Ornaments and Distinctions: The Case of Digitally Circulated Identity Aspirations – Athira. B.K.
Link to video trailer can be found here. Introduction The significance of a message could be symbolic or economic. Still,…
Gendered Violence, Party Politics, And Colonial Histories: A Conversation with Manali Desai
Manali Desai is a Reader, and a Fellow of Newnham College in the University of Cambridge. In 2020, she assumed…
“It’s the Real Thing”: Advertising Coca-Cola – Sharayu Shejale
Link to part one can be found here. The Coca-Cola company has and continues to be a significant fixture in…
Advertisements in a Globalising and Consumption Driven World – Sharayu Shejale
Advertisements are an interesting entity. They produce and reproduce culture in a very ‘bite-sized’ format and play an important role…
Mahtab’s Prajatantra and His Public Sphere – Tanaya Mohanty
By the early 20th century, several Odia dailies had successfully made their presence felt in Odisha. The Odia print media…
Print Media and the Making of an Odia Identity – Tanaya Mohanty
Media is a massive industry today. Our understanding of everyday life is heavily drawn from it. We live in a…
Media and Health – Suman Mishra
Media are powerful institutions that shape our beliefs about health and diseases. Media (e.g. films, television, books, magazines, newspapers, music,…
Understanding Disability: Experiences of the Social and the Personal: An Interview with Shubhangi Vaidya
The Doing Sociology team interviewed Dr. Shubhangi Vaidya. She is with the School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies at IGNOU.…
Scholarly Approaches to News Media – Parnika Praleya
Link to the video trailer can be found here. What role does news media play in society? This has been…
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott (2019): A Review by Arushi Sahay
Sarah Knott’s book, Mother: An Unconventional History, is an autobiographical, semi-academic account of the history of mothering in North America…