[Reader-list] call for contribution in Medianagar 02

[Rakesh]

Dear List members

I am posting the same mail again because last time it missed to mention 
its subject.

regards
rakesh

    *Medianagar 02 : Call for Contributions*


Medianagar is a Hindi publication of the Publics and Practices in the 
History of the Present (PPHP) project in Sarai-CSDS. It presents 
research notes and narratives from ongoing PPHP research centred on the 
city and media. The attempt is to study media in its rapidly changing 
forms, practices and modes of expression in the context of urban life – 
markets, factories, courts, archives, etc; and to follow the histories 
of the cinema, television, internet, newspapers and other media forms 
and technologies and technological experiences.
The research involves traversing zones of legality and illegality, 
passing through markets, cinemas, corporate offices, music companies, 
film distribution offices, cable network people, detective agencies, law 
courts, police stations, government archives and factories. We meet 
shopkeepers, software copiers porn merchants, architects, singers, 
accountants, labourers, lawyers, officials, policemen: all of whom 
constitute the fraught fabric of the Media City, the intertwining 
networks of curtailment and circulation. Medianagar is a form through 
which we express our findings, sometimes as raw material and sometimes 
as finished texts.
The idea behind bringing out Medianagar in Hindi is to create a kind of 
interface with Hindi-speaking people and provide materials to the 
researchers who are primarily working in Hindi. It is also a good medium 
for the researchers to continue their interaction in the field. The 
first edition of Medianagar was published in January 2004. It contained 
materials on “Film and the City”, “Perspectives on the Media and City”, 
“Emerging Trends in Cinema”, “The Transformation of a Resettlement 
Colony into a Market”, “Labor in Media Market”, “The Contradictions of 
CAS”, “A Brief History of the Cable TV Network in India”, “Copyright 
Culture in Delhi”, “A Researcher's Experience in the MCD”, “Registered 
Societies”, “The Archival Image of a City”, etc. We received a very good 
response from researchers and independent individuals, especially from 
the Hindi-speaking areas. Now we are trying to conceptualise the next issue.
We invite all those who are working on/around the above-mentioned themes 
to contribute articles, memoirs, diaries, notes, images (or any other 
forms you find interesting) for Medianagar 02. Please keep in mind the 
following suggestions:

1.Texts should be neatly typed in Hindi and not more than 5000 words.
2.If writing in Hindi is a problem, Medianagar can get texts translated 
into Hindi if submitted early enough.
3.Submission can be in the form of hard or soft copies.

The last date for submission is 31 March 2005. Please keep a copy of 
your article
as submissions will not be returned. Submissions should be addressed to:

Contribution for Medianagar 02
Sarai/CSDS, 29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054

For queries contact: rakesh at sarai.net

-- 
Rakesh Kumar Singh
Sarai-CSDS
Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
Ph: 91 11 23960040
Fax: 91 11 2394 3450
web site: www.sarai.net
web blog: http://blog.sarai.net/users/rakesh/