[Commons-Law] call for contribution in medianagar 02

[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 the 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
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