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100 _aBhargav, Nimmagadda
245 _aStringers and the journalistic field :
_bmarginalities and precarious news labour in small-town India
_cby Nimmagadda Bhargav
260 _aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c©2023
300 _axiii, 196 p. ;
_c23 cm.
500 _aIncludes index
505 _t1. Introduction: Studying small-town stringers
505 _t2. Locating the stringer: caste as space, capital, politics
505 _t3. At the bottom of the ladder: the stringer in the journalistic field
505 _t4. 'Lift irrigation, torture and kismet': the wayward fortunes of stringer's newswork
505 _t5. Never the sūtradhār?: the logic of local journalistic practice
505 _t6. Damaged and damaging: the insecure masculinity of the small-town stringer
505 _t7. Informal labour and invisibilised precarity: working lives of stringers before and after the global pandemic
505 _t8. Conclusion
520 _aThis 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
650 _aJournalism -- Political aspects
650 _aJournalism, Regional -- India, South
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