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EVALUATIVE REPORT OF THE CENTRE FOR CULTURE, MEDIA & GOVERNANCE

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1. Name of the Department: Centre for Culture, Media & Governance 2. Year of establishment: 2006 3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the University?: Yes 4. Names of Programmes offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters;

Integrated Ph.D., etc.):

S. No. Name of the Programme Type of the Programmes

Annual Intake

1. B.A. Subsidiary* Regular and Full time 40 2. MA (Media & Governance) Regular and Full time 30 3. Ph.D. Regular and Full time As per vacant seats

*B.A. Subsidiary programme was discontinued from July 2011.

5. Interdisciplinary Programs and Departments involved: M.A. Media & Governance program is highly interdisciplinary in nature. This course requires engagement with Law, Economics and Technology Studies. Accordingly, specialists have been invited to teach papers related to Media Law, Media Economics and paper on Network, Technology and Governance.

6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.: Yes

S. No. Year Name of the University 1 2012 York University, Toronto, Canada 2 2012 University Libre De Brussels, Brussels, Belgium 3 2013 York University, Toronto, Canada 4 2014 York University, Toronto, Canada University Libre De Brussels,

Brussels, Belgium

7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: B.A. Subsidiary. Reason: Lack of teaching faculty and the course was not directly contributingto the thrust area of research and teaching at the Centre. Hence, we wanted to focus on Post Graduate and PhD programme.

8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester /Choice Based Credit System S. No Name of the Programme Examination System

1 B.A. Subsidiary* Annual 2 MA (Media & Governance) Semester 3 Ph.D. Semester

*B.A. Subsidiary programmewas discontinued from July 2011.

9. Participation of the Department in the courses offered by other Departments: National – Central

• B.A. Programme (Journalism & Communication), University of Delhi • M.A. Programme, Vishwabharati University, Shantiniketan • BMMRC Programme, I.P College for Women, University of Delhi • Centre for Media Studies, JNU, New Delhi • M.A. Programme in Public Policy and Media Studies, Central University of

Rajasthan, Ajmer


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• M.A. & M.Phil. Programme, Sikkim Central University, Gangtok • M.A. & Ph.D. Programme, IGNOU, New Delhi

National – State

• M.A. Programme, Doon University, Dehradun • M.A. Programme, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack • M.A. Programme, Burdwan University, Burdwan • M.A. Programme, University of Madras, Chennai • M.A. Programme, Kashmir University, Srinagar • M.A. Programme, Jammu University, Jammu • B.A. Programme, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, New

Delhi • M.A. Programme, Political Science Department, Mumbai University

National – Private

• M.A. Programme, Shiv Nadar University, Noida • M.A. Programme, Sharda University, Noida • M.A. Programme, Jaipur National University, Jaipur • Fellow Programme, MICA, Ahmedabad

International

• Graduate Programme, York University, Toronto • PG Programme, Habib University, Karachi

Institutional

• Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, New Delhi • University Grants Commission, New Delhi • Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi • Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi

10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate

Professors/Asst. Professors/others): S.No. Post Sanctioned Filled Actual

(including CAS & MPS)

1. Professor 01 01 01 2. Associate Professor 02 02 02 3. Assistant Professor 03 02* 03

*The post has been advertised

11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance:

S. No.

Name Quali-fi-

cation

Designa-tion

Specialization No. of years of

Exp.

No. of Ph.D., M.Tech/MD

students guided for the last four years Awar- In


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ded progr-ess

1. Prof. Biswajit Das

M.Phil Ph.D.

Director &

Professor

Communica-tion Studies Media Policy Media Theory

Media Ethnography Media History

28.5 years (Teaching)

4 5

2. Mr. Vibodh Parthasarathi

M.A. Associate

Professor

Media Policy & Regulation

Policy Literacy Business of Media

Industries Digital Switchovers

11 years (teaching / research)

and 7 years industry

Nil Nil

3. Dr. Saima Saeed

Ph.D. Associate

Professor

News and broadcast journalism

Media and democracy Development

communication Community media.

Media democratization Political communication

& Propaganda

10 years teaching

experience & 3 years industry

experience

Nil 4

4. Dr. Athikho Kaisii

Ph.D. Assistant

Professor

Tribal Studies Youth Media

Representation Issues related to Justice

Media and Conflict

7.11 Years teaching

Exp.

Nil 4

5. Dr. Taberez Ahmed Neyazi

Ph.D. Assistant

Professor

Political Communication Research Methodologies Digital Media Political

Islam

5 Years teaching

Exp.

Nil 2

6. Dr. Smeeta Mishra*

Ph.D. Assistant

Professor

New Media, Muslim Studies, Research Methods, Gender

4.8 years teaching Exp/4.10 industry

exp.

Nil Nil

*Smeeta Mishra resigned in February 2014

12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors etc. S.No. Name Designati

on Affiliations Year

1. Dr. Lion Koenig Adjunct Faculty

South Asian Institute & Heidelberg University,

Germany

2014-2015

2. Dr. Noah Arceneaux Fullbright Fellow

San Diego State University, USA

2014

3. Dr. RatnakarTripathy Visiting Fellow

Asian Development Research Institute, Patna

2014

4. Prof. PradoshNath ICSSR NISTADS, Delhi 2013-14


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Fellow 5. Dr. Adrian Athique Visiting

Fellow University of Waikato, New

Zealand 2013

6. Prof. Laura Stein Fulbright Fellow

The University of Texas at Austin, USA

2012- 2013

7. Prof. Laura Stein Senior Fellow

The University of Texas at Austin, USA

2012

8. Prof. Olivier Arifon Senior Fellow

Information and Communication department, UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles,

