Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India
Usha Raman and Sumana Kasturi (Ed.)
Price
1100
ISBN
9789354427305
Language
English
Pages
360
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2023
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan

Children are considered to be a group of special interest by media scholars and advocates, especially because they are seen as a vulnerable group whose rights must be protected and also because they represent the future of the world, and so their education and socialisation is of particular importance. While there has been global research on children’s media practices, in India, there has been very little critical work in this area.

Childscape, Mediascape fills this gap by bringing together, for the first time, a variety of perspectives from media researchers, practitioners and those involved in secondary school education, with a focus on children, childhood and media. Questioning what it means to ‘grow up digital’ in twenty-first century India, this collection explores a variety of themes relating to children and the media landscape. The volume contains twelve essays on relevant topics such as digital media literacy among children and their new media practices; mediated childhood and child rights; children as both consumers and producers of social media; digitality and education; children’s entertainment and leisure practices, and issues of identity, representation and community in a mediated world. The book also contains a comprehensive introduction by the volume editors.

This volume will be of value to scholars of media and communication studies and cultural studies, while also drawing readers from psychology and journalism. The chapters offer critical insights of relevance to parents, teacher training institutes, child-focused NGOs, and others who work with children.

Usha Raman is Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad.

Sumana Kasturi works in international education and is an independent researcher.

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Children and Media: A Two-way Street
Sumana Kasturi and Usha Raman

PART I: DISCOURSES
1. Coming of Age: Reviewing Research on Children and Media in India
Manisha Pathak-Shelat
2. What’s the Story Here? Children in the Digital Media Landscape
Devina Sarwatay

PART II: REPRESENTATIONS
3. Transgressing ‘Innocence’: Childhoods from the Margins
Deepa Sreenivas
4. Juxtapositions and Transformations: Children, Gaming and Society
Aditya Deshbandhu
5. Reflections and Representations: Reading about Children in Indian News
Mehak Siddiqui

PART III: INTERACTIONS
6. To Be or Not to Be…with Technology
Kamala Mukunda
7. Everyday Use of Digital Technologies by Adolescent Girls
Anita Sareen Parihar
8. Adolescents and Social Media: Attraction, Addiction, Image Creation and Necessity
Archana Kumari

PART IV: CONSTRUCTIONS
9. Kids Make Art: Children, Creative Practice and the World
Samina Mishra
10. Redefining the Political by Visual Narratives of Sangwari Khabariya in Central India
Vasuki Belavadi

PART V: NEGOTIATIONS
11. Romance in the Times of Facebook: The Surplus Digital Self and Young Adults in Urban India
Nimmi Rangaswamy
12. Religious Socialisation of Children: Narratives from Villages in Gujarat
Kiran Vinod Bhatia
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Release Date : 30-Jun-2023 Venue : Vidyaranya High School for Boys and Girls, Hyderabad.
Book Excerpt | Published in the Scroll, 2 June 2023.