Stringers and the Journalistic Field
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Stringers and the Journalistic Field

Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India

  1. 196 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Stringers and the Journalistic Field

Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India

About this book

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 of 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 the 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. A note on translation, transliteration, language and style
  11. 1 Introduction: studying small-town stringers
  12. 2 Locating the stringer: caste as space, capital, politics
  13. 3 At the bottom of the ladder: the stringer in the journalistic field
  14. 4 ‘Lift irrigation, torture and kismet’: the wayward fortunes of stringer’s newswork
  15. 5 Never the sƫtradhār?: the logic of local journalistic practice
  16. 6 Damaged and damaging: the insecure masculinity of the small-town stringer
  17. 7 Informal labour and invisibilised precarity: working lives of stringers before and after the global pandemic
  18. 8 Conclusion
  19. Appendix
  20. Index