Belgium

2013

9. Prof. HanzBonfadelli Visiting Professor

Prof. &Former Director Institute for Mass

Communication and Media Research

University of Zurich, Switzerland

2012

10 Mithran Tiruchelvam

Visiting Faculty

Counsel at Tata Consultancy Services

Greater New York City, USA

2012

11 Dr. AnuradhaBhattacharjee

Adjunct Fellow

MICA, Ahmedabad 2011-12

12 Dr. Ann TorfinElzabethShoemaker

Visiting Faculty

Director, Center for Research on Intergroup Relations and

Conflict Resolution, University of Indonesia

2010-11-12

13 Prof. Daniel Drache Visiting Professor

Senior Research Fellow and Professor, York University,

Toronto Canada

2010-11

14 Dr. SomnathBatabyal Adjunct Fellow

Postdoctoral Research fellow, Heidelberg University,

Germany

2010-11

15 Prof. PradoshNath ICSSR Fellow

NISTADS, Delhi 2008-09

16 Prof. Graham Murdock Visiting Professor

Chair & Professor of Communication,

Loughborough University

2008

17 Dr. MinnaAslama Visiting Faculty

University of Helsinki & Fordham University

2008

18 Prof. Krishna Reddy Adjunct Fellow

Professor, Dept. Of Political Science of Osmania

University

2008

19 Mr. Adil Ali Visiting Fellow

Sr. Programme Officer, The Hunger Project

2008

13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information:

PG -14% and Ph.D. -02% S. No. Program Name of Temporary Faculty Remarks

1 MA (Media & Dr. Babu Ramesh, Dr. Eqbal Husain, Ms. Ritu -


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Governance) Sinha, Mr. SiddharthNarrain, Dr. Manoj Kumar Jena 2 Ph.D. Mr. DeoNathPathak, Dr. Lion Koenig -

14. Student Teacher Ratio

S.No. Name of the Course Year Selected Student Teacher Ratio

1. B.A. Subsidiary 2008-09 40 20:1 2. M.A. 2008-09 25 5:1 3. B.A. Subsidiary 2009-10 40 20:1 4. M.A. 2009-10 25 5:1 5. B.A. Subsidiary* 2010-11 40 20:1 6. M.A. 2010-11 25 6:1 7. M.A. 2011-12 25 6:1 8. M.A. 2012-13 30 6:1 9. M.A. 2013--14 30 6:1 10. M.A. 2014-15 30 6:1

*B.A. Subsidiary programme was discontinued from July 2011. 15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: sanctioned,

filled and actual.

S.No. Post Sanctioned Filled Actual 1. Sr. Statistical Assistant 01 01 01 2. Technician 01 01 01 3. LDC 01 01 01 4. Lab Attendant 01 01 01

16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies.

Research thrust areas Funding agencies Media Framing in India’s 2014 Election Campaigns: Mass Circulation Indigenous English Language Press, and the Parties, Issues and Candidates

Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi

The Interplay of Influence in the 2014 LokSabha Elections: New Voters, New Media, New Parties

Emory University, U.S.A.

India at Leisure: Media, Culture and Consumption in the New Economy

UGC and India New Zealand Education Council (INZEC) programme

Science Granting Councils: An Exploration of Policies and Practices for Building Research Capacity (subsuming project ‘Informational Modelling for Participatory Governance’)

International Development ResearchCouncil (IDRC), Canada

Media & Governance: News, Diversity, Pluralism (UGC-SAP)

UGC, New Delhi

Minorities and the Indian Press: Marginalization and Exclusion in the News Media

ICSSR,New Delhi

Tracking Access under Digitalisation Ford Foundation, New Delhi Mediated Democracy, Diversity &Visual Publics ShastriIndo-Canadian Institute-

York University, Canada


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Mediated Publics and Machines of Democracy ICSSR, New Delhi Pilot project on Strengthening Media and Communication Studies in India

University Grants Commission, New Delhi

Curatorial/ Exhibition Policy Research and Advocacy

IFA / Dorabji Tata Trust, Bangalore

Research & Curriculum Development on Media Policy & Law

Ford Foundation, New Delhi

Contours of Media Governance International Development Research Council, New Delhi

Scoping Study on Media Advocacy SSRC, NewYork Seed Grant for Pilot Study on Enumerating Media Pluralism

HIVOS, Bangalore

17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding agencies and

c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project title, duration and grants received project-wise.

Topic Duration Investigator/Co-Investigator Grant

allocated Grant

Received Sponsor

Media Framing in India’s 2014 Election Campaigns: Mass Circulation Indigenous English Language Press, and the Parties, Issues and Candidates

2014-16 Daniel Drache, TaberezNeyazi

Yes CAD 10,000

Shastri Indo-

Canadian Institute,

New Delhi

International

The Interplay of Influence in the 2014 LokSabha Elections: New Voters, New Media, New Parties

2014-16 HolliSemetkoTaberezNeyazi

Yes - Emory University

, USA

International


2014-15 VibodhParthasarathi

Yes Rs. 8.25 lakhs

UGC and India New Zealand

Education Council (INZEC)

International

Science Granting Councils: An Exploration of Policies and Practices for Building Research Capacity (subsuming project ‘Informational Modelling for Participatory Governance or Science Granting Councils' project.

2014 Biswajit Das &VibodhParth

asarathi

Yes 53.97 lakhs

IDRC, Canada

National

Media & Governance: 2014-18 Biswajit Das Yes 60 Lakhs UGC, Nationa


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News, Diversity, Pluralism under DRS programme

&VibodhParthasarathi

Delhi l


2013-15 SaimaSaeed&AthikhoKaisii

Yes 20 Lakhs

ICSSR, Delhi

National

Tracking Access under Digitalisation

2013-15 Biswajit Das &VibodhParth

asarathi

Yes USD 200,000

Ford Foundation, Delhi

National

Mediated Democracy, diversity &Visual Publics

2011-13 Biswajit Das Yes 6 Lakhs Shastri Indo-

Canadian Institute

York University, Canada

International

Mediated Publics and Machines of Democracy

2011-14 Biswajit Das Yes 27.5 Lakhs ICSSR, Delhi

National

Pilot project on Strengthening Media and Communication Studies in India

2011 Biswajit Das Yes 7.5 Lakhs UGC, Delhi

National

Curatorial/ Exhibition Policy Research and Advocacy


Yes 13.96 Lakhs

IFA/Dorabji Tata Trust,

Bangalore

National

Research & Curriculum Development on Media Policy Law

2010-13 Biswajit Das &VibodhParth

asarathi

Yes USD 150,000 Ford Foundatio

n, Delhi

National

Seed Grant for Pilot Study on Enumerating Media Pluralism

2010 VibodhParthasarathi

Yes 6.6 Lakhs HIVOS, Netherlan

ds

International

Scoping Study on Media Advocacy


Yes 7 Lakhs SSRC New York

International

Contours of Media Governance

2008-09 Biswajit Das Yes 5.5 Lakhs IDRC New Delhi

National

18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received National collaboration

b) International collaborations S. No. Type of

Collaboration Name


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1 International 1. York University, Toronto 2. Emory University, USA 3. KU Leuven, Belgium 4. University of Waikato, Newzland 5. University Librede Brussels, Belgium 6. Central European University, Budapest 7. CASI, University of Pennsylvania, USA 8. Annenberg School of Communication, University of

Pennsylvania, USA 9. SSRC, New York 10. University of Zurich, Zurich

2 National 1. Alternative Law Forum (ALF), Bangalore 2. Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi 3. Centre for Internet Society, Bangalore

19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR, AICTE

etc.; total grants received. Topic Investigator /

Co-Investigator Grant

allocated Grant

Received Sponsor


VibodhParthasarathi

Yes 8.25 Lakhs

UGC (INZEC programme)

International

Media & Governance: News, Diversity, Pluralism

Biswajit Das & Vibodh Parthasarathi

Yes 60 Lakhs UGC(SAP programme)

National


SaimaSaeed&AthikhoKaisii

Yes 20 Lakhs ICSSR National

Mediated Publics and Machines of Democracy

Biswajit Das Yes 27 Lakhs ICSSR National

Pilot project on Strengthening Media and Communication Studies in India

Biswajit Das Yes 7.5Lakhs UGC

National

20. Research facility / Centre with

• state - recognition-NA • national recognition-Yes • international recognition-Yes

21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies-

No 22. Publications:

Table for Research Publications of the Department


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S. No. Item Total Numbers

1. Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international)

23

2. Number of papers published in conferences 3. Monographs 4 4. Chapters in Books 22 5. Edited Books 4 6. Laboratory Manuals - 7. Articles in Magazines 8. Editorials 9. Books with ISBN with details of publishers 8 10. Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of

Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)

18

11. Citation Index – range / average(Google Scholar) 0 0- 23 12. SNIP 13. SJR 14. Impact Factor – range / average (Thompson Reuters) 0.4 0.43-

1.83 15. h-index 4 5

Please Refer to Annexure- I

23. Details of patents and income generated: No

24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: 1. Biswajit Das:

• Provided conceptual inputs to SODA (Society of Developmental Agencies, Mayurbhanj) to undertake field study as well as policy analysis of Forest laws, Stakeholder analysis and finally, consultation with public hearings regarding Forest Governance for the Ford Foundation project on Governance of Similipal Biosphere Reserve Mayurbhanj District Orissa, funded by Ford Foundation. New Delhi in collaboration with SODA, Mayurbhanj, Orissa, 2007

• Consultancy provided to Ladakh development organizations (LDO), Leh, Ladakh to Prepare a Questionnaire, training provided to fill the questionnaire on PRI Institutions in Ladakh Districts, Stake holder analysis was made to review the role of PRI in Ladakh. Data analysis and report was written on Devolution of PRI in Ladakh, 2008.

• Consultancy for evaluation of CEMCA project on Community radio. The evaluation focused on evaluating the interns, fellows, documents and materials prepared by CEMCAand interviewed various stakeholders from Ford Foundation, Ministry of I&B, officials of CEMCA.The purpose of this evaluation is to provide a pathway to CEMCA for future engagement in the field of Community Radio “Enabling Media Access for Community’s Self Expression”, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA).


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25. Faculty selected nationally/ internationally to visit other laboratories/ institutions / industries in India and abroad.

1. Biswajit Das

§ Istanbul University, Turkey, 2014 § Burdwan University, Burdwan, West Bengal,2014 § University of Calcutta, June, 2013. § Katholic University, Leuven, 2013 § University Libre De Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, 2012 § European Institute of Asian Studies, Brussels, Belgium, 2012 § Florida State University, Tallhassee, USA, 2012 § York University, Toronto, Canada, 2012 § V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, 2011, 2012 § Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, 2011 § Madras University, Chennai, 2011 § Mudra Institute of Communication Studies, Ahmedabad, 2010, 2011 § Panjab University, Chandigarh, 2011 § Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha, 2011 § JawaharLal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2011 § IPMZ, Zurich University, Switzerland, 2009, 2011 § University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 2011 § Delhi University, Delhi, 2010 § Department of South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany,

2009 § Wake Forest University,Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA, 2009 § Ohio University, Ohio, USA, 2009 § University of Paris, IX, 2009 § INALCO, Paris, 2009 § MSH, Paris, 2009 § Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 2009 § University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 2009 § Osmania University, Hyderabad, 2009 § National Law University, Gujarat, 2009

2. Vibodh Parthasarathi

• Habib University, Karachi, 2014 • University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 2008, 2010, 2014 • University of Waikato, 2014 • National Law University-Delhi, 2013, 2014 • Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2014 • Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, 2012, 2013 • Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2013 • School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2013 • Communication University of China, Beijing, 2012 • Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh, 2012 • University of Jyväskylä, 2012 • University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2012 • National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New

Delhi, 2012 • National Law School of India University, Bangalore, 2012 • University of Westminster, 2011 • University of Zurich, 2011 • Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 2011


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• Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, 2010,2011 • Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, 2010 • Foundation for Liberal and Management Education, Pune, 2010 • Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, 2009 • Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2009 • Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 2009 • Wake Forest University. Winston Salem, 2009 • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2009 • Lund University, Lund, 2008 • Stockholm University, Stockholm, 2008 • University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2007

3. Saima Saeed • I.P. University, Delhi, 2014 • JIMS, Delhi, 2014 • V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, 2012-13 • SUN Scholarship, Center European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2008 • University of Durham, Durham, 2007

26. Faculty serving in

1. Biswajit Das

a) National committees

• Member of the Court(Anjuman), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi,2014

• Member of the Court, Central University of Haryana, 2014 • Member, Board of Studies, Department of Sociology,

Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, 2014

• Chairman, UGC committee for evaluation of autonomy for Gobi College of Science and Arts, Erode, Tamil Nadu, 2014

• Member, Curriculum Advisory Committee, Jaipur national University, Jaipur,Rajastahan,2014

• Member, Curriculum Advisory Committee, Department of Mass Communication, Vishwabharati, Shantiniketan, West Bengal, 2014

• Member, Curriculum Advisory Committee, Burdwan University, Burdwan, West Bengal, 2014

• Expert Member, Selection Committee meeting for Journalism, at West Bengal College Service Commission, Kolkata, 24-25, February, 2014

• Member, Board of studies of the Department of Art History & Art Appreciation, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.2014

• Member, Governing Council, Consortium of Education Communication, New Delhi.

• Chairman, Inter School Essay Competition, Golden Jubilee of the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI), New Delhi, November 27, 2013

• Member, State led delegation with hon’ble President of India to Belgium & Turkey, October, 2013

• Member, Governing Body, National Council of Rural Institute, Hyderabad, MHRD.


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• Member, Selection Committee, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Calcutta, June 3, 2013.

• Expert Member for the course Committee on B.A.(H) Mass Media and Mass Communication, University of Delhi, April 25, 2013

• Member, Doctoral Committee of the School of Journalism & New Media Studies, IGNOU, New Delhi, 2013-14.

• Chairman, UGC Committee for autonomous status to Banki College Utkal University, Odisha, April 8-9, 2013

• Chairman, Expert Committee for the evaluation and extension of autonomous status of Rayagada College, Berhampur University, Orissa, January 27-29, 2013.

• Member of Expert Committee for the Subject on Journalism /Mass Communication, South Western Regional office, UGC, Bangalore, January 11,2013

• Chairman, UGC committee for autonomous status to Rayagada College, Orissa, 2013.

• Member, Inter-ministerial Taskforce, Jointly constituted by MHRD and I& B Ministry, Govt. Of India, 2012.

• Member, Innovation Council, Information & Broad Casting Ministry, Govt. Of India, 2012

• Member, Sectoral Committee of I& B Ministry, Govt. Of India, 2012

• Member, Expert Committee, Academic Staff College, University Grants Commission, New Delhi, 2012.

• Member, Selection Committee for the research projects on Mass Communication, ICSSR, New Delhi, January12, 22012.

• Member, Selection Committee, Sikkim University, January 11, 2012.

• Member, Selection Committee, Sikkim University, January10, 2012.

• Member, D.N Majumdar Endowment fund Committee. Lucknow University, Lucknow, July, 2011

• Member, Expert Committee meeting for the selection of Post Doctoral Fellowships SC/ST candidates , UGC, 8th December, 2011.

• Member, Selection committee of Common Wealth Fellowship and split scholarship, UGC, 30th November, 2011.

• Member, Evaluation Committee of Projects on Mass Communication, 24th November, 2011,ICSSR, New Delhi

• Member, Selection Committee for Mass Communication, Central University, Kashmir, 19th November, 2011

• Member, Evaluation Committee of Major & Minor Research Projects and midterm evaluation of major Research projects on Mass Communication, UGC, 17th


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November, 2011. • Member, Selection Committee for Mass Communication,

Central University, Odisha, 16th November, 2011 • Member, Selection committee for Mass Communication,

Central University of Odisha, 26th September, 2011, Bhubaneswar.

• Advisory Board Member, Board of Research Committee, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social sciences, January, 2010

• Member, Selection Committee for Mass Communication and Distance Education, Mahatma Gandhi International University, Wardha, 2010.

• Chairman, 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, University of Delhi, Delhi, 2010.

• Member, Core Review Committee of Sociology and Social Anthropology, ICSSR, New Delhi, February, 2010

• Chairman, Curriculum Advisory Committee, University of Sikkim, Sikkim, 2010

• Member, Curriculum Advisory Committee, I.P. College, University of Delhi, 2010

• Member, Core Review Committee of Sociology and Social Anthropology, ICSSR, New Delhi, 2009

• Member, Board of Research Committee, School of Journalism and New Media, IGNOU, 2009

• Member, Selection Committee, Delhi Public Library, Delhi, 2009

• Member, Board of Research Committee, School of Journalism and New Media, IGNOU, November, 2009

• Advisory Board Member, Board of Research Committee, Kashmir University, Kashmir, December, 2009

• Member, selection Committee, School of Journalism and New Media, Ignou, 2008

• Member, screening Committee, Doon University, Dehradun, 2008

• Member, Selection Committee, Berhampur University, Orissa, 2008

• Member, UGC Expert Committee, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, 2007

• Member, Selection Committee, 2007, EMRC, Kashmir University, Sri Nagar

• Member, Selection Committee, 2007 JawaharLal Nehru University, New Delhi.

• Member, Selection Committee, 2007 Uttaranchal University, Nainital.


