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News Aesthetics and Myth: The Making of Media Illiteracy in India

News Aesthetics and Myth: The Making of Media Illiteracy in India

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

General ReferenceWriting InstructionGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032755415
ISBN13: 9781032755410
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 17 2024
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book considers the presence of media illiteracy in a world in which we are supposedly consumed by media, live a media life, in a media ecosystem, surrounded by mediated communication.

Unpacking this paradoxical situation, the author 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 author applies this ideology of aesthetics to news-based narration. Using empirical cases from India, the author proposes demystification as a possible methodology to approach media illiteracy and recommends completely transformed media literacy programs that deliver to communities, drawing from the construct of critical pedagogy. 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.

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