University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a collegiate public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.&nbsp;Within India it is recognized as a &quot;Five-Star University&quot; and accredited &quot;A&quot; Grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

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The University of Calcutta has secured the Fifth position among the Universities of India in the prestigious &quot;Indian University Ranking 2019&quot; list, released by the NIRF of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

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It was established on 24 January 1857, and was one of the first institutions in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and Western-style university. Its alumni and faculty include several heads of state, heads of government, social reformers, prominent artists, only academy award winner and Dirac medal winner in India, many Fellows of the Royal Society and five Nobel laureates as of 2019 which is highest in South Asia.

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POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW

Spectators in the Field of Politics

Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination

Critical Theory and the Digital

MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA

The 21st Century Media (R)evolution: Emergent Communication Practices, 2nd edition

The Global Public Sphere: Public Communication in the Age of Reflective Interdependence

New Directions in Media and Politics

The Handbook of Communication History

Beneath many instances of 'sweeping' change, both structural and representational, in the market-dominant, liberalized and privatized Indian televisual scenario there lies a hidden transcript of continuity insofar as the encoding of development issues, images and messages is concerned. In the periods of Doordarshan and later corporate channels, though with markedly different historical contexts, reference points, contents and styles - the encoding of 'development' leaves little autonomy to the audiences. In a political slant indicating how the two televisual periods converge in contracting the space for public debate and civic engagement the essay seeks to make a departure from the dominant view which puts them in binary positions. © Oxford University Press 2014. All rights reserved.

Channeling Cultures: Television Studies from India

From Clients to Consumers: The Missing Citizens among the Indian Television Audience

People Power and Political Change: Key Issues and Concepts

The people of West Bengal want to live with security and dignity and desire the fulfi lment of basic needs and amenities in everyday life. There are too many pressing issues in the state waiting to get the attention of authorities. Unfortunately, it seems that the powers that be are playing a thankless and self-destructive game of "same side goal".

Economic and Political Weekly

'Same side goal' politics West Bengal's new brand image?

Challenging Governance Theory: From Networks to Hegemony

Constructions of Neoliberal Reason

Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World

Introduction Keeping in mind the question posed above, one can state that in an era, often called the Media Age, the basic issues that confront an analyst exploring the nature of the ‘world's largest democracy’ relate to the media power itself: how do media function in the power structure of the concerned society, and no less important, how do the media address it? The discussion on such issues is political in the broad sense of the term. It is so at least for two reasons: first, basically it is the interpretation of the narrative conventions and representations that shape the context in which politics is conceived, understood and enacted by the people; and second, it is being interpreted by a politically aware audience, composed of readers, listeners and viewers. No less important is the fact that in a democracy the audience is also supposed to be opinion-holders. An intense focus on the mainstream media, from the vantage point being mentioned here, is bound to be critical in both content and tenor. The same holds true for what is going to be the special focus of this chapter – television and television news. However, a clarification is needed at the ver y outset: such critical analysis should not be construed as a sort of ‘anti-media’ stance. Democracy without powerful and constructive media is an impossible venture and any analyst ready to go beyond the simple causal mechanisms of media effects knows quite well that the world would be a worse place to live in if the media would disappear from the scene. © 2009 Sharmila Mitra Deb and M Manisha.

Indian Democracy: Problems and Prospects

Restyling democracy?: Mainstream media and public space vis-Ã -vis Indian television

New Publics With/out Democracy

Development and Change

Social Exclusion and the Politics of Order

The Political Communication Reader

Theories of the information society

A developing connection: Bridging the policy gap between the information society and sustainable development

Good Governance and Development