First Comprehensive Book on Bangladesh's Media

Eds: Shoesmith  & Gelino

A new book on Bangladeshi media has been published recently. The book is first of its kind that is an anthology of contemporary media of Bangladesh written in English and published from an internationally reputed publishing house (Intellect Books,Bristol/Chicago). The title of the book is Bangladesh's Changing Mediascape edited by Brian Shoesmith and Jude Gelino. I have contributed two chapters in the anthology: 1. 'The Profile and Activity of Citizen Journalists: A Study on Bangla Blog Community' 2. 'Independent Cinema in Bangladesh: Its Roots, Growth, Challenges and Opportunities'. However, the book chapters show that the book tried to cover the diverse areas of changing mediascape of Bangladesh:

Chapter 1: Bangladesh;s Changing Mediascape: An Introduction 1
Brian Shoesmith and Jude William Genilo

Chapter 2: From few to many voices: An overview of Bangladesh's Media
Brian Shoesmith and Shameem Mahmud

PART I: Histories

Chapter 3: The Transformation of the Bangladesh Press
Shameem Mahmud

Chapter 4: Radio in Bangladesh: Growth, Decline and Transformation
Jude William Genilo, Bikash Ch. Bhowmick, and Brian Shoesmith

Chapter 5: Rickshaw puller's dreams: From a cultural history to an economic geography of Bangladesh popular cinema
Zakir Hossain Raju

Chapter 6: Mulafhireejawa (Back to the roots): Photojournalism and documentary photography in Bangladesh
Norman Leslie

Chapter 7: Fragile fourth estate: a history of censorship in Bangladesh (1972-2012)
Naeem Mohaiemen

Chapter 8: Media Law in Bangladesh
A B M Hamidul Mishbah

PART II: Social and Political Contexts

Chapter 9: Negotiating Identity: Islam in the Films of Tareque and Catherine Masud
Juditha Ohlmacher and Anis Pervez

Chapter 10: Women in Bangladeshi Soap Operas: Myth or Reality?
Monami Haque

Chapter11: "Digital Bangladesh": Technology, Inequality and Social Change
AJM Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan

Chapter 12: Narratives on Digital Bangladesh: Shared Meanings, Shared Concerns
Jude William Genilo, Shamsul Islam, and Marium Akther

Chapter 13: A Political History of Television in Bangladesh
Brian Shoesmith, Shameem Mahmud, and S M Shameem Reza

PART III: Media Practices

Chapter 14: The Profile and Activity of Citizen Journalists: A Study on Bangla Blog Community
Fahmidul Haq

Chapter 15: Independent Cinema in Bangladesh: Its Roots, Growth, Challenges, and Opportunities
Fahmidul Haq and Shanthi Balraj

Chapter 16: Politics of Restraint: The Media and the Chittagong Hill Tracts
Hana Shams Ahmed

Chapter 17: Television, Discursive Spaces, and the Public Sphere of Bangladesh
Jude William Genilo and Ashik Mohammad Shafi

Chapter 18: Public Relations in Bangladesh: Past Discourses, Future Trends
Jude William Genilo and Imtiaz Ahmed Chowdhury

Chapter 19: Challenging the hegemonic gaze: Women and representation in a cross-cultural context
Caitlin Harrison

Chapter 20: Conclusion: A Final Word on Market Forces and the Bangladeshi Mediascape