Bøger af Sanjay Asthana

The state and politics have significantly influenced the institution of television in India. But, despite the recent proliferation of literature on mass media, the political history of state-run broadcasting, particularly television, remains unexamined. Most studies have dealt either with the general history of broadcasting or the post-1991 satellite television boom, ignoring the political contexts of the1980s ¿ a period that witnessed both rapid growth and development of state-run television and political instability in the Indian States of Assam, Kashmir and Punjab.

Through an investigation on how Palestinian youth appropriate low-end information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital media forms, Sanjay Asthana and Nishan Havandjian analyze how certain developments in globalization and media convergence enable young people to create new civic spaces.

What are the salient features of the youth media practices? What kinds of media narratives are produced and how do these relate to young people's notions of identity and selfhood? This book demonstrates how young people from around the world appropriate and reconfigure old and new media in the process of creating personal and social narratives.