Rethinking Media Studies

Media, Meditation and Communication
Herausgeber: Giri, Ananta Kumar; Biswal, Santosh Kumar

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reconsiders media studies from different philosophical and theoretical perspectives from around the world. It brings together diverse views and visions from thinkers such as Jurgen Habermas, Ramachandra Gandhi, Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricouer, Pope Francis, and Satyajit Ray, among others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781032271279
• ISBN-10: 1032271272
• Artikelnr.: 70146734

Autorenporträt

Ananta Kumar Giri is Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity, and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture, and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy, and literature. Dr Giri has written and edited around two dozen books in Odia and English, including Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998); Knowledge and Human Liberation (2013), Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Creative Experiments for Alternative Futures (editor, 2019), Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo (editor, 2022), and The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (2023). Santosh Kumar Biswal is working as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Rama Devi Women's University, Bhubaneswar (India). He has worked in Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune (India). Previously, he has worked in Andhra Loyola College (Autonomous), Vijayawada; and Hindustan Times, New Delhi. He has co-edited books - Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema (2020) and Holistic Approaches to Brand Culture and Communication Across Industries (2018). He has published business cases in reputed platforms including SAGE. He has published popular columns in national English dailies including The Indian Express, The Asian Age, The Telegraph, Hindustan Times, The Pioneer, The Statesman, Deccan Chronicle, and Yahoo India. He has contributed MOOCs for SWAYAM & e-PG Pathshala- MHRD, Govt. of India. Currently, he is the Associate Editor of Media Watch, a double-blind peer-reviewed media and communication journal.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures xii List of Tables xiii Notes on Contributors xiv Preface
xxiii Rethinking Media Studies: An Introduction and an Invitation 1 ANANTA
KUMAR GIRI AND SANTOSH KUMAR BISWAL PART I Media, Meditation, and
Communication 13 1 What Follows from the Nature of Human Communication for
a Future Democracy as a "Communication Society"?: At the Crossing of
Social-Philosophical and Spiritual Meditation 15 JOHANNES HEINRICHS 2
Media, Truth, and the Good: A Meditation on the Implications of
Historico-Religious Contexts 36 ORI Z. SOLTES 3 The Message of Media,
Communicative Action, and Meditative Walking: Pope Francis' Prophetic
Actions and Paul Ricoeur's Understanding of Faith for Societal
Transformation and Moral Openness 54 KURUVILLA PANDIKATTU S.J. 4 Moral
Consciousness and Communicative Action: From Discourse Ethics to Spiritual
Transformations 67 ANANTA KUMAR GIRI 5 Mahatma Gandhi, Media Ethics, and
United Nations 91 CHRISTIAN BARTOLF 6 Significance of Integrating
Nonviolent Communication in Communication Studies: An Exploration 104
VEDABHYAS KUNDU 7 Desire for Omnipresence: A Brief Introduction to a Key
Conceptual Tool 117 CAMILA MOZZINI-ALISTER 8 The Development of Self in the
Age of Social Media: Creating Transitional Spaces through Focused
Meditative Practices 131 ANUSNIGDHA PART II Rethinking Media Studies: New
Horizons of Theory and Practice 145 9 Unorthodox Coalitions: Co-Creative
Media Initiatives for Transformative Critical Sustainability Studies 147
SUSAN THIEME AND EDA ELIF TIBET 10 Recreating Global Media through
Propitious Hermeneutics Instigating Possible Earthly Prospects for Mankind
165 RUTH NEYAH V 11 Urban Society in the Films of Satyajit Ray: An
Ambiguous Journey between Instrumental Rationalism and Intersubjective
Reality 182 ABHISHEK KUMAR 12 Transformative Communal Media Engagement and
Diversification 196 ABDULKADIR OSMAN FARAH 13 American News Media: A
Shattered Institution 210 SHARAF REHMAN 14 Media, Mediation, and
Transformation: The Implication of Digital Mediation on Contemporary Bombay
Cinema 228 IPSITA BARAT 15 #RIP: Mediatization of Grief Over Social Media:
An Exploration of Social Media Expression and Experience of Mourning 239
SURHITA BASU PART III Rethinking Media Studies: Further Explorations 259
16 From Printing Press to the Metaverse: The Changing Role of Technologies
in Journalistic Practice 261 SUCHITRA PATNAIK 17 Social Media: A Critical
Cultural Approach 271 JOHN ROBERT CLAMMER 18 Memes and Popular Culture:
Indian Perspectives 280 SHOURINI BANERJEE, S. BALAGANAPATHY, AND C.
VELAYUTHAM 19 Deconstructing the Idea of Manhood in Indian Television
Advertisements 294 PANCHALI BHATTACHARYA AND AMRITA SATAPATHY 20 Media and
Risk Communication: Building Interventional Tools During a Crisis Situation
with Special Reference To Covid-19 312 TRISHA DOWERAH BARUAH 21 Sabarimala:
Adversarial Culture and the Role of Media 323 TAMILSELVI NATARAJAN 22
Revisiting Gender Representation in Indian News Media 339 POOJA VERMA,
SANTOSH KUMAR BISWAL, AND SUSHOBHAN PATANKAR 23 Portrayal of Dalit Women
Protagonists in Geeli Pucchi and 200 Halla Ho: A Revisit of Hindi Cinema
353 CHANDRAKANT KAMBLE 24 Understanding Electronic Media, Mediation, and
Behavioural Biases: A Revisit of Human Behaviour and Meditation 367
SHIBAPRASAD PARHI 25 Ethical Practices in Indian Television 381 FAKIRA
MOHAN NAHAK 26 Radical Immersion: Bhakti as Ethical Medium in Contemporary
India 395 UMAR NIZARUDEEN Index 413