Book Review: Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics by Sahana Udupa.

• Jurisdiction: Derecho Internacional
• Author: Devi, Sudeshna
• Date: 01 January 2017

Udupa, Sahana. Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv + 278 pages. Hardcover, $117.95.

Sahana Udupa's ethnographic work looks at the phenomenon of urban transformation through the prism of commercial news media. Set amidst the growth of the silicon valley of India, namely Bangalore, the book argues for a more nuanced understanding of news media as being an object and an agent in the urbanization of the city. The book is anchored with extensive ethnographic observations and interactions carried out with the major newspapers published in English and Kannada, primarily with the Times of India Group, during the period 2008-2012.

Udupa, a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute with several years of experience as a bilingual journalist in India, makes three crucial arguments in her work. Firstly, she contends that it is imperative to set aside the existing paradigms in the field of media studies, that is, the commodification model as propounded by Sonwalker in...