DOI: 10.5176/2382-5650_CCS13.18
Authors: Debarshi Prasad Nath
Abstract:
This article is an analysis of the representation of violence in the news media of Assam, India to highlight the tendency of the perpetrators of violence to ‘perform’ violence to establish a social meaning. This performative violence needs to be understood and conceptualized afresh in the background of new socio-psychological factors that have shaped mob psychology in developing societies. Though the case studies under discussion are disparate in nature, there are striking similarities in the way in which violence on camera takes on new meanings for those who claim to resort to violence for the sake of social good. Moreover, in all the three instances, the “victims” of violence are women. I argue that these instances of violence in media are pornographic in attitude if not in content.
Keywords: media, violence, performance, pornography, Assam, India
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