ABSTRACT
Television has a prime role to play in the formation of discursive domains in the everyday life of South Asian publics. This book explores various television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
With the help of country-specific case studies, it captures a broad range of themes which foreground the publics and their real-life experiences of television in the region. The chapters in this book discuss gendered television spaces, women seeking solace from television in pandemic, the taboo in digital TV dramas, television viewership and localizing publics, changing viewership from television to OTT, news and public perception of death, redefining ‘the national’, theatrical television and post-truth television news, among other key issues.
Rich in ethnographic case studies, this volume will be a useful resource for scholars and researchers of media and communication studies, journalism, digital media, South Asian studies, cultural studies, sociology and social anthropology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Television Viewership and Localizing Publics
chapter 2|17 pages
Social Realms of Audiences
chapter 3|13 pages
The Dramatic Escape From Pandemic Life
chapter 4|23 pages
Televised Sexuality and Public Perception
chapter 5|17 pages
Indian Television and the Rise of the Local
part II|68 pages
Consumption and Construction of Reality
chapter 6|18 pages
OTT-Based Digital Sociality
chapter 8|14 pages
Television Viewership and Engagement in Rural Kashmir
chapter 9|22 pages
Emergence of Television Publics in Nepal
part III|83 pages
Mediatizing Politics and Constructing Publics