This book examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh. By using a multi-sited ethnography of television news media, it showcases the socio-political undercurrents of media practices and the everydayness of TV news in Bangladesh. It discusses a wide gamut of issues such as news making; localised public sphere; audience reaction and viewing culture; impact of rumours and fake news; socio-political conditions; protest mobilization; newsroom politics and perspectives from the ground.
An important intervention in the subject, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of media studies, journalism and mass communication, anthropology, cultural studies, political sociology, political science, sociology, South Asian studies, as well as television professionals, journalists, civil society activists, and those interested in the study of Bangladesh.
Author(s): Ratan Kumar Roy
Publisher: Routledge India
Year: 2020
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: television news and audience in Bangladesh
2 History and politics of news television in Bangladesh in South Asia
3 On the ethnography of television: the field and the work
4 Television viewing culture: perspectives from below
5 Newsroom: culture and politics of news making
6 Social mobilization and the role of media
7 TV news, the public and localized public spheres
8 Television media culture: Hujug and the myth of happenings
9 Conclusion: the said, unsaid and yet to be said
References
Index
