Subramaniam (Subbu) Vincent

In this chapter, I've described how journalism and liberal democracy evolved together around ideas of truth, public reason, and multiculturalism.

Recently, a variety of political bias indicators for social and news media have come to market to alert news consumers to the credibility and political bias of their sources. However, the effects of political bias indicators on how people consume news is unknown. Creators of bias indicators assume people will use the apps and extensions to become less biased news-consumers; however, it is also possible that people would use bias indicators to confirm their previous worldview and become more… Show more

Recently, a variety of political bias indicators for social and news media have come to market to alert news consumers to the credibility and political bias of their sources. However, the effects of political bias indicators on how people consume news is unknown. Creators of bias indicators assume people will use the apps and extensions to become less biased news-consumers; however, it is also possible that people would use bias indicators to confirm their previous worldview and become more biased in their perceptions of news. Show less

My article, co-authored with Don Heider is an invited response to Journalism and Communication Monographs' December 2022 issue. The issue carries a research finding from Brian Calfano et al. where they argue that local TV news about politics does not and should not need to use the partisan coverage frames used by network TV outlets. In our article we note that the authors’ findings do demonstrate an opportunity for local TV news to intervene in the discourse on political issues in an… Show more

My article, co-authored with Don Heider is an invited response to Journalism and Communication Monographs' December 2022 issue. The issue carries a research finding from Brian Calfano et al. where they argue that local TV news about politics does not and should not need to use the partisan coverage frames used by network TV outlets. In our article we note that the authors’ findings do demonstrate an opportunity for local TV news to intervene in the discourse on political issues in an emotionally and democratically more open manner. But for this to happen, additional considerations about the situation and journey ahead for local TV news must be taken into account. We offer insights in three areas: Beats and Expertise, Polarization and Discourse, and Bringing Ethical Rigor to Human Interest Frames. We note that these are opportunities for new work that may help local political journalism find an ethical and sustainable identity apart from the hegemony of network television and the elite national newspapers. Show less

To address the challenge of improving the assortment of opinion journalism that appears in news feeds, the NewsQ Initiative convened a panel of journalists, media scholars, and technologists to examine the current condition of platform news products. Through looking at examples of how products serve up opinion journalism, the panel worked to identify specific areas where ranking and recommendation could be improved, and to make recommendations for both platforms and publishers.1

The… Show more

To address the challenge of improving the assortment of opinion journalism that appears in news feeds, the NewsQ Initiative convened a panel of journalists, media scholars, and technologists to examine the current condition of platform news products. Through looking at examples of how products serve up opinion journalism, the panel worked to identify specific areas where ranking and recommendation could be improved, and to make recommendations for both platforms and publishers.1

The report outlines the panel’s findings and recommendations, and describes the panel’s process, explorations, and aspirations for next steps. Show less

The product management role brings a single point of responsibility for the success of a journalistic product. It requires a style of empirical, data-driven, and persuasive leadership and integrates business needs, market and user research, user-experience designers, analytics, and engineering. But challenges with adopting product management arise on the audience-facing side.

My chapter's focus is nearly exclusively on the state of knowledge and interventions on the demand-side or the user-facing side of misinformation and disinformation. In short, this is human behavior.There are three major aspects to my inquiry:

1. What must we understand about the human brain, and in turn become self-aware about, in a political and divisive context?
2. What must we understand about technology’s role in the misinformation crisis? What are the implications for us both… Show more

My chapter's focus is nearly exclusively on the state of knowledge and interventions on the demand-side or the user-facing side of misinformation and disinformation. In short, this is human behavior.There are three major aspects to my inquiry:

1. What must we understand about the human brain, and in turn become self-aware about, in a political and divisive context?
2. What must we understand about technology’s role in the misinformation crisis? What are the implications for us both individual users and about human behavior at scale, playing out amidst a web of interconnected sites, deception artists and users?
3. What lessons are emerging from solutions and interventions being attempted on the demand-side, and what lies ahead?

About the book:
Fake News: Real Issues in Modern Communication
Series: Mass Communication and Journalism
Edited By Russell Chun and Susan J. Drucker

This up-to-date anthology is designed to provide a survey of technological, ethical, and legal issues raised by falsehoods, particularly social media misinformation. The volume explores visual and data dissemination, business practices, international perspectives, and case studies. With misinformation and misleading information being propagated using a variety of media such as memes, data, charts, photos, tweets, posts, and articles, an understanding of the theory, mechanisms, and changing communication landscape is essential to move in the right direction with academic, industry, and government initiatives to inoculate ourselves from the dangers of fake news. This book is essential for graduate or undergraduate students in courses dealing with fake news and communication studies. Relevant courses include media studies, journalism, public relations, media ethics, media law, social media, First Amendment law, philosophy, and political science. Show less

With step-by-step guides for essential procedures like buying property, paying taxes, getting khatas, ID cards, driving licenses, etc. along with tips for saving water, saving fuel, and time-saving tips for various city tasks.

I am the editorial architect and publisher of the first of Citizen Matters guidebooks for Bangaloreans. Overwhelming popular book, over 18,000 copies sold in the first print run.

This book answers hundreds of questions in educative language to help buyers, sellers, and investors in residential properties in Bengaluru. Land, plots, apartments, layout and villas in 'gated' communities are all covered. There are checklists, Q&A sections, and more.

Editorial architect and publisher of this book.

What is there to get to know in Bengaluru beyond Lalbagh, Cubbon Park and Bull Temple? You'd be surprised. Use this book to learn easily and quickly about 160+ interesting places. Cultural, historic, religious, cool, and more. Plan visits within and around the city in half or a full day!

Editorial architect and publisher of this book.

This is an book on India and journalism edited by Nalini Rajan, Professor, Asian College of Journalism.

This was India's first Wi-Fi country study, released at Bangalore. Produced by Tonse Telecom for the Wi-Fi Alliance.

This is a major chapter I wrote exposing how radio broadcasting has been governed in Indian using policy and not legislation or using an independent regulator. It is from the vantage of point of people wanting independent non-commercial organizations to get radio licenses for news and current affairs, and the Indian government has always allowed very little room for this.

This work addressed the scaling problem in the Internet Integrated Services architecture in all routers supporting a flow of traffic having to maintain per-flow state.

This is the specification for the RSVP diagnostic facility, which allows a user to collect information about the RSVP state along a path. This specification describes the functionality, diagnostic message
formats, and processing rules.