Pallavi Guha, "Hear #metoo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Hello Everyone, and welcome to New Books in Gender and Sexuality, a channel on the New Books Network. I\u2019m your host, Jana Byars, and I\u2019m here today with\xa0Pallavi Guha, assistant professor in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Towson, MD, to talk to her about her new book,\xa0Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism,\xa0out this year, 2021 with Rutgers University Press.\nThis book examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment activism in India. Including 75 interviews with feminist activists and journalists working across India, it proposes a framework of agenda-building and establishes a theoretical framework to examine media coverage of issues in the digitally emerging Global South.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies