Papers by Paula Chakravartty
Globalisation and Critical Media Studies
Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, 2002
From Indenture to “Good Governance”: <scp>eMigrate</scp> and the Politics of Reforming Global Labour Supply Chains
Antipode, Sep 15, 2022
Global Financial Crisis Introduction| Media, Technology and the Global Financial Crisis
International Journal of Communication, Feb 16, 2011
On Just Getting By: Contingent Work in Southern California’s New Economy
Business History Review, 2001
From Indenture to “Good Governance”: eMigrate and the Politics of Reforming Global Labour Supply Chains
Antipode
Gulf Dreams for Justice
The Gulf
#CommunicationSoWhite in the Age of Ultra-Nationalisms
Communication, Culture and Critique, 2020
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2018
Our collection of essays appears as we approach the two-year mark of an election that delivered a... more Our collection of essays appears as we approach the two-year mark of an election that delivered a white supremacist populist as president and unsettled the United States of America's self-conception as the planetary role model of liberal democracy. As political theorist Mahmoud Mamdani reminds us, "America is not just the first new nation; it is also the first modern settler state. What is exceptional about America, the USA, is that
This brief essay reflects on the legacy of the work of Edward S. Herman in shaping critical theor... more This brief essay reflects on the legacy of the work of Edward S. Herman in shaping critical theories of US media and empire through the long 20th century and into the current era of the forever War. I argue that the work of Herman (and Chomsky) poses a lasting challenge to celebratory liberal theories of media freedom, and instead documents the constitutive role of the commercial US media institutions and technologies in fortifying illiberal forces with implications both “at home†and abroad. In closing, I briefly consider the decolonial significance of Edward Herman’s persistent critique of US media power.
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2020
Here, we consider how graduate education in communication fares when it comes to engaging concept... more Here, we consider how graduate education in communication fares when it comes to engaging conceptual and theoretical legacies of racial apartheid and modern European and American imperialism. Treating syllabi as a discourse which powerfully represents the field to future scholars, and graduate classrooms as sites of power, we assess foundational theoretical pedagogy through an examination of syllabi from required doctoral seminars across sixteen highly ranked communication, media studies, and mass communication programs in the US. Finding an ongoing disavowal of critical theories of race and imperialism, but hopeful exceptions, we offer recommendations as part of ongoing projects to decolonize university curriculum.
Media and Society, 2019
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is as a highly aggressive and heterogeneous hematological malignancy... more Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is as a highly aggressive and heterogeneous hematological malignancy. MiR-20a-5p has been reported to function as an oncogene or tumor suppressor in several tumors, but the clinical significance and regulatory mechanisms of miR-20a-5p in AML cells have not been fully understood. In this study, we found miR-20a-5p was significantly decreased in bone marrow from AML patients, compared with that in healthy controls. Moreover, decreased miR-20a-5p expression was correlated with risk status and poor survival prognosis in AML patients. Overexpression of miR-20a-5p suppressed cell proliferation, induced cell cycle G0/G1 phase arrest and apoptosis in two AML cell lines (THP-1 and U937) using CCK-8 assay and flow cytometry analysis. Moreover, miR-20a-5p overexpression attenuated tumor growth in vivo by performing tumor xenograft experiments. Luciferase reporter assay and western blot demonstrated that protein phosphatase 6 catalytic subunit (PPP6C) as a target gene of miR-20a-5p was negatively regulated by miR-20a-5p in AML cells. Furthermore, PPP6C knockdown imitated, while overexpression reversed the effects of miR-20a-5p overexpression on AML cell proliferation, cell cycle G1/S transition and apoptosis. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that miR-20a-5p/PPP6C represent a new therapeutic target for AML and a potential diagnostic marker for AML therapy.
Changing withThe Times of India(Bangalore): remaking a post-political media field
South Asian History and Culture, 2012
ABSTRACT This article examines the changing relationship between the elite English-language press... more ABSTRACT This article examines the changing relationship between the elite English-language press and its interface with urban politics in India&#39;s best known high-tech centre, Bangalore. Print journalism remains a core feature of India&#39;s growing multi-media news field, and this article critically analyses the profound changes in the political role of news in the last two decades. The changing relationship between the dominant news media and the state in the context of the rapid expansion of private news channels reveals the ascendance of what we elaborate in this article as neoliberal newspeak, following transnational trends. We conclude by considering the ways in which contestations over the growing and visible inequalities of a city like Bangalore in the last decade – including the fissures inside the dominant English news media – signal the potential to disrupt the coherence of the definitional power of neoliberal newspeak.
