Gandhi, Advocacy Journalism, and the Media

ISBN-13: 9781433182419 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Lee B. Becker; David W. Bulla

Opis

This book documents the journalistic career of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Known as the Mahatma and the Father of India, Gandhi was also a journalist. The book looks at other media tools Gandhi used to transmit his messages to the public, including his recorded voice for gramophone.

Spis treści

Foreword by Rajmohan Gandhi - David W. Bulla: Introduction - David W. Bulla: Origins of Gandhi's Advocacy Journalism - Parmeet Kajal: Gandhi Versus Gandhi: A Comparative Study of His English and Vernacular Newspapers - Anjana Sharma: Closing the Circle: Gandhi in Bihar, 1947 - David W. Bulla: Gandhi, Swaraj, and Press Freedom - Sanjiv Kakar: A Sanitarian in a World of Modern Medicine: Gandhi's Health Bulletins in Indian Opinion, 1903-1914 - Farwa Imam Ali: Mahatma, Bapu, Naked Fakir: Gandhi through the Lens of the Muslim Press before and after Independence, 1920-1960 - Norma Fay Green: Satyagraha Journalism-New York Style: Gandhi's Influence on Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker - Satrajit Ghosh Chowdhury: Gandhi and "The Jews": An Article that Changed the Mahatma's Image for the Jews - Gopa Sabharwal: Gandhi's Prayer Meetings and Partition - Dipannita Dutta: Gandhi, Gramophone, and God: Story of an Uncomfortable Union - James Buie: Gandhi's Mediated Image: Portrayed as Saint, Bigot, Pervert, a Flawed Human, Victim of British Conspiracy, and Ultimately a Man of His Own Time - Christel R. Devadawson: Visual Advocacy, the Gandhi Icon, and the Shaping of Contemporary India - Bibliography - Contributors - Index.

O autorze

David W. Bulla is a professor of communication at Augusta University. Bulla focuses his research on the history of journalism, examining limitations on press performance. His first book, Lincoln's Censor, was published in 2008. Bulla and Gregory A. Borchard had their book Journalism in the Civil War Era published by Peter Lang in 2010. Bulla and David S. Sachsman are co-authors of Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th Century Reporting published in 2013. In 2015, Lincoln Mediated: The President and the Press through Nineteenth Century Media was published, co-authored once again with Professor Borchard. Bulla also is assistant editor of The Southeastern Review of Journalism History. Dr. Bulla earned a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Florida.