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• Member, Selection Committee, 2007 Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab

b) International committees

§ Member, IAMCR, 2014-15 § Member, ICA, 2013-14 § Member, AMIC, 2010-11 § Research Associate, Centre for Intercultural New Media

Research, Marquette University, USA., October, 2011. c)

Editorial Boards

§ Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Sociological Bulletin, Official Journal of Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi.2012

§ Guest Editor, Journal of Inter Cultural communication USA, 2010

§ Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Journal from Kashmir University, 2009

d) any other (please specify)

§ Advisory Board member, Centre for Media Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-67, October, 2011.

§ Member, Sub- group on Information Sector for the formulation of XII five year plan, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Policy planning cell, New Delhi, 2011.

§ Member, Governing body, Consortium of Education and Communication, New Delhi, July, 2011.

§ Member, Board of Studies, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2010.

§ Governing body Member, National Council of Rural Institutes(NCRI), Hyderabad, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India, 1st September, 2011.

§ Advisory Board Member, Centre for Community Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, January, 2010

§ Panel of Jury and Guest of Honour, IDRC Young Social Science Award, 2009

§ Governing Body member, UGC Nominee, Anugul College, Dhenkanal, Utkal University, Orissa, 2007

§ Governing Body Member, UGC Nominee, Rayagada College, Behampur University, 2007, Orissa.

2. Vibodh Parthasarathi

a) National committee

• Board Member, Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore, 2008- 13

b) International committees

• Member International Advisory Board, India Media Centre, University of Westminster, 2009-

c) Editorial

• Member, International Editorial Board, ‘Global Media and Communication’, SAGE/London, 2009-


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Boards

27. Faculty recharging strategies: To ensure faculty constantly gains academic and professional exposure, the Centre organized: a) Refresher course:The Centre initiated an interdisciplinaryRefresher

Course through Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamiafor faculty members across the country onMedia Studies and Governance for the year 2013 to 2015.

b) Faculty Workshops: The Centreorganized national Interfaculty workshops on aspects of teaching and pedagogy in the emergent fields of Media Policy, Public Policy and Law in 2012.

c) Policy Dialogues: The Centre organizes Policy Dialogues as day long programme with different stakeholders and submits the report to ministry as a voice from civil society started in 2006.

d) Summer School. Not yet, but has proposed 28. Student projects

• percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-Departmental projects: 100%

• percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities / industry / institute: Nil

29. Awards / recognitions received at the national and international level by • Faculty – Nil • Doctoral / post doctoral fellows – Nil • Students – Two • Jaikaran Singh Bhadauriya won the 3rd National Inter-college declamation

contest organized by J.R Media Institute, on 7 February 2014, New Delhi. • Jaikaran Singh Bhadauriya, ‘won an inter-university debate competition on

“Death sentence to rapists is neither just nor right”, organised by Jamia Millia Islamia on Sep 25, 2013, New Delhi.

30. Seminars/ Conferences/Workshops organized and the source of funding (national / international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.

Year Conferences Funding Agency

2014 Training Programme • ‘How to engage with Broadband Policy, Training organised in

collaboration with LÍRNEasia with support from Ford Foundation, Sohna-Gurgaon, 7th to 10 March 2014

• ‘Media Studies & Governance (Interdisciplinary)’, 2nd Three-week Refresher Course at UGC-Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 14th Jan to 3rd Feb 2014 Video Conference

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Mobile technology and participation’ on 29th October, 2014 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Privacy & surveillance’ on 22nd October, 2014 with York University, Toronto, Canada

LÍRNEasia

ASC, JMI

CCMG,JMI


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• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Grassroots savvy mobilization: Media Activism versus clicktivism’ on 08th October, 2014 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication &Culture on ‘Digital media and contemporary protest movements at time of global dissent: two case studies’ on 01st October, 2014 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Digital media and long cycles of dissent ’ on 24th September, 2014 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Digital media and counter-publics’ on 17th September, 2014 with York University, Toronto, Canada International Conference

• Media Diversity: Concept, Analysis, Policy by CCMG and Institute of Media Studies & Brussels Centre for Journalism Studies, KU Leuven at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, 25-26th November 2014 International Seminar

• International Seminar on understanding Globalization in a Cross-Cultural Setting at Jamia Millia Islamia in collaboration with York University, Canada, 18-19th February, 2014 Symposium

• Co-organized, Research Symposium on ‘The India Media Economy: New Perspectives from New Zealand’ by The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Waikato, Centre for Culture Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia and Centre for Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, at Raglan, Waikato, 26-27Feb 2014

VLIR-UOS - ICSSR

ICSSR

UGC-INZEC

2013 Training Programme • Communication Strategies for Legal Awareness for Senior

Government officials, in collaboration with UNDP Afghanistan at Jamia Millia Islamia on 23rd September to 04th October, 2013

• ‘Media Studies & Governance (Interdisciplinary)’, 1stThree-week Refresher Course at UGC-Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 15th Feb to 7th Mar, 2013 Video Conference

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Agonistic Pluralism and Art as Politics’ on 30th October, 2013 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Historicity, Cultural Memory and the Rhetorical Construction of Publics’ on 23rd October, 2013 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Ideology and the Crowd: Are Crowds Publics?’ on 09th October, 2013 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture

UNDP

ASC, JMI

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on ‘Ideology, Subjectivity and the Public’ on 03rd October, 2013 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Political Economy and the Public Sphere II’ on 25th September, 2013 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Political Economy and the Public Sphere I ’ on 17th September, 2013 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Left and Right: Refining Our Terms: Does the public sphere have an embedded ideology’ on 4th September, 2013 with York University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Globalization as Fate: Hard vs. Soft Power’ on 11th September, 2013 with York University, Toronto, Canada International Conference

• Co-organized Preconference on ‘New Media, Old Media, Social Media: Changing South Asian Communications Scholarship’, at ICA ‘13 (in collaboration with ICA’s Communication Law and Policy Division, Shiv Nadar University Noida, SOAS University of London and Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, June 16-17, 2013

• Contours of Media Governance: Teaching, Disciplinarily, Methodology at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, 25-27th February 2013 Roundtable

