Making News in Global India - Media, Publics, Politics

The first ethnography to examine the role of urban transformation, caste and language in shaping India's contemporary news culture.

Sommario

Introduction: the twin mediations; 1. Regimes of desire; 2. Democracy by default; 3. The difference machine: market and field logics of news production; 4. Kannada J¿gate: sounds and silences of the Bhasha media; 5. 'Journalists are pimps': a triangulated axis of caste, language and politics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Info autore

Sahana Udupa is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, Germany. Her research interests have evolved around anthropological explorations of news media, global urbanization, social media, and transnational religious politics. She has been awarded fellowships and grants by the Annenberg School of Communication (University of Pennsylvania), the Max Planck Society (Germany), and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (India). Her research is published in premier academic journals including American Ethnologist and Media, Culture and Society. She is actively involved in international academic collaborations across India, Europe and North America. She carries with her several years of experience working as a bilingual journalist in India, and her enduring relations with the journalistic community.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sahana Udupa, Udupa Sahana
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781107492134
• ISBN: 978-1-107-49213-4
• Pagine: 292
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Politics & government, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, News media and journalism, Urban communities, Media studies: Journalism, Media, Information & Communication Industries, Urban communities / city life