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From Nehru to Modi: Understanding the History of Indian Television Through A Post Development Lens (2023)
Journal Article
Batabyal, S. (2023). From Nehru to Modi: Understanding the History of Indian Television Through A Post Development Lens. Indian Journal of Mass Communication and Journalism, 2(3), 8-16. https://doi.org/10.54105/ijmcj.C1031.032323

Abstract: Digital India, the government’s flagship programme, at first glance is a radical departure from the past and a welcome step forward to digitise the country’s faltering infrastructure. However, as this chapter argues, seen through a post-dev... Read More about From Nehru to Modi: Understanding the History of Indian Television Through A Post Development Lens.

An anthropologist amongst big data: Making Sense with Prof Andrea Cornwall and Somnath Batabyal (2022)
Digital Artefact
Batabyal, S. (2022). An anthropologist amongst big data: Making Sense with Prof Andrea Cornwall and Somnath Batabyal. [BuzzSprout]

The world wide web is the largest repository of human footprint; the amount of data that is generated each second was unimaginable even a couple of decades ago. But data by itself is meaningless unless analysed and, very importantly, contextualised.... Read More about An anthropologist amongst big data: Making Sense with Prof Andrea Cornwall and Somnath Batabyal.

Lucky (2022)
Journal Article
Batabyal, S. (2022). Lucky. Gitanjali & beyond, 6, 160-183

Illusions of Empowerment: Television News and Assamese Identity (2015)
Journal Article
Batabyal, S. (2015). Illusions of Empowerment: Television News and Assamese Identity. Television and New Media, 16(4), 361-369. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476415573955

This article examines the phenomenon of political talk shows during elections in geographically and politically marginal areas. Using the 2014 elections in India as a case study and focusing on Assam, the article examines how a television economy tha... Read More about Illusions of Empowerment: Television News and Assamese Identity.

Environment, Politics and Activism: The Role of Media (2014)
Book
Batabyal, S. (Ed.). (2014). Environment, Politics and Activism: The Role of Media. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315661902

This book examines the role of the media in environmental politics and activism in the 21st century. It highlights how politics is mediated in myriad ways through newspapers and news channels, through mobile telephony and through social networking si... Read More about Environment, Politics and Activism: The Role of Media.

New Politics, Old Paradigms: Urban Environmentalism and the Reshaping of New Delhi (2014)
Book Chapter
Batabyal, S. (2014). New Politics, Old Paradigms: Urban Environmentalism and the Reshaping of New Delhi. In B. Schuler (Ed.), Environment and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia (185-209). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004273221_009

Taking two media-led environmental campaigns in India’s capital, New Delhi, as case studies, this paper argues that Climate Change discourse has followed the patterns of development politics. While globalisation and economic shifts have altered the N... Read More about New Politics, Old Paradigms: Urban Environmentalism and the Reshaping of New Delhi.

Making News In India: Star News and Star Ananda (2012)
Book
Batabyal, S. (2012). Making News In India: Star News and Star Ananda. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315816135

Post-liberalisation India has witnessed a dramatic growth of the television industry as well as on-screen images of the glitz and glamour of a vibrant, ‘shining’ India. Through a detailed ethnographic study of Star News and Star Ananda involving inte... Read More about Making News In India: Star News and Star Ananda.

The Price You Pay (2012)
Book
Batabyal, S. (2012). The Price You Pay. Harper Collins

Editorial, Where are Thou? (2011)
Book Chapter
Batabyal, S. (2011). Editorial, Where are Thou?. In S. Batabyal, A. Chowdhry, M. Gaur, & M. Pohjonen (Eds.), Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change. Routledge

Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change (2011)
Book
Batabyal, S., Chowdhry, A., Gaur, M., & Pohjonen, M. (Eds.). (2011). Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203085226

India has been the focus of international attention in the past few years. Rhetoric concerning its rapid economic growth and the burgeoning middle classes suggests that something new and significant is taking place. Something has changed, we are told... Read More about Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change.

Constructing an audience: news television practices in India (2010)
Journal Article
Batabyal, S. (2010). Constructing an audience: news television practices in India. Contemporary South Asia, 18(4), 387-399. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2010.526199

This paper is an ethnographic exploration of two television news channels in India, Star News in Hindi and Star Ananda in Bengali, part of Rupert Murdoch's burgeoning media empire in the country. It seeks to answer a couple of basic questions: in the... Read More about Constructing an audience: news television practices in India.

News production practices in Indian television: An ethnography of Star News and Star Ananda. (2009)
Thesis
Batabyal, S. News production practices in Indian television: An ethnography of Star News and Star Ananda. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is the result of ethnographic research carried out in television newsrooms in two Indian cities; Kolkata (previously Calcutta) and Mumbai (previously Bombay). The research was situated in Star Ananda in Kolkata and in Star News in the cit... Read More about News production practices in Indian television: An ethnography of Star News and Star Ananda..