CURRICULUMVITAE

BiswajitDas,Ph.D.PhoneNo.:+91-11-26933810(O)E-Mail:bdas@jmi.ac.inPresentEngagements-Prof&FoundingDirector,CentreforCulture,MediaandGovernance,JamiaMilliaIslamia(Dec2006–Continuing….)MemberoftheCourt(Anjuman),JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi.MemberoftheCourt,CentralUniversityofHaryana.Member,Asia-PacificAllianceforCommunicationResearchAssociations(APACRA),Beijing,China.Member,ThinkTankCommitteeon“GuidelinesforLinkingtheSkillProgrammeswithAcademicProgrammes,CEMCA,NewDelhiCoordinator,CPEPAprogramme(CentrewithPotentialforExcellence)onStrengtheningMedia&CommunicationStudiesinIndia,supportedbyUGC,MHRD,GOI,2016-2021Coordinator,SpecialAssistanceProgramme(SAP)supportedbyUGC,MHRD,GOI,2013-2018PrincipalInvestigator,MOOCSe-PGpathasalaPost-GraduateprogrammeonMediaandcommunicationstudies,developed360modules,supportedbyUGC,MHRD,GOI,2016-17ResearchAssociate,CentreforInterculturalNewMediaResearch,MarquetteUniversity,USA.Member,AdvisorycumConsultativeCommitteeof‘OERPolicyforHigherEducationinIndia’,CommonwealthEducationalMediaCentreforAsia.FoundingPresident,AllIndiaCommunicationandMediaAssociation(AICMA),NewDelhi.ProfessionalAssignmentsMember(AcademicsBodies)Member, School Board of School of Journalism and New Media Studies, IGNOU, New Delhi.June,2018Member,BoardofStudies(BOS)ofUniversitySchoolofMass-CommunicationatGuruGobindSinghIndraprasthaUniversity.October2017.Member, advisory Board, UGC- SAP-DRS, Department of Journalism and Mass-Communication, University ofMadras,March,2017.

Member,BoardofStudies,DepartmentofTourism,Hotel,HospitalityandHeritageStudies,JMI,NewDelhi,2016-Member,Ph.D.OrdinanceCommittee,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,2016Member,DoctoralCommittee,SOJNMS,IGNOU,NewDelhi,April29,2016MemberAdvisoryCommittee,VisvaBhartiUniversity,WestBengal,March2016Member,BoardofStudies,CentreforMediaStudies,SchoolofSocialSciences,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi.Member,BoardofStudies,DepartmentofSociology,TripuraUniversity,Tripura,2016Member,BoardofStudies,DepartmentofCulture&MediaStudies,CentralUniversityofRajasthan,Ajmer,2016—19Member,BoardofStudies,DepartmentofSociology,KoraputCentralUniversity,2015-MemberofCommitteeofStudies,SchoolofJournalismandNewMediaStudies,(SOJNMS),IGNOU.Member,BoardofStudies,DepartmentofSociology,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhiMember,TeacherCommission,WestBengalCollegeServiceCommission,WestBengal,2015Member,BoardofStudies,DepartmentofSociology,PondicherryCentralUniversity,Puducherry,TamilNadu,2014Member,BoardofStudies,DepartmentofJournalismandCommunication,MadrasUniversity,Chennai,2014.Member, Board of studies of the Department of Art History & Art Appreciation, Jamia Millia Islamia, NewDelhi.2014Co-Convener, Round table on ‘Asia Science and Social Science Research Councils’ in collaboration withInternationalDevelopmentResearchCentre(IDRC),Canada,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,25-26thNovember,2013Member,DoctoralCommitteeoftheSchoolofJournalism&NewMediaStudies,IGNOU,NewDelhi,2013-14.AdvisoryBoardMember,Centre forMedia Studies, Schoolof Social Sciences, JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi-67,October,2011.Member,BoardofStudies,DepartmentofEnglish,JamiaMilliaIslamia,2012Advisory Board Member, Centre for Community Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Social Science,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi,January,2010AdvisoryBoardMember,BoardofResearchCommittee,CentrefortheStudyofSocialSystem,JNU.Member,BoardofResearchCommittee,SchoolofJournalismandNewMedia,IGNOU,2009AdvisoryBoardMember,BoardofResearchCommittee,KashmirUniversity,Kashmir,2009Member,BoardofResearchCommittee,SchoolofJournalismandNewMedia,IGNOU,November,2009

AdvisoryBoardMember,BoardofResearchCommittee,KashmirUniversity,Kashmir,December,2009GoverningBodyMember,UGCNominee,AnugulCollege,Dhenkanal,UtkalUniversity,Orissa,2007GoverningBodyMember,UGCNominee,RayagadaCollege,BehampurUniversity,2007,Orissa.AdvisoryBoardMember,CentreforCommunityHealthandPreventiveMedicine,SchoolofSocialScience,JawaharLalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi,2006Member(ExpertCommittees)VC nominee, Selection committee for the post of Public Relation Officer,at Central University of Tamil Nadu,Chennai,TamilNadu,September4,2018.Externalexpert,ICSSRResearchProject(Sponsored)tited,'PopularImaginariesandDiscoursesonPoliticsinIndia:Exploring Cultural Narratives as Alternative Sites of Knowledge Construction', Department of Political Science,UniversityofDelhi.Member, ExpertCommittee, programme structureofMA (Journalism&MassCommunication) at IndiraGandhiNationalOpenUniversity,scheduledon9thFebruary2018.Member, Expert Committee, conceptualizing a proposal to establish an independent School of Journalism andCommunicationStudiesatSchoolofArt,DesignandMediaStudies,ShardaUniversity,Noida,November2017Expertmemberforaninternetradiosessionforthetopic'ChallengesandprospectsofcommunicationresearchinIndia’,PostGraduateDiplomainJournalismandMassCommunication(PGJMC)&SchoolofJournalismandNewMediaStudies,(SOJNMS),IGNOU,NewDelhi,October19,2016Member,ScreeningCommittee, ICSSRPost-DoctoralandSeniorFellowships, ICSSR,NewDelhi,September21-23,2016Member,ResearchProjectsRe-evaluationCommittee,ICSSR,NewDelhi,September9,2016Member,NorthernRegionalSocialSciencesCongressmeeting,ICSSRNorthernRegionalCentre,JNU,NewDelhi,August30,2016.Member, InternalQualityAssuranceCell (IQAC), IndraprasthaCollegeforWomen,UniversityofDelhi,NewDelhi,Feb2016—ExpertMember, Selection committeemeeting for Consultant in National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE),DelhiDecember29,2015Expert Member, Selection Committee meeting for Journalism, at West Bengal College Service Commission,Kolkata,24-25,February,2014Chairman,UGCcommittee forevaluationofautonomy forGobiCollegeofScienceandArts,Erode,TamilNadu,2014Member,GoverningCouncil,ConsortiumofEducationCommunication,NewDelhi.Member,SelectionCommittee,DepartmentofJournalismandMassCommunication,UniversityofCalcutta,June3,2013.

Member,SelectionCommitteeRavenshawUniversity,Cuttack,Orissa,5-6April,2013Member,SelectionCommittee,CentralUniversityofKashmir,March8,2013Chairman,InterSchoolEssayCompetition,GoldenJubileeoftheCentralBureauofInvestigation(CBI),NewDelhi,November27,2013Member,GoverningBody,NationalCouncilofRuralInstitute,Hyderabad,MHRD.Member,StateLedDelegationwithHon’blePresidentofIndiatoBelgiumandTurkey,October02-08,2013Coordinator, Training Programme on Communication Strategies for Legal Awareness For Senior GovernmentOfficials,Afghanistan,fundedbyUNDPAfghanistan,September23-October04,2013Chairman,UGCCommitteeforautonomousstatustoBankiCollegeUtkalUniversity,Odisha,April8-9,2013Chairman, Expert Committee for the evaluation and extension of autonomous status of Rayagada College,BerhampurUniversity,Orissa,January27-29,2013.MemberofExpertCommitteefortheSubjectonJournalism/MassCommunication,SouthWesternRegionaloffice,UGC,Bangalore,January11,2013Member,XIIthplanevaluationCommitteeofMinistryofI&BtoevaluateFTII,Pune,December15,2012.Chairman,UGCCommitteeforautonomousstatustoS.G.G.S.KhalsaCollegeMahilpur,Hoshiarpur,Punjab,August2012Chairman,UGCCommitteeforreviewingautonomousstatustoS.V.M.College,Jagatsinghpur,Orissa,July2012Member,Inter-MinisterialTaskForceonEducationinMediarelatedcourses,MHRD,Govt.ofIndia,2012.Member, SelectionCommittee for the researchprojectsonMassCommunication, ICSSR,NewDelhi, January12,2012.Member,EditorialAdvisoryBoard, SociologicalBulletin,Official Journalof IndianSociological Society,NewDelhi,2012Member,ExpertCommittee,AcademicStaffCollege,UniversityGrantsCommission,NewDelhi,2012Program Director, Summer course titled Media, Citizen Movements and Social Justice jointly offered by YorkUniversity and Reyerson University, hosted by department of Communication and Culture, York University,Toronto,CanadaMay1-25thJune,2012.Member,SelectionCommittee,SikkimUniversity,January11,2012.Member,InnovationCouncil,InformationBroadcastingMinistry,Govt.ofIndia,October,2011Member,Sub-grouponInformationSectorfortheformulationofXII fiveyearplan,Ministryof InformationandBroadcasting,Policyplanningcell,NewDelhi,2011.Member,D.NMajumdarEndowmentfundCommittee.LucknowUniversity,Lucknow,July,2011

Member, ExpertCommitteemeeting for the selectionofPostDoctoral Fellowships SC/ST candidates ,UGC,8thDecember,2011.Member,EvaluationCommitteeofProjectsonMassCommunication,24thNovember,2011,ICSSR,NewDelhiMember,EvaluationCommitteeofMajor&MinorResearchProjectsandmidtermevaluationofmajorResearchprojectsonMassCommunication,UGC,17thNovember,2011.Member,SelectionCommitteeofCommonWealthFellowshipandsplitscholarship,UGC,30thNovember,2011.Member,SelectionCommitteeforMassCommunication,CentralUniversity,Odisha,16thNovember,2011Member,SelectionCommitteeforMassCommunication,CentralUniversityofOdisha,,2011,GuestEditor,JournalofInterCulturalcommunicationUSA,2010Member,CoreReviewCommitteeofSociologyandSocialAnthropology,ICSSR,NewDelhi,February,2010Member,SelectionCommittee forMassCommunicationandDistanceEducation,MahatmaGandhi InternationalUniversity,Wardha,2010.Member,CoreReviewCommitteeofSociologyandSocialAnthropology,ICSSR,NewDelhi,2009PanelofJuryandGuestofHonor,IDRCYoungSocialScienceAward,2009Member,SelectionCommittee,DelhiPublicLibrary,Delhi,December,2009Member,selectionCommittee,SchoolofJournalismandNewMedia,IGNOU,2008Member,screeningCommittee,DoonUniversity,Dehradun,2008Member,SelectionCommittee,BerhamPurUniversity,Orissa,2008Member,UGCExpertCommittee,RavenshawUniversity,Cuttack,2007Member,SelectionCommittee,EMRC,KashmirUniversity,SriNagar,2007.Member,SelectionCommittee,JawaharLalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi.2007Member,SelectionCommittee,UttaranchalUniversity,Nainital,2007UGCObserver,NET,Jaipur,Rajasthan,2006Member,SelectionCommittee,PunjabiUniversity,Patiala,Punjab,2007ResourcepersonforPressInstituteofIndiaforsensitizingJournalistsinsmalltownforwritingonHIV/Aids,2005.Member(CurriculumAdvisoryCommittees)Member,CurriculumAdvisoryCommittee,JaipurnationalUniversity,Jaipur,Rajastahan,2014Member,CurriculumAdvisoryCommittee,BurdwanUniversity,Burdwan,WestBengal,2014

ExpertMemberforthecourseCommitteeonB.A.(H)MassMediaandMassCommunication,UniversityofDelhi,April25,2013Chairman, Curriculum Development Committee for Mass Communication, 2010, Sikkim Central University,Gangtok.Member, Curriculum Development Committee for Bachelor in Mass Media and Media Research, IP College,UniversityofDelhi,Delhi,2010.Chairman,CurriculumAdvisoryCommittee,UniversityofSikkim,Sikkim,2010ProjectUndertakenProject Coordinator, Centre for Potential Excellence in Particular Area (CPEPA) on Strengthening Media &CommunicationStudiesinIndiarecoganisedandsupportedbyUniversityGrantCommission(UGC),2016-2021Project Coordinator, MOOCS e-PG pathasala Post-Graduate programme onMedia and communication studies,fundedbyUGC,MHRD,GOI,2016-2018ProjectCoordinator,UGCSpecialAssistanceProgramme(SAP),UniversityGrantsCommission,NewDelhi, (2014-2018)ProjectDirector,TrackingAccessunderDigitalisation,FordFoundation,NewDelhi,(July2013-June2016)ProjectDirector,MediatedPublicsandMachinesofDemocracy,fundedbyIndianCouncilofSocialResearch,2011--14Co-ProjectDirector,Curatorial/ExhibitionPolicyResearchandAdvocacy-DorabjiTataTrust/IndiaFoundationforArts,Bangalore,India,2010-2013.ProjectDirector,Research&CurriculumDevelopmentonMediaPolicy&Law,FordFoundation,NewDelhi,May2010-May2013.Project Director, Pilot project on Strengthening Media and Communication Studies in India, University GrantsCommission,NewDelhi,2011-12.Co-ProjectDirector,MediaOwnershipandContentAdvocacy,HIVOS,Bangalore,Mar–Nov2010CoProjectDirector,ScopingStudyonMediaAdvocacyinSouthAsia,SSRC,NewYork,Sep2009-Feb2010.PreviousProfessionalExperienceCoordinator,CentreforCultureMedia&Governance,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi-110025AssociateProfessor,DepartmentofSociology,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi-110025(2001-2006)AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofSociology,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi-110025(1986-2001)Coordinator,UGC-INSATproject,MassCommunicationResearchCenter,JamiaMilliaIslamia,1986.

ResearchOfficer,DepartmentofCommunication,NationalInstituteofHealth&FamilyWelfare,NewDelhi(1983-86)Publication

BooksEditedavolumeonCommunication,Cultureandconfrontation,SagePublications,2010,NewDelhi.EditedavolumeonSocialandtheSymbolic,SagePublications2007,NewDelhi.EditedavolumeonMediaandMediationSagePublications,2005,NewDelhiArticlesAmaiaLandaburu,ManuelChaparroEscudero,BiswajitDas,Epistemologyofcommunicationinindia:ahistoricalaccountbeyond“development””,RevistadeComunicaciónyCiudadaníaDigitalPublicaciónbiannualVolumen5,Número2pp.64-92,ISSN2255-3401,December2016‘CommunicationResearchinIndia’,inIdentity,CommunicationandCulture,IndianSociologyVolume3(EditedbyYogendraSingh.),OxfordUniversityPress,2014,ISBN:0-19-809204-0‘FromSitetoTerrestrialTelevision:TelevisioninEverydaylifeinRuralRajasthan’RawatPublications,2013,pp.272-290,ISBN:9788131605714MediaResearch&PublicPolicy:TidingovertheRupture,BiswajitDasandVibodhParthasarthi,PublishedinGlobalHandbookofMediaPolicyEditedbyRobinMansell&MarcRaboy,WileyBlackwell,London,2011.Constructing Community in communication research: A study of Audience for Radio Broadcasting, Published inCommunication,AnthropologyandSociology inHistoryofScience,PhilosophyandCultureof IndianCovilisation,VolumeXIVPart2,PearsonsandLongman,NewDelhi,2010.MediaEducationasDevelopmentProject:ConnectingEmancipatory InterestsandGovernance in India, inGlobalMediaEducationPolicies,editedbyDivinaFrauMeigsandJodiTorrent,UNESCO,NewYork,2009.CommunicatingCultureandCultureofCommunications:AStudyof IndianTelevision,published inGlobalisation,PolicyandReformEditedbyKameshwarChoudhury,SagePublications,NewDelhi,2007.BeyondBoundary?GlobalisationOfIndianCommunicationinGlobalisationeditedbyB.Patnail&ImtiazHasnain,IndianInstituteofAdvancedStudy,Shimla,2007.GlobalCommunicationandLocalAppropriationinThirdWorld-IndianExperienceinGlobalisationeditedZ.H.ZaidiandVanitaRay,2007.Quest for Theory: Mapping Communication Studies in India in Bernard Bel (ed) Media and Mediation, SagePublication,NewDelhi,2005.MediatingModernity:ColonialDiscourseandRadioBroadcastinginIndia,inBernardBel(ed)MediaandMediation,SagePublication,NewDelhi,2005.InvestigatingCommunicationinBernardBel(ed)MediaandMediation,SagePublication,NewDelhi,2005.

CommunicationsinIndiaat50,IndianSocialScienceInstitute,1996.NewDelhiOccasionalPaperRoleofCommunicationinStigmaandDiscrimination:Prof.BiswajitDasMarch-2012RoadmapforMediaEducationinIndia:Prof.BiswajitDas2011MediamonitoringonCorruptioninIndianprintMedia:CCMGandYorkProject.2011ConstructionsofCommunityinCommunicationResearch:AStudyofRadioBroadcastinginIndia,byProf.BiswajitDas,Workingpaper:02/2008.Communication&Powers:TheStateofResearchbyProf.BiswajitDas,Workingpaper:01/2007ReportPost-ConsultationReport,NationalConsultationonMappingCreativeIndustryandPolicyinIndia16-17April2018atCentreforCulture,Media&Governance,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhiResearchReporton-MediaEnablingPedagogyandCurriculumInOpen&DistanceLearningSysteminSouthAsia,submittedtoCommonwealthEducationalMediaCentreforAsiaNewDelhi,February2018Evaluation and Appraisal of Plan Scheme of Anti-Piracy Initiatives, submitted to Min. of Information &Broadcasting,GOI,September2017

Evaluation Report of SMCS, TISS, Bridging Theory and PracticeMedia, Pedagogies and Disciplinary interventionsubmittedtoTATATRUST,MUMBAI,May,2017

StrengtheningMediaandCommunicationStudiesinIndia,UGCPilotStudy,2012.DevolutionofPRIinLadakh,LadakhDevelopmentOrganisation,Leh,2008GovernanceofSimliipalBiosphereReserve,MayurbhanjDistrictOrissa,FordFoundation,NewDelhi,2007Youth,MediaandHIVAIDS,UNESCO,NewDelhi.Impact study of ICT: Policy Implication andRole of Information and Communication Technology in India,MajorResearchProject,UniversityGrantsCommission,NewDelhi,2007Neighbourhoodresearchprojectondocumentingmediaconcentration inthesurroundingvicinityofJamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi.Spectra-mind:AstudyofLabourandOrganisationintheCallCentre,NewDelhi.MediaConcentrationofOldandNewinthesurroundingvicinityofJamiaMilliaIslamia.SoftwareTechnologyPark:AstudyofnewmediaorganizationsinOkhlaandNoida.Research project on Television in Everyday life in Rural Rajasthan and made a documentary Film in French incollaborationwithProf.KristianFeigelson,CinemaetAudiovisual,Sorbonne,ParisUniversity.

