Rethinking Media Studies

Ananta Kumar Giri is Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity, and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture, and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy, and literature. Dr Giri has written and edited around two dozen books in Odia and English, including Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998); Knowledge and Human Liberation (2013), Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Creative Experiments for Alternative Futures (editor, 2019), Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo (editor, 2022), and The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (2023).Santosh Kumar Biswal is working as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar (India). He has worked in Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune (India). Previously, he has worked in Andhra Loyola College (Autonomous), Vijayawada; and Hindustan Times, New Delhi. He has co-edited books – Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema (2020) and Holistic Approaches to Brand Culture and Communication Across Industries (2018). He has published business cases in reputed platforms including SAGE. He has published popular columns in national English dailies including The Indian Express, The Asian Age, The Telegraph, Hindustan Times, The Pioneer, The Statesman, Deccan Chronicle, and Yahoo India. He has contributed MOOCs for SWAYAM & e-PG Pathshala- MHRD, Govt. of India. Currently, he is the Associate Editor of Media Watch, a double-blind peer-reviewed media and communication journal.

• List of Figures xii List of Tables xiii Notes on Contributors xiv Preface xxiii Rethinking Media Studies: An Introduction and an Invitation 1 ANANTA KUMAR GIRI AND SANTOSH KUMAR BISWAL PART I Media, Meditation, and Communication 13 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 15 JOHANNES HEINRICHS 2 Media, Truth, and the Good: A Meditation on the Implications of Historico-Religious Contexts 36 ORI Z. SOLTES 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 54 KURUVILLA PANDIKATTU S.J. 4 Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action: From Discourse Ethics to Spiritual Transformations 67 ANANTA KUMAR GIRI 5 Mahatma Gandhi, Media Ethics, and United Nations 91 CHRISTIAN BARTOLF 6 Significance of Integrating Nonviolent Communication in Communication Studies: An Exploration 104 VEDABHYAS KUNDU 7 Desire for Omnipresence: A Brief Introduction to a Key Conceptual Tool 117 CAMILA MOZZINI-ALISTER 8 The Development of Self in the Age of Social Media: Creating Transitional Spaces through Focused Meditative Practices 131 ANUSNIGDHA PART II Rethinking Media Studies: New Horizons of Theory and Practice 145 9 Unorthodox Coalitions: Co-Creative Media Initiatives for Transformative Critical Sustainability Studies 147 SUSAN THIEME AND EDA ELIF TIBET 10 Recreating Global Media through Propitious Hermeneutics Instigating Possible Earthly Prospects for Mankind 165 RUTH NEYAH V 11 Urban Society in the Films of Satyajit Ray: An Ambiguous Journey between Instrumental Rationalism and Intersubjective Reality 182 ABHISHEK KUMAR 12 Transformative Communal Media Engagement and Diversification 196 ABDULKADIR OSMAN FARAH 13 American News Media: A Shattered Institution 210 SHARAF REHMAN 14 Media, Mediation, and Transformation: The Implication of Digital Mediation on Contemporary Bombay Cinema 228 IPSITA BARAT 15 #RIP: Mediatization of Grief Over Social Media: An Exploration of Social Media Expression and Experience of Mourning 239 SURHITA BASU PART III Rethinking Media Studies: Further Explorations 259 16 From Printing Press to the Metaverse: The Changing Role of Technologies in Journalistic Practice 261 SUCHITRA PATNAIK 17 Social Media: A Critical Cultural Approach 271 JOHN ROBERT CLAMMER 18 Memes and Popular Culture: Indian Perspectives 280 SHOURINI BANERJEE, S. BALAGANAPATHY, AND C. VELAYUTHAM 19 Deconstructing the Idea of Manhood in Indian Television Advertisements 294 PANCHALI BHATTACHARYA AND AMRITA SATAPATHY 20 Media and Risk Communication: Building Interventional Tools During a Crisis Situation with Special Reference To Covid-19 312 TRISHA DOWERAH BARUAH 21 Sabarimala: Adversarial Culture and the Role of Media 323 TAMILSELVI NATARAJAN 22 Revisiting Gender Representation in Indian News Media 339 POOJA VERMA, SANTOSH KUMAR BISWAL, AND SUSHOBHAN PATANKAR 23 Portrayal of Dalit Women Protagonists in Geeli Pucchi and 200 Halla Ho: A Revisit of Hindi Cinema 353 CHANDRAKANT KAMBLE 24 Understanding Electronic Media, Mediation, and Behavioural Biases: A Revisit of Human Behaviour and Meditation 367 SHIBAPRASAD PARHI 25 Ethical Practices in Indian Television 381 FAKIRA MOHAN NAHAK 26 Radical Immersion: Bhakti as Ethical Medium in Contemporary India 395 UMAR NIZARUDEEN Index 413