Practices of Indian Journalism: Justice, Ethics, and Globalization

Abstract

Globalization defines our era. It is what happens when the movement of people, goods, or ideas among countries and regions accelerates. In recent years, globalization has come into focus, generating considerable interest and controversy in the social sciences, humanities, and policy circles and among the informed public at large. Throughout most of history, the vectors that organized and gave meaning to human lives and human imaginations were structured primarily by local geography and topology, local kinship and social organization, local worldviews and religions. Today the world is another place. While human lives continue to be lived in local realities, these realities are increasingly being challenged by and integrated into larger global networks of relationships. Media are at the heart of such changes. The multidirectional flow of media and cultural goods is creating new forms of convergence and identities. These forms are often received either with exhilaration or panic (Mattelart 2002). Yet no one can disregard that there is an acceleration of media convergence exemplified by various intersections among media technologies, industries, content, and audiences.