ISBN:
9780415610322
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (255 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change
DDC:
302.230954
Keywords:
Communication and culture ; India
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Mass media ; India ; History
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Mass media ; Political aspects ; India
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Mass media ; Social aspects ; India
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Mass media and culture ; India
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 notion of change and its many ramifications. Election campaigns, media commentators, scholars, activists and drawing room debates all cut their teeth around this complex notion. Who is it that benefit
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Plates; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 NDTV 24X7, the HangingChannel: News Media orHorror Show?; 2 Editorial! Where art Thou?News Practices in IndianTelevision; 3 The Roja Debate and the Limitsof Secular Nationalism; 4 Identities in Ferment:Reflections on the Predicamentof Bhojpuri Cinema, Music andLanguage in Bihar; 5 MMS Scandals andChallenges to the Authority ofNews Mediation; 6 Circulating Intimacies:Sex Surveys, Marriage and OtherFacts of Life in Urban India
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Indian Haunting: RepresentingFailure as 'Change' inContemporary Mumbai8 Theory and Practice in EmergingDigital Cultures in India; 9 The Uncomfortable Truthbehind the Corporate Media'sImagination of India; Epilogue:Thinking about India andChange: The BRICS andthe Brats; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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