The title of this volume on media studies, edited by Ravi Sundaram, a senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, is a suitable one. There really are no limits to the mediatized society that each one of us is embedded, if not buried, in. At the same time, there are very severe limits to our understanding of it. We who read page after page of inked newsprint; who email, blog, facebook, twitter like crazy; who surrender without demur to lit-up screens, big and small, rarely spend an extra moment wondering what this never ending swirl of words and images is doing in our lives, what it is doing to our lives. Meanwhile, like the tides, the world of the media waits for no one.
February 2014, volume 38, No 2