“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…
समाज का संगीत: समाजशास्त्र – सुरभि दयाल
जब भी कोई मुझसे पूछता है मैं क्या पढ़ाती हूँ या मैंने किस विषय में पढाई की है और मैं…
Higher Studies in the New Normal: Some Reflections – Dalia Chakrabarti
Introduction The UN Policy Brief – Education during COVID-19 and Beyond, August 2020 states: The COVID-19 pandemic has created the…