Democracy, Media and Indian Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy, Media and Indian Society write by . This book was released on 2023. Democracy, Media and Indian Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Journalism, Democracy and Civil Society in India
Journalism, Democracy and Civil Society in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journalism, Democracy and Civil Society in India write by Shakuntala Rao. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Journalism, Democracy and Civil Society in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since independence in 1947 India has remained a stable and functioning democracy in the face of enormous challenges. Amid a variety of interlinking contraries and a burgeoning media – one of the largest in the world – there has been a serious dearth of scholarship on the role of journalists and dramatically changing journalism practices. This book brings together some of the best known scholars on Indian journalism to ask questions such as: Can the plethora of privately run cable news channels provide the discursive space needed to strengthen the practices of democracy, not just inform results from the ballot boxes? Can neoliberal media ownership patterns provide space for a critical and free journalistic culture to evolve? What are the ethical challenges editors and journalists face on a day-to-day basis in a media industry which has exploded? In answering some of these questions, the contributors to this volume are equally sensitive to the historical, social, and cultural context in which Indian journalism evolved, but they do not all reach the same conclusion about the role of journalism in Indian civil society and democracy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Studies.
Screening the Public Sphere
Screening the Public Sphere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Screening the Public Sphere write by Saima Saeed. This book was released on 2020-11-29. Screening the Public Sphere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries, democracy and development have steered the imagination of governments, citizens, intelligentsia and policymakers alike. Democracy without free media is a contradiction, while development without democracy is futile. Highlighting the power and significance of contemporary media, this book deconstructs news and news-making on Indian television. In exploring the concepts of ‘sense-making’ and ‘meaning-generation’, it examines how news and the dissemination of information and opinion influence the public sphere, participatory democracy, citizenship and civil society. Providing an original interpretation of the paradigmatic shifts in news content and newsroom practices, this book focuses on changing ownership patterns, increasing ‘entertainmentalization’ of news and the resultant ‘developmental reportage deficit’. At the same time, it confronts the uneasy and critical consequences of commercialization and rising sensationalism in news media. Finally, it discusses the role of Public Service Broadcasting, journalistic ethics, objectivity, and the politics of language and ideology in the media today, pointing to the need for greater diversity of content on the one hand and an emphasis on public interest in media policy-making, on the other. Drawing upon comprehensive empirical data, the democracy–media–development relationship is demonstrated through critical analyses of the media’s coverage of recent news events. This includes exhaustive content examination of news programmes on all major news channels of India, surveys with media experts and news professionals by way of questionnaires, and interviews with the audience to gauge the impact of media content on their understanding of social, political and economic issues. This volume will be especially useful to those in journalism, media and communication studies, as also to students of political science, sociology and economics.
Social Media and Democracy
Social Media and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Media and Democracy write by Nathaniel Persily. This book was released on 2020-09-03. Social Media and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.
Political Communication in Contemporary India
Political Communication in Contemporary India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Communication in Contemporary India write by Yatindra Singh Sisodia. This book was released on 2022-11-23. Political Communication in Contemporary India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the forms, patterns, and trends in political communication in India in the twenty-first century. It underlies the influence of context in political messaging laying bare its complex, overlapping, and multidimensional structures. The volume: Examines how political decision-making is shaped by media — through political speeches, community opinion leaders, and formal and informal public conversations. Explores a range of political communication channels— from community radio to social media. Presents an overview of the problems associated with message designing and message dissemination through communication channels in a political setting. Highlights how political communication impacts critical aspects of democracy and governance and goes beyond mere rhetoric. A comprehensive work on the production, diffusion, transmission, and impact of information in a political environment, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, governance, democracy, media and communication studies, journalism, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.
