Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research focus is urban life and cultural transformations. She works in the fields of Media Anthropology, E-Governance and Ritual Studies. Some of her recent English language publications are The Cultural Politics of Disadvantage in South Asia (Asian Studies Review, 33(4), edited together with Assa Doron); Making the Global City: Urban Citizenship at the Margins of Delhi (Ethnos 74(4): 402-424.); and Celebrating Transgression: Method and Politics in the Anthropological Study of Cultures (Berghahn, 2006).

• List of AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Lucknow NewsChaoter 3. Local Voices: Empowerment through News-MakingChapter 4. Political Reporting: Sites of Engagement – Performances of DistanceChaoter 5. Infotainment: Re-Writing Politics after Economic LiberalisationChapter 6. ConclusionsReferencesIndex

“This is definitely a remarkable ethnography about more than ‘just’ newspaper politics in North India, and so a worthwhile read for scholars and students interested in urbanized middle-class discourses, media practice in a variety of local settings in contemporary India.”  ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale“More than just a fascinating description of newsmaking and practice in an Indian city, this book has implications for theories of news and communication that make it a timely and significant contribution to the literature on journalism and newsmaking in the changing global environment.”  ·  Mark Allen Peterson, Miami University“The book is written in an accessible style…The author skillfully navigated a particularly challenging ethnographic field and has produced a work demonstrating thorough, firsthand knowledge of the complex and often hidden mechanisms of news production in contemporary India. Extensive engagement with secondary literature in English and German renders the book particularly useful to students and specialists of the media from various disciplinary backgrounds.”  ·  H-Net Reviews

Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research focus is urban life and cultural transformations. She works in the fields of Media Anthropology, E-Governance and Ritual Studies. Some of her recent English language publications are The Cultural Politics of Disadvantage in South Asia (Asian Studies Review, 33(4), edited together with Assa Doron); Making the Global City: Urban Citizenship at the Margins of Delhi (Ethnos 74(4): 402-424.); and Celebrating Transgression: Method and Politics in the Anthropological Study of Cultures (Berghahn, 2006).

• List of AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Lucknow NewsChaoter 3. Local Voices: Empowerment through News-MakingChapter 4. Political Reporting: Sites of Engagement – Performances of DistanceChaoter 5. Infotainment: Re-Writing Politics after Economic LiberalisationChapter 6. ConclusionsReferencesIndex

“This is definitely a remarkable ethnography about more than ‘just’ newspaper politics in North India, and so a worthwhile read for scholars and students interested in urbanized middle-class discourses, media practice in a variety of local settings in contemporary India.”  ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale“More than just a fascinating description of newsmaking and practice in an Indian city, this book has implications for theories of news and communication that make it a timely and significant contribution to the literature on journalism and newsmaking in the changing global environment.”  ·  Mark Allen Peterson, Miami University“The book is written in an accessible style…The author skillfully navigated a particularly challenging ethnographic field and has produced a work demonstrating thorough, firsthand knowledge of the complex and often hidden mechanisms of news production in contemporary India. Extensive engagement with secondary literature in English and German renders the book particularly useful to students and specialists of the media from various disciplinary backgrounds.”  ·  H-Net Reviews

Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research focus is urban life and cultural transformations. She works in the fields of Media Anthropology, E-Governance and Ritual Studies. Some of her recent English language publications are The Cultural Politics of Disadvantage in South Asia (Asian Studies Review, 33(4), edited together with Assa Doron); Making the Global City: Urban Citizenship at the Margins of Delhi (Ethnos 74(4): 402-424.); and Celebrating Transgression: Method and Politics in the Anthropological Study of Cultures (Berghahn, 2006).

• List of AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Lucknow NewsChaoter 3. Local Voices: Empowerment through News-MakingChapter 4. Political Reporting: Sites of Engagement – Performances of DistanceChaoter 5. Infotainment: Re-Writing Politics after Economic LiberalisationChapter 6. ConclusionsReferencesIndex

“This is definitely a remarkable ethnography about more than ‘just’ newspaper politics in North India, and so a worthwhile read for scholars and students interested in urbanized middle-class discourses, media practice in a variety of local settings in contemporary India.”  ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale“More than just a fascinating description of newsmaking and practice in an Indian city, this book has implications for theories of news and communication that make it a timely and significant contribution to the literature on journalism and newsmaking in the changing global environment.”  ·  Mark Allen Peterson, Miami University“The book is written in an accessible style…The author skillfully navigated a particularly challenging ethnographic field and has produced a work demonstrating thorough, firsthand knowledge of the complex and often hidden mechanisms of news production in contemporary India. Extensive engagement with secondary literature in English and German renders the book particularly useful to students and specialists of the media from various disciplinary backgrounds.”  ·  H-Net Reviews