The Media and Cultural Politics

Lloyd I Rudolph This discussion of the media is situated in the context of several different theoretical and empirical frameworks. The first is the idea of an information society advanced by Singhal and Rogers in their discussion of the electronic media in south Asia. The second is the idea, advanced by IngleharU that a post-modern society places different issues on the agenda of public discourse than does modern society The essay aims to create an intellectual space for the idea of