressive past to the outside world parallel to the rise of political censorship in India. As part of its archiving pr…
A new public sphere? English-language stand-up comedy in India
The genre of English-language stand-up comedy is increasingly becoming popular in India’s metropolitan cities. This study uses the concept of the public sphere to examine YouTube videos of a prominent Indian live comedian, Daniel Fernandes. The analysis shows that Fernandes’ verbal humor is based on several performative techniques such as linguistic code-switching, calculative pauses, and juxtaposition of incongruous things. The study, furthermor…
Between Participation and Autonomy: Understanding Indian citizen journalists
With the increasing penetration of mobile phones and the internet in India, citizen journalism has experienced a steady growth in recent years. This paper adds to the growing scholarship on citizen journalism by exploring the motivations of Indian citizen journalists to produce online news content. Through a Web-based survey of citizen journalists (N = 134) contributing to the leading news portals in India, this study addresses the role of tradit…
Journalism, not ‘cheerleading: An ombudsman’s paradigm repair in the JNU sedition case in India
With increasing expectations to be accountable in the digital era, some newspapers have appointed ombudsmen. This study examines the process of ‘paradigm repair’ undertaken by the ombudsman of The Hindu, a leading English-language newspaper in India. The study qualitatively analyzes The Hindu’s coverage of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) sedition controversy case, its ombudsman’s editorials pertaining to the case, and the readers’ responses…
Digital Archiving as Social Protest: Dalit Camera and the mobilization of India’s “Untouchables”
The relationship between journalism and social marginalization is a relatively understudied area in digital journalism studies. Our case study of Dalit Camera (DC), an online news archive and chronicle based in India, examines how historically disadvantaged Dalits, or “Untouchables,” are leveraging digital tools to narrate their oppressive past to the outside world parallel to the rise of political censorship in India. As part of its archiving pr…
A new public sphere? English-language stand-up comedy in India
The genre of English-language stand-up comedy is increasingly becoming popular in India’s metropolitan cities. This study uses the concept of the public sphere to examine YouTube videos of a prominent Indian live comedian, Daniel Fernandes. The analysis shows that Fernandes’ verbal humor is based on several performative techniques such as linguistic code-switching, calculative pauses, and juxtaposition of incongruous things. The study, furthermor…
Between Participation and Autonomy: Understanding Indian citizen journalists
With the increasing penetration of mobile phones and the internet in India, citizen journalism has experienced a steady growth in recent years. This paper adds to the growing scholarship on citizen journalism by exploring the motivations of Indian citizen journalists to produce online news content. Through a Web-based survey of citizen journalists (N = 134) contributing to the leading news portals in India, this study addresses the role of tradit…
A field theory approach to international journalism: The case of Indian journalists in the middle east
Interest in Bourdieu’s field theory has been steadily growing within the field of journalism studies. Today the application of this theory is not limited to the Global North; journalism studies scholars employ it—rather unreservedly—to study news practices even in the Global South. This leads to the fundamental question whether “Western” media theories have universal relevance. Contributing to this longstanding debate, this article demonstrates o…
Journalism, not ‘cheerleading: An ombudsman’s paradigm repair in the JNU sedition case in India
With increasing expectations to be accountable in the digital era, some newspapers have appointed ombudsmen. This study examines the process of ‘paradigm repair’ undertaken by the ombudsman of The Hindu, a leading English-language newspaper in India. The study qualitatively analyzes The Hindu’s coverage of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) sedition controversy case, its ombudsman’s editorials pertaining to the case, and the readers’ responses…
Cultures of Restraint and Towards an Appraisal of Non-Western News Values
Research on Western European and North American news media continues to dominate scholarship in the field of journalism studies. The remedies sought to rectify this imbalance notably include comparative studies across non-Western and Western countries using large-scale surveys or content analyses. At an epistemological level, such studies adopt—often inherently—an Enlightenment-inspired normative frame that makes the comparisons and transposition…
News as religion: Practices of mediation in a Catholic community in South India
This article examines the relationship between religion and news media through a case study of Deepika, a Malayalam-language daily published in the South Indian state of Kerala. We “thickly describe” the practices of mediation and meaning-making processes of this newspaper’s editors and readers, most of whom are “Syrian Catholics.” Our analysis shows that news functions as, or very similar to, religion for Deepika’s partakers. We thus argue that …
A new public sphere? English-language stand-up comedy in India
The genre of English-language stand-up comedy is increasingly becoming popular in India’s metropolitan cities. This study uses the concept of the public sphere to examine YouTube videos of a prominent Indian live comedian, Daniel Fernandes. The analysis shows that Fernandes’ verbal humor is based on several performative techniques such as linguistic code-switching, calculative pauses, and juxtaposition of incongruous things. The study, furthermor…
Between Participation and Autonomy: Understanding Indian citizen journalists
With the increasing penetration of mobile phones and the internet in India, citizen journalism has experienced a steady growth in recent years. This paper adds to the growing scholarship on citizen journalism by exploring the motivations of Indian citizen journalists to produce online news content. Through a Web-based survey of citizen journalists (N = 134) contributing to the leading news portals in India, this study addresses the role of tradit…
Journalism, not ‘cheerleading: An ombudsman’s paradigm repair in the JNU sedition case in India
With increasing expectations to be accountable in the digital era, some newspapers have appointed ombudsmen. This study examines the process of ‘paradigm repair’ undertaken by the ombudsman of The Hindu, a leading English-language newspaper in India. The study qualitatively analyzes The Hindu’s coverage of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) sedition controversy case, its ombudsman’s editorials pertaining to the case, and the readers’ responses…
Digital Archiving as Social Protest: Dalit Camera and the mobilization of India’s “Untouchables”
