1st Edition
Journalism, Democracy and Civil Society in India
Introduction: Democracy, civil society, and journalism in India Shakuntala Rao and Vipul Mudgal
1. Indian Journalism in the Colonial Crucible: a nineteenth-century story of political protest Prasun Sonwalkar
2. Popular Cinephilia in North India: Madhuri shows the way (1964-78) Ravikant
3. A Media Not for All: A comparative analysis of journalism, democracy and exclusion in Indian and South African media Shakuntala Rao and Herman Wasserman
4. Phantom Journalism: Governing India’s proxy media owners Saima Saeed
5. Shaming the Nation on Public Affairs Television: Barkha Dutt tackles colorism on We the People Radhika Parameswaran
6. Playing Reporter: Small-town women journalists in north India Disha Mullick
7. The Potential and Limitations of Citizen Journalism Initiatives: Chhattisgarh’s CGNet Swara Kalyani Chadha and Linda Steiner
8. Connecting Activists and Journalists: Twitter communication in the aftermath of the 2012 Delhi rape Thomas Poell and Sudha Rajagopalan
9. How Well do India’s Multiple Language Dailies Provide Political Knowledge to Citizens of this Electoral Democracy? Bella Mody
10. Our Media, Our Principles: Building codes of practice for community radio in India Kanchan K. Malik
Biography
Shakuntala Rao is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY, USA.
Vipul Mudgal heads the Common Cause and Inclusive Media for Change organisations. He has been founding Director of Publics and Policies Programme and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India. He works on the intersections of media, democracy and political violence.
