Abstract
Trajectories, fabricated narrations and coverage show us the stats of the media environment in India today. Not only are these the hot buttons that the audience prefers to consume in India, but also since most of the population relies on media as its primary source of daily information and updates, these have the biggest hand in altering society’s point of view into a perception to announce the right and wrong sides, escalating the conclusion of these ideologies to the extent of ‘national’ and ‘anti-national’ labels. This paper examines the role of print media, television, and social media in the communal violence of the 2020 North-East Delhi Riots that arose as a result of clashes two opposing protest gatherings in support of and against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 that is scheduled to be combined with the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Up until the COVID-19 pandemic hit India, the months from the end of November 2019 to March 2020, the CAA-NRC protests created a public cacophony among news channels across the Indian (and International) communication network, social media, and newspaper publication houses.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
MEDIA, COVERAGE, COMMUNALISM, VIOLENCE, RIOTS, SHAHEEN, BAGH