The relationship between journalism and social marginalization is a relatively understudied area in digital journalism studies. Our case study of Dalit Camera (DC), an online news archive and chronicle based in India, examines how historically disadvantaged Dalits, or “Untouchables,” are leveraging digital tools to narrate their oppressive past to the outside world parallel to the rise of political censorship in India. As part of its archiving pr…
Gandhi's Newspaperman: T. G. Narayanan and the quest for an independent India, 1938–46
The expansion of the colonial public sphere in India during the 1930s and 1940s saw the nation's English-language press increasingly serve as a key site in the struggle for freedom despite British censorship. This article examines the journalistic career of T. G. Narayanan, the first Indian war correspondent and investigative reporter, to understand the role of English-language newspapers in India's quest for independence. Narayanan reported on t…
Each fairy-tale, each myth: The collapse of vertical media into a welter of disequilibrating horizontal media
Preview this article: Each fairy-tale, each myth, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/asj.21008.pau-1.gif
The view from the hinterland: Caste, gender and press freedom in Hindi news reporting
The limits to press freedom in India are usually surveyed from the top-down, with a focus on government efforts to censor journalists, particularly English-language journalists. In this essay, we instead examine India's restrictive press culture by focusing on the sociological workings of Hindi language news production, studying ways in which everyday journalism practices intersect with freedom of expression. The paper first traces the history of…
Engaging with News: Print Media and Literacy Practices in Kerala, India
Malayalam-language newspapers published in the southern Indian state of Kerala are known for their contribution to the vernacular public sphere. However, while the popularity of commercial Malayalam-language newspapers has steadily increased over the past decades, “community-based” publications such as Deepika have experienced decline. Using the case of Deepika and drawing on the New Literacy Studies scholarship, we examine how print newspapers e…
News as religion: Practices of mediation in a Catholic community in South India
This article examines the relationship between religion and news media through a case study of Deepika, a Malayalam-language daily published in the South Indian state of Kerala. We “thickly describe” the practices of mediation and meaning-making processes of this newspaper’s editors and readers, most of whom are “Syrian Catholics.” Our analysis shows that news functions as, or very similar to, religion for Deepika’s partakers. We thus argue that …
A field theory approach to international journalism: The case of Indian journalists in the middle east
Interest in Bourdieu’s field theory has been steadily growing within the field of journalism studies. Today the application of this theory is not limited to the Global North; journalism studies scholars employ it—rather unreservedly—to study news practices even in the Global South. This leads to the fundamental question whether “Western” media theories have universal relevance. Contributing to this longstanding debate, this article demonstrates o…
Reckoning with subaltern science: The case of India’s T he W ire S cience
In light of the dominance of “Western” scientific discourse in English-language news media, the question arises regarding how and to what extent a prominent Global South-based science newsmagazine such as India’s The Wire Science positions itself with respect to indigenous cultural practices. Addressing this question, our essay critically examines The Wire Science ’s “The Science of the Seas” feature series as one form of “subaltern science” stem…
Is it Just Fluff? Topics, News Values, and Normative Democratic Implications of BBC’s The Happy Pod
A growing number of legacy news organizations are experimenting with ways to address the widespread perception that news is too negative. While many of these initiatives claim to apply traditional news values with a solutions-oriented twist, this study explores one that makes no such claims: the BBC’s The Happy Pod. Using a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of one year of Happy Pod episodes, we analyze the topics and news values the p…
Linguistic Capital and the Production of Vernacular Digital Journalism: The Case of Malayalam-Language News
The transition of vernacular language newspapers from print to digital formats has been largely overlooked in journalism studies. I suggest that studying this transition can help us better understand, from a production standpoint, the prevalence of both print and digital newspapers in the Global South. This article examines vernacular news production in the Global South by focusing on Malayala Manorama (MM), one of the most widely circulated Mala…
Cultures of Restraint and Towards an Appraisal of Non-Western News Values
Research on Western European and North American news media continues to dominate scholarship in the field of journalism studies. The remedies sought to rectify this imbalance notably include comparative studies across non-Western and Western countries using large-scale surveys or content analyses. At an epistemological level, such studies adopt—often inherently—an Enlightenment-inspired normative frame that makes the comparisons and transposition…
Smartphone-Based GenAI and the Ruralization of Indian-Language News
This paper investigates the impact of smartphone-based generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on the editing and increasing representation of rural news in Hindi-language speed news in India. As an innovation, speed news refers to the recitation of news summaries by presenters at an accelerated pace across mobile, television, and digital platforms such as YouTube. Drawing on the anthropological conception of “ruralization” and fieldwork in no…
Peace for Sale: An Analysis of Ikea's Efectos Colaterales Advertising Campaign in Spain
This study examines how an IKEA advertising campaign in Spain titled Efectos Colaterales (“Collateral Effects”) interacts with structural violence and socio-cultural peace in the country. For this investigation, we conduct a visual analysis on all four advertisements comprising Efectos Colaterales . While the campaign was found to effectively utilize humor and several other narrative techniques to portray a lifestyle adhering to the brand's ident…
Monsoon News: From Science to Storytelling
This essay is concerned with the study of journalistic vocabularies and tropes (or what is sometimes referred to as “vernaculars”) used in weather reporting, a domain that until recently was neglected in journalism studies. It interprets and thematizes the vernaculars employed in reporting on a dominant seasonal weather phenomenon in South Asia: the monsoon. As an atmospheric-aqueous phenomenon, the monsoon is central to the Indian subcontinent’s…
Science Journalism in Postcolonial India: Mapping the Political Economy of Ayurveda in Digital News
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