107. Name: Shivani Gupta Title: Unfrozen Media Realities: An Analytical Study of Al Jazeera and New York Times Institution: Tata Institute of Social Science Country: India Date: 2011 Language: English Abstract: This study discusses the relationship between media and reality. It came under the title ‘unfrozen media realities’ because reality is assumed to be frozen and universal but it changes with particular media institutions which belong to specific contexts. In these specific contexts, when facts are woven into a ‘reality’, they change their appearance and become information. It is difficult to retrace the manufacturing processes of information because facts become the thread for the finished information and if you pull out one thread entire entity can fall apart. When information is disseminated, it acquires an intellectual and ideological orientation. Keeping the core understanding of media realities as fluid and changing, the study tries to identify the ways in which media organizations construct realities in specific contexts. It also tries to find out if there is a fixed ideology that media cannot dissociate itself from it. To this end, the study examines the 9/11 decade media coverage by the New York Times and Al Jazeera satellite channel. It provides contrasting perceptions of both the media organizations while delving into the stereotypes associated with the two.
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