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Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia

by P. Thirumal/K. A. Nuaiman
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789354428920
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Orient Blackswan
  • Publisher Imprint: Ori BlackS
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 416
  • Original Price: INR 1415.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 210 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Studies of forms of media have focused on either political or cultural histories of media. Political histories study media growth and literacy, and the emergence of liberal democratic institutions in Western and postcolonial societies. Cultural histories study the multiple origins of media technologies, seek lost or marginalised cultural objects, and examine how artefacts are connected to earlier modes of production and consumption. What is lost in both is the idea that media and technologies have an independent existence, with their own lives, histories, and afterlives. Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities fills this gap, showing how media and technologies create the human condition even as they are created by it. The authors highlight this through everyday artefacts like the book, newspaper, radio, photograph, film, television and activism on digital media. The chapters study diverse forms of media/technology in a range of spaces: technological and cultural transitions negotiated in Indian journalism; the popularity of Bollywood films in Nigeria; the depiction of urban spatiality in Malayalam cinema; contested ideas regarding choices of script and technology in south and Northeast India; and the production of textbooks in the Telugu language. The volume offers a fresh understanding of interconnections between media, technology, and history, communities, including caste and sexual identities.

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