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Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Part I Objects, Images and Meanings: Methodological Interventions -- 1 Negotiating the Visibility of 'Habitus' of 'the Nagas' and their Photographers -- Introduction -- Pierre Bourdieu, 'Habitus' and 'Hexis' -- The Nagas and Their Photographers -- Visual Sources of the Nineteenth Century -- Imagery After the Turn of the Century -- Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf -- Hans-Eberhard Kauffmann -- Photography After World War II and in the New Millenium -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 'We Were the Others': Visuality in Colonial Writings -- Anecdote from the 'Others' -- Construction of the 'Other' -- Colonial Writings and the Nagas -- Photo Analysis and Photo-Elicitation -- The 'Other' Needs to Be Objectified in Order to Construct the 'Self' -- Interpretations and Contextualisation -- When the 'Others' Spoke Up -- Final Word: Reflexivity -- References -- 3 Conversation Pieces: How Digital Technologies might Reinvigorate and reveal the Social Lives of Objects -- Introduction -- Source Communities -- Who Owns Naga Heritage? -- Combined/Collaborative Methodologies -- Exhibition -- How Did We Get Here? -- The Body and Agent of Human Experience -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Material and Visual as Vehicles of Power and Hegemony: Adaptations and Negotiations -- 4 Mai-Baaps and Minis: Spatiality, Visuality and Materiality in Assam's Tea Gardens -- Introduction -- Constructing the 'Garden' -- Understanding the Gendered Plantation -- Plantation: Time, Work and Representation -- Beyond the Plantations: Representation of Minis in Advertisements -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Mapping Power and Domination: Studying State Making in Arunachal Pradesh through Old Official Photographs -- Introduction -- The Coming of the State.

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times, especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, as well as the exploration of race, gender, politics and conflicts, urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia, Finland, France, Iran, Italy, Morocco, India and the USA. It also asks the question whether, along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities, a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social, cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies, media, popular culture, digital culture, sociology, digital sociology and anthropology, and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki.

The transition from government to governance demands that numerous stakeholders participate in the policymaking and call for a strategy that could effectively help the process. Stakeholders' engagement is extensively used in all types of public organisations, giving different stakeholders the chance to have a say in how decisions are made. The public policy process has also accepted and embraced this principle as a method, both formal and informal, for policy formation, monitoring and evaluation, owing to the interconnected interests of the two domains and the stakeholders' expanding involvement in the process. This has enabled better alignment of public policy with the needs and aspirations of society. Stakeholders' participation has also become an important phenomenon in recent years in India. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the conceptualisation of Students' and Teachers' Holistic Advancement through Quality Education (SARTHAQ) and the National Curriculum Framework are the results of massive stakeholders' participation and a bottom-up approach. Involving stakeholders in the formulation of educational policies increases the quality of the educational system. This kind of wide and intensive consultation process and development of policies through a bottom-up approach ensures that diverse views are taken into consideration and citizens are significant contributors in the entire process. This essentially shows that collaboration and responsibility-sharing among stakeholders are key to achieving educational goals.

Malware Outbreaks are pervasive in today's digital world. However, there is a lack of awareness on part of general public on how to safeguard against such attacks and a need for increased cooperation between various national and international research as well as governmental organizations to combat the threat. On the positive side, cyber security websites, blogs and newsletters post articles outlining the working and spread of a malware outbreak and steps to recover from the same as well. In this project, an effective approach to predicting the spread of malware outbreaks is presented. The scope of the project is 15 Malware Outbreaks and the approach involves collecting these cyber aware articles from the web, assigning them to the 15 Malware Outbreaks using Topic Modeling and Similarity Analysis and along with Spread information of the Malware Outbreaks, this is input to auto encoder neural network for learning latent space representations which are further used to predict the spread of malware outbreak as either high or low spread outbreak, achieving a prediction accuracy of 75.56. This work can be used to process large amount of cyber aware content for effective and accurate prediction in the era of much-needed cyber security.

Abstract: Can a primitive society set a public agenda? Are there some advantages for a religious society in setting an agenda? From a critical study of the communicative perspective of the Bible and hermeneutic reading of its texts, it can be said that certain elements in primitive societies succeeded in influencing the political and social agendas. They did so by exploiting specific public assemblies or appearing in crowded places in attempts to impact local and national agendas. This notion is significant because it suggests that in countries that do not have developed communication infrastructures or established religious institutions (e.g., churches, mosques, and synagogues) that serve as public arenas, indeed even in seemingly closed religious communities, there may well be attempts to use venues other than mass media to influence the public agenda. Keywords: agenda setting, religion, Bible, New Testament***Résumé : Bien que la notion d'agenda setting n'a émergé dans l'analyse des politiques publiques qu'au début des années '70, une lecture de la Bible dans une approche herméneutique critique dévoile le fait que déjà dans l'antiquité biblique il était possible d'influencer les programmes politiques et sociaux, grâce à l'exploitation d'assemblées publiques d'ordre religieux, comme plateformes médiatiques. Cette thèse est pertinente car elle affirmerait que bien avant le développement des infrastructures modernes de communication, les différentes manifestations religieuses servaient de facto comme tribunes publiques et passerelles médiatiques en plus de leur rôle cultuel de jure. Mots-clés : agenda setting, religion, Bible, Nouveau Testament

Can a primitive society set a public agenda? Are there some advantages for a religious society in setting an agenda? From a critical study of the communicative perspective of the Bible and hermeneutic reading of its texts, it can be said that certain elements in primitive societies succeeded in influencing the political and social agendas. They did so by exploiting specific public assemblies or appearing in crowded places in attempts to impact local and national agendas. This notion is significant because it suggests that in countries that do not have developed communication infrastructures or established religious institutions (e.g., churches, mosques, and synagogues) that serve as public arenas, indeed even in seemingly closed religious communities, there may well be attempts to use venues other than mass media to influence the public agenda.