Stringers and the Journalistic Field - Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism. It explores existing practices and cultures in the field of local journalism and the roles and spaces stringers occupy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
A note on translation, transliteration, language, and style

1. Introduction: Studying small-town stringers


2. Locating the stringer: Social and political scaffoldings


3. Masculinity and missing women in the journalistic field


4. Dispositions and recruitment patterns of agents


5. Roles and/as hierarchies


6. The logic of local journalistic practice


7. Informality, precarity, and news labour


8. Conclusion: Newswork in the time of pandemic

Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Nimmagadda Bhargav is a faculty member in the communications at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hyderabad's Department of Communication and was a postdoctoral research assistant on an Arts and Humanities Research Council and UKRI-funded project led by Loughborough University.

Zusammenfassung

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism. It explores existing practices and cultures in the field of local journalism and the roles and spaces stringers occupy.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nimmagadda Bhargav, Nimmagadda (Manipal Institute of Communic Bhargav
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032438955
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243895-5
• Seiten: 196
• Serie: Ethnographic Innovations, South Asian Perspectives
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Gesellschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Journalistik; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Press & journalism, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism