Vinod Pavarala
Biographic Data
| ID | 732070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vinod Pavarala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vinod |
| FAMILY NAME | Pavarala |
| SIGNATURE | PAVARALA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hyderabad |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1712-2755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between media capture and journalistic autonomy: The lived experience of Indian journalists
This study examines how journalistic autonomy is experienced and negotiated within conditions of accelerating media capture in contemporary India. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with journalists across organizational tiers, linguistic regions, and media formats, the study analyses how political pressure, economic dependence, and organizational hierarchies coalesce into a structurally embedded regime of influence. Using Bourdieu’s field the…
Whose voices count? Participation, power, and communication in the Global South
This paper critically reviews participatory communication in the communication for social change (CFSC) tradition in the Global South, following its development from radical origins—grounded in Freirean pedagogy and grassroots action—to its co-optation within neoliberal development frameworks. Through a comparative analysis of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, the paper questions the enduring gap between rhetoric and practice while observing how p…
Challenging hegemony in the Global South: Radio Dhimsa’s cultural and knowledge interventions
Community media act as vital alternatives to hegemonic media practices and products, providing a much-needed space for marginalised voices in a homogenised and globalised media landscape. While there are strong and long-standing examples of Indigenous community media around the world, there remains a western-centric bias in community radio research, both geographically and epistemologically. This research seeks to address this gap by exploring co…
Mapping global perspectives on alternative and community media
In this issue of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media , authors reflect on the practices, challenges and possibilities of alternative and community media in contemporary communication landscapes. Positioned at the intersections of activism, civic participation and cultural expression, these media amplify marginalized voices and sustain democratic engagement, while grappling with structural constraints such as financial precarity, regula…
Media, justice and equality: Examining decolonial communicative experiences
Oppressed and marginalized Global South populations resist colonial powers’ regimes of representation in various ways. Since early colonial times, mainstream media have shaped narratives that strip colonized people of their humanity, justifying their oppression and multiple forms of violence against them. Nonetheless, Indigenous and rural peoples have confronted power imbalances from their ontologies, practices and languages. They use online and …
Introduction: Rethinking the horizons of alternative and community media
This issue of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media explores the expanding conceptual and geographic landscape of alternative and community media. While historically aligned with progressive movements, democratization and marginalized voices, recent scholarship expands this narrative by acknowledging the field’s growing ideological diversity. The six featured articles and one book review included in this issue expand diverse contexts – f…
Media and Citizenship in India: Heteronomy and Autonomy in the Indian Journalistic Field
Since 2014, India has experienced a shift towards a new phase of democracy, often described as an “ethnic democracy.” Political theorists argue that this phase promotes a Hindu conception of the nation, contrasting with the secularism embedded in the Indian Constitution, and is marked by attacks on ethnic and religious minorities, particularly Muslims. Some media scholars suggest that controlling mass media has been a crucial strategy in generati…
Papers from the 2023 IAMCR Conference in Lyon
Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions
Hegemonic Open Science, emergent from the circuits of knowledge production in the Global North and serving the economic interests of platform capitalism, systematically erase the voices of the subaltern margins from the Global South and the Southern margins inhabiting the North. Framed within an overarching emancipatory narrative of creating access for and empowering the margins through data exchanged on the global free market, hegemonic Open Sci…
Community radio for social change: Restoring decentralized democratic discursive spaces
This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the production values of a globalized marketplace and to an oligopolistic control of media by big multinational companies, resulting in a democracy defici…
Intangible Outcomes (of Communication for Social Change)
Religion and attitudes towards corruption in India: A Collective Action Problem
This paper argues that religion influences the ways that people think and speak about corruption, typically leading to condemnation. However, it is also argued that, in a systemically corrupt country, such condemnation is unlikely to influence actual corrupt behaviour. Based on fieldwork in India, the paper finds that existing anti-corruption policies based on a principal-agent understanding of corruption, even if they incorporate religious organ…
Interpreting Corruption: Elite Perspectives in India
Introduction The Politics of Definition Causal Dynamics Constructing Etiologies of Corruption Consequences of Corruption Contested Doctrines The Politics of Anti-Corruption Conclusion Corruption as a Contested/Negotiated Reality
Corruption as a site for contested meaning: Elite constructions in India
Media and Citizenship in India: Heteronomy and Autonomy in the Indian Journalistic Field
