Television Publics in South Asia: Mediated Politics and Culture

Television plays a significant role in shaping discursive domains in the daily lives of South Asian publics, and this book explores various television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences, and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It highlights gendered television spaces, women seeking solace from television during the pandemic, the taboo in digital TV dramas, television viewership and localizing publics, changing viewership from television to OTT, news and public perception of death, and redefining 'the national, theatrical television, and post-truth television news.'

Format: Unspecified
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 20 November 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Television plays a pivotal role in shaping discursive domains in the daily lives of South Asian publics. This comprehensive book delves into diverse television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences, and everyday cultural compositions across Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Through country-specific case studies, it explores a wide range of themes that highlight the public's and their real-life encounters with television in the region. The chapters in this book examine gendered television spaces, women seeking solace from television during pandemics, the taboo in digital TV dramas, television viewership and localizing publics, shifting viewership from television to OTT platforms, news and public perceptions of death, redefining 'the national,' theatrical television, and post-truth television news, among other critical issues. Packed with rich ethnographic case studies, this volume serves as a valuable resource for scholars and researchers in media and communication studies, journalism, digital media, South Asian studies, cultural studies, sociology, and social anthropology.

Weight: 650g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032398907