Thomas Pe

Bharathiar University · Department of Communication & Media Studies

In this study, the authors investigate how the revocation of Article 370 is framed in the media and how the newspapers frame the types of conflicts by examining the coverage in three prominent newspapers: The Hindu, Dawn, and The New York Times. Employing a non-experimental ex-post facto research design, we utilize a qualitative content analysis to...

The development of rural India is associated with the information conveyed to the people who live in remote rural and tribal regions where they do not have access to current Media. Tribal villages encounter communication deprivation as they primarily indulge only in face-to-face communication and live in a bounded place with relatively strong kinsh...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are becoming significantly important in today’s society as they have the potential to assist disadvantaged groups in increasing their involvement in civic, social, political, and economic processes that are fundamental aspects of change. Women in the underdeveloped countries, especially the tribals,...

Despite living in a techno- crafted society, many communities are still marginalized. This paper intends to examine the socio-cultural development of the Paniya tribes, the major tribal community which is sidelined in the Nilgiris district. Being mostly landless workers, illiterates, leaderless, unorganized, they are considered the most deprived pe...

The story "behind the news‟ is a sociological perspective and tends to be a subjective evaluation in journalistic aspects. Segregating the news and presenting it to the audience is therefore a social construction where framing plays a key role. Framing of conflicts is successively done in the creation of news stories that appear in major news sourc...

The role of media in conflict situations is vital. When it comes to reporting a news story especially a conflict, it has been an issue of discussion as media have all the powers to decide how the story has to be framed in reality. The paper substantiates the occurrence of a pair of conflict frames that are often used by media while reporting a conf...

Understanding the role of media and its influence during conflicts as an agent of information have significant effects since conflicts can easily sell the news. A comparative analysis of one of the significant conflicts between India and Pakistan –‘Uri attack’— from two different media perspectives (Pakistan and India), gives a clear image that the...

The phrase "information society" is one so ubiquitous it has become passé, but its continued use, even in academic spheres, indicates a shared acknowledgement: that information, in its myriad mercurial forms, has become so integrated into every facet of modern life that it must be considered first and foremost when making any attempt to describe th...