Television Publics in South Asia (eBook, ePUB)
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Television has a prime role to play in the formation of discursive domains in the everyday life of South Asian publics. This book explores various television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
With the help of country-specific case studies, it captures a broad range of themes which foreground the publics and their real-life experiences of television in the region. The chapters in this book discuss gendered television spaces, women seeking solace from television in…mehr

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Television has a prime role to play in the formation of discursive domains in the everyday life of South Asian publics. This book explores various television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

With the help of country-specific case studies, it captures a broad range of themes which foreground the publics and their real-life experiences of television in the region. The chapters in this book discuss gendered television spaces, women seeking solace from television in pandemic, the taboo in digital TV dramas, television viewership and localizing publics, changing viewership from television to OTT, news and public perception of death, redefining 'the national', theatrical television and post-truth television news, among other key issues.

Rich in ethnographic case studies, this volume will be a useful resource for scholars and researchers of media and communication studies, journalism, digital media, South Asian studies, cultural studies, sociology and social anthropology.

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Autorenporträt
S.M. Shameem Reza is Professor of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka. He earned his PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London. As an adjunct faculty member, he has taught media, culture and communication courses at several other public and private universities. He held Asia Fellowship at the Institute of Malaysia and International Studies (IKMAS), University Kebangsaan Malaysia. Reza has published his academic work in a wide range of journals, periodicals and books. His research interests include political history of television, advocacy and campaigns for community broadcasting, media policy reform and governance in the Global South, communication for change and development, communication rights of the child, public service media, and communications and geo-politics. Reza is recipient of a number of scholarships and awards including Australian Development Scholarship, Chevening Scholarship, Commonwealth Scholarship and Ford ASIA Fellows Award. He has received special research grants on the occasion of 50 years of the independence of Bangladesh and 100 years of the University of Dhaka. As a communication expert, he has worked for, among others, the organisations like The World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, Article-19, BRAC and Save the Children. S.M. Shameem Reza is a social advocate for community broadcasting, and media policy reforms in South Asia. He is a media personality and also hosted a number of Television talks shows. Ratan Kumar Roy is Assistant Professor, the School of General Education at BRAC University, Bangladesh. He was a Charles Wallace Bangladesh Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at LSE South Asia Centre, UK (2022-23). Dr Roy worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He was a residency research fellow in Asia Culture Centre, Korea, in 2018. He received doctoral award from the Department of Sociology, South Asian University, New Delhi. His book titled Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences has been published by Routledge, London, 2021. Besides, he has authored some book chapters and articles in reputed journals. Currently he is working as the chief coordinator of International Research Center, SIMEC Institute of Technology, Dhaka. Dr Roy's research and teaching interests are anthropology of media, visual culture and communication, media and social movement, communication research methods, media and culture in contemporary South Asia, media ethnography, and digital media culture.