Official Communication by Defencepr in Kargil War and Beyond

Mrs. SangeetaSaxena

doi:10.65301/ijcd.2017.7.1.3

Articles Vol. 7 Issue 1 Jan - Jun 2017

DOI 10.65301/ijcd.2017.7.1.3

Official Communication by Defencepr in Kargil War and Beyond

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Mrs. SangeetaSaxena

Research Scholar,University School of Mass Communication GGSIP University, New Delhi, India

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Published 2017-06-30

Pages 22-39

Abstract

Official communication gained significance with the evolution of the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Defence in India, from being run by the British Army officers to having become a part of the civilian bureaucracy headed by a Director General. He is an officer of the Indian Information Service, with a team of PROs who are from the same service and some officers of the three forces and other defence establishments Within themselves the military and the public relations officials decide both the news gathering and news making process and this is then passed on to the press officially, which releases it to the public through the various media. Give the public what they must have, is the theory on which the DPR works and the press helps in the dissemination of this information. Public relations and journalism are two sides of the same coin in defence journalism. Keeping in view the convolutions in the flow of information within the official structure of DPR it becomes imperative to explore the disbursement of information by DPR to the media through its own channels, like the Press Information Bureau, e-mails sent and press releases distributed to the various media organisations. In this study the researcher has tracked the disbursement of news by DPR from 1999 to 2008, a period of ten years starting from the Kargil War. Key terms :Official Communication, Defence PR , Kargil War and Beyond and Directorate of Public relations, Ministry of Defence, Government of India

Keywords

Defence PR Kargil War and Beyond Categorisation andDirectorate of Public relations Ministry of Defence Government of India

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Thilagavathi G., Raja A.S.M., Kannaian T. (2008). Nanotechnology and Protective Clothing.

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[1] Books

[2] Adache, J. Col. (rtd) (2014). The Military and Public Relations: Issues, Strategies and Challenges (1st ed.). Bloomington, IA, USA: Authorhouse.

[3] Braestrup, Peter (1985). Battle Lines: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Military and the Media (background paper). New York: Priority Press Publications.

[4] Hovland, Carl I., Irving L. Janis, and Harold H. Kelley (1953). Communication and Persuasion. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press.

[5] Huntington, Samuel P. (1957). The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[6] Janowitz, M. (1965). The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait (2nd ed.). New York: Free Press.

[7] Lasswell, Harold D. (1927). Propaganda Technique in the World War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

[8] Lovelace (Jr.), Douglas C. (1985). The Covert Military. Washington: The University of Washington Press.

[9] Schramm, Wilbur (1960). Mass Communications: A Book of Readings. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

[10] Shoemaker, Pamela J. (1991). Gatekeeping: Communication Concepts 3. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

[11] Research Papers

[12] Goldstein, Robert Justin (1989). Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth Century Europe. St. Martin’s Press; New York.

[13] Lewin, Kurt (1947). Frontiers in Group Dynamics: Channels of Group Life; Social Planning and Action Research. Human Relations.

[14] Mukherjee, Swati; Kumar, Updesh; Mandal, Manas K. (2009). Status of Military Psychology in India: A Review. Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology.

[15] Nanavatty, R. K. (Retd.). Army-Media Relations in Sub-conventional Conflict. Claws Journal, Summer 2009.

[16] Rai, Ajay K. (2001). Military-Media Interface: Changing Paradigms New Challenges. Strategic Analysis.

[17] Rafeeq, Ali (2007). Covering Conflicts: The Coverage of Iraq War II. University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

[18] Reese, Stephen D.; Ballinger, Jane (2001). The Roots of a Sociology of News. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

[19] Webliography

[20] Hali, Sultan M. (2000). The Role of Media in War. www.defencejournal.com

[21] Peleg, Samuel (2007). In Defense of Peace Journalism. Conflict & Communication Online.

[22] Pro-war Propaganda Machine (2003). socialistworker.org

[23] Shahon, Anup (2012). War, Propaganda and the Media. www.globalissues.org

[24] Videos

[25] Shorey, Col. Arun. Media Policies Practiced by the Defence Forces of India and the Way Ahead.

[26] Audios

[27] All India Radio’s programme Sainikon Ke Liye by DPR (daily).

[28] Blogs

[29] Surya Gangadharan's Blog Indian Defence Forum (Aug 3, 2011).

[30] ???? Bibliography Section

[31] Books

[32] Aukofer, Frank (1995). America’s Team, The Odd Couple. Freedom Forum First Amendment Center.

[33] Bernays, Edward (2004). Propaganda. Ig Publishing; New York.

[34] Bhattacharya, Sanjoy (2013). Propaganda and Information in Eastern India 1939–45. Routledge.

[35] Biddle, Stephen (2004). Military Power. Princeton University Press.

[36] Carruthers, Susan (2000). The Media at War. St. Martin’s Press.

[37] Chester V. Clifton (2007). A Manual for Army Public Relations.

[38] Chong, Denise (2000). The Girl in the Picture.

[39] Der Derian, James (2001). Virtuous War.

[40] Deutsch, Karl Wolfgang (1963). The Nerves of Government.

[41] Deutsch, Karl Wolfgang (1974). Politics and Government.

[42] Edelman, Murray (1971). Politics as Symbolic Action.

[43] Edelman, Murray (2001). The Politics of Misinformation.

[44] Finkelstein, David M.; Gunnes, Kristen (2006). Civil-Military Relations in Today’s China.

[45] Hedges, Chris. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.

[46] Hunt, W. Ben (1997). Getting to War.

[47] Huntington, S. (1985). The Soldier and the State (2nd ed.).

[48] Janowitz, M. (1971). The Military in the Political Development of New Nations.

[49] Kilcullen, David (2010). Counterinsurgency.

[50] Knightley, Philip (2004). The First Casualty.

[51] Lang, Anthony (Ed.) (2003). Just Intervention.

[52] Russell, William Howard (2009). The Crimean War.

[53] Saxena, Sangeeta (1997). Defence Journalism in India.

[54] Smith, Jeffrey Alan (1999). War and Press Freedom.

[55] Hecker, Marc; Rid, Thomas (1975). War 2.0.

[56] Uko, Ndaeyo (2004). Romancing the Gun.

[57] Young, Peter (1997). The Media and the Military.

[58] Research Articles

[59] DeRosa, Christopher S. (2000). A Million Thinking Bayonets.

[60] Mateshvili, Maia (2008). Government Public Relations in Georgia.

[61] Saxena, Sangeeta (2013). Defence Reporting in India.

[62] Thilagavathi G., Raja A.S.M., Kannaian T. (2008). Nanotechnology and Protective Clothing.