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Manohar Media and Marginals in India Medium Message and Meaning by Manoj Kumar Jena
The book highlights the role of media in comprehending the marginals with reference to medium, message, and meaning. The book addresses the consortia between the communication process, the economic, political and ideological structures of Indian society, and its relationships with marginals, particularly at structure and meaning levels. It presents new and emerging analyses about the representation, production, consumption of message, and meaning relating to caste, gender, minority, and disability question in the Indian media. This book also examines how the mediated phenomena have shifted the discourse on studies of marginals in India. The book focuses on several new dimensions in sociology and media research and addresses conceptual and methodological questions related to the social positioning of the marginal in media. The book provides new perspectives on the sociology of media covering aspects such as, memory, consciousness and Ashrafiya morality; Dalit to Disability; agitation and workers; feminism to representation; and commodification to ideological domination. About the Author Manoj Kumar Jena is a Professor of Sociology and Chairperson at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He is the International Global Studies Programme Coordinator at JNU. His writings have appeared in various national and international peer-reviewed journals. His recent publications include Sociology of Covid-19 Pandemic in India: Education, Digital Divide, Work and Wellbeing (ed.), (2022) and Ways of Being Indian: Essays on Religion, Gender and Culture (ed.), (2024).