Globalization and Media Policy
Premised on the fact that there are different globalizations going on today, this comprehensive s... more Premised on the fact that there are different globalizations going on today, this comprehensive study successfully integrates structural and symbolic analyses of communications and media policy in the conflicted spaces of the nation-state, trans-nation, and sub-nation. Chakravartty &amp; Sarikakis’s remarkably systematic approach to media policy, technology, content, and civil society formation, fills in crucial details left behind by grand theory, including progressive postcolonial theory of global communication. In doing so, the book re-energizes the hackneyed field of international media studies and transforms it. John Nguyet Erni, City University of Hong Kong Media Policy and Globalization combines careful scholarship with a clear, accessible style that creatively integrates some of the best elements of critical theory. The book marks an important step in the development of media policy scholarship because it skilfully integrates political economic and cultural studies perspectives. It does an especially good job of placing research on state and gender theory into the centre of policy analysis. Vincent Mosco, Queen’s University, author of The Digital Sublime Media Policy and Globalization serves up an ambitious, readable, and concise synthesis of how the messy world-system of communication policy is described and pondered in the communications and media studies discipline. Global Media and Communication In addition to its well-structured analyses, the book is written in an easy, accessible manner and offers rich empirical material and useful case studies for teaching purposes. Cees J. Hamelink, Amsterdam/Brisbane, Publizistik This book presents many rich clues for us to look further at on-going policy debates. Those clues point us toward inclusion of a variety of national, non-national, international, regional, and civil players as well as their organic connections. For any researcher, graduate student, or upper-division undergraduate student interested in global media debate today, this book provides not only the most up-to-date references, but also a fresh way to look at multiple-level analytical levels of analysis. Atsushi Tajima, SUNY , Global Media Journal The ideas and explanation in this book are a very welcome antidote to the dominant discourse of the virtues of the market, new technologies and competition. The proponents of technological determinism have for the past 10 years asserted that greater audiovisual delivery capacity will automatically deliver diversity and pluralism and have sought to roll back virtually all audiovisual regulation. The authors describe well the valid political, social, economic and particularly cultural questions which demand an answer if the public interest is to be served in communications policy and the regulation which should flow from it. The authors rightly underline that the screen, large or small, is central to our democratic, creative, cultural and social life and that policy makers should give greater space to the views of civil society and parliamentarians interested in advancing the public interest. Rare is the attention paid to the realities of the digital divide as played out across the globe which provides important information for campaigners for greater technological redistribution and cultural diversity worldwide. Carole Tongue, Visiting Professor, University of the Arts, London, Former MEP spokesperson on public service broadcasting
Flexible Citizens and the Internet: The Global Politics of Local High-Tech Development in India
Emergences, 2001
... For example, when Mumbai-based Rajesh Jain sold indiaworld.com to Satyam Infoway for $116m in... more ... For example, when Mumbai-based Rajesh Jain sold indiaworld.com to Satyam Infoway for $116m in 1999, `the business press on both sides&#x27; apparently claimed that the Indian cyber-capitalist hero had `wiped out the difference between Santa Cruz, Mumbai and San Jose ...
Journal of Communications, 2007
In the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the G8 Sum... more In the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the G8 Summits and the World Bank, civil society organizations are often held up as the only legitimate institutional actors capable of representing and managing distributional inequities of a highly fractured information society. This paper locates the current role of civil society organizations in a longer history within the academic and policy fields of ‘development’ communications. While issues of access are clearly more central for Third World nations, this paper examines the social terrain behind the institutions of policy-making in the postcolonial contexts, specifically addressing debates between Southern and Northern perspectives in debates over the WSIS and the larger parameters of the Information Society. I argue that the dominant discourse on the digital divide—that between the North and South most generically—is rooted in assumptions about the neutrality of the category of civil socie...
This essay introduces the theme of the special issue. While elections across the globe today are ... more This essay introduces the theme of the special issue. While elections across the globe today are mediated in the sense of being pervaded by the ambient presence and explicit deployments of varied media, the Indian national elections of 2014 showcase a specific logic of mediated populism that has become globally influential of late. To understand this logic, we examine the contexts and lineages of the present moment of mediated populism, i.e. the wider political-economic dynamics and contexts that shape and embed the Modi phenomenon. We focus on the changing relationship between privatized media across platforms, political elites and conceptions/ productions of “the people” that these particular political historical dynamics have effected and enabled.
Changes in the practice of business journalism are a key element in the current financial crisis.... more Changes in the practice of business journalism are a key element in the current financial crisis. The increasing emphasis on features and infotainment at the expense of hard news has distracted public attention from the reality of global economies. In this article, we provide an overview of the dominant business and financial news media, primarily in the United States, but also in the urbanizing nations of China and India. We believe that it is too early to know what, if anything, has changed in terms of the dominance of neoliberal newspeak and we contend that rigorous scrutiny of business media is vital to global economic health.
Labouring to Be a Citizen: Trade Unions, Public Interest and Cyber-Populism in India
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