Satellites Over South Asia: Broadcasting, Culture and the Public Interest

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7619-9482-4
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

This book examines the transformation of broadcasting in South Asia brought on by the arrival of new satellite channels during the 1990s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Page, David

Crawley, William

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Nachrichten- und Kommunikationstechnik Satellitenkommunikation, Satellitentechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Colonial Beginnings and National Imperatives
South Asia Goes Global
The Lure of the Indian Market
Whose Popular Culture?
India
North and South
The South Asian Footprint
The Response of the Nation State
Broadcasting and Community
Redefining the Public Interest
Agendas for Change

Über Autor(innen)

Page, David
David Page is Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Co-director (with William Crawley) of the Media South Asia Project. After taking his doctorate in South Asian History at Oxford University, he joined the BBC in 1972 and worked for more than 20 years as a journalist, editor and manager in the BBC Eastern Service. Since leaving the BBC, he has worked as a consultant and researcher on communication issues in South Asia. He and William Crawley collaborated with partners in five South Asian countries in researching and writing Satellites over South Asia: Broadcasting, Culture and the Public Interest (SAGE, New Delhi, 2001) and in organising conferences and seminars on broadcasting policy in the region. In 2012, he co-authored a BBC Media Action publication The Media of Afghanistan: The Challenges of Transition. He is a trustee of Afghanaid, a British charity working with rural communities in Northern Afghanistan.

Crawley, William
William Crawley is Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and Co-director of the Media South Asia Project (www.mediasouthasia.org). After completing his doctorate at Oxford University, he was a journalist, editor and manager in the BBC World Service for 23 years until 1994. Since leaving the BBC, he has written articles and edited publications on the BBC and India, and on the media in South Asia. He and David Page collaborated with partners in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal in researching and writing Satellites over South Asia: Broadcasting, Culture and the Public Interest (SAGE, New Delhi, 2001). The Media South Asia Project also commissioned a documentary film Michael Jackson Comes to Manikganj, directed by the Indian Journalist and Film-maker Nupur Basu. He was Secretary of the Charles Wallace Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma Trusts from 2002 to 2007. He is on the Editorial Board of Asian Affairs, the journal of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs.