Framing Disability in the Indian News Media: A Political Economy Analysis of Representation

dc.contributor.author Bendukurthi, Nookaraju
dc.contributor.author Raman, Usha
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-27T01:47:15Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-27T01:47:15Z
dc.date.issued 2016-07-01
dc.description.abstract This article argues that the amount and nature of disability representation in English and Telugu news media directly and indirectly serves neo-liberal objectives. Disability construction in the Indian print news media may be construed as a product of the political economy of representation. News articles present disabled people as having ‘use value’ in society, ready to be offered for ‘exchange value’ in the market. These insights are derived from a close reading of news articles using framing analysis, which allowed us to explore the underlying political economy of disability coverage in mainstream news. This article situates the symbiotic economic relations established through the media’s consciously placed disability representation within the existing discourses related to disability. It also attempts to reevaluate the available themes on disability and media representation with a view to uncovering the implied meanings of political economy recurrent in print news in India.
dc.identifier.citation Journal of Creative Communications. v.11(2)
dc.identifier.issn 09732586
dc.identifier.uri 10.1177/0973258616644811
dc.identifier.uri http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0973258616644811
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/handle/1/4143
dc.subject capitalism
dc.subject disability
dc.subject framing
dc.subject Indian print media
dc.subject Political economy
dc.subject representation
dc.title Framing Disability in the Indian News Media: A Political Economy Analysis of Representation
dc.type Journal. Article
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