Saima Saeed

Screening the Public Sphere (eBook, PDF)

Media and Democracy in India

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Produktbeschreibung

The book expounds an original social theory of media by positing four concepts - citizenship, public knowledge, criticality and power - as central to an understanding and evaluation of contemporary journalistic practice, ownership patterns and content, while framing the role and relationship of television news with regard to democracy and develo

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000087796
• Artikelnr.: 60582580

Autorenporträt

Saima Saeed is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Abbreviations. Preface.
Acknowledgements. Part I. Social Theory and Contours of Media: Designing
News as a Body of Knowledge Introduction: Four Elements Towards a Social
Theory of the Media. 1. Citizenship and the Right to Communicate 2. Public
Knowledge: Dialectics of Constructivism and Realism 3. Criticality,
Truth-telling and Accountability: The Question of Legitimacy 4. Power,
Ideology and the Production of Meaning 5. Cataloguing the News Media: Notes
on Research Design. Part II. Political Economy of Television News in India:
Ownership Patterns and Content 6. Broadcasting History in India 7. A
Political Economy Tradition of Television News 8. TV News Ownership
Patterns in India: 1991-2012 9. Ownership Patterns and Its Impact on News
Values and Content 10. From the UK Phone Hacking Scandal to the Radia
Tapes: Professional Practices, Objectivity and Truthiness in the Newsroom
11. Breaking on Anna: How TV News Lost out on Criticality. Part III.
Broadcasting in the Service of the Public: Televising Bharat 12. Public
Service Broadcasting as Value and the Value of Public Service Broadcasting
13. The Politics of Public Service Broadcasting in India: Media Policy Ad
Hocism and Its Pitfalls 14. The Privatization of Public Good: Auditing the
Developmental Reportage Deficit on Indian Television. Part IV. Television
News and Civic Engagement: Implications for Democracy and Development 15.
News Consumption and Public Knowledge 16. Television News, Political
Participation and Development 17. News as if Citizens Matter: Paradigmatic
Shifts in the Four Elements of a Social Theory of the Media. Notes. Select
Bibliography. Appendix. About the Author. Index