Remapping the Indian Mediascape: News and Globalization in New Delhi

俄亥俄州迈阿密大学的马克·艾伦·彼得森博士将研究全球化如何影响当地文化和社会的一个具体实例。他将利用1992-93年印度新闻界研究的数据作为基线，对新德里的新闻媒体进行纵向研究。早期的数据揭示了一种“责任逻辑”，即要求记者只提供编辑和政府认为最能滋养一个不断发展的国家的新闻。“责任逻辑”既得以维持，也被特定的经济、法律和政治框架所维持。然而，在过去的15年里，这些结构发生了巨大的变化，部分原因是印度经济的开放和外国直接投资的扩大，以及对作为一个国家意味着什么的新理解。此外，报纸还面临着来自电子新闻媒体和新信息技术日益激烈的竞争。研究人员将对这些变化对新闻媒体角色的影响进行系统的调查。通过调查、访谈和参与观察，他将追踪媒体技术的转变、电子媒体的私有化、外国直接投资的变化以及全球化导致的其他变革，这些变化影响了人们生产和消费新闻的文化习俗，最终，他们如何利用新闻来构建自己作为国家和更广阔世界的一部分的身份。该项目将有助于全球化的社会科学理论。它将提高对新闻媒体在塑造全球-地方关系观念方面的互动作用的理解，即使新闻制作机构正在受到这些动态的影响。这项研究很重要，因为尽管媒体在当地和国际关系中发挥着关键作用，但对发展中国家新闻媒体的社会科学调查很少。该项目还将通过雇用印度研究生参与研究，为当地能力建设做出贡献。

Dr. Mark Allen Peterson, of Miami University in Ohio, will study a particular instance of how globalization affects local culture and society. He will undertake a longitudinal study of news media in New Delhi using data from a 1992-93 study of the Indian press as a baseline. The earlier data revealed a "logic of responsibility," which required that reporters only provide the news that the editors and government thought would best nourish a growing nation. The "logic of responsibility" both sustained, and was sustained by, a particular economic, legal and political framework. Over the past fifteen years, however, these structures have changed dramatically, in part because of the opening up of the Indian economy and expanded foreign direct investment, as well as new understandings of what it means to be a nation. In addition, newspapers have faced rising competition from electronic news media and the availability of new information technologies. The researcher will undertake a systematic investigation of the consequences of these changes for the role of news media. Using surveys, interviews, and participant observation, he will track the ways that shifts in media technology, privatization of electronic media, changes in foreign direct investment and other transformations resulting from globalization have affected the cultural practices through which people produce and consume news, and, ultimately, how they use news to construct identities for themselves as part of the nation and the wider world. This project will contribute to social science theory of globalization. It will improve understanding of the interactive roles of news media in shaping perceptions of global-local relations, even as newsmaking institutions are being shaped by these dynamics. The research is important because there are few social science investigations of news media in developing nations, despite the critical role media play in local and international relations. The project also will contribute to local capacity building by employing Indian graduate students in the research.