Indian Mass Media And The Politics Of Change

Author : Somnath Batabyal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136196668
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change written by Somnath Batabyal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 benefits from this change? Do such re-imaginings of nationhood really reflect the complex social reality of large parts of the Indian population? The book starts with the premise that it is within the mass media where we can best understand how this change is imagined. From a kaleidoscope of perspectives the book interrogates this articulation and the myriad forms it takes – across India's newsrooms, television sets, cinema halls, mobile phones and computer screens.

Author : Somnath Batabyal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113619665X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change written by Somnath Batabyal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 benefits from this change? Do such re-imaginings of nationhood really reflect the complex social reality of large parts of the Indian population? The book starts with the premise that it is within the mass media where we can best understand how this change is imagined. From a kaleidoscope of perspectives the book interrogates this articulation and the myriad forms it takes – across India's newsrooms, television sets, cinema halls, mobile phones and computer screens.

Author : Teresa Joseph
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000426246
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media written by Teresa Joseph and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Gandhi’s engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alternative modes of communication in South Africa and India. This volume elucidates his interactions with the colonial communication order and his contestations of the same through various methods that included setting up new journals and newspapers and taking on the role of writer, journalist, editor, and publisher. It unveils Gandhi’s engagement with mass media and print journalism, particularly concerning issues of conflict and conflict resolution, as well as social transformation right from his days in London to the last days of his life. A significant contribution to scholarship on Mahatma Gandhi, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of politics, media and cultural studies, history, and South Asian studies.

Author : Taberez Ahmed Neyazi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416136
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Communication and Mobilisation written by Taberez Ahmed Neyazi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh perspective on the importance of the Hindi media in India's political, social and economic transformation with evidence from the countryside and the cities. Accessed by more than forty percent of the public, it continues to play an important role in building political awareness and mobilising public opinion. Instead of viewing the media as a singular entity, this book highlights its diversity and complexity to understand the changing dynamics of political communication that is shaped by the interactions between the news media, political parties and the public, and how various media forms are being used in a rapidly transforming environment. The book offers insights into how print, television, and digital media work together with, rather than in isolation from, each another to grasp the complexities of the emerging hybrid media environment and the future of mobilisation.

Author : Meta G. Carstarphen
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185082
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indians and the Mass Media written by Meta G. Carstarphen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mention “American Indian,” and the first image that comes to most people’s minds is likely to be a figment of the American mass media: A war-bonneted chief. The Land O’ Lakes maiden. Most American Indians in the twenty-first century live in urban areas, so why do the mass media still rely on Indian imagery stuck in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? How can more accurate views of contemporary Indian cultures replace such stereotypes? These and similar questions ground the essays collected in American Indians and the Mass Media, which explores Native experience and the mainstream media’s impact on American Indian histories, cultures, and communities. Chronicling milestones in the relationship between Indians and the media, some of the chapters employ a historical perspective, and others focus on contemporary practices and new technologies. All foreground American Indian perspectives missing in other books on mass communication. The historical studies examine treatment of Indians in America’s first newspaper, published in seventeenth-century Boston, and in early Cherokee newspapers; Life magazine’s depictions of Indians, including the famous photograph of Ira Hayes raising the flag at Iwo Jima; and the syndicated feature stories of Elmo Scott Watson. Among the chapters on more contemporary issues, one discusses campaigns to change offensive place-names and sports team mascots, and another looks at recent movies such as Smoke Signals and television programs that are gradually overturning the “movie Indian” stereotypes of the twentieth century. Particularly valuable are the essays highlighting authentic tribal voices in current and future media. Mark Trahant chronicles the formation of the Native American Journalists Association, perhaps the most important early Indian advocacy organization, which he helped found. As the contributions on new media point out, American Indians with access to a computer can tell their own stories—instantly to millions of people—making social networking and other Internet tools effective means for combating stereotypes. Including discussion questions for each essay and an extensive bibliography, American Indians and the Mass Media is a unique educational resource.

Author : Ursula Rao
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845458338
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book News as Culture written by Ursula Rao and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the millennium, Indian journalism has undergone significant changes. The rapid commercialization of the press, together with an increase in literacy and political consciousness, has led to swift growth in the newspaper market but also changed the way news makers mediate politics. Positioned at a historical junction where India is clearly feeling the effects of market liberalization, this study demonstrates how journalists and informants interactively create new forms of political action and consciousness. The book explores English and Hindi newsmaking and investigates the creation of news relations during the production process and how they affect political images and leadership traditions. It moves beyond the news-room to outline the role of journalists in urban society, the social lives of news texts and the way citizens bring their ideas and desires to bear on the news discourse. This important volume contributes to an emerging debate about the impact of the media on Indian society. Furthermore, it convincingly demonstrates the inseparable link between media related practices and dynamic cultural repertoires.

Author : Rachel Dwyer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780233043
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bollywood's India written by Rachel Dwyer and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bollywood movies have long been known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But these exciting and often amusing films rarely reflect the reality of life on the Indian subcontinent. Exploring the nature of mainstream Hindi cinema, the strikingly illustrated Bollywood’s Indiaexamines its nonrealistic depictions of everyday life in India and what it reveals about Indian society. Showing how escapism and entertainment function in Bollywood cinema, Rachel Dwyer argues that Hindi cinema’s interpretations of India over the last two decades are a reliable guide to understanding the nation’s changing hopes and dreams. She looks at the ways Bollywood has imagined and portrayed the unity and diversity of the country—what it believes and feels, as well as life at home and in public. Using Dwyer’s two decades spent working with filmmakers and discussing movies with critics and moviegoers,Bollywood’s India is an illuminating look at Hindi cinema.

Author : Shakuntala Rao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138240162
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journalism, Democracy and Civil Society in India written by Shakuntala Rao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of growth of India's democracy since independence - with its media becoming one of the world's largest - there been a serious dearth of scholarship on the role of journalists and dramatically changing journalism practices. This book asks a variety of questions, including whether privately run news channels can provide the discursive space needed to strengthen the practices of democracy, whether neoliberal media ownership patterns provide space for a critical and free journalistic culture to evolve, and what the ethical challenges are that confront editors and journalists in a growing industry. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Studies.

Author : Paul Hartmann
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780803995819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mass Media and Village Life written by Paul Hartmann and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1989-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mass Media and Village Life assesses the actual and potential contribution of mass communication media to the process of development in the Third World in general and India in particular. Despite the faith placed in the power of the mass media to promote desirable social change in the less developed countries, the impact of mass communication on development in India has been limited. The authors of this volume examine the reasons for this by studying the process of communication in Indian villages. Their conclusions are based on extensive anthropological studies of five villages in three Indian States which, taken together, provide a graphic account of Indian village life. These detailed case studies provide new insights into the role played by communication in the social processes that bear upon development. The study locates communication firmly within the socio-economic context of community life and offers both qualitative and quantitative data in support. The authors conclude that the influence of the media is filtered through structures of inequality that themselves pose a major obstacle to change. Further, that locally-based rather than centralised strategies for communication show the most promise of success.

Author : Subir Ghosh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mass Media Today written by Subir Ghosh and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: