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

Fri Mar 5 21:53:43 IST 2004

Dear all, I cannot remember to ever have had so many instant replies to a
rather small voiced problem of mine, thanks a lot for your concerns and your
readiness to relieve me (and others) as I'm not all that convinced of my
cyber-abilities most of the time. I'll be happy to wait, no problem.
Monica, there was a thorough reply of Reemtsma by way of an interview the
other day in a German paper, I was quite tempted to translate it as this
case in particular would be a very interesting contribution to the debate
that was started; I'm running short of time as usual, if I find some hours I
might put forward some of the main statements - in any case I was rather
trying to make a difference between respect of other people's work - which I
think is definitely what sarai is also relying upon - and (legitimate versus
legal) dissemination culture.
Best - Britta

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>Von: Monica Narula <monica at sarai.net>
>An: "Britta Ohm" <ohm at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
>Betreff: Re: [Reader-list] Out now - Sarai Reader 4: Crisis/Media
>Datum: Fre, 5. Mär 2004 13:53 Uhr
>

> dear britta
>
> sorry about this. we are trying to sort out this problem, and hope to
> have proper pdfs up soon.
>
> best
> M
>
>>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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> Monica Narula [Raqs Media Collective]
> Sarai:The New Media Initiative
> 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
> www.sarai.net
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