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100 1 _aUdupa, Sahana,
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245 1 0 _aMaking news in global India :
_bmedia, publics, politics /
_cSahana Udupa.
300 _axiii, 278 pages ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: the twin mediations; 1. Regimes of desire; 2. Democracy by default; 3. The difference machine: market and field logics of news production; 4. Kannada Jāgate: sounds and silences of the Bhasha media; 5. 'Journalists are pimps': a triangulated axis of caste, language and politics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
520 _a"In the decades following India's opening to foreign capital, the city of Bangalore emerged, quite unexpectedly, as the outsourcing hub for the global technology industry and the aspirational global city of liberalizing India. Through an ethnography of English and Kannada print news media in Bangalore, this ambitious and innovative new study reveals how the expanding private news culture played a critical role in shaping urban transformation in India, when the allegedly public profession of journalism became both an object and agent of global urbanization. Building on extensive fieldwork carried out with the Times of India group, the largest media house in India, between 2008-2012, Sahana Udupa argues that the class project of the 'global city' news discourse came into striking conflict with the cultural logics of regional language and caste practices. Advancing new theoretical concepts, Making News in Global India takes arguments in media scholarship beyond the dichotomy of public good and private accumulation"--
650 0 _aMass media and culture
_zIndia.
650 0 _aGlobalization
_xSocial aspects
_zIndia.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International.
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