Since 2014, India has experienced a shift towards a new phase of democracy, often described as an “ethnic democracy.” Political theorists argue that this phase promotes a Hindu conception of the nation, contrasting with the secularism embedded in the Indian Constitution, and is marked by attacks on ethnic and religious minorities, particularly Muslims. Some media scholars suggest that controlling mass media has been a crucial strategy in generati…
Corruption as a site for contested meaning: Elite constructions in India
Corruption as a site for contested meaning: Elite constructions in India
Interpreting Corruption: Elite Perspectives in India
Introduction The Politics of Definition Causal Dynamics Constructing Etiologies of Corruption Consequences of Corruption Contested Doctrines The Politics of Anti-Corruption Conclusion Corruption as a Contested/Negotiated Reality
Religion and attitudes towards corruption in India: A Collective Action Problem
This paper argues that religion influences the ways that people think and speak about corruption, typically leading to condemnation. However, it is also argued that, in a systemically corrupt country, such condemnation is unlikely to influence actual corrupt behaviour. Based on fieldwork in India, the paper finds that existing anti-corruption policies based on a principal-agent understanding of corruption, even if they incorporate religious organ…
Intangible Outcomes (of Communication for Social Change)
Decolonizing Open Science: Southern Interventions
Hegemonic Open Science, emergent from the circuits of knowledge production in the Global North and serving the economic interests of platform capitalism, systematically erase the voices of the subaltern margins from the Global South and the Southern margins inhabiting the North. Framed within an overarching emancipatory narrative of creating access for and empowering the margins through data exchanged on the global free market, hegemonic Open Sci…
Community radio for social change: Restoring decentralized democratic discursive spaces
This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the production values of a globalized marketplace and to an oligopolistic control of media by big multinational companies, resulting in a democracy defici…
Papers from the 2023 IAMCR Conference in Lyon
Media, justice and equality: Examining decolonial communicative experiences
Oppressed and marginalized Global South populations resist colonial powers’ regimes of representation in various ways. Since early colonial times, mainstream media have shaped narratives that strip colonized people of their humanity, justifying their oppression and multiple forms of violence against them. Nonetheless, Indigenous and rural peoples have confronted power imbalances from their ontologies, practices and languages. They use online and …
Introduction: Rethinking the horizons of alternative and community media
This issue of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media explores the expanding conceptual and geographic landscape of alternative and community media. While historically aligned with progressive movements, democratization and marginalized voices, recent scholarship expands this narrative by acknowledging the field’s growing ideological diversity. The six featured articles and one book review included in this issue expand diverse contexts – f…
Media and Citizenship in India: Heteronomy and Autonomy in the Indian Journalistic Field
Since 2014, India has experienced a shift towards a new phase of democracy, often described as an “ethnic democracy.” Political theorists argue that this phase promotes a Hindu conception of the nation, contrasting with the secularism embedded in the Indian Constitution, and is marked by attacks on ethnic and religious minorities, particularly Muslims. Some media scholars suggest that controlling mass media has been a crucial strategy in generati…
Mapping global perspectives on alternative and community media
In this issue of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media , authors reflect on the practices, challenges and possibilities of alternative and community media in contemporary communication landscapes. Positioned at the intersections of activism, civic participation and cultural expression, these media amplify marginalized voices and sustain democratic engagement, while grappling with structural constraints such as financial precarity, regula…
Between media capture and journalistic autonomy: The lived experience of Indian journalists
This study examines how journalistic autonomy is experienced and negotiated within conditions of accelerating media capture in contemporary India. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with journalists across organizational tiers, linguistic regions, and media formats, the study analyses how political pressure, economic dependence, and organizational hierarchies coalesce into a structurally embedded regime of influence. Using Bourdieu’s field the…
Whose voices count? Participation, power, and communication in the Global South
This paper critically reviews participatory communication in the communication for social change (CFSC) tradition in the Global South, following its development from radical origins—grounded in Freirean pedagogy and grassroots action—to its co-optation within neoliberal development frameworks. Through a comparative analysis of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, the paper questions the enduring gap between rhetoric and practice while observing how p…
Challenging hegemony in the Global South: Radio Dhimsa’s cultural and knowledge interventions
Community media act as vital alternatives to hegemonic media practices and products, providing a much-needed space for marginalised voices in a homogenised and globalised media landscape. While there are strong and long-standing examples of Indigenous community media around the world, there remains a western-centric bias in community radio research, both geographically and epistemologically. This research seeks to address this gap by exploring co…
Politics (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Negotiation (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Alternative media (3 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works) · Democracy (3 works)