ABOUT THE BOOK
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This book
collates a wide spectrum of views across South Asia, including Myanmar, and
debates the role of media in forging regional understanding and goodwill. The
media`s role in South Asia is essentially conceived as state-centric, adhering
to the standard templates of nationalism. This inherent tendency has, at times,
cost neutral and balanced coverage of events and issues. The contributors to
this volume acknowledge the potential of the media as an institution
which could/should, in addition to its routine reportage, focus on regional
issues of common interest and promote regional understanding.
The book
consists of 16 chapters attempted by scholars from all SAARC countries
including Myanmar. They focus on a range of issues relating to media—ownership,
impact of social media, media narrative, nationalist bias, state control,
envelope-journalism, threat from non-state actors, and a host of other such
issues. There is a consensus that the media has vastly enhanced its capability
to mould and shape public perception and opinion with the revolution in
communication technology in recent decades. They strongly endorse the view that
the media should play its due role in promoting regional understanding and
cooperation.
ABOUT Author
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Priyanka Singh is Associate
Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. She
joined IDSA in 2007 and is associated with the South Asia Centre. She is also
part of the project team on Pakistan. She holds an Honours degree in Political
Science from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi and a Ph.D.
from University of Lucknow. Her Ph.D. thesis was titled: “Indo-US Relations in
the Last Decade - 1990-2000: Shifting Paradigms”. Her broader research
interests include: Indo-US relations and US engagement in Pakistan; Cross Line
of Control Confidence Building Measures between India and Pakistan. She has
travelled extensively across the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
She is the
co-editor of Proliferation and Emerging Nuclear Order in the Twenty First
Century (Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2009) and Saving Afghanistan (Academic
Foundation, New Delhi, 2009). She is the author of a monograph titled Gilgit
Baltistan: Between Hope and Despair. During June-August 2009, she undertook a
postgraduate course in Peace Research at the University of Oslo conducted by
the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). Her select
publications include: American Strategy in Afghanistan: Dilemmas, Miscalculations
and Outcomes, Strategic Analysis 38 (3) May/June 2014; Whither Aid? Future of
US Assistance to Pakistan, Journal of Defence Studies, 5 (4) October 2011;
Army: The Be-All or End-All of Pakistan Politics?, Strategic Analysis, 39
(3) May/ June 2015.