The News Event

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Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization

By Francis Cody

Summary

The News Event explores how "news events" are created and experienced in the hypermediated world of Tamil Nadu. Francis Cody reveals that such events are not just representations but involve a reciprocal relationship between the news reported and the act of news coverage itself. The book examines how imaginaries of popular sovereignty are shaped by public circulation of images and texts, highlighting the complex interplay between political power, law, and media technologies in constituting political subjectivity.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in media studies, political communication, South Asian politics, and ethnography, including scholars and students in education and reference fields focusing on media, democracy, and law.

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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.

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Praised by Partha Chatterjee as a groundbreaking ethnographic study on digital media's role in public mobilisation in India, particularly Tamil Nadu, The News Event is recognised for its theoretical depth and clarity. Veena Das commends Cody's sensitive and empirical approach to the blurred boundaries between online and offline acts, old and new media, achieving a splendid conceptual understanding.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226824727

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Illustration: 7 halftones

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 367g

Pages: 256

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Asian History Education & Reference Francis Cody History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

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.