Somnath Batabyal
Biographic Data
| ID | 6566690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Somnath Batabyal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Somnath |
| FAMILY NAME | Batabyal |
| SIGNATURE | BATABYAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Heidelberg, Cluster of Excellence, Asia Europe, Karl Jaspers Centre |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Illusions of Empowerment
This article examines the phenomenon of political talk shows during elections in geographically and politically marginal areas. Using the 2014 elections in India as a case study and focusing on Assam, the article examines how a television economy that includes poorly trained and ill-paid journalists, unscrupulous owners, and the stigma of paid news have used the format of “live television” as means of “representing” rural audiences. The “spectacl…
The story of Nandigram
This paper is an ethnographic exploration of two television news channels, Star News in Hindi and Star Ananda in Bengali, part of Rupert Murdoch's burgeoning media empire in India. It seeks to explore two basic questions: in the world of private television news, who are the producers and who is their audience. Through these questions, it tries to understand the fundamentals of the news business; the intricate links that exist between ratings, aud…
Constructing an audience
This paper is an ethnographic exploration of two television news channels in India, Star News in Hindi and Star Ananda in Bengali, part of Rupert Murdoch's burgeoning media empire in the country. It seeks to answer a couple of basic questions: in the world of private television news, who are the news producers and who is their audience? Through these questions, the paper tries to understand some of the fundamentals of news business; the intricate…
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Constructing an audience
This paper is an ethnographic exploration of two television news channels in India, Star News in Hindi and Star Ananda in Bengali, part of Rupert Murdoch's burgeoning media empire in the country. It seeks to answer a couple of basic questions: in the world of private television news, who are the news producers and who is their audience? Through these questions, the paper tries to understand some of the fundamentals of news business; the intricate…
The story of Nandigram
This paper is an ethnographic exploration of two television news channels, Star News in Hindi and Star Ananda in Bengali, part of Rupert Murdoch's burgeoning media empire in India. It seeks to explore two basic questions: in the world of private television news, who are the producers and who is their audience. Through these questions, it tries to understand the fundamentals of the news business; the intricate links that exist between ratings, aud…
Illusions of Empowerment
This article examines the phenomenon of political talk shows during elections in geographically and politically marginal areas. Using the 2014 elections in India as a case study and focusing on Assam, the article examines how a television economy that includes poorly trained and ill-paid journalists, unscrupulous owners, and the stigma of paid news have used the format of “live television” as means of “representing” rural audiences. The “spectacl…
Advertising (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Bengali (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · Hindi (2 works)