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Media and Mediation
Volume I

Edited by:
  • Bernard Bel - French National Centre for Scientific Research
  • Jan Brouwer - Centre for Advanced Research on Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Mysore
  • Biswajit Das - Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
  • Vibodh Parthasarathi - Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
  • Guy Poitevin - Late of Centre for Cooperative Research in Social Sciences, Pune
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© 2006 | 408 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
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This volume is devoted to understanding the politics in, and of, communication. The contributors explore the political terrain on which various processes of communication unfold, as well as investigating the political configurations of communication processes.

Through conceptual articulations, theoretical constructs and empirical data, the volume addresses such questions as: how fruitful is communication as a concept? What types of insights does it yield? and Do these insights emanate from academic engagements or from practices within society?

·· Communication Processes Volume 2: Domination and Appropriation ··

Bernard Bel et al

Cloth (0-7619-3446-4) available March 2006

Biswajit Das
The Quest for Theory
Mapping Communication Studies in India  
Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi and Guy Poitevin
Investigating Communication
Remooring the Contours of Research  
 
PART ONE: CONSTRUCTIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS
 
Introduction
 
Fulcrums of Administration
Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury
`Beyond the Reach of Monkeys and Men'? O'Shaughnessy and the Telegraph in India c.1836-56
Dipankar Sinha
Information Society as if Communication Mattered
The Indian State Revisited  
 
Landscapes of Commerce
Vibodh Parthasarathi
Constructing a `New Media' Market
Merchandising the Talking Machine, c.1900-1912  
Maitrayee Chaudhuri
A Question of Choice
Advertisements, Media and Democracy  
 
Arenas of Assimilation
Biswajit Das
Mediating Modernity
Colonial Discourse and Radio Broadcasting, c.1924-1947  
Shanti Kumar
In Search of Autonomy
The Nationalist Imagination of Public Broadcasting  
 
PART TWO: ANATOMIES OF ARBITRATION
 
Introduction
 
Invasion and Intrusion
Uma Chakravarti
State, Market and Freedom of Expression
Women and Electronic Media  
G Krishna Reddy
Forging Public Opinion
The Press, Television and Electoral Campaigns in Andhra Pradesh  
 
Interaction and Appropriation
Bernard Bel
Personal and Social Communication
Two Instances of Electronic Mail  
Jitendra Maid, Pandit Padalghare and Guy Poitevin
Communication for Socio-Cultural Action
`Is the Discourse "on" or "off"?'  
 
Interrogation and Contestation
J[um]oel Ruet
The Political Meaning of a River
Intellectuals and the Economy of Knowledge Around the Narmada  
Pradip N Thomas
That Persistent `Other'
The Political Economy of Copyright in India  

Combining theoretical discussions with empirical case studies, this volume delineates the possibilities and potentials of excluded people seeking inclusion, as well as the complexities and contradictions inherent in the process.

The Pakistan Development Review

This book might of interest to students and scholars of media studies, history and sociology, and evolving concerns in cultural studies and public policy; also recommended for readers interested in development studies.

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