E-ContentStudyMaterialContributedfollowing32e-PGModulesasmainauthor for theE-PGPathshalaprogrammejointly initiatedbyMHRD-GOI,UGCandINFLIBNET(2016-2017)MassCulturehttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/view_s.php?category=1737#FrankfurtSchoolhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/view_s.php?category=1737#Culture,CommunicationandNationhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/view_s.php?category=1737#Identity,CultureandNationhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/view_s.php?category=1737#SpatialTurninCommunicationhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24Globalisation&Deterritorialisation.http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24RoleofUNagenciesinDevelopmenthttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24HistoricalandConceptualOverviewofDevelopmentCommunicationhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24ParadigmsinDevelopmentCommunicationhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24ModernisationParadigmhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24DependencyParadigmhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24AlternativeDevelopmenthttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24TelecommunicationforDevelopmenthttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24HistoryofDiffusionResearchandDevelopmenthttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24ParticipatoryApproacheshttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24NGO'sandDevelopmenthttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24CommunicationPlanningandRuralDevelopmentinIndiahttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24PoliticalEconomyofDevelopmentinIndiahttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24PovertyandDevelopmentPlanninghttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24CommunicationPolicyandNationalDevelopmentinIndiahttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24MediaAssistanceinDevelopmenthttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24Developmentforwhom?ApeoplecenteredpolicyanddevelopmentCommunicationhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24DevelopmentintheAgeofGlobalisationhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24ICTandEconomicGrowth

http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24ICTandDevelopmenthttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24ICTandHealthSectorhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24ICTandRuralDevelopmenthttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24ICTinPovertyReductionhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24DigitalDivideandDevelopmenthttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24InternationalisingDevelopmentCommunicationhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24DevelopmentCommunication:Aphilanthropyortyrannyhttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24FromDevelopmenttoGovernancehttp://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24CommunityStudies:globalexperiencehttps://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=24Fellowship&HonorsReceivedFelicitatedbyICICITrinity:IdeaPresentationEventFlow,Mumbai,December20,2013Fellow,IndianInstituteofAdvancedStudies,Shimla,HimachalPradesh,India,1997ResearchFellow,CharlesWallaceTrust,UK,1995.VisitingFellow,Indo-FrenchCEPtoworkonNewInformationTechnologiesanditsimpactonIndianSociety",MSH,Paris,1995.IndoShastriFellow,WindsorUniversity,Canada,1994.VisitingColleague,DepartmentofCommunication,UniversityofWindsor,1994.ResearchfellowinMassCommunication,UGCNewDelhi,1987

AreaofSpecialisation

IndianCommunicationStudiesMediaPolicyCommunicationTheoryMediaEthnographyMediaHistoryJournalismStudiesPolicyDialogueOrganisedadaylongPolicyDialogueon‘OpenAccessDay’,JamiaMilliaIslamia,14thOctober2008.OrganisedadaylongPolicyDialogueCommunityRadio:PathwaysandProspects,16thOctober,2006.

OrganisedadaylongpolicydialogueonBroadcastingBill,2006,8thSeptember,2006.WorkshopOrganisedtwo-dayworkshoponSocialMedia:EmergingissuesandChallengesscheduled12-13October,2018inassociationwithInstituteofPolicyStudies,NewDelhiandFacultyofLaw,jamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi.Organised Three-DayWorkshop on "Reconnecting Deleuze and Guattari" organised in collaboration with Prof.AlexTaek-GwangLeeKyungHeeUniversity,SouthKoreaandProf.JoffPNBradley,TeikyoUniversity,Japan,5-7October2018OrganisedstudentInteractionProgrammewithProf.AbhijitRoy,incollaborationwithDepartmentofFilimStudiesJadavpurUniversity,Kolkatta,August7,2018OrganisedNationalConsultationonMappingCreative IndustryandPolicy in India16-17April2018atCentreforCulture,Media&Governance,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhiOrgannised Book Launch and Panel Discussion Everyday Communalism, Riots in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh(Oxford 2018) authored by Prof. Sudha Pai & Dr. Sajjan Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi at andCentreforCultureMediaandGovernance,JamiaMilliaIslmia,March15,2018.Organised Student Interaction Programme with Prof. Huang Yu, The Dean of theSchool ofCommunication(includingAcademy of Film&Department of Journalism) at the Hong Kong Baptist University,HongKong,March15,2018.OrganisedStudentInteractionProgrammewithDept.JournalismandMass-Communication,SavitriBaiPhulePuneUniversityandCentreforCultureMediaandGovernance,JamiaMilliaIslmia,February2018.Organised Research Scholar Interaction Programme with Prof. Shin Dong Kim, Director Institute of Arts andTechnology,SchoolofCommunication,HayllumUniversity,SouthKorea,December2017.OrganisedworkshoponTheoryandEvaluationofHealthCampaignswithProf.HeinzBonfadelli,FormerDirectorInstituteforMassCommunicationandMediaResearch,UniversityofZurich,Switzerland,on9February,2012Organised,OrientationProgramforSeniorEditorsfromBhutan,incollaborationMinistryofExternalAffairs,GovernmentofIndia,NewDelhi,November18,2013OrganisedWorkshoponMediaConsumption and appropriation in the JamiaNeighborhoodbyDr. Aditya Sood,CentreforKnowledgeSociety,Bangalore,2009OrganisedWorkshoponCuration&DigitisationofMusicCollectionattheDelhiPublicLibrary,towardsExhibition50YearsofDelhiPublicLibrary,Delhi,November,SahityaKalaAcademy,NewDelhi,2009.OrganisedWorkshop‘PresenceandtheDesignoftheTrust’byDrCarolineNevejan,FreeUniversityofAmsterdam,andMember,DutchNationalCouncilforCultureandtheArts,CCMG,JamiaMilliaIslamia,5thDecember,2008.OrganisedWorkshoponCommunicatingPeace,SupportedbyGlobalPartnershipforPreventionofArmsConflict,Netherland, Regional centre for Strategic studies, Colombo & Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and ConflictResolution,JMI,4thSeptember,2008.Organised Workshop on Community Radio Training Supported by One World South Asia & Jamia Out ReachProgramme,CCMG,24thOctober,2007.

OrganisedWorkshoponMedia Education, Supportedby JamiaMillia IslamiaUniversityNewDelhi, CCMG, 14thMay,2007.OrganisedOrientationWorkshoponAdvocacyinFormal&NonFormalMilieusbyMr.SajanVeniyoor,Coordinator,CommunityRadioForum(Delhi),CCMG,14thAugust,2008.OrganisedOrientationWorkshop on Perspectives inGovernance- byDR. BishnuMohapatra, ProgrammeOffice’Global&LocalGovernance’FordFoundation(SouthAsia),CCMG,14thAugust,2008.Organised Orientation Workshop on Communication & the Social Sciences by Prof. Yogendra Singh, ProfessorEmeritus,JNU13thAugust2008.OrganisedOrientationWorkshopon Issues inMedia Practice byMr. SaeedNaqvi, Eminent Journalist at CCMG,JamiaMilliaIslamia12thAugust,2008.OrganisedOrientationWorkshoponStateofGovernanceinIndiabyProf.KuldipMathur,Founder&FormerChair,CentrefortheStudyofLaw&Governance,JNU,CCMG,JamiaMilliaIslamia,12thAugust2008.Organised Orientation Workshop on Technology and Society by Dr. Aurn Mehta- Software Designer &CommunicationPolicyAdvocate,CCMG,12thAugust,2008.OrganisedsensitizationworkshopsforthejournalistsandstudentsofJournalismschoolsinthreestates(Haryana,GujaratandMadhyaPradesh)onthepreereportageonHIV/Aids.Organisedworkshopentitled“GoverningandthestateofGovernanceinSimilipal”incollaborationwithDepartmentofSociologyandSocietyforDevelopmentalactions.TeachingTaught Strategic Communication at Centre for Culture, Media and Governance for post-graduate programme(CCMG)2018-Taught‘RegulationofMediaPolicyinIndia’and‘EvolutionofMediaPolicyinIndia’forpost-graduateprogrammeatCentreforCulture,MediaandGovernance(CCMG)2017-Taught Doctoral Course work Programme on Theoretical Orientations in Communication in Centre for Culture,MediaandGovernance(CCMG).TaughtIntellectualHistoryofCommunicationforPostGraduateprogrammeonMediaGovernance,CCMG.TaughtCommunicationandtheConstitutionofModernity forPostGraduateprogrammeonMediaGovernance,CCMG.TaughtMediaPolicyforPostGraduateprogrammeonMediaGovernance,CCMG.TaughtNetwork,TechnologyandGovernanceforPostGraduateprogrammeonMediaGovernance,CCMG.TaughtCulture,MediaandSocietyforPostgraduateStudents,DepartmentofSociology,JamiaMilliaIslamiaTaughtMediaandSocietyforUndergraduateHonoursprogramme,DepartmentofSociology,JamiaMilliaIslamiaTaughtMediaEducationforUndergraduateBApass/Subsidiaryprogramme

Taught Theories of Mass Communication for Postgraduate programme on Mass Communication in AJK MassCommunicationResearchCentre,JMITaught Theories on Development Communication for Post Graduate Diploma Course on DevelopmentCommunicationinAJKMassCommunicationResearchCentre,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi.TaughtMediaGovernanceforFPMProgrammeatMICA,AhmedabadTaughtDoctoralProgrammeonMassCommunication,IndiraGandhiNationalOpenUniversity,NewDelhi.PaperpresentedonPaperpresentedonon“ControlandmaterialityincommunicationstudiesinIndia”inInternationalConferenceonContemporary Communication, Cultures, Controls and Becomings, Deleuze andGuattari Camp and Conference,DepartmentofJournalismandMass-Comunication,UniversityofMadras,Chennai17thFebruary2018Paperpresentedonon ‘SellingEmotions-RethinkingMediaandPolitics’ inMedia SeminaronMediaandSocialResponsibility,atD.G.VaishnavCollege,Chennai.October7th,2017PaperpresentedononGoverningMediaandMediaGovernance inthesessiononinnovationandcooperationofAsianjournalismandcommunicationeducationinmediaenvironment,atAsianforumforDeansofJournalismandCommunication,atJ110InformationCentre,ShanghaiInternationalStudiesUniversity(SISU),Shanghai,December01,2016Paper presented on on Communication Research in India: Emerging Trends and Challenges in InternationalSeminar, organised by ASEAN Media and Communication Studies Research Center(AMSAR), School ofCommunicationArts,UniversityofThaiChambersofCommerce,August27,2016.PaperpresentedononCommunicationandJournalismStudiesinIndia,inAsianCommunicationandJournalismSocietiesForum,organisedbyKoreanSocietyforJournalismandCommunicationStudies,August21st,2016,StatisticsTrainingCenter713,Hanbatdaero(282-1,Wolpyung-dong),Seo-gu,Daejeon,S.Korea.Paperpresentedonon‘Passion,Populism&Protest:EmergingFormsofResistanceinaNeoliberalOrder’inaSymposiumonGlobalizationandInequality:AnIndia-CanadaComparison,organizedbyYorkUniversity,Canada.PaperpresentedononPoliticalCommunication:IndianElectionandPoliticalRhetoricsinInternationalConferenceonContemporaryMediaScenarioinSouthAsianRegion,jointlyorganizedbyUniversityofBurdwan&MAKAIAS,19-20thNovember,2014PaperpresentedononindoSwedishConferenceonMedia,ContentandDiversity:AstudyofselectlanguagechannelsinIndiainSwedish-IndianInternationalResearchConferenceLanguagingandDiversityintheageofpost-colonialglocal-medialization,15-17October2014,Mysore,IndiaPaperpresentedononInterrogatingPublicgoodinanageofMarketplaceofIdeasinJamia-YorkInternationalSeminar,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,18-19February,2014PaperpresentedononCommunicationResearchinIndia-ThedecennialtrendsatICSSRJNU,11February,2014Paperpresentedonon‘StrengtheningcapacityofIndianCivilSocietyforIndia-EUFTA’intheInternationalworkshoponImpactsoftheEU-India:FTAonHumanandSocialRights,organizedbyUniversiteLibreDeBrussels,Brussels,22January,2014

Paperpresentedonon‘MediaandCivilSociety’intheInternationalWorkshoponThevoiceofthesocietyintheIndianculture,organizedbyUniversiteLibreDeBrussels,Brussels,21January,2014PaperpresentedonMediaPublic:AContentAnalysisofSelectedchannelsofIndianTelevision,DepartmentofCommunicationandCulture,YorkUniversity,Toronto,June15,2012.PaperpresentedononTelevision,MemoryandEverydaylifeinUGCsponsoredseminaronPopularCultureandSocialChange,organizedbyKamalaNehruCollege,UniversityofDelhi,February17,2012.PaperpresentedononMediaEducation:FuturisticDirection,NationalInnovationCouncil,MinistryofI&B,IndianInstituteofMassCommunication,January20,2012.PaperpresentedonRoadmapofMediaEducationinIndia,NationalInnovationCouncil,MinistryofI&B,IndianInstituteofMassCommunication.17September,2011,IndianInstituteofMassCommunication,NewDelhi.PaperpresentedontitledMobileMediaandMigrantPublic:TelevisionineverydaylifeinRural-RajastahaninInternationalWorkshoponMediaandPoliticsinAsiaandEurope,organizedbyIPMZ,UniversityofZurich,April19,2011,ZurichUniversity,Switzerland.PaperpresentedonfortheDecennialTrendReporton“CommunicationResearchinIndiafortheICSSRworkshoponReviewofSociology&SocialAnthropologyatUllor,OrganisedbyICSSRatCentrefortheDevelopmentStudies,Keralaon2nd–4thmarch,2011.PaperpresentedononNationalconsultationmeetingon“MediaOwnership&ContentAdvocacy:ThecaseofBroadcastNews”,organizedbyCentreforCCMG,JMI,29thNov.,2010.PaperpresentedonNationalConsultation“EnumeratingOwnership&Content:PreliminariesfromasPilotStudy”,CCMG,JMI,October27,2010.Paperpresentedontitled‘Media,Democracy,Diversity:PoliticsofLocationinCommunicationPolicyinIndia’Indo-SwissBi-NationalSeminaron‘GovernanceandDiversity:ComparingMediaSystems’organisedincooperationwithProHelvetia&ICSSR,NewDelhi,16-17Feb2010Paperpresentedonon‘Culture,CommunicationandNation:InterrogatingtherelationshipsinIndia’,NationalInterdisciplinarySeminaronTheElectronicMedia:ImpactonNationalCulture&Identity,GargiCollege,UniversityofDelhi,10-11thDecember,2009.Paperpresentedonon‘FromMediaReformtoMediaRights:aCriticalCommentaryonthetrendsofMediaAdvocacyinIndia,NationalSeminaronTheHumanRightsDiscourseinIndia:ChallengesforTheoryandAction,organizedbyDepartmentofPoliticalScience,December,2-3,2009Paperpresentedonon‘MediaEducationInIndia:trajectoriesofCompetingDiscourses’,InternationalSeminaronChallengesandopportunitiesofMediaEducationinIndia,November,20-21,2009,organizedbySchoolofJournalismandNewMedia,IGNOU,NewDelhi.Paperpresentedonon‘ChallengesinStudyingTelevisionNewsContent’,CCMG-IDRCNationalConsultationonMediaPluralism:NewsOwnership,ContentandAdvocacy,CCMG,November,17,2009JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhiPaperpresentedononSituatingMaulanaMohammadBaqarandhiscontributionstoIndianJournalisminSymposiumonMaulanaMohammadBaqar:aFreedomFighterjointlyorganizedbyFacultyofHumanitiesandLanguages,JMIandAl-MustafainternationalUniversity,Iran,16thSeptember,2009inJamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi.

Paperpresentedon“FromCommunicationtoMediaStudies:TrajectoryofIdeas”inMediaandtheLawTrainingProgrammeorganizedbyGujratNationalLawUniversity,11-13,September,2009,Ahmadabad.Paperpresentedon‘ComputerliteracyandthechallengesofNewMillenium’,NationalSeminaronRethinkingGuru,organizedbyEMMRC,St.XavierCollege,Kolkata,8-9,July,2009.Paperpresentedon“ConundrumsofCitizenshipandTheatreofDemocracy:LocalGovernanceinLadakh,”SouthAsiaInstitute,Heidelberg,June9,2009.TravelsponsoredbySouthAsiaStudies,Heidelberg.Paperpresentedon“DigitalMediaandAnaloguePolitics:AStudyofIndianTelevision”intheseminarIndianMediafacingGlobalisationorganizedbyUniversityofSorbonneandMSH,June5,2009,Paris.Paperpresentedon“HIVAIDSANDNEWS:AstudyofPrintMediainselectedregionsinIndia,”DepartmentofDevelopmentCommunication,OhioUniversity,Athens,June1,2009.TravelsponsoredbyOhioUniversity.Paperpresentedon“DigitalMediaandAnaloguePolitics:AStudyofIndianTelevision”intheseminarIndianMediafacingGlobalisationorganizedbyUniversityofSorbonneandMSH,June52009,Paris.PaperpresentedononIndianCommunicationStudies:ProspectandRetrospectinWakeForestUniversity,WinstonSalem,NorthCarolina,May,28,2009.PaperpresentedonontheComplexChallengeofDevelopingCommunicationStudiesinIndiainthesecondpanelofPreconferenceonIndiaandCommunicationStudies,ICA,Chicago,May21,2009.Paperpresentedon“ConstructionofCommunityinCommunicationResearch:AStudyofRadioBroadcastinginIndia”inNationalSeminaronRuralDevelopment:ProspectsandPathways,IGNOU,NewDelhi,September,2008,IGNOU.Paperpresentedon“TeachingCommunication:ChallengesoftheNewMillennium”inAnnualMeetingofInternationalCommunicationAssociation,Montreal,Canada,22-26,May,2008InternationalSeminar“AsiaWithoutBorders:RethinkingHistory,AnthropologyandPolitics”IncollaborationwithHarvardYenchingInstitute,Cambridge,USA,January,2008,JamiaMilliaIslamiaPaperpresentedon“DigitalTechnologyandAnaloguePolicy”inNationalSeminaron“GlobalisationandIndianstateRevisited”6-7December,2007,DepartmentofPoliticalScience,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi.Paperpresentedon“RegulationandfreedomofexpressioninIndianmedia”inInternationalseminarYogyakarta,Indonesia,November,2007Paperpresentedon“InvestigatingParticipation:StylesofInquiry”inNationalSeminaronParticipationandGovernance,JointlyorganizedbyCentreforCulture,MediaandGovernanceandDepartmentofSociology,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,March,22-23,2007.Paperpresentedon“EthnographyofLabour”,March21,2007,V.V.GiriNationalLabourInstitute,Noida.Paperpresentedon“CampusRadio:Jamia’sexperience”inNationalconsultationforpracticingandpotentialcommunityRadiooperatorsinIndia,6-7,March,IIMC,Delhi.Paperpresentedon“RoleofMediaforgendersensitizationthroughCurricula”inNationalWorkshoponContentsofwomenstudiesinvarioussocialsciencedisciplinesinRajasthan:Dilemmasandpossibilities,27-March1,2007,Vanasthali,Rajasthan.

Paperpresentedon“Workandemotion”inNationalseminaronBeneathIT,organizedbyCentreforCulture,MediaandGovernance&CentreforJawaharLalNehruStudies,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,22-23,February,2007.ParticipatedinCitizenparticipationandDemocraticGovernance,5-8,February2007,IndiaHabitatCentre,NewDelhi.Paperpresentedon“Globalisation,LaborandTechnology”inNationalSeminaronTechnologyandSociety-IssuesandInterfacewithspecialreferencetoIndia(16-17March,2006.PanjabUniversity,Chandigarh.Paperpresentedon“Localisation,HybridityandLanguage:SituatingIndianTelevisionprogrammeinaneraofGlobalisation”inNationalSeminaronLanguageandGlobalisation:IssuesandPerspectives,February,7-8,2006,DepartmentofLinguistics,AligarhMuslimUniversity,Aligarh.PaperpresentedonNewMediaandOldPolitics:AstudyofIndianCommunicationPolicyUtopiaandDystopiaofCommunication:RethinkingDemocracyinanageofGlobalisationPaperpresentedCULTURE,NATIONANDCOMMUNICATION:LocatingIndianexperienceoninIndo-FrenchSeminaronCulture,IdentityandDevelopmentMay21-23,2003MSH,ParisPaperpresentedon“FromSITEtoTerrestrialTelevision:MemoryandBiographyinanIndianVillage”InternationalconferenceonMediaPerformanceacrossCultures,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison,USA,March-14-18,2002.Paperpresentedonentitled“MediatingModernity:ColonialDiscourseandRadioBroadcastinginIndia”inInternationalconferenceon“ModernityandAfter”,organisedbyCentreforcooperativeSocialresearchandCentreforIndianInstituteoflanguages,Mysore,November,Pune,2001PaperpresentedonNationalSeminaratKanpurIIT,January29-31,2001organizedbyAligarhMuslimUniversity&IndianInstituteofAdvancedStudies,Shimla.Paperpresentedon"State,MediaandCivilSociety"inIndianSociologicalConference,Kerala,December2000.Contributedpaperentitled“AnthropologyofHunger”intheInternationalSeminaronLinguisticresourcesforDevelopment,12-14thJuly,2000,CentralInstituteofIndianLanguages,Mysore.Contributedpaperentitled“RethinkingCommunicationinIndianSociety”fortheSymposiumonGlobalisationandtheChallengesofthenewMillenium,31stMarch-1stApril,1999AligarhMuslimUniversity,Aligarh.Contributedpaperentitled“MediaEducation”fortheseminaron“EducationandEmpowerment”organisedbyCentreforthestudyofSocialSystem,JawaharLalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi,15thMarch,2000.Contributedpaperentitled“CulturalIdentity,CommunityandCommunicationPractices:PerspectivesfromIndia“Internationalconference“VivalaDifference:mediaandDiversity,”18-19thJune,1999UNESCO,Paris,7,placedeFontenoy,75700Contributedpaperentitled“criticalstrategiesonCulturalInterpretation”inthenationalSeminaronLanguage,CultureandCommunication,IndiraGandhiNationalOpenUniversity,April61999,NewDelhi.Contributedpapertitled“CommunicationandPower-thestateofResearch”submittedforpublicationinForthcomingvolumeonMediaandSocialchange.Contributedpapertitled“DotechnologiescommunicateCulture?”submittedforpublicationintheforthcomingvolumeonCultureandConfrontation.

Contributedpapertitled“Communicatingcultureandcultureofcommunications”,tobepublishedinSociologicalBulletin,Indiansociologicalsociety,NewDelhi.Contributedpapertitled“Culture,communicationandNation”tobepublishedinjournalofIndianInstituteofadvancedstudies,1998.Paperpresentedontitled"CitizenshipinanAgeofGlobalCommunication”–PolicydiscourseandCommunicativepracticesinIndia"inInternationalSeminaronCulture,CommunicationandPower,jointlyorganisedbyCentreforHumanSciencesandCentreforCo-operativeResearchandSocialSciences,JamiaHamdard,21-23rd,1997NewDelhi.Contributedpapertitled“NomadicMuslimGujjars:ApastoratisttribeofNorthIndia"IONACollege,WindsorUniversity,CANADA,8thFebruary,1995.Paperpresentedon"DoTechnologiesCommunicateCulture"InXXIAllIndiaSociologicalConference,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi,18th-20thDecember,1994.PaperpresentedonCommunicationResearchinIndia:ReflectionsandRetrospectionspresentedinInternationalSeminaronCommunicationandLiterature,26-27thJuly,1991,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi.PaperpresentedonEnvironmentandCommunicationwithSpecificReferencetoWomen,presentedintheseminaronWomen,EnvironmentandDevelopment,12th-13thJuly1991CPSW.Bhubaneswar.PaperpresentedonTelevisioninIndianSociety:TowardsaHegemonicPerspectiveofinquiry,IndianSociety.XIWorldCongressofSociology,18-22ndAugust,1986,NewDelhi.Paperpresentedon“ReadershipandReadingBehavior:AnExperimentwithavillagebasedNewsfortnightlyinaBackwardSociety”,AnnualMeetingofInternationalCommunicationAssociation,Hawaii,andUSA.1985.LecturesDeliveredDeliveredlectureatMirandaHouse,UniversityofDelhiduringTenWeekSeminarCourseon'RethinkingtheObvious:TheRhetoricofDevelopment'organisedincollaborationwiththeElizabethJ.SomersWomen’sLeadershipProgramattheGeorgeWashingtonUniversity.Title-Populism,‘RhetoricandPolitics’-MakingandManagingIndianDemocracy,12September2018DeliveredlectureatTheHumanResourceDevelopmentCentre,JamiaMilliaIslamiaduring3-WeekRefresherCourseinHumanRights&SocialInclusion(Interdisciplinary)ontitle-MediaandHumanRights,September11,2018.DeliveredlectureatUGC-HumanResourceDevelopmentCentre,JawaharlalNehruUniversityduring45thRefresherCourseinPoliticalScience&Law/PubicAdministrationontitle‘MediaGovernance’,September7,2018DeliveredLectureatIndianInstituteofPublicAdministration(IIPA),NewDelhi,Mid-CareerTraining(MCT)ProgrammeofIndianRevenueService(Customs&Excise),ontitlea)FromGovernmenttoGovernanceb)MediaGovernance,29August2018DeliveredLectureatIndiraGandhiNationalOpenUniversity,title-DocumentAnalysison21August,2018

DeliveredlectureatVivekanandaInstituteofProfessionalStudies(VIPS),VivekanandaSchoolofJournalismandMassCommunication(VSJMC),ImpartingSkillsforImproveTeacher-StudentEngagement–FacultyDevelopmentProgrammeonthetitle‘MediaPedagogy’.July28,2018DeliveredlecturefortheUNSMEDayduringTheMediaandCommunicationSessiontitle-ReimaginingPublicBroadcastinginanEraofDigitizationonJune27,2018(Wednesday)atVigyanBhawan,NewDelhiorganisedbyMinistryofMicroSmallandMediumEnterprises,GOI,UdyogBhawanNewDelhiDeliveredLectureonMediaGovernanceatBengalConferenceat30thMarch2018DeliveredICSSRSponsoredTwoWeeksCapacityBuildingProgrammeforYoungSocialScienceFacultyatIIPA,NewDelhi.March,12th,2018.Titlea)ImaginationandExplanationsinSocialScienceResearchb)CentreAnalysis,CaseStudy,EthnographyDeliveredLectureinResearchMethodologyWorkshopon‘CaseStudiesandContentAnalysis’atCentreforNorth-EastStudiesandPolicyatJamiaMilliaIslamia,February2018Deliveredlectureon‘MediaPedagogyandPractices’atstudent-teacherinteractionprogrammehostedbyEducationalReseourceCentre,CambridgeFoundationSchool,Noida,NCR,6thFebruary2018DeliveredLectureon‘ThinkingSouthAsianDiasporaThroughFilims’atIndianInstituteofPublicAdministration,GOI,December2017DeliveredLectureon‘DocumentAnyalsis’atIndiraGandhiNationalOpenUniversity,December2017DeliveredLectureinResearchMethodologyWorkshopon‘Empiricism’atCentreforCulture,Media&GovernanceatJamiaMilliaIslamia,December2017DeliveredLectureon'QualitativeResearch-TheoreticalOrientation'atCourseonQualitativeMethodsinLabourResearchorganisedbyNationalLabourInstitute,Min.ofLabourandEmployment,GOI.November2017DeliveredLectureinResearchMethodologyWorkshopon‘EthnographyMethodsinResearch’atJamiaMilliaIslamiaNovember2017DeliveredLectureon‘CommunityStudiesGlobalExperiences’atJawaharlalNehruUniversity.August2017DeliveredLectureon‘GlobalCommunication’ataconferenceatBuraphaUniversityInternationalCollege,Thailand.July2017.DeliveredLectureonthetheme‘TheEvolutionofCulturalStudiesinIndia:DisciplinaryIssue’atMassCommunicationandJournalismDepartment,TezpurUniversityFeb,2017DeliveredLectureonTheTheoreticalorientationsofqualitativeresearch’intheCourseonqualitativeMethodsinLabourresearch,VVGiri,Noida,December20,2016.DeliveredLectureonCommunicationStudiesinIndia:PedagogicalpracticesandChallenges,DepartmentofMediaandCommunicationStudies,DMCSConferenceHall,SavitribaiPhule,PuneUniversity,October7,2016DeliveredlectureonPublicRelations:ChangingtrendsandstrategiesatUGC-HumanResourceDevelopmentCentre(AcademicStaffCollege),JamiaMilliaIslamia,04October2016.DeliveredLectureonProblematizingLabourinMediaResearchinCourseonResearchMethodsinGenderIssuesinLabour,VVGiri,Noida,September20,2016.

