Indian Journal of Human Relations
Year : 2017, Volume : 51, Issue : 1
First page : ( 17) Last page : ( 26)
Print ISSN : 0974-1089.

Television, News and History: Exploring a New Paradigm

Yadav Shuchi

Assistant Professor, School of Media & Communication Studies, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, UP

Online published on 24 October, 2018.

Abstract

Twenty first century is being seen as a mediated society where television as a medium of mass communication plays a crucial role in shaping public opinion. The news genre in television has increasingly been engaging with history in a variety of ways. Audio-visual news narratives are increasingly being written and produced by journalists to represent the past in the present. What society consumes therefore is a mediated constructed representation of reality. Public history as a paradigm is gaining ground among scholars to study how past is constructed in the public domain. However, the paradigm in itself seems to borrow extensively from the philosophical ideas prevailing in the 1970s. This paper attempts to explore the concept and idea of public history as a new paradigm to study the linkages between television, news and history.

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Keywords

Representations, Meanings, Culture, Past, History.

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