• Round table on ‘Asia Science and Social Science Research Councils’ by CCMG in collaboration with International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 25-26th November, 2013 Symposium

• Symposium on ‘Interdisciplinary in Communication Studies’ by CCMG in collaboration with Association for Health, Environment and Development, New Delhi, at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 06thNovember, 2013

SOAS University of

London

IDRC & ICSSR

IDRC

AHEAD

2012 Video Conference • Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture

on ‘Communication studies: Epistemological query and interdisciplinary’ on 7th November, 2012 with York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Taking Stock of the New Media activism: Challenges and Prospects’ on 21st November, 2012 with York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘In a web 2.0 age, is the public sphere shrinking or deepening?’ on 26th November, 2012 with York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

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2011 Video Conference

• Video Conference with Department of Communication & Culture on ‘Media Governance’ on 23rd November, 2011 with York University.

• Video Conference on ‘Media monitoring of Corruption through Indian print Media’ on 16th November, 2011 with York University.

• Video Conference on ‘Social movements and media: Constraints and Opportunities’ on 19th October 2011 with York University.

• Video Conference on ‘New social media and its consequences: Dynamics between state and citizen’ on 21st September 2011 with York University. International Seminar

• International Seminar on ‘Rethinking Gandhi: A Communication Perspective’ at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi 22nd -23rd March, 2011 National Seminar

• Symposium on “Cultural Policy & Curatorship: Perspectives from Switzerland”, Organized by CCMG Jamia Millia Islamia University on 20th January 2011. Funded By Pro Helvetia, New Delhi

York

University

York University

York University

York University

NCRI Pro Helvetia

2010 International Seminar

• ‘Environmental activism and Media’, jointly hosted by CCMG and South Asia Institute, Heidelberg on 9th -10th December, 2010.

• ‘Governance and Diversity: Comparing Media System’, INDO-SWISS Bi-national Seminar in collaboration with Pro Helvetia, Swiss Cultural Centre, New Delhi & ICSSR, New Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 16-17, February, 2010 National Conference

• ‘Victim Journalists, Freedom of the Press and the Law’ in collaboration with Human Rights Law Network, Vishwa Yuvak Kendra, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, 3-4 April, 2010. National Seminar

• National Roundtable meeting on ‘Media Ownership and Content Advocacy: The case of Broadcast News’, Organized by CCMG Jamia Millia Islamia University on 29th November, 2010.

• National Roundtable meeting on ‘Media Ownership and Content Advocacy: The case of Broadcast News’, Organized by CCMG Jamia Millia Islamia University on 27th -28th October 2010.

• National Roundtable meeting on “Monitoring News and Content for Advocacy”, Organized by CCMG Jamia Millia Islamia University on 25th March, 2010.

• National Roundtable meeting on “Enumerating Media Ownership”, Organized by CCMG Jamia Millia Islamia University on 3rd March, 2010.

• National Consultation meeting on 'Curriculum and Capacity Building ‘Media Policy in India ’Organized by CCMG Jamia Millia Islamia University on 20th March, 2010.

South Asia Institute,

HeidelbergUniversity

ICSSR and

Pro Helvetia, New Delhi

Human Rights Law Network

Hivos

Hivos

Hivos

Hivos

Ford Foundation.


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2009 International Conference • ‘India and Communication Studies’, Pre-conference in

collaboration with the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, at the Annual Congress of the International Communication Association 20th-21st May 2009, Chicago National Seminar

• National Consultation meeting on “Media Advocacy in India” Organized by CCMG Jamia Millia Islamia University on 10th December, 2009.

• ‘Media Pluralism: News Ownership, Content and Advocacy’, organized by CCMG in association with IDRC; 17th November. 2009.

CASI,

University of Pennsylvania

SSRC, New York.

IDRC New Delhi.

2008 International Seminar • ‘Contours of Media Governance in collaboration’ with IDRC New

Delhi, UNNATI Ahmedabad, CEC New Delhi & ICSSR, on 08-10, December 2008

• ‘Asia without Borders: Rethinking History, Anthropology and Politics’ in collaboration with Harvard Yenching Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA and ICSSR, New Delhi, on 18th-19th January, 2008.

IDRC, ICSSR and UNNATI.

Harvard

University, USA and

ICSSR, New Delhi

Year Workshops Funding Agency

•

2014 • Workshop on ‘Media Diversity Index’ by CCMG at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 27th November, 2014

• Workshop on ‘Enabling Information Systems for Local Governance’ by CCMG in collaboration with International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 18th September, 2014

VLIR-ICSSR IDRC

2013 • International Workshop on Mapping Media Pluralism at CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia, on 1st March, 2013.

• International Workshop on Measurements of News by Prof. Frank Esser, Department of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich and Prof. Sven Engesser, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich at CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia, on 25th February, 2013.

• Two day Workshop on Extracting Narratives from Narbs by Prof. Ananda Mitra, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem at CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia, on 7-8 February, 2013.

ICSSR &CCMG, JMI CCMG, JMI CCMG, JMI

2012 • Two day Faculty Workshop (North Zone) on Teaching Public Policy, Media and Law by CCMG in collaboration with Department of Public policy, Law & Governance and Department of Culture and Media Studies, Central University of Rajasthan, at Jaipur on November 1-2, 2012

• Two-day Faculty Workshop (Regional) on ‘Teaching Media Policy

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and Law’ by CCMG in collaboration with National Law School of India University, Bangalore and Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore at NLSIU on April 24-25, 2012.

• Workshop on ‘Theory and Evaluation of Health Campaigns’ by Prof. Heinz Bonfadelli, Former Director Institute for Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland at Seminar room, CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia, on 9 February, 2012

Ford Foundation. CCMG, JMI

2010 Nil

2011 Nil

2009 • Workshop on ‘Media Consumption and Appropriation’ in the Jamia Neighborhood by Dr. Aditya Sood, Centre for Knowledge Society, Bangalore, 2009

• Workshop on ‘Curation & Digitization of Music Collection’ at the Delhi Public Library, towards Exhibition 50 Years of Delhi Public Library, Delhi, November, 2009.