DeliveredLectureonRoadmapforExploringCollaborationandNetworkingbetweenAsianUniversityCommunicationDepartments,organisedbyKoreanSocietyforJournalismandCommunicationStudies,August20,2016,ChungamNationalUniversity,Daejon,SouthKorea.DeliveredlectureonLocatingMediafromGovernancePerspectiveatIndianInstituteofPublicAdministration,NewDelhi,23rdMarch2016DeliveredlectureonTRAIDocumentAnalysisatIndianInstituteofPublicAdministration,NewDelhi,23rdMarch2016DeliveredAnnuallectureonMediaandSocietyatSriVenkateswaraCollege,UniversityofDelhi,January28,2016DeliveredlectureonSociologyofMassCommunication,atCentralUniversityofKoraput,KoraputOctober10,2015DeliveredSpecialLectureonDevelopmentCommunication:AparadigmShift,TheUniversityofBurdwan,WestBengal,7February,2014DeliveredLecturein20thRefresherCourse,DepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofCalcuttaonCriticalstrategiesforCulturalInterpretation,Kolkata,6February,2014Deliveredlecturein20thRefresherCourse,DepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofCalcuttaonUnderstandingPopularCulture,Kolkata,6February,2014DeliveredlectureonMedia&CultureatAcademicStaffCollege,JMI,July30,2013DeliveredLectureonMedia,Culture&SocietyatIGNOU,NewDelhi,July,2013DeliveredalectureinAcademicstaffcollege(ASC)JNUNewDelhi,2013DeliveredalectureonOverviewofMassCommunicationEducationinIndiaatAcademicStaffCollege(ASC),JMIDelhi,February18,2013DeliveredlectureonCommunicationandCulturethroughDistancemodeatIGNOU,NewDelhi,January4,2013.LectureDeliveredonMediaStudiesintheorientationprogrammeorganizedbyAcademicStaffCollege,JNU,NewDelhi,October17,2013LectureDeliveredonMediatedCultureintheOrientationprogrammeorganizedbyAcademicStaffCollege,JMI,NewDelhi,November08,2013LectureDeliveredforCountrywideclassroomthroughSatelliteatConsortiumforEducationCommunication,on‘InterdisciplinaryinCommunicationStudies’,NewDelhi,October18,2013 DeliveredLectureonMediaGovernance:ACurricularprojectinRyersonUniversity,Toronto,September,28,2012.Deliveredlectureon“SettingtheScene:MediainIndia”atEuropeanInstituteofAsianStudies,Brussels,June26,2012DeliveredlectureonCommunicationResearchinIndia:adecennialtrend”atUniversitélibredeBruxelles,BruxellesBelgique,June25,2012.

DeliveredlectureonConversationAnalysisofMediaContentinsamaraFoundation,TorontoCanada,June22,2012DeliveredLectureon“CommunicationTheoryandResearch”onEDUSATnetworkandVYASchannel,CEC,April26,2012.DeliveredlectureonEthnographicmethodtostudylabourissues,VVGiriNationalLabourInstitute,January18,2012.DeliveredlectureonCommunicationStudiesinIndia:Somereflections,SchoolofJournalismandNewMedia,IndiraGandhiNationalOpenUniversity,NewDelhi,January7,2011.DeliveredlectureonMediaResearchinIndia:ADecenialtrend,jointlyorganisedbyinEMMRCandMERC,UniversityofKashmir,Srinagar,November,18,2011.DeliveredlectureonMediaHistory:ColonialDiscourseandMicrowavePoliticsinIndia,1924-47inRavenshawUniversity,CuttackorganizedbyDepartmentsofHistory,JournalismandmassCommunicationandSchoolofSocialSciences,RavenshawUniversity,November,16,2011.DeliveredlectureonModeratedthetechnicalsession“content&Quality:convergenceintegrationofcurriculum,accreditation”intheAllIndiaViceChancellor’sconferenceorganizedbyUniversityGrantsCommission,VigyanBhavan,25th-26thMarch2011.DeliveredLectureon“FromMassCommunicationtoCommunicationStudies-AParadigmShift”inDepartmentofJournalismandCommunication,MadrasUniversity,Chennai,March,1,2011DeliveredLectureonChairedapanelsessioninInternationalConferencesatChandigarhon15th-18thFebruary2011.DeliveredLectureonCriticalTheoryofCommunication,MudraInstituteofCommunicationStudies,MICA,Ahmedabad,July,2010.DeliveredLectureonFramingIssuesonMarginalsandMediainHyderabadCentralUniversity,March,20,2010DeliveredLectureonDialecticsofExclusionandInclusion:AstudyoftheMediaandtheMarginalsinHyderabadCentralUniversity,March19,2010.DeliveredLectureonCommunicationStudies:ChallengesandProspectsinIPWomen’sCollege,UniversityofDelhi,2010.DeliveredLecturetitledMediaEthnographyintheCourseonqualitativeMethodsinLabourResearch,December,17,2009.DeliveredlectureonColonialconspiracyandUrduJournalism:LocatingMohammadBaqar’scontributiontoIndianJournalisminSeminarorganizedbyShaheedMolviMohammadBaqar-FreedomFighterTrust,1stNovember,2009,GhalibAcademy,NewDelhi.DeliveredlectureonIndianCommunicationStudies:EmergingTrendsinIPMZ,UniversityofZurich,June,10,2009.DeliveredalectureonConundrumsofCitizenshipandTheatreofDemocracy:LocalGovernanceinLadakh,SouthAsiaInstitute,Heidelberg,June9,2009.

DeliveredlectureonHIVAIDSandNews:AstudyofPrintMediainselectedregionsinIndia,DepartmentofDevelopmentCommunication,OhioUniversity,Athens,June1,2009.DeliveredLectureonIndianCommunicationStudies:ProspectandRetrospectinWakeForestUniversity,WinstonSalem,NorthCarolina,May,28,2009.Deliveredlectureon“MediaEthnography”inV.V.GiriNationalLabourInstitute,Noida,July,2007.Deliveredlectureforcountrywideclassroom“DevelopingSupportCommunication”April,15,2008.ConsortiumofEducationalCommunication,UGC,NewDelhi.DeliveredLectureforCountrywideclassroom“CharacteristicsandTypologyofAudienceinMassCommunication”,ConsortiumofEducationalCommunication,April,16,2008,ConsortiumofEducationalCommunication,UGC,NewDelhi.DeliveredLectureforCountrywideclassroom“TheoreticalEvolutioninMassCommunication”April17,2008.ConsortiumofEducationalCommunication,UGC,NewDelhi.Deliveredlecture“SocialhistoryofRadioBroadcastinginIndia”April,28,2008IndiraGandhiNationalOpenUniversity,NewDelhi.SessionsChairedChaired session, on Freedom, Information & Governance, in International Conference on Media andCommunicationatSymbiosisInstituteofMediaandCommunication(SIMC),Pune,October6,2016Chairedsession,onImpactofNewMediaTechnologies,inInternationalConferenceonMediaandCommunicationatSymbiosisInstituteofMediaandCommunication(SIMC),Pune,October7,2016Chaired session, on New Media & community Participation, in International Conference on Media andCommunicationatSymbiosisInstituteofMediaandCommunication(SIMC),Pune,October7,2016 ChairedthesessiononReflectionsonNewsFrontiersattwodayNationalSeminaronDigitalIndiaPower,Political&PovertyofInformationorganisedbyDeptt.ofSociology,JMI,NewDelhi,February29,2016ChairedtheSessiononCriticalReflectionsandNextSteps,ASymposiumonGlobalizationandInequality:AnIndia-CanadaComparison,organizedbyYorkUniversity,CanadaandJamiaMilliaIslamiaUniversity,NewDelhi,June9,2015.ChairtheEventon2nd3weekRefreshercourseinMediaStudies&Governance(Interdisplinary),AcademicStaffCollege,JMI,14January,2014ChairedSessionon‘CommunicationandCitizenshipinIndia:NewDirectionsinResearch’,MediainSouthAsia,SOAS,UniversityofLondon,,June16,2013ChairedSession,onalecturedeliveredbyJawaharSircar,CEO,PrasarBhartionMediaTrendsOrganizedbytheCentreforMediaStudies,JNU,NewDelhi,November19,2013ChairedanInternationalSeminaronMediaandGlobalaffairs,JNU,Delhi,2013

