Media and Mediation

This volume is devoted to understanding the politics in, and of, communication. The contributors explore the political terrain on which various processes of communication unfold, as well as investigating the political configurations of communication processes.Through conceptual articulations, theoretical constructs and empirical data, the volume addresses such questions as: how fruitful is communication as a concept? What types of insights does it yield? and Do these insights emanate from academic engagements or from practices within society? Communication Processes Volume 2: Domination and Appropriation Bernard Bel et alCloth (0-7619-3446-4) available March 2006

This volume is devoted to understanding the politics in, and of, communication. The contributors explore the political terrain on which various processes of communication unfold, as well as investigating the political configurations of communication processes.

Through conceptual articulations, theoretical constructs and empirical data, the volume addresses such questions as: how fruitful is communication as a concept? What types of insights does it yield? and Do these insights emanate from academic engagements or from practices within society?

·· Communication Processes Volume 2: Domination and Appropriation ··

Bernard Bel et al

Cloth (0-7619-3446-4) available March 2006

The Quest for Theory - Biswajit Das
Mapping Communication Studies in India
Investigating Communication - Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi and Guy Poitevin
Remooring the Contours of Research
PART ONE: CONSTRUCTIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS
Introduction
Fulcrums of Administration
`Beyond the Reach of Monkeys and Men′? O′Shaughnessy and the Telegraph in India c.1836-56 - Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury
Information Society as if Communication Mattered - Dipankar Sinha
The Indian State Revisited
Landscapes of Commerce
Constructing a `New Media′ Market - Vibodh Parthasarathi
Merchandising the Talking Machine, c.1900-1912
A Question of Choice - Maitrayee Chaudhuri
Advertisements, Media and Democracy
Arenas of Assimilation
Mediating Modernity - Biswajit Das
Colonial Discourse and Radio Broadcasting, c.1924-1947
In Search of Autonomy - Shanti Kumar
The Nationalist Imagination of Public Broadcasting
PART TWO: ANATOMIES OF ARBITRATION
Introduction
Invasion and Intrusion
State, Market and Freedom of Expression - Uma Chakravarti
Women and Electronic Media
Forging Public Opinion - G Krishna Reddy
The Press, Television and Electoral Campaigns in Andhra Pradesh
Interaction and Appropriation
Personal and Social Communication - Bernard Bel
Two Instances of Electronic Mail
Communication for Socio-Cultural Action - Jitendra Maid, Pandit Padalghare and Guy Poitevin
`Is the Discourse "on" or "off"?′
Interrogation and Contestation
The Political Meaning of a River - J[um]oel Ruet
Intellectuals and the Economy of Knowledge Around the Narmada
That Persistent `Other′ - Pradip N Thomas
The Political Economy of Copyright in India