The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization - Couverture souple

Cody, Francis

 
9780226824727: The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization
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ISBN 10 : 0226824721 ISBN 13 : 9780226824727
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2023

Synopsis

In the hypermediated world of Tamil Nadu, Francis Cody studies how “news events” are made.

Not merely the act of representing events with words or images, a “news event” is the reciprocal relationship between the events being reported in the news and the event of the news coverage itself. In The News Event, Francis Cody focuses on how imaginaries of popular sovereignty have been remade through the production and experience of such events. Political sovereignty is thoroughly mediated by the production of news, and subjects invested in the idea of democracy are remarkably reflexive about the role of publicly circulating images and texts in the very constitution of their subjectivity. The law comes to stand as both a limit and positive condition in this process of event making, where acts of legal and extralegal repression of publication can also become the stuff of news about news makers. When the subjects of news inhabit multiple participant roles in the unfolding of public events, when the very technologies of recording and circulating events themselves become news, the act of representing a political event becomes difficult to disentangle from that of participating in it. This, Cody argues, is the crisis of contemporary news making: the news can no longer claim exteriority to the world on which it reports.

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À propos de l?auteur

Francis Cody is associate professor in the anthropology department and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226824721
ISBN 13 
9780226824727
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
266
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780226824734: The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization

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ISBN 10 :  022682473X ISBN 13 :  9780226824734
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2023
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