From Terrorism to Television: Dynamics of Media, State, and Society in Pakistan - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367425823 ISBN 13: 9780367425821

Verlag: Routledge, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

This book unpacks the media dynamics within the socio-cultural, political, and economic context of Pakistan. It provides an in-depth, critical, and scholarly discussion of contemporary issues such as media, state, and democracy in Pakistan; freedom of expression in Pakistani journalism; Balochistan as a blind spot in mainstream newspapers; media control by state institutions; women and media discourses; TV talk shows and coverage of Kashmir; feminist narrative and media images of Malala Yousufzai and Mukhtaran Mai; jihad on screen; and Osama bin Laden’s death on screen, to understand the relation between media and terrorism. The book covers diverse media types including TV, radio, newspapers, print media, films, documentary, stage performance, and social media.

Detailed, interdisciplinary, analytical, and with original perspectives from journalists as well as academics, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of media studies, Pakistan studies, politics and international affairs, military and terrorism studies, journalism and communication studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest general readers, policy makers, and those interested in global journalism, mass media, and freedom of expression.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Qaisar Abbas is Advisor, SMU Human Rights Program at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA.

Farooq Sulehria

is Assistant Professor at the Department of Liberal Arts, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367425823
• ISBN 13: 9780367425821
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
• Herausgeber: Abbas Qaisar
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