No More English Medium-Hindi Medium: Getting Hindi and English Journalism on the Same Page
English-language media in India retains and exercises an outsized power that not only carries forward a colonial legacy, but also contributes to a balkanized media sphere. This manifesto argues for and imagines a way out of the entrenched language divides within Indian media, calling for at the ver...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Simon Dawes, Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Media Theory |
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| Online Access: | https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/935 |
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| Summary: | English-language media in India retains and exercises an outsized power that not only carries forward a colonial legacy, but also contributes to a balkanized media sphere. This manifesto argues for and imagines a way out of the entrenched language divides within Indian media, calling for at the very least a merger of English and Hindi language news media online. I argue that establishing parity between languages within newsrooms and on news websites will open a third space that unburdens English of some of its immense privilege in the production and distribution of news. Language is how we traverse the world, and multilingual news could speak to and for a wider group of Indians, transcending some boundaries and creating more common ground.
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| ISSN: | 2557-826X |