Stringers and the journalistic field marginalities and precarious news labour in small-town India / Nimmagadda Bhargav.
| Author/creator | Bhargav, Nimmagadda |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Ethnographic innovations, South Asian perspectives |
| Contents | Locating the stringer: social and political scaffoldings -- Masculinity and missing women in the journalistic field -- Dispositions and recruitment patterns of agents -- Roles and/is hierarchies -- The logic of local journalistic practice -- Informality, precarity and news labour -- Conclusion: Newswork in the time of pandemic. |
| Abstract | "This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism. It explores existing practices and cultures in the field of local journalism and the roles and spaces stringers occupy. The book outlines the caste, gender, class, and region-based biases in the production in Indian-language journalism with a specific focus on stringers working in Telugu dailies in small towns or 'mofussil' areas of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, states in south India. Further, it captures their daily work and processes of news production, and precarious lives they often lead while working in small towns or mofussils. The author, by using Bourdieu's field theory introduces the journalistic practices of stringers working on the margins and how they negotiate the complex hierarchies that exist within the journalistic field and outside it. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of ethnography, media sociology, journalism and media studies, labour studies and Area studies, especially South Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Bhargav, Nimmagadda. Stringers and the journalistic field Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2023 9781032326429 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022046346 |
| ISBN | 9781000840353 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003369264 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |