Digital Migration of print media in India A case study of four traditional english newspapers 1997 2018

Abstract

The study seeks to trace the formal transitions of traditional print news dailies upon their online newlinemigration. To achieve this end, it makes a case study of the websites of the four major Indian newlineEnglish newspapers. The web interfaces of the respective news organisations are retrieved for newlinethe period spanning 1997 to 2018, and the innovations that it brought about over the years are newlinedocumented. In this endeavour, it uses the framework of analysis proposed by Niels Brugger, newlinewhich involves delimiting of websites as objects of study. The formal transitions thus observed newlineare attempted to read from the contexts of simultaneous cultural and technological newlinecircumstances. Manovich s concept of hybrid media is used in the work to explain the newlineinteractions of traditional news culture and web specific affordances. The way the news newlineorganisations appropriated various functions that are intrinsically linked with the digital culture newlineare discussed, alongside the underlying motivations that they served. The theory of newline remediation put forth by Bolter and Grusin, is used to rationalise these changes and to view newlinethe developments within a broader perspective. It compliments the information thus achieved newlinewith inputs from the journalists of the respective organisations. In the in-depth interviews with newlinethem they elaborate on their respective newsroom practices and their individual experiences as newlinemedia professionals through the years. It explicates how the editorial dominance of the news newlineorganisations gradually waned in the realm of online, in tunes of the big-tech interests. It newlinediscusses at length the disruptions caused by the social media spaces upon the news culture, newlineparticularly how it redefined the audience relation with the news platforms. The damages newlinesuffered by the news organisations owing to such transitions, and the simultaneous changes in newlinethe work culture comes up in the interviews. Despite the set-backs, they are optimistic of the newlinefuture of the traditional news organisations, for which they cite their reasons. The study newlineconclu