FROM TERRORISM TO TELEVISION: DYNAMICS OF MEDIA, STATE, AND SOCIETY IN PAKISTAN

This book unpacks the media dynamics within the sociocultural, political, and economic context of Pakistan. It provides an in-depth, critical, and scholarly discussion of contemporary issues such as media, state, and democracy in Pakistan; freedom of expression in Pakistani journalism; Balochistan as a blind spot in mainstream newspapers; media control by state institutions; women and media discourses; TV talk shows and coverage of Kashmir; feminist narrative and media images of Malayalam yousufzai and mukhtaran Mai; jihad on screen; and Obama bin Laden’s death on screen, to understand the relation between media and terrorism. The book covers diverse media types including TV, radio, newspapers, print media, films, documentary, stage performance, and social media.