Sarai Media Lab (eds.): Sensor-Census-Sensor: An International Colloquium on Information, Society, History and Politics. A Report (2007)
Filed under report | Tags: · censorship, india, information society, neoliberalism, networks, politics, surveillance, technology
This book is a report on the International Colloquium that took place from November 30th, 2006 to December 2nd, 2006
Critical examination and investigation of the regimes and technologies of information harvesting, management, circulation and deployment as they have developed in India and Europe from early modernity till today.
The colloquium was organized by the Sarai Programme at CSDS, Delhi, in collaboration with the Waag Society, Amsterdam, and t0, Vienna, under the rubric of the network titled ‘Towards a Culture of Open Networks’
Sensor-Census-Sensor: Investigating Circuits of Information, Registering Changes of State
Produced and designed at the Sarai Media Lab, Delhi
Published by: The Sarai Programme, Delhi, India, November 2007
ISBN 9788190585378
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Comment (0)Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik: Other Voices. The Struggle for Community Radio in India (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · alternative media, civil society, community media, community radio, india, public broadcasting, radio
This book is a significant study of an emerging alternative media scene in India in the larger context of the globalization of mass communication. It explores community radio in India. When the trend globally is toward mergers, acquisitions, and concentration of ownership in fewer and fewer corporate hands, civil society organizations all over the world have been promoting such alternative, community-owned media.
This study investigates the ideologies and communication practices of various community-based organizations that have been using community radio as a means for empowerment at the grassroots. Adopting the case-study method, the authors do an in-depth analysis of four community radio projects in India-Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat and Jharkhand.
This book provides documentation of best practices in community broadcasting, and also appropriate frameworks for policy-making as it includes a comparative study of the policies related to community radio in liberal, democratic countries and a comprehensive assessment of the history of Indian policy-making in broadcasting.
Publisher Sage Publications, 2007
ISBN 0761936025, 9780761936022
Length 318 pages
Suman Sahai, Prasmi Pavithran, Indrani Barpujari: Biopiracy: Imitations Not Innovations (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · biopiracy, commons, copyright, india, indigenous peoples, knowledge, medicine, patents
Biopiracy, is detailed compilation of the indigenous resources of India, some of which have been the subject of controversial patents over the years. Published by Gene Campaign, a research and advocacy organization , the book is presented in a reader friendly format and includes discussions on Indigenous Knowledge as well as the on the medicinal use of each plant, taken up as a case study.
Publisher Gene Campaign, 2007
ISBN 8190100998
76 pages
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