• Workshop on ‘Documenting performed traditions of Sufi Music’, Agha Khan Trust for Culture, New Delhi, August 2009.

CCMG, JMI Delhi Public Library CCMG, JMI

2008 • Workshop ‘Presence and the Design of the Trust’ by Dr Caroline Nevejan, Free University of Amsterdam, and Member, Dutch National Council for Culture and the Arts, at CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia, 5th December, 2008.

• Workshop on ‘Communicating Peace’, Supported by Global Partnership for Prevention of Arms Conflict, Netherland, Regional Centre for Strategic studies, Colombo& Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, JMI on 4th September, 2008.

CCMG, JMI RCSSC, Colombo.

Year Policy Dialogue/ Orientation Workshop Funding Agency

2008 • Policy Dialogue on ‘Open Access Day’, Jamia Millia Islamia on 14th October 2008.

• Orientation Workshop on ‘Advocacy in Formal & Non Formal Milieus’ by Mr. Sajan Veniyoor, Coordinator, Community Radio Forum (Delhi), 14th August, 2008. Funded By CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia

• Orientation Workshop on ‘Perspectives in Governance’ by Dr. Bishnu Mohapatra, Programme Office’ Global & Local Governance’ Ford Foundation (South Asia) at CCMG, 14th August, 2008. Funded By CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia

• Orientation Workshop on ‘Communication & the Social Sciences’ by Prof. Yogendra Singh, Professor Emeritus, JNU 13th August 2008. Funded By CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia

• Orientation Workshop on ‘Issues in Media Practice’ by Mr. Saeed Naqvi, Eminent Journalist at CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia 12th August, 2008. Funded By CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia

• Orientation Workshop on ‘State of Governance in India’ by Prof. Kuldip Mathur, Founder & Former Chair, Centre for the Study of

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31. Code of ethics for research followed by the Departments

The Centre strictly follows the code of ethics in academic publication, research and in admission of students as laid in the University rules and Guidelines. Stress is laid on high quality and original research and students have been made aware of moral and ethical norms in research such as avoiding plagiarism. The centre has formed a committee on “Ethics for Research” and Dr. Taberez Neyazi has been made incharge to evaluate all the assignments and documents submitted by students. The Centre takes help of Turnitin software for plagiarism supplied by university.

32. Student profile program -wise: S. No. Name of the

Program (refer to question

no. 4)

Year Applications received

Selected Male Female

Pass percentage

Male Female

1 M.A. 2008-09 125 10 16 100 100 2 M.A. 2009-10 128 07 16 100 100 3 M.A. 2010-11 164 12 10 100 100 4 M.A. 2011-12 498 13 10 100 100 5 M.A. 2012-13 519 10 09 100 100 6 M.A. 2013-14 145 13 09 Still pursuing 7 M.A. 2014-15 165 1316 Still pursuing

33. Diversity of students

S.No. Name of the

program (refer to question

no.4)

Year % of students

from JMI

% of students

from other universities

within Delhi

% of students

from universities

outside Delhi

% of students

from other

countries

1. M.A. 2008-09 24 61 15 Nil 2. Ph.D. 2008-09 100 Nil 3. M.A. 2009-10 16 38 46 Nil 4. Ph.D. 2009-10 100 Nil 5. M.A. 2010-11 17 25 58 Nil 6. Ph.D. 2010-11 100 Nil 7. M.A. 2011-12 27 27 46 Nil 8. Ph.D. 2011-12 Nil Nil 9. M.A. 2012-13 22 55 23 Nil 10. Ph.D. 2012-13 25 25 50 Nil 11. M.A. 2013-14 35 50 15 Nil 12. Ph.D. 2013-14 -- 50 50 Nil 13. M.A. 2014-15 40 25 35 Nil

Law & Governance, JNU at CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia, 12th August 2008. Funded By CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia

• Orientation Workshop on ‘Technology and Society’ by Dr. Arun Mehta- Software Designer & Communication Policy Advocate, 12th August, 2008. Funded By CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia

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14. Ph.D. 2014-15 100 Nil

34. How many students have cleared Civil Services and Defence Services examinations,

NET, SET, GATE and other competitive examinations? Give details category-wise: 02JRF; 08 NET.

35. Student progression S. No. Student progression Percentage

against enrolled 1 UG to PG NA 2 PG to M.Phil. NA 3 PG to Ph.D. 0 4 Ph.D. to Post-Doctoral NA 5 Employed Campus selection Other than

campus recruitment 100

6 Entrepreneurs -

36. Diversity of staff S. No. Percentage of faculty who are graduates

1 of JMI 0 2 from other universities within Delhi 33 3 from universities from other States 67 4 from universities outside the country 0

37. Number of faculty who were awarded M Phil, Ph.D., D.Sc. and D.Litt. during the

assessment period: 01

38. Present details of departmental infrastructural facilities with regard to a) Library: Yes S.No. Numbers 1. Books 4314 2. Periodicals 11 3. News Papers 13 4. Chairs 25 5. Tables 8

b) Internet facilities for staff and students: Yes c) Total number of class rooms: 03 d) Class rooms with ICT facility: 02 e) Students’ laboratories: Yes f) Research laboratories: No

39. List of doctoral, post-doctoral students and Research Associates

Doctoral Students: Research Associate: a) from the host University

1) Syed Khalid Jamal 2) Mahvish Rahman

1) Md. NahidAlam 2) Syed Kahaid Jamal 3) Mr. Syed Salman 4) Ms. UzmaAzhar 5) NabeelaInayati


