IN Media Watch Briefs | 2018-04-03
Deccan Chronicle reported on April 3 that the admin of a Facebook page ‘Spirit of Telangana’ was picked up by Hyderabad police in mufti on Monday for allegedly posting derogatory comments against the government. He was told the complaints were from the CM's office. He challenged them to prove that the posts were..
BY RAJEESH KUMAR| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |28/05/2018
Social media in Kerala has been spreading falsehoods and panic over the Nipah virus..
Algorithms and human journalists need to work together
BY ANDREAS GRAEFE| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |04/09/2017
As a researcher and creator of automated journalism, I’ve found that computerized news reporting can offer key strengths. I’ve also identified important weaknesses..
BY SHUMA RAHA| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |17/08/2016
A new Canadian style guide offers help on navigating the shoals of ethnically and racially diverse societies.
Requiem for a demonised university
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |06/02/2016
The coverage of such crises have always thrown up the responsibility aspect of our media. In its quest for prime time justice it seems oblivious to the damage it does..
IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/02/2015
Why do we continue using hoary words that either date back to the Raj or are out of tune with the character of our modern Republic?
BY ANAND VARDHAN| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |24/09/2014
Secular liberals in the media don't realise that what seems "communal" to them - imagery, vocabulary, symbols - are merely the everyday idiolect of millions of Indians.
Tackling private censorship in media
BY sevanti ninan| IN CENSORSHIP |24/07/2014
But is editorial discretion passing into the hands of the proprietor? Corporate owner or family owner, censorship is increasingly becoming the owner's prerogative,
Is "Right-wing Hindu-nationalist" balanced and fair reporting?
BY Sankrant Sanu| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |26/05/2014
When we allow this flavour of reporting to go unchallenged we unwittingly weaken India's ability to negotiate with the world on our own terms.
BY ARUNODAY MAJUMDER| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |27/03/2014
It may be argued that the erotic and the pornographic are two separate identities and that the inclusion of Sunny Leone on newsprint is an allusion to the former and not to the latter.
The challenge of evolving vernacular lexicons
BY JENCY SAMUEL| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |26/02/2014
What is the equivalent of fly ash in Tamil? Or carbon sinks, or sustainable development? Whether reporting climate change or malnutrition a vocabulary is needed,
BY KALPANA SHARMA| IN OPINION |08/07/2010
The language used to describe those who protest in Kashmir is not just a matter of semantics. It is important because it places what is happening within a context..
BY Shefalee Vasudev| IN OPINION |05/06/2010
While one journalist uses fashion vocabulary to locate a cultural type, the other finds a moralistic high ground to defend her. Both appear to believe that to be meaningful, a woman must be in self-denial.
Conflict and reconciliation in Naga newspapers
BY Subarno Chattarji| IN REGIONAL MEDIA |15/03/2010
Media in Nagaland - Part I. The making and the un-making of the Naga Nation�: narrating conflict in the Naga English media.
BY jyothi kiran| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |31/12/2005
2005 saw a change in the very semantics of the web and boisterous Web activity owing to new technologies related to Web 2.0.
Why is a pogrom called a riot?
BY Manjula Lal| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |23/04/2002
