On May 12, 1-2pm, Shalabh Chopra, a PhD Candidate in Media and Communication, will present his talk “Narratives of the US-China tensions in India’s Media: Insights from my PhD research”. This presentation shares key findings from my PhD research on how India’s media frames and narrates the US-China rivalry. The research draws on data collected from five English-language Indian newspapers across the ideological spectrum between 2009 and 2015. Broadly, it focuses on four major frames: i) rivalry as a threat to the international order; ii) rivalry as a contest of political values; iii) rivalry as a contest of national interests; iv) rivalry as a contest for influence over third nations. In terms of narratives, it focuses on how the rivalry relates to Indian foreign policy, in particular the growing role-identity conflict generated by India’s growing strategic closeness with the US even as it stays adamant to remain strategically autonomous.
Location: Elsie Locke 611 or https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/99164157318
