Media and mediation [electronic resource] / editors Bernard Bel ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bel, Bernard.

Series:

Communication processes ; v. 1.

Communication processes ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Political aspects--India.

Communication.

India--Politics and government.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume, the first in a three-book series titled Communication Processes, is devoted to understanding the politics in, and of, communication. It explores both the ground on which processes of communication unfold and the political configurations implied in communication processes. This two-pronged approach questions the preoccupation in Indian scholarship with the `deployment` of communication technology, and the `impact` of mass media, and suggests a repositioning of `communication` as an interdisciplinary domain of enquiry. Like in the ensuing volumes, the editors of this book juxtapose

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; The Quest for Theory: Mapping Communication Studies in India; Investigating Communication: Remooring the Contours of Research; 'Beyond the Reach of Monkeys and Men'? O'Shaughnessy and the Telegraph in India, c.1836-1856; Information Society as if Communication Mattered: The Indian State Revisited; Construing a 'New Media' Market: Merchandising the Talking Machine, c.1900-1911; A Question of Choice: Advertisements, Media and Democracy; Mediating Modernity: Colonial Discourse and Radio Broadcasting, c.1924-1947

In Search of Autonomy: The Nationalist Imagination of Public BroadcastingState, Market and Freedom of Expression: Women and Electronic Media; Forging Public Opinion: The Press, Television and Electoral Campaigns in Andhra Pradesh; Personal and Social Communication: Two Instances of Electronic Mail; Communication for Socio-Cultural Action: 'Is the Discourse "on", "for" or "of "?'; The Political Meaning of a River: Intellectuals and the Economy of Knowledge around the Narmada; That Persistent 'Other': The Political Economy of Copyright in India

In Lieu of an Epilogue: Beyond Disciplinary ElusivenessAbout the Editors and Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-15398-6

9786612153983

81-321-0269-X

OCLC:

436045901