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Screening the public sphere : media and democracy in India / Saima Saeed.

By: Publication details: London : Routledge, 2013.Description: xx, 428 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780415812443 :
  • 0415812445 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN5377.T4 S34 2013
Contents:
Part I. Social Theory and Contours of Media: Designing News as a Body of Knowledge Introduction: Four Elements Towards a Social Theory of the Media. 1. Citizenship and the Right to Communicate 2. Public Knowledge: Dialectics of Constructivism and Realism 3. Criticality, Truth-telling and Accountability: The Question of Legitimacy 4. Power, Ideology and the Production of Meaning 5. Cataloguing the News Media: Notes on Research Design. Part II. Political Economy of Television News in India: Ownership Patterns and Content 6. Broadcasting History in India 7. A Political Economy Tradition of Television News 8. TV News Ownership Patterns in India: 1991-2012 9. Ownership Patterns and Its Impact on News Values and Content 10. From the UK Phone Hacking Scandal to the Radia Tapes: Professional Practices, Objectivity and Truthiness in the Newsroom 11. Breaking on Anna: How TV News Lost out on Criticality. Part III. Broadcasting in the Service of the Public: Televising Bharat 12. Public Service Broadcasting as Value and the Value of Public Service Broadcasting 13. The Politics of Public Service Broadcasting in India: Media Policy Ad Hocism and Its Pitfalls 14. The Privatization of Public Good: Auditing the Developmental Reportage Deficit on Indian Television. Part IV. Television News and Civic Engagement: Implications for Democracy and Development 15. News Consumption and Public Knowledge 16. Television News, Political Participation and Development 17. News as if Citizens Matter: Paradigmatic Shifts in the Four Elements of a Social Theory of the Media.
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Part I. Social Theory and Contours of Media: Designing News as a Body of Knowledge Introduction: Four Elements Towards a Social Theory of the Media. 1. Citizenship and the Right to Communicate 2. Public Knowledge: Dialectics of Constructivism and Realism 3. Criticality, Truth-telling and Accountability: The Question of Legitimacy 4. Power, Ideology and the Production of Meaning 5. Cataloguing the News Media: Notes on Research Design. Part II. Political Economy of Television News in India: Ownership Patterns and Content 6. Broadcasting History in India 7. A Political Economy Tradition of Television News 8. TV News Ownership Patterns in India: 1991-2012 9. Ownership Patterns and Its Impact on News Values and Content 10. From the UK Phone Hacking Scandal to the Radia Tapes: Professional Practices, Objectivity and Truthiness in the Newsroom 11. Breaking on Anna: How TV News Lost out on Criticality. Part III. Broadcasting in the Service of the Public: Televising Bharat 12. Public Service Broadcasting as Value and the Value of Public Service Broadcasting 13. The Politics of Public Service Broadcasting in India: Media Policy Ad Hocism and Its Pitfalls 14. The Privatization of Public Good: Auditing the Developmental Reportage Deficit on Indian Television. Part IV. Television News and Civic Engagement: Implications for Democracy and Development 15. News Consumption and Public Knowledge 16. Television News, Political Participation and Development 17. News as if Citizens Matter: Paradigmatic Shifts in the Four Elements of a Social Theory of the Media.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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