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Podcast: New Books in South Asian Studies
Episode: Ratan Kumar Roy, "Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences" (Routledge, 2020)
Description: Ratan Kumar Roy's book Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences (Routledge, 2020) examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh. By using a multi-sited ethnography of television news media, it showcases the socio-political undercurrents of media practices and the everydayness of TV news in Bangladesh. It discusses a wide gamut of issues such as news making; localised public sphere; audience reaction and viewing culture; impact of rumours and fake news; socio-political conditions; protest mobilization; newsroom politics and perspectives from the ground.An important intervention in the subject, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of me...