The Indian Media Today

17 juin 2024

9 :30

Introduction by Julia Cagé (Economy department of SciencesPo) and Christophe

Jaffrelot (CERI-SciencesPo/CNRS)

9:45 – 11:15 : An era of desinformation

Seema Chisthi (The Wire) and Sushant Singh (Yale University)

How Indian Journalism's Old Order Shifted to Accommodate 2014

Hartosh Bal Singh (The Caravan)

How India's leading news agency fabricates a new reality

11:15 – 11:30: Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00: Forms of repression and control

Apar Gupta (The Internet Freedom Foundation)

Connectivity without liberty: Digital media regulation and censorship under the Modi

Government

Aakar Patel (Amnesty International)

The economic compulsions driving media behaviour

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 16:00: The making of independent media

Siddharth Vadarajan (The Wire)

How India's Independent Media Has Met the Modi Challenge

Vijayta Lalwani (King’s College)

A study of India’s growing army of independent journalists

Aasim Khan (IIT – CSH)

Institutions after Liberalism: Trends in political economy of digital influence across northern and southern India

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00 Three regional case studies: Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu

Meghana Choukkar (King’s College London), Vignesh Karthik Rajahmani (Leiden University) and Kalrav Joshi

18 June 2024

10:00 – 12:30 Who owns the Indian media? A quantitative approach

Julia Cagé (Economy department of Sciences Po)

Political Determinants of the News Market: Novel Data and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from India

Guilhem Cassan and François Woitrin (UNamur) 

A database on newspapers in India

Felipe Lauritzen (Economy department of Sciences Po)

TV ownership patterns in Contemporary India

12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch break

1:30 – 15:00: Indian TV media

Vihang Jumle (Bern University) and Jean-Thomas Martelli (CERI-Sciences Po)

A New Dataset on Indian TV Media: A Preliminary Analysis of the 2024 Indian

General Election

Vihang Jumle (Bern University) and Jean-Thomas Martelli (CERI-Sciences Po)

Activating Ethno-Nationalism Through Anti-elitism: Evidence From the Indian TV

Show the Debate

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00 Round table discussion