Media and Mediation

Volume I

ISBN: 978-0-7619-3429-5
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Communication Processes

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bel, Bernard

Brouwer, Jan

Das, Biswajit

Parthasarathi, Vibodh

Poitevin, Guy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Poitevin, Guy
Guy Poitevin (1934–2004) was born in Mayenne (France). After studying to become a priest and graduating in philosophy and theology, he taught for twelve years in a seminary in Western France. He settled in Pune in 1972 and later became a naturalized Indian citizen. Along with his wife Hema Rairkar, friends and associates, he set up the Village Community Development Association (VCDA, ttp://vcda.ws) in 1978 to support socio-cultural action in remote rural areas, and the Centre for Cooperative Research in Social Sciences (CCRSS, http://ccrss.ws) in 1980 for the purpose of carrying out theoretically related activities. Besides numerous articles, he has written several books in English and French, including translated works from Marathi.

Bel, Bernard
Bernard Bel is a research engineer currently working at Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence, a speech research laboratory of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris. Earlier, he was a member of the Groupe Intelligence Artificielle, Marseille II University. Between 1994 and 1998, he was deputed to Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi, to carry on projects in musicology and sociocultural anthropology. He has published numerous articles on both subjects and is currently involved in social activism for an improvement of birth practices in French-speaking countries, both as the webmaster of the Naissance portal http://naissance.ws and the secretary of Alliance Francophone pour l’Accouchement Respecté http:/ /www.afar.info.

Brouwer, Jan
Jan Brouwer recently retired as Professor of Cultural Anthropology from the North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong. He is presently Professor of Anthropology at the University School of Design, University of Mysore and Honorary Director at the Centre for Advanced Research on Indigenous Knowledge Systems (CARIKS), Mysore. He has many published works to his credit and is currently working on the concept of autonomy and death as a social relation.

Das, Biswajit
Biswajit Das is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has over two decades of teaching experience and specialized research in communication studies, during which he was also a visiting fellow at the Universities of Windsor, Canada and Hawaii, USA. His research has been supported by various foundations and institutions in India and abroad such as Indo-French Scholarship, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies and the Charles Wallace Trust.

Parthasarathi, Vibodh
Vibodh Parthasarathi, an independent communication theorist and policy consultant based in New Delhi, maintains an interest in the political economy of communication and comparative media practice. His work has gained support from the Charles Wallace India Trust, Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation, Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation, India Foundation for the Arts, and the Netherlands Fellowship Programme. He has also taught at government and private universities in India, besides dabbling in documentaries. ‘Crosscurrents—A Fijian Travelogue’, his last documentary, explored the many faces of ‘reconciliation’ after the decade of coups in the tiny Pacific nation. His current research includes tracing the history of the music industry in twentieth century India.