Media and Mediation (Communication Processes; v. 1)

✍ Scribed by Bernard Bel, Jan Brouwer, Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Guy Poitevin (editors)

• Publisher: SAGE
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 475
• Series: Communication Processes 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 16
The Quest for Theory: Mapping Communication Studies in India......Page 36
Investigating Communication: Remooring the Contours of Research......Page 67
‘Beyond the Reach of Monkeys and Men’? O’Shaughnessy and the Telegraph in India, c.1836–1856......Page 106
Information Society as if Communication Mattered: The Indian State Revisited......Page 136
Construing a ‘New Media’ Market: Merchandising the Talking Machine, c.1900–1911......Page 166
A Question of Choice: Advertisements, Media and Democracy......Page 200
Mediating Modernity: Colonial Discourse and Radio Broadcasting, c.1924–1947......Page 230
In Search of Autonomy: The Nationalist Imagination of Public Broadcasting......Page 256
State, Market and Freedom of Expression: Women and Electronic Media......Page 296
Forging Public Opinion: The Press, Television and Electoral Campaigns in Andhra Pradesh......Page 316
Personal and Social Communication: Two Instances of Electronic Mail......Page 350
Communication for Socio-Cultural Action: ‘Is the Discourse “on”, “for” or “of ”?’......Page 372
The Political Meaning of a River: Intellectuals and the Economy of Knowledge around the Narmada......Page 406
That Persistent ‘Other’: The Political Economy of Copyright in India......Page 437
In Lieu of an Epilogue: Beyond Disciplinary Elusiveness......Page 466
About the Editors and Contributors......Page 470