The rise of new media has precipitated a fundamental reconfiguration of how news is
produced, circulated, and legitimised, challenging the epistemological foundations upon
which traditional television news has historically operated. Television news once
functioned as a dominant institutional gatekeeper, relying on professionally curated
narratives, temporally fixed broadcasts, and hierarchical editorial protocols. However,
the emergence of digital platforms, algorithmic content filtering, participatory cultures,
and real-time information flows has disrupted this power structure. This research paper
investigates how new media architectures—comprising social networks, algorithmic
systems, user-generated content, and platformised distribution—reshape the cognitive,
procedural, and normative assumptions that underpin television journalism.Drawing
on theoretical frameworks from media ecology, political economy, and networked
communication, the study argues that television news no longer inhabits an autonomous
epistemic domain; instead, it is increasingly subsumed into a hybridised digital
environment governed by metrics, virality, and algorithmic visibility. New media alters
not only audience behaviours but also newsroom practices, narrative formats, and
institutional logics, prompting legacy broadcasters to adopt platform-responsive
strategies such as continuous updates, click-oriented framing, personality-driven
anchoring, and short-form explainer content. These adaptations, while necessary for
survival, introduce epistemic tensions between journalistic verification and digital
acceleration. Through a synthesis of scholarly literature, industry reports, and
comparative analysis of global news ecosystems, this research reveals that the shift
from broadcast logic to platform logic marks a profound transformation: authority
becomes decentralised, temporality becomes fluid, and truth claims become contested
within algorithmically curated public spheres. The paper ultimately demonstrates that
the epistemology of television news is not merely evolving but being reconstructed by
technological infrastructures, audience interactivity, and market-driven digital
ecosystems. In doing so, it highlights the need for reconceptualising journalistic
standards, ethics, and institutional frameworks in an era where information credibility
is increasingly mediated by technological rather than editorial authority.
Ravi Prakash (2024). Reconfiguring Broadcast Epistemologies: A Critical
Inquiry into How New Media Architectures
Reshape Traditional Television News. Research Vidyapith International Multidisciplinary Journal, 1(2), 121–130. https://www.researchvidyapith.com/article/rvimj12s240015/reconfiguring-broadcast-epistemologies-a-critical-inquiry-into-how-new-media-architectures-reshape-traditional
Ravi Prakash. “Reconfiguring Broadcast Epistemologies: A Critical
Inquiry into How New Media Architectures
Reshape Traditional Television News.” Research Vidyapith International Multidisciplinary Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, 2024, pp. 121–130. https://www.researchvidyapith.com/article/rvimj12s240015/reconfiguring-broadcast-epistemologies-a-critical-inquiry-into-how-new-media-architectures-reshape-traditional
Ravi Prakash. “Reconfiguring Broadcast Epistemologies: A Critical
Inquiry into How New Media Architectures
Reshape Traditional Television News.” Research Vidyapith International Multidisciplinary Journal 1, no. 2 (2024): 121–130. https://www.researchvidyapith.com/article/rvimj12s240015/reconfiguring-broadcast-epistemologies-a-critical-inquiry-into-how-new-media-architectures-reshape-traditional
Ravi Prakash (2024) ‘Reconfiguring Broadcast Epistemologies: A Critical
Inquiry into How New Media Architectures
Reshape Traditional Television News’, Research Vidyapith International Multidisciplinary Journal, 1(2), pp. 121–130. Available at: https://www.researchvidyapith.com/article/rvimj12s240015/reconfiguring-broadcast-epistemologies-a-critical-inquiry-into-how-new-media-architectures-reshape-traditional.
Ravi Prakash, “Reconfiguring Broadcast Epistemologies: A Critical
Inquiry into How New Media Architectures
Reshape Traditional Television News,” Research Vidyapith International Multidisciplinary Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 121–130, 2024. https://www.researchvidyapith.com/article/rvimj12s240015/reconfiguring-broadcast-epistemologies-a-critical-inquiry-into-how-new-media-architectures-reshape-traditional.
Ravi Prakash. Reconfiguring Broadcast Epistemologies: A Critical
Inquiry into How New Media Architectures
Reshape Traditional Television News. Research Vidyapith International Multidisciplinary Journal. 2024;1(2):121–130. https://www.researchvidyapith.com/article/rvimj12s240015/reconfiguring-broadcast-epistemologies-a-critical-inquiry-into-how-new-media-architectures-reshape-traditional.
Ravi Prakash. Reconfiguring Broadcast Epistemologies: A Critical
Inquiry into How New Media Architectures
Reshape Traditional Television News. Research Vidyapith International Multidisciplinary Journal 2024, 1 (2), 121–130. https://www.researchvidyapith.com/article/rvimj12s240015/reconfiguring-broadcast-epistemologies-a-critical-inquiry-into-how-new-media-architectures-reshape-traditional.
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