ChairedasessiononMediaandthePublicorganizedbyCentrefortheStudyofSocialSystem,JNUNewDelhi,19thDecember2012 ChairedsessionIIIonMediaandAcademiainthetwodaysNationalSeminaronSociologyinthe21stCenturyIndia:ConstraintsandPossibilities,4thand5thFebruary,2011,OrganisedbyCentrefortheStudyofSocialSystems,SchoolofSocialSciences,JawaharLalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi.ChairedAcademicsessionintheAnnualmeetingofAMIC,Singapore,June,2010 Chairedsession“Traveller’stales:PerceptionandReceptioninInternationalconferenceonTravelLiteratureandIndia,UniversityofDelhi,February20-21,2007.ChairedsessioninInternationalseminaron“CulturalDiversityandPolicy:IndiaandAustralia”5-6February,2007,IndiahabitatCentre,NewDelhi. Chairedsession“Traveller’stales:PerceptionandReceptioninInternationalconferenceonTravelLiteratureandIndia,UniversityofDelhi,February20-21,2007.ChairedsessioninInternationalseminaron“CulturalDiversityandPolicy:IndiaandAustralia”5-6February,2007,IndiahabitatCentre,NewDelhi. ChairedSessionon“AcademicReformsandAdministrativeReforms”intwodaysNationalSeminaronReorientationofReservationPolicy,IndianInstituteofPublicadministration,13-14July,2007,NewDelhi.PanelDiscussionsPanel Discussion, International Media Conference on 9-11 September at the India Habitat Center, New Delhi,September11,2016.DiscussantforthesessiononopportunitiesandChallengesfacingNewMediainAsiainAsianforumforDeansofJournalism and Communication, at Kai Yuan Hall, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), Shanghai,November30,2016ParticipatedandpresentedinpanelDiscussiononEmergingConcept,StructureandChange,10February,2014 ParticipatedintheWorkshoponHybridInnovationsandCivilSocieties,aninnovation&design,atBrussels,organisedbyUniversiteLibreDeBrussels,20January,2014 Participatedinthepaneldiscussion,DoordarshanonMurdocksyndromeandaftermathinIndianNews,Doordarshan,NewDelhi,July,2011 ParticipatedinPanelDiscussioninLoksabhaTelevisiononUNESCOReportonEducation,April,2008ParticipatedinPanelDiscussioninLoksabhaTelevisiononTelevisionNewsFatigueness,June,2008ParticipatedinPanelDiscussioninLoksabhaTelevisiononTaxationandInsurancepolicy,July,2008 Keynotes,inaugralandvaledictoryaddress

DeliveredaKeynoteaddressonMedia&ManagementChangingDimensionsandIssuesatThe1stInternationalConferenceonCommunication,Media&ManagementhostedbyBuraphaUniversityInternationalCollege,Thailand,18November2018 DeliveredKeynoteaddressinNationalConferenceatDelhiMetropolitianEducation,GGSIPUUniversityorganisedbyDept.ofJournalism&Mass-Communication,GGSIPU.December2017DeliveredChiefGuestRemarksonNationalSeminaronChangingTrendsinMass-MediaandCommunicationatIMSUnisonUniversityDehradoon.June2017DeliveredValedictoryLectureonthetheme‘MediaandSubalternsinIndia’,CentralUniversityofRajasthanMarch,2017DeliveredKeynoteaddressinResearchMethodologyWorkshopatGGSIPUUniversityorganisedbyUniversitySchoolofMass-Communication,GGSIPUincollaborationwithICSSR.December2017 DeliveredGuestofHonor/KeynoteSpeakerattheUGCsponsoredTwo-DayNationalSeminaronthetheme“Media,StateandtheMarginalized:TacklingChallenges”,isbeingorganizedbytheDepartmentofJournalism,KalindiCollegeonMarch17,2016Deliveredkeynoteaddresson‘Media,MobilityandEmpowerment:ModesofAppropriationandNegotiationinEverydayLife’atCOMSCAPE,Annualacademicfestival,DepartmentofCommunicationandExtension,InstituteofHomeEconomics,UniversityofDelhi,February5,2016PresentedKeynoteAddresson“CommunicationineverydaylifeinIndia”inInternationalconferenceonEverydaylifeinContemporaryIndia,jointlyorganizedbyUniversityofMadrasandtheDept.ofFilm,MediaandCommunication,OtagoUniversity,NewZealand,Dec.17–18,2014,UniversityofMadras.DeliveredkeynoteLectureonMedia,CitizenshipandDemocracyintheinternationalSummerSchoolonICT4Democracy,AsianPacificInstituteofmanagement,NewDelhi,2014,March12,2014DeliveredvaledictoryAddressinNationalSeminaron"GenderSensitization&Media”OrganisedbySchoolofMassCommunication,GGIPUniversity,Delhi,28thFebruary,2014.DeliveredKeynoteaddressonGlobalisationandtheprocessofmarginalizationatthenationalSeminarorganizedbyDepartmentofSociology,GorakhpurUniversity,March6,2013.InauguraladdressdeliveredatRoundtableon‘AsiaScienceandSocialScienceResearchCouncils’byCCMGincollaborationwithInternationalDevelopmentResearchCentre(IDRC),CanadaatJamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,25-26thNovember,2013InauguraladdressdeliveredinPre-conferenceon‘NewMedia,OldMedia,SocialMedia:ChangingSouthAsianCommunicationsScholarship’,MediainSouthAsia,SOAS,UniversityofLondon,June16,2013DeliveredKeynoteaddressonCommunicationResearch:Aglobalscenario'atAcademyStaffCollege,JawaharlalNehruUniversity,NewDelhi,October,2012DeliveredValedictoryLectureonMediaEthnography,V.VGiriNationalLabourInstitute,July13,2012.DeliveredKeyNoteAddressonIndianCommunication:CulturalPathways,HistoryandScholarshipatthePreconferenceonIndiaandCommunicationStudies,ICA,Chicago,May20-21,2009

DeliveredValedictoryaddressinNationalSeminaronMediaandSociety,organizedbyDepartmentofSociology,PunjabiUniversity,Patiala,January,2009.DeliveredKeynoteaddresson“SocialResearchinDocumentaryCinema”March,11,2008inonedayworkshoponDocumentaryCinemajointlyorganizedbyDepartmentofSociologyandCentreforCulture,MediaandGovernance,JMI. CollaborativeResearch2012-14-MediatedDemocracy,diversity&VisualPublics:Indo-ShastriCanadianInstituteCollaborativeProjectwithYorkUniversity,Canada2014-16MediaFraminginIndia’s2014ElectionCampaigns:MassCirculationIndigeneousEnglishLanguagePress,andtheParties,IssuesandCandidates,Indo-ShastriCanadianInstituteCollaborativeProjectwithYorkUniversity,CanadaCollaborativeSeminarInternational Seminar on understanding Globalization in a Cross-Cultural Setting at JamiaMilliaIslamia incollaborationwithYorkUniversity,Canada,18-19thFebruary,2014Preconferenceon‘NewMedia,OldMedia,SocialMedia:ChangingSouthAsianCommunicationsScholarship’,atICA‘13(incollaborationwithICA’sCommunicationLawandPolicyDivision,ShivNadarUniversityNoida,SOASUniversityofLondonandAnnenbergSchoolforCommunication,UniversityofPennsylvania)atSchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,UniversityofLondon,June16-17,2013InternationalWorkshoponMediaandPoliticsinAsiaandEurope,organizedbyIPMZ,UniversityofZurich,April19,2011,ZurichUniversity,Switzerland.Environmental activism and Media, Jointly hosted by CCMG and South Asia Institute, Heidelberg on 9th -10thDecember,2010.Governance andDiversity: ComparingMedia System, INDO-SWISS Bi-national Seminar in collaborationwith ProHelvetia, Swiss Cultural Centre, New Delhi & ICSSR, New Delhi, JamiaMilliaIslamia, New Delhi 16-17, February,2010IndiaandCommunicationStudies,Pre-conferenceincollaborationwiththeAnnenbergSchoolofCommunication,UniversityofPennsylvania,attheAnnualCongressoftheInternationalCommunicationAssociation20-21

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2009,Chicago

Asia without Borders: Rethinking History, Anthropology and Politics in collaboration with Harvard YenchingInstitute,Cambridge,MA,USAandICSSR,NewDelhi,on18th-19thJanuary,2008.FacultyCareerAdvancementProgrammeTwodaysWorkshoponSocialMedia:Emerging IssuesandChallengesorganisedbyCentre forCulture,Media&Governance,JMI,Oct.12-13,2018Three days Workshop "Re-connecting Deleuze & Guattari" on the philosophy of the now: counteringincommunicado,invisibility,crisis,CCMG,JMI.Oct,05-07,2018

TwoWeekCapacityBuildingWorkshoponMediaandCommunicationStudies,CCMG,JMI,NewDelhiApril17-29,2017.

TwoDayWorkshoponDataVisualization&BasicStatisticalAnalysisusingMS-Excel,CCMG,JMI,NewDelhi,March17-18,2017.

National Workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences in collaboration with Association of IndianUniversity(AIU),JMI,NewDelhi,November23-29,2016.

Scientificprogramme&workshoponBiostatistics,organizedbyFacultyofDentistryandCentreforCulture,Media&Governance(CCMG),JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,September07,2016.

