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Author: Francis Philip Barclay ,
Boobalakrishnan N.
Publisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Weight: 0.560kg
ISBN: 9789354790751
ISBN 10: 9354790755
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 25 January 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
I find this a powerful book engaged in the quest of inspiring students, scholars and all of next-gen. This hands-on guide dwells upon a unique mix of contemporary socio-political issues related to the highly unregulated social media in India. This could be a practical handbook on fake news to the media fraternity as the recent years mark the era of disinformation, 'alternative facts' and 'post truth'. My best wishes to the authors who've penned the much-needed topics clearly and accurately. The research done on various subjects is commendable. A must-read. -- L. Adhimoolam * Publisher, Dinamalar, Coimbatore, India * It is a pleasure to read this book on Social Media in India. It is majorly an outcome of an Impress project funded by the ICSSR to interrogate various issues related to social media in an age of media abundance. This volume is timely and addresses the contemporary tensions and anxieties through grounded empirical details related to issues of privacy, credibility, regulation and ethics. This volume is an asset to the field of new media studies in India. -- Biswajit Das * Professor and Founding Director, Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India * Conventional understandings about social media and freedom of speech need a rethought to develop new social attitudes towards privacy. Providing empirical evidence with a wide array of studies in India, this book urges suitable cybersecurity and data protection legislation. Covering some of the most controversial aspects of social media, including information overdose, addiction, social media awareness, motivations, use and misuse, privacy, autonomy, and regulation, this book provides social scientists with a new understanding of the use and misuse of smartphones. This book will be helpful to policymakers in regulating social media and is a seminal resource for scholars of media, communication, psychology, political science, and all domains of social science. -- Mohammad Sahid Ullah Though much literature on social media has already been disseminated and with much more to come, this is undeniably a seminal and scholarly work that converges on the core issues related to social media users and its regulatory norms, strengthened by apt research data. -- P. E. Thomas
Author Information
Francis P. Barclay is assistant professor and head (in-charge) in the Department of Media and Communication, School of Communication, Central University of Tamil Nadu, India. He started his career as a copy editor in a local English newspaper in 2005, just when he completed his post-graduation. Now, he has a wide and varied experience in hardcore journalism, dedicated teaching, and rigorous research publications. In 2008, he was appointed the assistant editor of a national daily newspaper, DNA. Meanwhile, he had also completed MPhil degree. After serving the paper for 5 years, he quit the job to take up a full-time PhD program in Journalism and Mass Communication. Teaching and publications in peer-reviewed journals were part of that research agenda. He joined the Department of Media and Communication of the Central University of Tamil Nadu on June 8, 2016, and served the Central government institution as a permanent faculty member. He has published and contributed chapters to several books, apart from research articles in reputed journals. His research areas include media and politics. He is also the editor-in-chief of Journal of Media and Communication (eISSN: 2581-513X). Boobalakrishnan N. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication, School of Communication, Central University of Tamil Nadu, India. He has published research articles on parental mediation, media and children, information and communication technologies and education. His current research addresses media, culture and communication; new media: usage and effects; social media; information and communication technologies. He has taught visual communication and electronic media courses and has technical proficiency in multimedia tools used for audio and non-linear video editing.
