TY - BOOK AU - Bel,Bernard TI - Media and mediation SN - 0761934286 : AV - P95.82.I4 M43 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage KW - Communication KW - Political aspects KW - India KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1. The quest for theory: mapping communication studies in India / Biswajit Das -- 2. Subaltern participation or democratic cooperation / Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Guy Poitevin -- 3. 'Beyond the reach of monkeys and men'? O'Shaughnessy and the telegraph in India c.1836-56 / Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury -- 4. Information society as if communication mattered: the Indian State revisited / Dipankar Sinha -- 5. Construing a 'new media' market: the merchandising of recorded music, c.1900-1912 / Vibodh Parthasarathi -- 6. A question of choice: advertisements, media, and democracy / Maitrayee Chaudhuri -- 7. Mediating modernity: colonial discourse and radio broadcasting, c.1924-1947 / Biswajit Das -- 8. In search of autonomy: the nationalist imagination of public broadcasting / Shanti Kumar -- 9. State, market, and freedom of expression: women and electronic media / Uma Chakravarti -- 10. Forging public opinion: the press, television, and electoral campaigns in Andhra Pradesh / G. Krishna Reddy -- 11. Personal and social communication: two instances of electronic mail / Bernard Bel -- 12. Communication for socio-cultural action / Jitendra Maid, Pandit Padalghare, Guy Poitevin -- 13. The political meaning of a river: intellectuals and the economy of knowledge around the Narmada / Joel Ruet -- 14. That persistent 'other': the political economy of copyright in India / Pradip N. Thomas ER -