| Description |
1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
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Routledge research in cultural and media studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface: This moment in time and space -- The writer's perch -- Insider-outsider -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Is there a problem? -- Aesthetic rendering -- A delineation of terminology -- In defense of the style -- Contours of this journey -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: The discomfort with media literacy -- An incomplete track -- Media literacy as ability -- Media literacy practice in India -- Mediated pandemic -- Notes -- References |
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Chapter 2: Trust, promise, and duty -- The crisis of trust -- Trust and the aspiration for change -- Evidence and its rejection -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Post-reflexive modernity -- The nature of post-reflexive modernity -- Modernity's form and the postcolonial challenge -- Past glory and the path of duty -- Authority and vikas -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Continuity in postcolonial narration -- Postcolonial narrations -- Self-narration of India -- Conditions of critical thought in India -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Aesthetics, presentation, absentation |
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Aesthetic theory -- Suturing our world -- Media logic and media truths -- Our contract with the media -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Case study: The spectacle of India's Potemkin village -- Potemkin villages and visibility -- Beauty and truth: Narrative construction of spectacle -- Quid pro quo: Before Trump's visit -- A freshly resegregated city -- The theater of encomium -- A saffron Namaste -- A new wall -- Portrayals of friendship -- The spinning wheel -- A new festival -- Behind the tinted glass -- The sights of applause -- Conclusion: The value of visibility -- Notes -- References |
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Chapter 7: News aesthetics and the narrative structure -- Locus of the media prosumer -- Practice of news narration -- Routinization and myth -- Features of news aesthetics -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: Case study: Invisibility in Boolgarhi -- The two violations -- A well-ordered tapestry -- Disruption and continuity -- Reflexive invisibility -- Immobilizing spaces -- The alleged violations -- A cultural condition -- The politics of disruption -- The moment of untruth -- The absent presence of no -- Invisibility of the local -- Conclusion: The ghost of Boolgarhi -- Epilogue -- Notes |
| Summary |
This book considers the presence of media illiteracy in a world in which we are supposedly consumed by media, live a media life, in a media ecosystem, surrounded only by mediated communication |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
References -- Chapter 9: Towards demystification of media illiteracy -- A return to media illiteracy -- Uncertainty and the media prosumer -- Visibility and meaning -- Mystification and demystification -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: An evaluative framework -- Visibility, invisibility, presence, absence -- Communities and absence-presence -- Communities and media literacy -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Some reflections -- References -- Index |
| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040091432 |
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1040091431 |
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