Media in the IS
Giving children a voice in the media
February 2007, Kavita Ratna, Infochange
This article discusses The Media Code to Realise Children’s Rights 2005, that was formulated to prevent violation of children's rights on the media on the one hand and to promote more space for children's concerns, on the other. Developed in consultation with groups of children by The Concerned for Working Children (CWC), the code represents an affirmative protocol, not a set of prescriptive guidelines.
Indian social media: A lesson for the west
February 5, 2008, Kyung Han, Deccan Herald
This article takes a look at the growing role of social media (blogs, for example) in societies like India vis-a-vis the West. It points to three aspects of India's social media from which lessons could be learnt, viz., its use for goodwill and nobler purposes, forging of online relationships and moblogging or blogging from a mobile device such as a cell phone.
Far from failure
February 2-15, 2008, Jayati Ghosh, Frontline
This essay accuses the 'corporate-controlled media' in India of attempting to trash the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) that has worked in favour of the rural poor. Instead of focusing on the lack of administrative capability in implementing the NREGP at the local level, which was the major concern of a recent report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the author says that the media tried to over low the issue of mis-utilisation of funds, of which the report mentions only tangentially.
