[Reader-list] Out now - Sarai Reader 4: Crisis/Media

Fri Mar 5 17:47:17 IST 2004

Dear Monica et.al,
just in case others have similar problems: I don't seem to be able to look
at the new reader texts, whenever I click onto a title a blank screen opens
and the data are transmitted (noted as pdf), yet the page remains blank and
the text is also not to be found anywhere else in my download files. Not
that I'masking for a computer crash course, but what am I doing wrong?
Best -- Britta

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>Von: Monica Narula <monica at sarai.net>
>An: reader-list at sarai.net
>Betreff: [Reader-list] Out now - Sarai Reader 4: Crisis/Media
>Datum: Don, 4. Mär 2004 09:31 Uhr
>

> Dear Friends,
>
> We are happy to announce the print and web publication of Sarai
> Reader 04 : 'Crisis/Media' . Please find more details about the book
> below.
>
> We would welcome responses, reviews and critiques of the publication,
> and discussions based on its contents. If you would like to write a
> review of the book, and wish to obtain a review copy, do write to
> publications at sarai.net, mentioning details of the publication where
> the review will appear, and when it is likely to be published.
>
> The contents of the book may also be translated into other languages,
> and published elsewhere. We, and the authors, would like to be
> informed.
>
> Looking forward to your responses
>
> The Editorial Collective, Sarai Reader 04
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Sarai Reader 04 : Crisis/Media
> Published by the Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing
> Societies, Delhi, 2004 [cc]
>
> Edited by - Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi, Awadhendra
> Sharan, Ravi Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram [Sarai-CSDS, Delhi] and Geert Lovink
> [Amsterdam]
>
> ISBN 81-901429-3-3
> Price :  Rs. 295, US $ 15, Euro 15
> 496 pages
> ---------------------------------------------
> 'Crisis/Media', the fourth publication in the Sarai Reader series,
> examines issues of global crises - (war, civil conflict, terrorism
> and state terror, the deep instabilities of everyday life,
> technologies of surveillance and political life, threats to the
> freedom of expression) - and critically analyses the representation
> of these crises in the media. Are the
> crises in the media also instances of crises of the media? Have
> current forms of media practice lost the ability to articulate
> questions of conflict and contention, other than in terms of crises ?
> Can media practitioners evolve
> forms of practice that are not beholden to the idea of Crisis? The
> Sarai brings together several distinguished critical voices,  as well
> as new, emerging writers from all over the world (and especially from
> South Asia) to attend to ideas, situations, contexts and dillemmas
> related to crises and the media.
>
> Authors include : Arundhati Roy, Ranjit Hoskote, Taslima Nasrin,
> Geert Lovink, Soenke Zehle, Nandita Haksar, Toby Miller, Martin Shaw,
> Ravi Vasudevan, Shahid Amin, Ivo Skoric, Nancy Adajania, Raqs Media
> Collective, Nitin Govil, Ranjani Mazumdar, Shohini Ghosh and others.
>
> For the complete table of contents, and the text of the introduction,
> see below. The complete text of Crisis/Media, like the entire
> contents of previous readers, is available for free browsing and
> download as pdf files at
> http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader4.html
>
> For Purchase, Distribution and Other Enquiries, mail to -
> publications at sarai.net
>
> or, contact -
> Publications
> Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
> 29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054, India
> Tel : (+91) 11 2396 0040
> http://www.sarai.net
> E mail : dak at sarai.net
>
> Produced and Designed at the Sarai Media Lab
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> TABLE OF CONTENTS OF SARAI READER 04 : CRISIS/MEDIA
>
> Introduction I
>
> APPROACHING CRISIS
> Bearing Inconvenient Witness: Notes in Pro/Confessional Mode - Ranjit Hoskote
> Peace is War: The Collateral Damage of Breaking News - Arundhati Roy
> Financialization, Emotionalization and Other Ugly Concepts - Toby Miller
> Interventionist Media in Times of Crisis - Soenke Zehle
> Western Wars and Peace Activism: Social Movements in Global
> Mass-Mediated Politics - Martin Shaw
>
> IMAGE DISTURBANCE
> Let us Become Children! Training, Simulations and Kids - Kristian Lukic
> What is to be Done? - Bhrigupati Singh
