Index
INTRODUCTION - VI
APPROACHING CRISIS - 1
Bearing Inconvenient Witness: Notes in Pro/Confessional Mode - Ranjit Hoskote - 2
Peace is War : The Collateral Damage of Breaking News - Arundhati Roy - 10
Financialization, Emotionalization and Other Ugly Concepts - Toby Miller - 20
Interventionist Media in Times of Crisis - Soenke Zehle - 29
Western Wars and Peace Activism: Social Movements in Global Mass-Mediated Politics
- Martin Shaw - 42
IMAGE DISTURBANCE - 53
Let us become Children ! Training, simulations and kids - Kristian Lukic - 54
What is to be done? - Bhrigupati Singh - 60
Disreputable and Illegal Publics : Cinematic Allegories in Times of Crisis - Ravi Vasudevan - 71
Protesting Capitalist Globalization on Video - Oliver Ressler - 80
Barcelona Pictures - Sasja Barentsen - 84
From One Crisis to the Next : The Fate of Political Art in India - Nancy Adajania - 86
On Representing the Musalman - Shahid Amin - 92
Machines Made to Measure : On the Technologies of Identity and the Manufacture of Difference
- Raqs Media Collective - 98
CRISIS MEDIA - CASE STUDIES - 108
Media representations of the Kargil War and the Gujarat riots - Subarno Chatterji - 110
Small Town News - Taran N. Khan - 118
‘Out of the Box’ : Telelvisual Representations of North East India - Daisy Hasan - 126
Lost in Transit : Narratives and Myths of The Crash of Egypt Air Flight 990 Crash in Egyptian and
American Newspapers - Mahmoud Eid - 130
Of Nasty pictures and “Nice Guys”: The Surreality of Online Hindutva - Christiane Brosius - 139
Media Looking Beyond Crisis? The Urdu/Pakistani Press in New York after 9/11
- Rehan Ansari - 152
Tried by the Media : The S A R Geelani Trial - Nandita Haksar - 159
TRUTH/TESTIMONY - 165
“I saw it on CNN so it must be true...wrong !” - Craig Etcheson - 166
“CNN made me do (Not Do) it” Assessing Media Influence on US Interventions in Somalia and
Rwanda - Lyn S. Graybill - 170
Left To Their Own Devices -The Impact of Informal Information and Communication Networks on
Security in the Tanzanian Refugee Camps - Amy West - 184
Readers vs. Viewers - Ivo Skoric - 199
Cracks in the Urban Frame: The Visual Politics of 9/11 - Ranjani Mazumdar - 209
Truth telling, Gujarat and the Law - Arvind Narrain - 217
CAUTION: REPORTERS AT WORK - 226
Massacres and the Media : A Field Reporter Looks Back on Gujarat 2002 - Darshan Desai - 228
The Everyday Life of the Srinagar Correspondent : Reporting from Kashmir - Muzamil Jaleel - 235
A Reporter in Prison - Iftikhar Gilani - 243
Covering Kashmir : The Datelines of Despair - Basharat Peer - 247
Mumbai(Dongri)-Gujarat-Mumbai-Kashmir : Pages from my Diary - Zainab Bawa - 251
WAR CORRESPONDENCES: FIRST PERSON PLURAL - 257
Thoughts on Afghanistan in Five Parts - Meena Nanji - 258
On Experiencing Afghanistan - Daphne Meijer - 268
The Afghan eXplorer - The Computing Culture Research Group - MIT Media Lab - 274
Waiting : Entries from a Filmmakers Diary in and around Tel Aviv - Annabel Faroqhi - 276
Last E mail from the Gaza Strip - Rachel Corrie - 290
The Guerrila News Network's Documentaries - Interview with Stephen Marshall - Geert Lovink - 294
Synchronicities : Baghdad/Delhi - Anand Vivek Taneja - 303
Portrait of a Day in Baghdad - Paul Chan - 306
Diary of a News Cameraman : Baghdad, July 2003 - Shakeb Ahmed - 311
Rescued Pages of War Sense - Tarun Bhartiya - 320
DEEP INSTABILITIES - 324
Politics in the Picture : Witnessing Environmental Crises in the Media - Sanjay Kak - 325
The Toxic Times of India :The Plastic Monster and a State of Emergency - Ravi Agarwal 1 2 - 330
Remembering SARS in Beijing : The Nationalist Appropriation of an Epidemic - Sanjay Sharma - 332
Evictions - Projections : Watching Dharmendra in Suburban Lagos - Hansa Thapliyal - 340
Mediated Guilt : The Illusion of Participation in Delhi’s
Social Welfare Advertisements - Omar Kutty - 346
Journey through a Disaster : A Filmmaker’s Account of the Gujarat Earthquake, 2001 -
Batul Mukhtiar - 354
CYBERMOHALLA STREET LOGS - 359
LOG OO1, 20th October, 2003 - Dakshinpuri Cybermohalla Media Lab - 360
INFORMATION = POLITICS - 371
P2P : Power to the People - Janko Röttgers - 373
War in the Age of Pirate Reproduction - Nitin Govil - 379
Floss and the ‘Crisis’ : Foreigner in a Free Land? - Martin Hardie - 384
Introducing AIDC as a Tool for Data Surveillance
- Beatriz Da Costa + Jamieson Schulte + Brooke Singer - 398
Anagrams of Orderly Discorder (For the New Global Order)
- Geoff Cox, Joasia Krysa + Adrian Ward - 415
The Tools and Tactics of A Festival : Looking Back at N5M4 - David Garcia - 421
The Revenge of Lowtech : Autolabs, Telecentros and Tactical Media in Sao Paulo
- Ricardo Rosas - 424
CONTESTING CENSORSHIP - 433
Reasonable Restrictions and Unreasonable Speech - Lawrence Liang - 434
‘The Whole Constitution Goes for Six” : Legislative Privileges and the Media
- Sudhir Krishnaswamy - 441
Censorship Myths and Imagined Harms - Shohini Ghosh - 447
Homeless Everywhere : Writing in Exile - Taslima Nasrin - 455
<ALT/OPTION> - 462
Manifesto Against Labour - Gruppe Krisis - 463
Digital Declaration - Infossil Corrective - 475
Notes of Contributors - 477
Acknowledgments - 484
