The Bully in the Pulpit: Autocracy, Digital Social Media, and Right-wing Populist Technoculture

Govil, Nitin; Baishya, Anirban K.

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“…In terms of religious identity, two sub‐themes emerged prominently; they were religious politics and mediatization of religion. For the first subtheme, the scholars discussed how right‐wing politics of South Asia used digital social media platforms to engage net‐savvy nonexperts, and propagated nationalist, religious (more specifically Hindu) and ideological discourses to create a populist techno ‐ culture in the cyberspace (Govil & Baishya, 2018; Udupa, 2015). Such an online move was deeply intertwined with the mediatization practices of religion and/or religio‐nationalist politics.…”

Section: Negotiation Of Identitiesmentioning

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Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us

Dutta

2021

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews contemporary intercultural scholarship by examining published papers in 16 communication journals (5 of them were dedicated intercultural journals) between 2007 and 2018. The analysis found that the number of manuscripts published in 12 years (n = 191, or approximately 2.5% of 7452 published papers) on South Asian issues and populations is meager. Based on the reading of the intercultural manuscripts, this article identified eight key areas of scholarly attention, including acculturation and cultural adaptation, intercultural transitions, language and verbal communication, communication for social change, negotiation of identities, technology‐based communication, media and mediated communication, and new dynamics in the contemporary era. Later, this article talked about “silent zones” of contemporary intercultural scholarship—topics or areas that are under‐researched and then described potential pathways of future scholarship in imagining a more tolerant, just and equal South Asia.

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Section: Negotiation Of Identitiesmentioning

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“…and ideological discourses to create a populist techno-culture in the cyberspace (Govil & Baishya, 2018;Udupa, 2015). Such an online move was deeply intertwined with the mediatization practices of religion and/or religio-nationalist politics.…”

Section: Religious Identitymentioning

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Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us

Dutta

2021

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“…For instance, the lack of local language support in the existing information technology was found to be the main concern while disseminating scientific information about agriculture research among the farming communities (Jain, Kumar, & Singla, 2015). However, despite the content vernacularization, the online space has increasingly been dominated by right-wing groups (Mohan, 2015), and used for populist mobilization (Govil & Baishya, 2018;Pal et al, 2017). In another study, Udupa (2016) unravels the digital practices of right-wing Hindu nationalist groups to show how user generated contents could create more fissure in the society than leading to any shared understanding of culture and religion.…”

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Communication and technology theories from the South: the cases of China and India

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Neyazi

2020

Annals of the International Communication Association

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This paper takes an alternative approach to understanding theory as description. New theoretical propositions and knowledge practices need to grow out of the comparisons between descriptions, especially comparisons between the Southern cases. Using China and India as two cases, this paper reviews the descriptions of communication technology in the two countries and compares the descriptions. Through such comparisons, the paper concludes that the communication technology studies on China and India provide three theoretical insights: firstly, the state-society relationship shapes communication technology; secondly, the increasing pluralization or hybridity of the cyberspace shapes how communication technology is used; and lastly, it is the quest for finding one's self (or selves) in a Chinese/Indian modernity that could provide references to other contexts.

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“…Líderes políticos marcan temas y marcos interpretativos destinados a polarizar. Utilizan la fusión de medios analógicos y digitales para cultivar el culto de la personalidad (Govil y Baishya, 2018).…”

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The Bully in the Pulpit: Autocracy, Digital Social Media, and Right-wing Populist Technoculture

Cited by 34 publications

References 22 publications

Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us

Understating South Asia interculturally and communicatively: What the contemporary scholarship tells us

Communication and technology theories from the South: the cases of China and India

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