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Author Harindranath, Ramaswami, 1959-

Title Audience-citizens : the media, public knowledge and interpretive practice / Ramaswami Harindranath
Published New Dehli : SAGE Publications India, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 272 pages)
Contents Introduction : media audiences, public knowledge and democracy -- Audiences and socio-cultural contexts -- Understanding 'understanding' : the hermeneutics of audience reception -- Exploring 'context' -- Documentary meanings and public knowledge -- Methodological reflections on 'cross-cultural' audience research -- Non-fiction and audience evaluations -- Ethnicity, multiculturalism and interpretive practice -- Making connections : media audiences and cultural citizenship -- Concluding comments
Summary This book explores how sociological and cultural factors affect interpretations of mediated knowledge. Using concepts from contemporary hermeneutics - in particular Gadamer - it examines the notion that understanding is irretrievably linked to the interpreter's socio-cultural positioning
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mass media -- Political aspects -- India
Mass media -- Social aspects -- India
Democracy -- India
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Democracy
Mass media -- Political aspects
Mass media -- Social aspects
Politics and government
Massenmedien
Politik
Demokratie
Massmedia -- sociala aspekter -- Indien.
Massmedia -- politiska aspekter -- Indien.
Demokrati -- Indien.
SUBJECT India -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064936
Subject India
Indien
Indien -- politik och förvaltning.
Form Electronic book
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