1st Edition

Disrupting Mainstream Journalism in India The Rise of Alternative Journalisms Online

By Kalyani Chadha Copyright 2024
132 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

132 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

132 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Disrupting Mainstream Journalism in India offers a comprehensive and empirically-grounded analysis of the production of digital journalism by marginalized groups within Indian society. Drawing on in-depth interviews with practitioners as well as samples of news content, the author critically examines the way in which varied forms of digital alternative journalism provide socially,... Read more

List of Figures

 

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1.  Introduction

 

Chapter 2.  Digital Dalit News Outlets: Facilitating Counterpublic Formation?

 

Chapter 3.  Reclaiming Voice? Muslim Produced Online News

 

Chapter 4.   Online Citizen Journalism: Re-Imagining Journalism and Facilitating

                     Participation in Rural India

 

Chapter 5.  Khabar Lahariya: Women-Produced Digital Journalism in Rural India

 

Concluding Note

 

Index

Biography

Kalyani Chadha is an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Her research focuses on the media and journalism landscape in India, with a recent emphasis on the rise of various forms of digital journalism, both right wing and outlets aimed at marginalized groups. Her work has appeared in numerous prestigious journals, including Digital Journalism and Journalism Studies as well as several edited collections.  She recently co-edited a collection titled Newswork and Precarity published by Routledge. She serves on the editorial boards of Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Mass Communication and Society.