Children and Media in India illuminates the experiences, practices and contexts in which children and young people in diverse locations across India encounter, make, or make meaning from media in the course of their everyday lives. From textbooks, television, film and comics to mobile phones and digital games, this book examines the media available to different socioeconomic groups of children in India and their articulation with everyday cultures and routines.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Historical accounts of childhood: subalterns between structures and agency
2. Class, caste, and children's life in contemporary India
3. Methods and reflections
4. Mediating Indian childhoods: Texts and producers
5. Media rich in India: routine, self-construction, conflicted conformism
6. 'Media poor' in India: deprivation, responsibility, resourceful conservation
7. Conclusion