ResearchMethodologyworkshop on Communication Studies& Social Sciences, sponsored by Indian Council ofSocial Sciences Research (ICSSR) and organized by Centre for Culture, Media & Governance (CCMG),JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,09-19,December,2015.

‘MediaStudies&Governance(Interdisciplinary)’,3rdThree-weekRefresherCourseatUGC-AcademicStaffCollege,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,10thJanto31stJan2015

‘HowtoengagewithBroadbandPolicy,TrainingorganisedincollaborationwithLÍRNEasiawithsupportfromFordFoundation,Sohna-Gurgaon,7thto10March2014

‘MediaStudies&Governance(Interdisciplinary)’,2ndThree-weekRefresherCourseatUGC-AcademicStaffCollege,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,14thJanto3rdFeb2014Communication Strategies for Legal Awareness for Senior Government officials, in collaboration with UNDPAfghanistanatJamiaMilliaIslamiaon23rdSeptemberto04thOctober,2013

‘MediaStudies&Governance(Interdisciplinary)’,1stThree-weekRefresherCourseatUGC-AcademicStaffCollege,JamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi,15thFebto7thMar,2013

CollaborativeTeaching

VideoConferenceMode

VideoConferencewithLundUniversityon“StrategicCommunication:TheoryandPractice”onNovember08,2016withLundUniversity,Sweden.Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Digital media and counter-publics’ onSeptember21,2016withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘Digitalmediaandlongcyclesofdissent’onSeptember28,2016withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Digital media and contemporary protestmovementsattimeofglobaldissent:Twocasestudies’onOctober05,2016withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Grassroots savvy mobilization: MediaActivismversusclicktivism’onOctober13,2016withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘Electioncampaignsanddigitalageelections:Thecontrastingandconflictingroleofsocialmedia intheModi2014andTrudeau2015election’onOctober19,2016withYorkUniversity,Toronto,Canada

Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Brexit and the revolt of the populist,nationalistandxenophobicmasses’onOctober26,2016withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘DigitalMediaandPoliticalParticipation’:Netprivacy&surveillanceonOctober28,2015withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Digital Media and Political Participation’:GrassrootssavvyYOUTHmobilization:MEDIAActivismversusClicktivismonOctober14,2015withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Digital Media and Political Participation’:ElectionCampaignsandDigitalAge2014ModiElectiononOctober07,2015withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Digital Media and Political Participation’:DigitalMediaandcontemporaryprotestmovementsattimeofglobaldissenttwocasestudiesonSeptember30,2015withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Digital Media and Political Participation’:DigitalmediaandlongcyclesofdissentonSeptember23,2015withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Digital Media and Political Participation’:Digitalmediaandcounter-publicswithJamiaparticipationonSeptember16,2015withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with European Institute of Asian Studies, Brusselson ‘Influence, Lobbying and Advocacy’ onSeptember15,22,29,October6,13,2015withBrusselsVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Mobile technology and participation’ on29thOctober,2014withYorkUniversity,Toronto,Canada

VideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘Privacy&surveillance’on22ndOctober,2014withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Grassroots savvy mobilization: MediaActivismversusclicktivism’on08thOctober,2014withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Digital media and contemporary protestmovements at time of global dissent: two case studies’ on 01st October, 2014 with York University, Toronto,CanadaVideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘Digitalmediaandlongcyclesofdissent’on24thSeptember,2014withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon ‘Digitalmediaandcounter-publics’on17thSeptember,2014withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideoConferencewithDepartmentof InformationandCommunicationSciences,UniversitelibredeBruxelles,on‘Influence, Lobbying andAdvocacy’ on September 4, 11, 25, 30&October 9, 17, 2014,withUniversite libre deBruxelles,Belgium.VideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘AgonisticPluralismandArtasPolitics’on30thOctober,2013withYorkUniversity,Toronto,Canada

Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Historicity, Cultural Memory and theRhetoricalConstructionofPublics’on23rdOctober,2013withYorkUniversity,Toronto,Canada

VideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘IdeologyandtheCrowd:AreCrowdsPublics?’on09thOctober,2013withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘Ideology,SubjectivityandthePublic’on03rdOctober,2013withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘PoliticalEconomyandthePublicSphereII’on25thSeptember,2013withYorkUniversity,Toronto,Canada

VideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘PoliticalEconomyandthePublicSphereI’on17thSeptember,2013withYorkUniversity,Toronto,Canada

VideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘LeftandRight:RefiningOurTerms:Doesthepublicspherehaveanembeddedideology’on4thSeptember,2013withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘GlobalizationasFate:Hardvs.SoftPower’on11thSeptember,2013withYorkUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Communication studies: Epistemologicalquery and inter-disciplinarity’ on 7th November, 2012 with York University and Ryerson University, Toronto,Canada

Video Conferencewith Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Taking Stock of the NewMedia activism:ChallengesandProspects’on21stNovember,2012withYorkUniversityandRyersonUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideo Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘In a web 2.0 age, is the public sphereshrinkingordeepening?’on26thNovember,2012withYorkUniversityandRyersonUniversity,Toronto,CanadaVideoConferencewithDepartmentofCommunication&Cultureon‘MediaGovernance’on23rdNovember,2011withYorkUniversityVideoConferenceon‘MediamonitoringofCorruptionthroughIndianprintMedia’on16thNovember,2011withYorkUniversity.VideoConferenceon ‘Socialmovements andmedia: Constraints andOpportunities’ on19thOctober 2011withYorkUniversityVideo Conference on ‘New social media and its consequences: Dynamics between state and citizen’ on 21stSeptember2011withYorkUniversityInnovations

[1]PrototypingInformationModelsforLocalGovernance(IDRC)(2014)Theprojectengageswiththeinformationandprocessmodelsunderlyingmostmodernsystemsofgovernance.Itsuggestsmechanismsforlocalgovernancewherebythetraditionally"governed"categorymaybemoreinvolvedingovernance.Someofthequestionsrelevanttotheprojectare:Whoorwhatarethemainconstituentsofthetwocategoriesof"governing"and"governed"?Whataretheareasandobjectsofconcern?Whatistherelationship

betweenthem?Whatisconsideredrelevantinformationandbywhom?Whohasaccesstowhatinformation?Andbywhatinstitutionalororganizationalmechanism?FundedbytheIDRC,andbeingexecutedattheCentreforCulture,Media&Governance,JamiaMilliaIslamia,theprojectisapartoftheeffortto'explorepoliciesandpractices'forbuildingresearchcapacitycombiningscienceandtechnologyandthesocialsciences.[2]MediaDiversityIndex(2013)

CenterforCulture,MediaandGovernance:JamiaMilliaIslamia

MediaDiversityIndex(WorkingPrototype2.0)Introduction:ContextforaMediaDiversityIndexinIndia.MediaDiversityhasbeenarecurrentthemeindebatesonmediapolicysince1947.ThecurrentmedialandscapeinIndiais fragmented, varied and regionalized. It has dominant, powerful and expansive media owners and a weakregulatoryenvironment.TheideaistoexplorethemediaasamarkerofDemocracy

ConceptualFrameworkforaMediaDiversityIndex-Themodelisbasedon8Domainsofmediadiversitywhichwereidentifiedaftersiftingthroughdebatesinvariousmediapolicydocuments,bothIndianandglobal.InordertoassessthediversityinIndiannewsmedia,theentireuniverseofnewsmediahasdividedinto8domainsormajorthematicareas.Thesethematicareasaredevelopedassuch,thatitcancapturethegroundrealitiesofIndiannewsmediatogaugethediversity.

**These8domainsare**

Ownership-Structure,Concentration&Accumulation

Market&RevenueShareDomination

InstitutionalizedPoliticalPatronage

AccesstoMediaProducts/Services/Infrastructure

FreedomofSpeechandExpression

Diversityof&withinthePublicServiceBroadcaster

GeographicalCentralization

VarietyofMediaTypesandGenres

Within each domain, various Risk Factors to media diversity have been identified. These risks would includeincreasedcorporateownershiptomeasureriskofownershipconcentrationinvariousmediasegments,regulatoryframeworktoensurefreedomofspeech,supervisionofthemediaandregulatoryframeworktoensurefreedomofspeech,supervisionofthemedia.Theseriskfactorsareassessed,measuredandoperationalizedthroughasetofIndicatorsofmediadiversity.Theseindicatorsareobjectiveandquantifiablemeasurestoassesstherisk.Therecanbeapossibilityofmorethanoneindicatororasetofindicatorattachedtoagaugeaparticularriskfactor.

SampleforDevelopingourMethodology

Todevelop aMediaDiversity Index; 12 stateswere selected. South India: Kerala, TamilNadu,Andhra Pradesh,Karnataka;West India:Maharashtra,Gujarat;North India: Jammu&Kashmir, Punjab,Uttar Pradesh;East India:West Bengal, Orissa, Assam. Theywere chosen to ensure that at this preliminary stagewe engagewithmedialandscapesthatareclearlydefinedanddifferentiatedbylinguisticterritories/markets

MOUsSigned

UniversityofWaikato,NewZealand(2015)

KU,Leuven,Belgium(2013)

IstanbulUniversity,Istanbul,Turkey(2013)

KadirHasUniversity,Turkey(2013)

YorkUniversity,Toronto

RyersonUniversity,Toronto

FreeUniversityofBrussels,Brussels

UniversityofZurich,Zurich

DoctoralDissertationSupervisedandAwardedAwarded:6UnderSupervision:7SIGNATURENEWDELHIDate