The InterAsia Program’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute (TVRI) members Paula Chakravartty and Srirupa Roy coedited and wrote the introduction for “Modi and the Media: Indian Politics and Electoral Aftermath,” a special issue of Television & New Media that also includes articles by TVRI members Somnath Batabyal and Aswin Punathambekar.

Articles in this special issue examine the contexts and
lineages of the present moment of mediated populism, that is, the wider political economic
dynamics and contexts that shape and embed the Modi phenomenon. The
ambivalent, productive, and repressive instrumentalities and effects of digital media,
the media terrain and technology most identified with the 2014 elections, are another
common focus.

Publication Details

Title
Modi and the Media: Indian Politics and Electoral Aftermath
Authors
Roy, Srirupa, Chakravartty, Paula, Punathambekar, Aswin, Batabyal, Somnath
Publisher
SAGE Publishing
Publish Date
May 2015
On the Web
http://tvn.sagepub.com/content/16/4.toc
Citation
Roy, Srirupa, Chakravartty, Paula, Punathambekar, Aswin, Batabyal, Somnath, Modi and the Media: Indian Politics and Electoral Aftermath (SAGE Publishing, May 2015).

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Transregional Virtual Research Institute

In 2012, in close collaboration with colleagues at Göttingen University, the Council launched the Transregional Virtual Research Institute (TVRI), a collaborative enterprise that brings together faculty from different disciplines, different international campuses, and at different stages in their careers to further research and training on particular themes.

InterAsia Program

The SSRC’s InterAsia Program, launched in 2008, challenges the implications and limitations of the Asia construct by promoting frameworks and concepts for a new generation of scholarship that reconceptualizes Asia as a dynamic and interconnected formation spanning Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East (including Turkey), and Russia.
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