Old radio in new guise: understanding relevance of amateur/ham radio in India
- Authors: Mukherjee A.1, Chattopadhyay P.2, Moreva A.N.3,4
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Affiliations:
- University of Calcutta
- University of Kalyani
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- RUDN University
- Issue: Vol 29, No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 125-134
- Section: JOURNALISM
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2312-9220/article/view/319232
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2024-29-1-125-134
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/GEZBVX
- ID: 319232
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Abstract
Development of information and communication technology in India has reached a new height with the successful landing of Chandrayan-3 to moon in August 2023. In such a developed milieu of communication, otherwise seen as obsolete medium of communication, amateur radio must be revisited and seen in the context of their present form of activities in India. Ham radio organizations are present in almost all countries of the world, but it was mainly seen as a means of communication in a pre-digital world. Ham radio organizations in Indian society with their exemplary activities in the resent millennium seems to be the silent servers of society cutting across communities without much media or academic attention as compared to community radio organizations which caters to specific communities with specific goals. The study aims to highlight such untapped potential of ham radio in Indian society which can be used as an alternative communication channel in emergency situations. It is concluded by arguing that ham radio resonates the spirit of logic, logistics and language of new digital media era and can be seen as a balanced communication form between old media and new media era.
About the authors
Arunima Mukherjee
University of Calcutta
Email: arunimamukherjee2009@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0009-0003-7410-2528
lecturer, doctoral student in journalism, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Gurudas College
1/1 Suren Sarkar Rd, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700054, Republic of IndiaPratip Chattopadhyay
University of Kalyani
Email: chatterjee23_pratip@yahoo.co.in
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9380-7115
PhD (Political Science), Associate Professor and Head Department of Political Science
Kalyani, Nadia, 741235, West Bengal, Republic of IndiaAnna N. Moreva
Moscow State Linguistic University; RUDN University
Author for correspondence.
Email: annseasoul@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0009-0006-3404-285X
curator and author of the training program of the Russian-Indian project of the Moscow State Linguistic University and the Indian Institute of Social Security and Business Management (Kolkata), senior lecturer, Department of Communication Technologies, Deputy Director for Project Activities and Media Communications, Institute of International Relations and Social and Political Sciences, Moscow State Linguistic University; lecturer, Department of Mass Communications, Faculty of Philology, RUDN University
38 Ostozhenka St, Moscow, 119034, Russian Federation; 6 Miklukho-Maklaya St, Moscow, 117198, Russian FederationReferences
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