Rethinking Media Studies

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Rethinking Media Studies: An Introduction and an Invitation
Part I Media, Meditation, and Communication
	Chapter 1 What Follows from the Nature of Human Communication for a Future Democracy as a “Communication Society”?: At the Crossing of Social–Philosophical and Spiritual Meditation
	Chapter 2 Media, Truth, and the Good: A Meditation on the Implications of Historico-Religious Contexts
	Chapter 3 The Message of Media, Communicative Action, and Meditative Walking: Pope Francis’ Prophetic Actions and Paul Ricoeur’s Understanding of Faith for Societal Transformation and Moral Openness
	Chapter 4 Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action: From Discourse Ethics to Spiritual Transformations
	Chapter 5 Mahatma Gandhi, Media Ethics, and United Nations
	Chapter 6 Significance of Integrating Nonviolent Communication in Communication Studies: An Exploration
	Chapter 7 Desire for Omnipresence: A Brief Introduction to a Key Conceptual Tool
	Chapter 8 The Development of Self in the Age of Social Media: Creating Transitional Spaces through Focused Meditative Practices
Part II Rethinking Media Studies
	Chapter 9 Unorthodox Coalitions: Co-Creative Media Initiatives for Transformative Critical Sustainability Studies
	Chapter 10 Recreating Global Media through Propitious Hermeneutics Instigating Possible Earthly Prospects for Mankind
	Chapter 11 Urban Society in the Films of Satyajit Ray: An Ambiguous Journey between Instrumental Rationalism and Intersubjective Reality
	Chapter 12 Transformative Communal Media Engagement and Diversification
	Chapter 13 American News Media: A Shattered Institution
	Chapter 14 Media, Mediation, and Transformation: The Implication of Digital Mediation on Contemporary Bombay Cinema
	Chapter 15 #RIP: Mediatization of Grief Over Social Media: An Exploration of Social Media Expression and Experience of Mourning
Part III Rethinking Media Studies
	Chapter 16 From Printing Press to the Metaverse: The Changing Role of Technologies in Journalistic Practice
	Chapter 17 Social Media: A Critical Cultural Approach
	Chapter 18 Memes and Popular Culture: Indian Perspectives
	Chapter 19 Deconstructing the Idea of Manhood in Indian Television Advertisements
	Chapter 20 Media and Risk Communication: Building Interventional Tools During a Crisis Situation with Special Reference To Covid-19
	Chapter 21 Sabarimala: Adversarial Culture and the Role of Media
	Chapter 22 Revisiting Gender Representation in Indian News Media
	Chapter 23 Portrayal of Dalit Women Protagonists in Geeli Pucchi and 200 Halla Ho: A Revisit of Hindi Cinema
	Chapter 24 Understanding Electronic Media, Mediation, and Behavioural Biases: A Revisit of Human Behaviour and Meditation
	Chapter 25 Ethical Practices in Indian Television
	Chapter 26 Radical Immersion: Bhakti as Ethical Medium in Contemporary India
Index