First and second-level agenda-setting in the 2014 Indian general election: a time-series analysis of party-media relation

The role of the press as a political watchdog is crucial to the functioning of democracy. Especially in the run-up to elections, voters depend on the media's presentation of parties and candidates to make informed, responsible choices at the ballot box. But who, then, influences the news media? Empirical evidence in the United States and Europe suggests that political party campaigns and election coverage in the news media are interconnected and influence each other. This study tests whether such agenda-setting effects between party campaigns and the media also take place in the general elections in the world's largest democracy, India. India's western-type political system has a distinct media system characterized by high competition, diversification, non-consolidation and formal and informal ties between the media, commercial interests and political actors. Content analysis and Granger's causality test of newspaper coverage (N?=?716) and party campaign messages (N?=?458) found that agenda-setting effects do occur in India, but are largely bi-directional. We also found an overwhelming focus of both newspapers’ election coverage and of all major party campaigns on one single candidate, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Narendra Modi. This, we argue, is a result of the broader trends that have shaped Indian politics in recent years. The significant correlations and non-significant causal effects between party campaign and media coverage also indicate a trade-off situation between political power negotiation and political balance in the press.     

Maintaining and Sharing a Haudenosaunee Identity: Onondaga Collective Memory and Social Media

In this article, I survey the Onondaga Nation's social media outlets in the light of collective memory theory. The article identifies several core topics of the nation's identity narratives which, all together, are perceived as an expression of Onondaga functional memory. The role of wampum belts as medial cues to that memory is highlighted as well as the role of social media in the struggle against the negative effects of native media invisibility.     

印度共产党的执政实践与后冷战时代的策略调整

苏东剧变以来,印共虽遭受严重冲击,但却在调整政策纲领和生存策略的努力下生存并获得发展。在今天的印度政坛,印度共产党通过与印共（马）等左翼政治力量联合,多次在地方层面参政或执政,并成为“团结进步联盟”等主流政治力量竞相拉拢的结盟对象,在国内政治舞台上发挥着重要的影响力。     

Finding common ground and inherent differences: Artist and community engagement in cultural material and contemporary art conservation

Comparisons are often made between the conservation of cultural material collections, often described as ethnographic, and contemporary art collections, and indeed there are significant parallels. The stewardship of both of these types of collections can challenge traditional tenets of conservation, requiring conservators to ask themselves ‘What are we preserving?’ as preservation extends beyond the physical. The work must be placed in a broader conceptual context and the conservator must seek out those who are deemed to have the most authority – whether it is the artist, the artist's assistants and estate or the source community – to establish this context. Engagement with constituents creates valuable reciprocal relationships, which can benefit the artist, community, and museum. The relationships and the parallel practice of two seemingly disparate fields are examined using examples from the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG). Conservators at NMAI, a living culture museum containing archeological, historic, and contemporary art collections, are in the unique position of working with community stakeholders with direct ties to historic collections and contemporary artists whose work is actively acquired by the museum. Conservators at YUAG, an encyclopedic museum with a pedagogical directive, are attempting to establish a more rigorous program of artist engagement to direct preservation and understanding of contemporary art collections.     

论1907年印度国大党的分裂

１９０５年,印度民族运动高潮到来之后,国大党温和派于１９０６年接受极端派的“四点纲领”,但其改良主义立场并没有变。随着运动向纵深发展,温和派害怕运动失控,影响其改良主义的实现,于是在１９０７年制造了国大党的分裂。分裂是由民族资产阶级和小资产阶级的阶级局限性以及当时的客观历史条件所决定的,有其客观历史的必然性     

印度同一性和文化延续性

从印度化的同一性入手,对印度传统的对生活的印度式的观点以及实现方式、个人和社会的关系、教育体系的问题的探讨．说明了印度化持续性多样的同一性、完整性、综合的适应环境,这就是为什么它能够经受住时间的考验．超越空间的限制。而且．印度化有一种合适的具有弹性和接受力的建构机制,可以适应其场所和时间的条件。     

透过宝莱坞电影解析印度历史文化

印度是世界上最大的电影生产国,近年来,宝莱坞所产的电影在全球范围内反响强烈。透过宝莱坞电影,可以看到印度所具有的历史悠久、民族特色浓重,语言众多、民族多样,宗教色彩浓重和种姓制度突出等极具特色的历史文化。     

印度早期英语诗人

英语文学是现代印度文学之大观 ,也是世界英语文学不可忽视的组成部分。而其发达最早的是诗歌。本文介绍印度独立前除泰戈尔以外的 4个主要英语诗人 :朵露·达特、曼莫汉·戈斯、阿罗频多·戈斯、萨罗吉丽·奈都。这对我们认识独立后的印度英语诗歌无疑会有帮助     

Convictions and skepticisms of an Indian feminist scholar: an interview with Tejaswini Niranjana

In this interview with the Guangzhou-based newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily, conducted in December 2010 during her participation of the ‘West Heavens: India-China Summit on Social Thought’, Tejaswini Niranjana questions accepted notions about women and development, explains the reasons for finding alternative reference points in each other for non-Western societies, which resulted in the historical emergence of Cultural Studies in India, and speaks for the need for substantive mutual cultural exposure between India and China.     

Sanitizing “Indians” in America’s Thanksgiving story

Children’s books about the Thanksgiving holiday offer a superlative example of America’s supposedly innocent interactions with “Indians.” In this essay, we describe how representations of “Indians” in children’s Thanksgiving books are often used to promote a Manifest Destiny ideology, we correct basic “facts” about the “first” Thanksgiving, and we urge educators to employ decolonizing and indigenizing pedagogical strategies when teaching about Thanksgiving in order to better explain America’s historical relation to “Indians” in their classrooms.