Delving deeper into OpIndia.com’s representation of Hindus and Muslims
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6421726 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaisal E K (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, corresponding author), E K Jaisal (0000-0003-3535-0273, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Shinjinee Majumder (Alt News, India) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 513-533 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-9265 • E-ISSN: 1460-3624 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09579265241287560 |
| OpenAlex | W4403361857 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
The paper examines 54,580 articles published from 12 December 2014 to 15 May 2023 on the right-wing news and current affairs website www.opindia.com through a corpus-assisted discourse-historical approach in three stages. First, it looks at the entire dataset using corpus-based keyword analysis to gauge the relative prominence of four node words Hindu(s) and Muslim(s) in OpIndia’s content. Second, it analyses a down-sampled set of 696 articles and identifies 42 prominent themes shaping the discourse surrounding the nodes. Finally, examining a set of 36 articles further down-sampled and analysing the discursive strategies through the discourse-historical approach demonstrates that OpIndia perpetuates a perniciously polarising discourse demonising Muslims. Also, it reaffirms that the formative rift on which the discourse thrives is – the Hindu nationalist versus secular imaginations of the nation
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