Audience-citizens the media, public knowledge and interpretive practice - Harindranath, Ramaswami 1959- (SAGE, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
This book explores how sociological and cultural factors affect interpretations of mediated knowledge. Using concepts from contemporary hermeneutics - in particular Gadamer - it examines the notion that understanding is irretrievably linked to the interpreter's socio-cultural positioning
Keywords: Gesellschaft; Massenmedien; Politik; Mass media -- Political aspects -- India; Mass media -- Social aspects -- India; Democracy -- India; Demokratie; Indien; India -- Politics and government