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Francis Cody
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      In the hypermediated world of Tamil Nadu, Francis Cody studies how “news events” are made.   Not merely the act of representing events with words or images, a “news event” is the reciprocal relationship between the events being reported in the news and the event of the news coverage itself. In The News Event, Francis Cody focuses on how imaginaries of popular sovereignty have been remade through the production and experience of such events. Political sovereignty is thoroughly mediated by the production of news, and subjects invested in the idea of democracy are remarkably reflexive about the role of publicly circulating images and texts in the very constitution of their subjectivity. The law comes to stand as both a limit and positive condition in this process of event making, where acts of legal and extralegal repression of publication can also become the stuff of news about news makers. When the subjects of news inhabit multiple participant roles in the unfolding of public events, when the very technologies of recording and circulating events themselves become news, the act of representing a political event becomes difficult to disentangle from that of participating in it. This, Cody argues, is the crisis of contemporary news making: the news can no longer claim exteriority to the world on which it reports.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Francis Cody EAN: 9780226824727 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-04-05 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Media studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian history

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      Francis Cody is associate professor in the anthropology department and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India.
      In the hypermediated world of Tamil Nadu, Francis Cody studies how “news events” are made.   Not merely the act of representing events with words or images, a “news event” is the reciprocal relationship between the events being reported in the news and the event of the news coverage itself. In The News Event, Francis Cody focuses on how imaginaries of popular sovereignty have been remade through the production and experience of such events. Political sovereignty is thoroughly mediated by the production of news, and subjects invested in the idea of democracy are remarkably reflexive about the role of publicly circulating images and texts in the very constitution of their subjectivity. The law comes to stand as both a limit and positive condition in this process of event making, where acts of legal and extralegal repression of publication can also become the stuff of news about news makers. When the subjects of news inhabit multiple participant roles in the unfolding of public events, when the very technologies of recording and circulating events themselves become news, the act of representing a political event becomes difficult to disentangle from that of participating in it. This, Cody argues, is the crisis of contemporary news making: the news can no longer claim exteriority to the world on which it reports.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Francis Cody EAN: 9780226824727 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-04-05 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Media studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian history

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      Francis Cody is associate professor in the anthropology department and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India.

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