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Stringers and the Journalistic Field - Nimmagadda Bhargav

Stringers and the Journalistic Field

Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India
Buch | Softcover
196 Seiten
2024
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-43895-5 (ISBN)
CHF 69,80 inkl. MwSt
This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism. It explores existing practices and cultures in the field of local journalism and the roles and spaces stringers occupy.

The book outlines the caste, gender, class and region-based biases in the production of Indian-language journalism with a specific focus on stringers working in Telugu dailies in small towns or ‘mofussil’ areas of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, states in south India. Further, it captures their daily work and processes of news production, and the precarious lives they often lead while working in small towns or mofussils. The author, by using Bourdieu’s field theory, introduces the journalistic practices of stringers working on the margins and how they negotiate the complex hierarchies that exist within the journalistic field and outside it.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of ethnography, media sociology, journalism and media studies, labour studies and Area studies, especially South Asian studies.

Nimmagadda Bhargav is a faculty member in the communications at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hyderabad's Department of Communication and was a postdoctoral research assistant on an Arts and Humanities Research Council and UKRI-funded project led by Loughborough University.

Acknowledgements

A note on translation, transliteration, language, and style






Introduction: Studying small-town stringers



Locating the stringer: Social and political scaffoldings



Masculinity and missing women in the journalistic field



Dispositions and recruitment patterns of agents



Roles and/as hierarchies



The logic of local journalistic practice



Informality, precarity, and news labour



Conclusion: Newswork in the time of pandemic

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Ethnographic Innovations, South Asian Perspectives
Zusatzinfo 29 Tables, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 390 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-032-43895-9 / 1032438959
ISBN-13 978-1-032-43895-5 / 9781032438955
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