ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction

Television news and audience in Bangladesh

chapter 3|36 pages

On the Ethnography of Television

The field and the work

chapter 4|32 pages

Television Viewing Culture

Perspectives from below

chapter 5|38 pages

Newsroom

Culture and politics of news making

chapter 6|15 pages

Social Mobilization and the Role of Media

chapter 8|16 pages

Television Media Culture

Hujug and the myth of happenings

chapter 9|15 pages

Conclusion

The said, unsaid and yet to be said