1st Edition
Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change
254 Pages
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Routledge India
262 Pages
by
Routledge India
254 Pages
by
Routledge India
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India has been the focus of international attention in the past few years. Rhetoric concerning its rapid economic growth and the burgeoning middle classes suggests that something new and significant is taking place. Something has changed, we are told: India is shining, the elephant is rising, and the 21st century will be Indian. What unites these powerful re-imaginings of the Indian nation is the... Read more
Foreword by Rachel Dwyer . Introduction Matti Pohjonen 1. NDTV 24 X 7, the Hanging Channel: News Media or Horror Show? John Hutnyk 2. Editorial! Where Art Thou? News Practices in Indian Television Somnath Batabyal 3. The Roja Debate and the Limits of Secular Nationalism Meenu Gaur 4. Identities in Ferment: Reflections on the Predicament of Bhojpuri Cinema, Music and Language in Bihar Ratnakar Tripathy and Jitendra Verma 5. MMS Scandals and Challenges to the Authority of News Mediation Angad Chowdhry 6. Circulating Intimacies: Sex-Surveys, Marriage and Other Facts of Life in Urban India Kriti Kapila 7. Indian Haunting: Representing Failure as ‘Change’ in Contemporary Mumbai Angad Chowdhry and Aditya Sarkar 8. Theory and Practice in Emerging Digital Cultures in India Matti Pohjonen and Soumyadeep Paul 9. The Uncomfortable Truth behind Corporate Media’s Imagination of India Naresh Fernandes . Epilogue - Thinking about India and Change: The BRICS and the Brats by Annabelle Sreberny . Notes on the Editors. Notes on the Contributors. Index.
Biography
Somnath Batabyal is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Heidelberg.
Angad Chowdhry is a final year PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London.
Meenu Gaur is as an independent filmmaker.
Matti Pohjonen is a Teaching Fellow in Digital Culture at SOAS, University of London.
