Nimmagadda Bhargav

Stringers and the Journalistic Field (eBook, PDF)

Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism. It explores existing practices and cultures in the field of local journalism and the roles and spaces stringers occupy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000840322
• Artikelnr.: 67249617

Autorenporträt

Nimmagadda Bhargav is a faculty member in the communications at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hyderabad's Department of Communication and was a postdoctoral research assistant on an Arts and Humanities Research Council and UKRI-funded project led by Loughborough University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
A note on translation, transliteration, language, and style
1. Introduction: Studying small-town stringers
2. Locating the stringer: Social and political scaffoldings
3. Masculinity and missing women in the journalistic field
4. Dispositions and recruitment patterns of agents
5. Roles and/as hierarchies
6. The logic of local journalistic practice
7. Informality, precarity, and news labour
8. Conclusion: Newswork in the time of pandemic
Index