Spectacle of democracy: the quasi-executive functions of television news in India

IF 0.3 4区社会学 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI:10.1080/14649373.2023.2209438

A. Roy

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article calls for enhancing the horizon of Political Communication Studies, drawing attention to certain relation between the media, the state and the public in a globalised world. Focusing on private mainstream news television in post-liberalisation India, it tries to show how Media, in its singularised popular sense of sensationalising news, generating live-stream of public opinion, conducting parallel investigation of crimes, judging the sub judice and posing as sovereign by perennially endorsing the logic of self-regulation, tries to appropriate the functions, image and rhetoric of the state institutions (the executive, the judiciary and the legislature). The article primarily explores the quasi-executive functions to understand the role of a seemingly autonomous public in Indian democracy. The increasing tussle that we are witnessing between the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, the article argues, is to a large extent due to Media’s claim to represent the public more effectively than any state institution, pushing “pillars of democracy” to fight with each other for their share of credit in serving the public.

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民主奇观:印度电视新闻的准执行职能

本文呼吁提高政治传播学的视野，关注全球化世界中媒体、国家和公众之间的某种关系。它聚焦于自由化后印度的私人主流新闻电视，试图展示媒体如何以其耸人听闻的新闻、产生舆论直播、对犯罪进行平行调查、评判下级法院和通过长期支持自我监管的逻辑来冒充君主的独特流行感，国家机构（行政、司法和立法机构）的形象和言论。本文主要探讨了准行政职能，以理解看似自治的公众在印度民主中的作用。文章认为，我们所看到的行政、立法和司法之间日益激烈的斗争，在很大程度上是由于媒体声称比任何国家机构都更有效地代表公众，推动“民主支柱”在为公众服务的过程中相互斗争，争取他们的信用份额。

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Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Multiple-

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0.90

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： The cultural question is among the most important yet difficult subjects facing inter-Asia today. Throughout the 20th century, worldwide competition over capital, colonial history, and the Cold War has jeopardized interactions among cultures. Globalization of technology, regionalization of economy and the end of the Cold War have opened up a unique opportunity for cultural exchanges to take place. In response to global cultural changes, cultural studies has emerged internationally as an energetic field of scholarship. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies gives a long overdue voice, throughout the global intellectual community, to those concerned with inter-Asia processes.