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Children and Media in India - Narratives of Class, Agency and Social Change (Paperback)
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Children and Media in India - Narratives of Class, Agency and Social Change (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
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Is the bicycle, like the loudspeaker, a medium of communication in
India? Do Indian children need trade unions as much as they need
schools? What would you do with a mobile phone if all your friends
were playing tag in the rain or watching Indian Idol? Children and
Media in India illuminates the experiences, practices and contexts
in which children and young people in diverse locations across
India encounter, make, or make meaning from media in the course of
their everyday lives. From textbooks, television, film and comics
to mobile phones and digital games, this book examines the media
available to different socioeconomic groups of children in India
and their articulation with everyday cultures and routines. An
authoritative overview of theories and discussions about childhood,
agency, social class, caste and gender in India is followed by an
analysis of films and television representations of childhood
informed by qualitative interview data collected between 2005 and
2015 in urban, small-town and rural contexts with children aged
nine to 17. The analysis uncovers and challenges widely held
assumptions about the relationships among factors including
sociocultural location, media content and technologies, and
children's labour and agency. The analysis casts doubt on
undifferentiated claims about how new technologies 'affect',
'endanger' and/or 'empower', pointing instead to the importance of
social class - and caste - in mediating relationships among
children, young people and the poor. The analysis of children's
narratives of daily work, education, caring and leisure supports
the conclusion that, although unrecognised and underrepresented,
subaltern children's agency and resourceful conservation makes a
significant contribution to economic, interpretive and social
reproduction in India.
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