Stringers and the Journalistic Field
Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India
Seiten
2023
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-32642-9 (ISBN)
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-32642-9 (ISBN)
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.
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 earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the Manipal Institute of Communication, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
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 | 10.02.2023 |
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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 | 548 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-032-32642-5 / 1032326425 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-32642-9 / 9781032326429 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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