1st Edition

Children and Media in India Narratives of Class, Agency and Social Change

By Shakuntala Banaji Copyright 2017
224 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Is the bicycle, like the loudspeaker, a medium of communication in India? Do Indian children need trade unions as much as they need schools? What would you do with a mobile phone if all your friends were playing tag in the rain or watching Indian Idol? Children and Media in India illuminates the experiences, practices and contexts in which children and young people in diverse locations... Read more

1. Historical accounts of childhood: subalterns between structures and agency

2. Class, caste, and children’s life in contemporary India

3. Methods and reflections

4. Mediating Indian childhoods: Texts and producers

5. Media rich in India: routine, self-construction, conflicted conformism

6. 'Media poor' in India: deprivation, responsibility, resourceful conservation

7. Conclusion

Biography

Shakuntala Banaji is Associate Professor of Media and Communications and Programme Director for the Master’s in Media, Communication and Development at the London School of Economics, UK. She is the winner of numerous awards for teaching excellence. Her books include Reading Bollywood and The Civic Web.