Public Spheres and the Media in India. Issue 1 (August 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Khorana, Sukhmani; Parthasarathi, Vibodh; Thomas, Pradip Ninan
• Is Part Of: Media international Australia. Number 152:Issue 1(2014)
• Page Start: 75
• Page End: 76
• Publication Date: 2014-08
• Subjects: Mass media -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Australia -- Periodicals; Communication -- Australia -- Periodicals; Australia -- Cultural policy -- Periodicals; Médias -- Aspect social -- Périodiques; Médias -- Australie -- Périodiques; Communication -- Australie -- Périodiques; Massamedia; Communication; Cultural policy; Mass media; Mass media -- Social aspects; Australia; Periodicals; 302.23
• DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1415200108
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1324-5325

Abstract

This themed issue of MIA highlights the complex nature of evolving, emerging, mediated public spheres in India, a large, imperfect democracy that is home to the most diverse mediated public spheres anywhere in the world. The history of the public sphere in India has followed a trajectory that is very different from – even at odds with – the history of this sphere as described by Habermas.