Media Economics and Right to Freedom of Expression Media Ownership patterns and Narrative StrategiesĦ. Media and Citizens’ Right to Communicateĥ. The following list of areas in which experts can present their papers is not exhaustive, but suggestive:ġ. This Conference attempts to bring together communication experts from the academia, government, independent thinkers and non-governmental organizations to address the issue of national communication policy formation and the role of various stakeholders in its formation and implementation. This would call for a huge effort at the grass-roots level, which is not difficult in these days of big data analytics and management. It should begin from the bottom of the pyramid and work its way up to the summit of the pyramid an approach as old as the Gandhian philosophy and as new as the post-modernist insistence on the micro-narratives, as opposed to the beguiling meta-narratives. What is important is the direction of the policy-making process. This calls for the framing of a coherent national communication policy that takes into consideration the cultural and developmental interests of all social groups and sub-groups while framing the imperatives of growth and development at the national level. Political cartelization cannot be ruled out as a means of hijacking the national agenda to suit one dominant group, not necessarily in terms of numbers, could be even in terms of access to communication media and/or prevalent ideology. There could be times when such political rag-tagging could be at variance with the interests of the nation. A nation, after all, is greater than the sum-total of its political parties. But, the process of nation building cannot be left to the vagaries of political arithmetic. A run over of political sloganeering in successive elections reveals that this has varied from one political party to another depending on the social group or sub-group it has considered important for its electoral victory. The political establishment has been particularly sensitive to this as it impacts upon its fortunes at the time of the polls. Abstract Idea: In a country as diverse as India, framing of narratives for social change and development needs to take a number of factors into consideration.
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