Ursula Rao

Gebundenes Buch

News as Culture

Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions

Beschreibung

Explains the social relevance of news by discussing the relation between media related practices and dynamic cultural repertoires Moves beyond the dichotomy of reader and write in news relations to show how social interactions across these categories interactively create news texts and shape news discourses Provides a timely discussion of the effects of neoliberal reforms on Indian society and traditions Pushes for a new approach in media study by analyzing the ‘social life’ of news texts

Autor

Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research focus is urban life and cultural transformations. She works in the fields of Media Anthropology, E-Governance and Ritual Studies. Some of her recent English language publications are The Cultural Politics of Disadvantage in South Asia (Asian Studies Review, 33(4), edited together with Assa Doron); Making the Global City: Urban Citizenship at the Margins of Delhi (Ethnos 74(4): 402-424.); and Celebrating Transgression: Method and Politics in the Anthropological Study of Cultures (Berghahn, 2006).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781845456696
• ISBN-10: 1845456696
• Artikelnr.: 30191850