新冠疫情下英国与印度的媒介使用与治理解析——沙昆塔拉·巴纳吉(Shakuntala Banaji)教授访谈录

Analysing Media Governance and Use in the UK and India under Covid-19——An Interview with Professor ShakuntalaBanaji

沙昆塔拉·巴纳吉教授认为绝大多数政权和人民针对新冠疫情爆发与病毒变种的处理方式与他们业已形成的对待民主的态度如出一辙,在后疫情时代英国与印度将会面临更多悲怆、监视与焦虑。她对儿童媒体使用研究中的技术中心主义提出了批判,认为需要引入全球南方低收入地区的经验才能使得任何关于儿童的媒体议程具有"全球性"。她还对社会性别领域的媒介再现以及阶级不平等在数字新媒体中的再现进行了脉络梳理与深刻阐释。

Professor ShakuntalaBanaji thinks that most regimes and populations handled and are handling the Covid-19 outbreak and the various new strains in line with the ways in which they already treated democracy. There is and will be more grief, surveillance and anxiety in the post Covid-era of Britain and India. She critiques the technocentrism in her research on children’s media use and argues that the experiences of low-income regions in the global South need to be brought into consideration to make any media agenda of children ’global’. She also provides insights into the media representation of social gender and class inequalities in the digital media.