Television in Bangladesh : news and audiences

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    • Roy, Ratan Kumar
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Television in Bangladesh : news and audiences

Ratan Kumar Roy

Routledge, 2021

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-231) and index

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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.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: television news and audience in Bangladesh 1 2 History and politics of news television in Bangladesh in South Asia 21 3 On the ethnography of television: the field and the work 40 4 Television viewing culture: perspectives from below 76 5 Newsroom: culture and politics of news making 108 6 Social mobilization and the role of media 146 7 TV news, the public and localized public spheres 161 8 Television media culture: Hujug and the myth of happenings 183 9 Conclusion: the said, unsaid and yet to be said 199

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