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Mediated Buzzwords Understanding Manufacture of News

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Mediated Buzzwords Understanding Manufacture of News
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<strong>CENTRE FOR MEDIA STUDIES SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES</strong> a talk by <strong>Arani Basu</strong> (Institute for Asian and African StudiesHumboldt University, Berlin) on <strong>Mediated Buzzwords Understanding Manufacture of News</strong> <strong>DATE: 11th February 2016</strong> <strong>Abstract:</strong> Mediated buzzwords are coined by media houses and disseminated through newspapers or news channels. Here the focus in particular is to explore how mediated buzzwords are manufactured by newspapers before an election and how these buzzwords condition the influence of news on the electorate. Within this context, the larger goal is to explore media-politics-society interrelationship in one of the biggest democracies in the world and one of the most significant South Asian countries i.e. India. This talk will explore media's influence on General Election 2014 in India with the help of mediated buzzwords identified through primary and secondary sources, analyze the relationship between buzzwords and newspapers (represented by the media houses) disseminating them and explore the impact and influence of these mediated buzzwords on the electorate cutting across different social locations