[Commlist] new book: News Aesthetics and Myth

New book – News Aesthetics and Myth

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Scholars with teaching or research pursuits in media aesthetics, media 
literacy, journalism studies, and critical studies may be interested in 
the new Routledge book /News Aesthetics and Myth: The Making of Media 
Illiteracy in India /by Shashidhar Nanjundaiah.

Booking is available with 20% discount with code AFLY02. Additional 5% 
discount for 2 copies with code FHQ4N74SH until July 31

About the book:
The book dismantles current understandings of media literacy by 
investigating how the maneuvers of our current news media lead to the 
construction of media illiteracy, using aesthetics to embed myths, in 
part by employing absentation and invisibilization as aesthetic 
maneuvers. The author asks us to consider the presence of media 
illiteracy in a world in which we are consumed by media, live a media 
life in a media ecosystem, surrounded by mediated communication.

Unpacking this paradoxical situation, the book proposes that before 
venturing into media literacy, we must first understand the workings of 
how mystification occurs. Departing from the idea that aesthetics work 
on an agreed set of principles between art and society, the book applies 
the ideology of aesthetics to news-based narration. The book offers the 
possibilities for a collectivistic, non-Western, postcolonialist model 
of learning by using the very collective and hierarchical identities of 
societies that must be critiqued.

Routledge editors write that “this vital and innovative book will be an 
important resource for scholars and students in the areas of media 
literacy and critical media literacy, media education, journalism, mass 
communication, aesthetics, and media technology." The work is 
theoretically fresh and aggressively provocative in its explanation of 
our mediated world in new ideological contexts. It includes two powerful 
case studies—one based on hypervisibilization (“India’s Potemkin 
Village,” as it is termed), the other on invisibilization, a 
heart-wrenching tale of brutalization in a dark and distant village—that 
build on its formulations. India serves as an exemplary locus for these 
studies, fraught as it is with far-right interventions and social media 
manipulations.

Table of contents:
Introduction: Is there a problem?
1. The discomfort with media literacy
2. Trust, promise, and duty
3. Post-reflexive modernity
4. Continuity in postcolonial narration
5. Aesthetics, presentation, absentation
6. Case study: The spectacle of India’s Potemkin village
7. News aesthetics and the narrative structure
8. Case study: Invisibility in Boolgarhi
9. Towards demystification of media illiteracy
10. An evaluative framework
Conclusion: Some reflections

Further details in this Routledge link: 
_https://www.routledge.com/News-Aesthetics-and-Myth-The-Making-of-Media-Illiteracy-in-India/Nanjundaiah/p/book/9781032755410 


You may contact the author at (_shashidhar.c.n /at/ gmail.com)  for more 
information.

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