> Disreputable and Illegal Publics: Cinematic Allegories in Times of
> Crisis - Ravi Vasudevan
> Protesting Capitalist Globalization on Video - Oliver Ressler
> Barcelona Pictures - Sasja Barentsen
> From One Crisis to the Next: The Fate of Political Art in India -
> Nancy Adajania
> On Representing the Musalman - Shahid Amin
> Machines Made to Measure: On the Technologies of Identity and the
> Manufacture of Difference - Raqs Media Collective
>
> CRISIS MEDIA - CASE STUDIES
> Media Representations of the Kargil War and the Gujarat Riots -
> Subarno Chatterji
> Small Town News - Taran N. Khan
> 'Out of the Box': Telelvisual Representations of North East  India -
> Daisy Hasan
> Lost in Transit: Narratives and Myths of The Crash of Egypt Air
> Flight 990 in Egyptian and American Newspapers - Mahmoud Eid
> Of Nasty Pictures and 'Nice Guys': The Surreality of Online Hindutva
> - Christiane Brosius
> Media Looking Beyond Crisis? The Urdu/Pakistani Press in New York
> after 9/11 - Rehan Ansari
> Tried by The Media: The S A R Geelani Trial - Nandita Haksar
>
> TRUTH/TESTIMONY
> 'I Saw it on CNN so it Must be True...Wrong !' - Craig Etcheson
> 'CNN Made Me Do (Not Do) It' : Assessing Media Influence on US
> Interventions in Somalia and Rwanda - Lyn S. Graybill
> Left To Their Own Devices: The Impact of Informal Information and
> Communication Networks on Security in the Tanzanian Refugee Camps -
> Amy West
> Readers vs. Viewers - Ivo Skoric
> Cracks in the Urban Frame: The Visual Politics of 9/11 - Ranjani Mazumdar
> Truth Telling, Gujarat and the Law - Arvind Narrain
>
> CAUTION: REPORTERS AT WORK
> Massacres and the Media: A Field Reporter Looks Back on Gujarat 2002
> - Darshan Desai
> The Everyday Life of a Srinagar Correspondent: Reporting from Kashmir
> - Muzamil Jaleel
> A Reporter in Prison - Iftikhar Gilani
> Covering Kashmir: The Datelines of Despair - Basharat Peer
> Mumbai(Dongri)-Gujarat-Mumbai-Kashmir: Pages from my Diary - Zainab Bawa
>
>
> WAR CORRESPONDENCES: FIRST PERSON PLURAL
> Thoughts on Afghanistan in Five Parts - Meena Nanji
> On Experiencing Afghanistan - Daphne Meijer
> The Afghan eXplorer - The Computing Culture Group - MIT Media Lab
> Waiting: Entries from a Filmmaker's Diary in and around Tel Aviv - Anna
Faroqhi
> Last Email from the Gaza Strip - Rachel Corrie
> Guerrila News Network's Digital Documentaries: Interview with Stephen
> Marshall - Geert Lovink
> Synchronicities: Baghdad/Delhi - Anand Vivek Taneja
> Portrait of a Day in Baghdad - Paul Chan
> Diary of a News Cameraman: Baghdad, July 2003 - Shakeb Ahmed
> Rescued Pages of War-Sense - Tarun Bhartiya
>
> DEEP INSTABILITIES
> Politics in the Picture: Witnessing Environmental Crises in the Media
> - Sanjay Kak
> The Toxic Times of India: The Plastic Monster and a State of
> Emergency - Ravi Agarwal
> Remembering SARS in Beijing: The Nationalist Appropriation of an
> Epidemic - Sanjay Sharma
> Evictions - Projections: Watching Dharmendra in Suburban Lagos -
> Hansa Thapliyal
> Mediated Guilt: The Illusion of Participation in Delhi's Social
> Welfare Advertisements - Omar Kutty
> Journey through a Disaster: A Filmmaker's Account of the Gujarat
> Earthquake, 2001 - Batul Mukhtiar
>
> CYBERMOHALLA STREET LOGS
> LOG OO1, 20th October, 2003 - Dakshinpuri Cybermohalla Media Lab
>
> INFORMATION = POLITICS
> P2P: Power to the People - Janko Röttgers
> War in the Age of Pirate Reproduction - Nitin Govil
> Floss and the 'Crisis': Foreigner in a Free Land? - Martin Hardie
> Introducing AIDC as a Tool for Data Surveillance
> - Beatriz Da Costa  + Jamieson Schulte + Brooke Singer
> Anagrams of Orderly Discorder (For the New Global Order) - Geoff Cox,
> Joasia Krysa + Adrian Ward
> The Tools and Tactics of A Festival: Looking Back at N5M4 - David Garcia
> The Revenge of Low-tech: Autolabs, Telecentros and Tactical Media  in
> São Paulo - Ricardo Rosas
>
> CONTESTING CENSORSHIP -
> Reasonable Restrictions and Unreasonable Speech - Lawrence Liang
> 'The Whole Constitution Goes for Six': Legislative Privileges and the
> Media - Sudhir Krishnaswamy
> Censorship Myths and Imagined Harms - Shohini Ghosh
> Homeless Everywhere: Writing in Exile - Taslima Nasreen
>
> <ALT/OPTION>
> Manifesto Against Labour - Gruppe Krisis
> Digital Declaration - Infossil Corrective
>
> Notes on Contributors
> Acknowledgements
>
> --
> Monica Narula [Raqs Media Collective]
> Sarai:The New Media Initiative
> 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
> www.sarai.net
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