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b) from other Universities

1) Manoj Kumar Das 2) Sunil Kumar Kurup 3) PallaviMajumdar 4) JyotiRanjanSahoo 5) Aradhana Sharma 6) AnwaarAquib Butt 7) BhumikaChandola 8) LallianPuii 9) ArifHussainNadaf 10) Tahzeeb Fatima 11)BhriguTalukdar 12) Mohammad Imran Parray 13) T. DilipChakravarthy

1) Jesna Jayachandran 2) Mr. DevNathPathak 3) Ms. NajmusSehar 4) Mr. R.Thiru 5) Ms. SupriyaChotani 6) Ms. RiddhiBhandari 7) Dr. DevalinaMookerjee 8) Ms. Aradhana Sharma 9) Dr. Jitha T J 10) Dr. SanghamitraChoudhury 11) Dr. Rashid Ansari 12) Mohd. Arshad 13) Ms. SushritaSarkar 14) Mr. SiddarthDadhwal 15) Ms.Sreejata Roy 16) Ms. SuchismitaMohanty 17) Ms. Sonam Joshi

40. Number of post graduate students getting financial assistance from the university. 01 41. Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new

programme(s)? If so, highlight the methodology: National and Global Media Mapping exercise under taken by the faculty Members. It consisted of the following: • Preparation of the Matrix • Writing the narratives on the basis of the Matrix • Rationale and justification of the course for Post-graduation programme

42. Does the Department obtain feedback from • Faculty on curriculum as well as teaching-learning-evaluation? If yes, how

does the Department utilize the feedback? • The Centre through its faculty committee meeting takes stock of the curriculum

along with the course teacher and makes necessary amendments almost after every semester.

• Students on staff, curriculum and teaching-learning-evaluation and how does the Department utilize the feedback?

• Jamia Millia Islamia has centrally administered students feedback system. • Alumni and employers on the programmes offered and how does the

Department utilize the feedback? • The Centre keeps track of alumni but not with employers.

43. List the distinguished alumni of the Department (maximum 10) The Centre is too young to produce distinguished alumni.

44. Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar) involving external experts. Lecture organized by Centre

Year 2014 • Understanding privacy and surveillance in India, by Bhairav Acharya,

constitutional lawyer in India, August 28, 2014 • The Climate Change Communications & Young People in the UK: A Reception

Study, by Prof. Matthew Hibberd, Head of the Communications, Media and Culture Division, University of Stirling, Scotland, August 11, 2014.

• The New Media - of the People, Dr. Ananda Mitra, Director, Survey Research


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Center, Wake Forest University, USA,April 03, 2014 • Regulation of U.S. Radio, 1904–1934, by Dr. Noah Arceneaux, Associate

Professor at San Diego State University, March 21, 2014 • Modernization of Indian Society and Communication, by Prof. Yogendra Singh,

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 06, 2014

• Between Knowledge and Power: twitter life world of political elites in India, Santosh K Patra, Assistant Professor at Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA), Ahmedabad, January 29, 2014

2013 • Sex Crimes Reporting in the Indian Press Before and After the Delhi Rape by Prof Daniel Drache, Senior Research Fellow Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and Professor Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada. November 11, 2013.

• Technologies for public deliberation: Debating India’s unique identification scheme (AADHAR) by Dr.Usha Ramanathan, November 7, 2013

• Campaign, Media & International Affairs by Prof. Holli A. Semetko, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Media and International Affairs & Professor of Political Science, Emory University, October 31, 2013

• From Cinema Hall to Multiplex: A Public History, by Adrian Athique, Chair of the School of Arts, University of Waikato, October 24, 2013

• Technologies as the basis (AADHAR) for Governance, by Dr.Usha Ramanathan &Mr. RaviShukla, September 26, 2013

• Privacy and Surveillance in India, by Sunil Abraham, Executive Director of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Bangalore, September 18, 2013

• News Epistemology, Radical Journalism, and Disruption of Paradigm in WikiLeaks Phenomenon, by Dr.Anup Kumar, Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, August 22, 2013

• Internet Surveillance in India, by Dr.Arun Mehta, resident, Society for Telecommunications Empowerment (STEM), New Delhi, August 19, 2013

• Tamil Newspapers: Regimes of Circulation and Mass Mediated Embodiment in the making of a Public Sphere, by Dr. Francis Cody, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada, August 8, 2013

• Multiculturalism and Diversity in the Canadian setting, by Anne O’Connell Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, January 18, 2013

2012 • Profiling the Programming on the Public Service Broadcaster, by SevantiNinan Columnist, The Mint Editor, The Hoot, October 25, 2012

• Mediating Politics, Policy and Power, Dr. Laura Stein, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin, October 18, 2012

• Crisis of Information and Representation among Marginal Communities, by ShubhranshuChoudhary, Knight International Journalism Fellow, Founder, CGNetSwara, September 27, 2012

• ‘Database scraping and governance’, by Prof AnandMitra Chair & Director of Graduate Studies Programme, Department of Communication Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA, July 25, 2012

• ‘Competitive intelligence for organizations. An art and a method’, by Prof. Olivier Arifon, UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles, July 17, 2012

• ‘Living in the Indian digital bubble – the elastic narratives of being Indian’, Prof. AnandMitra, Chair and Director of Graduate Studies Programme, Department of Communication, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA. 29th March 2012


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• ‘Current Issues in Internet Policies in India’, by Raman Jit Singh Chima, Senior Policy Analyst, Google India, 22nd March2012.

• ‘Globalization After Neoliberalism: Regime Change and the Paradox of Power’, by Prof Daniel Drache, Senior Research Fellow Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and Professor Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada. 14th March 2012.

• ‘New Rules for the World Wide Web 2.0: Social Media and the Mania to Tell All’, by Prof Daniel Drache, Senior Research Fellow Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and Professor Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada. 12th March 2012.

• ‘Lobbying, as part of Communication Management’, by Olivier Arifon, Associate Professor at University of Strasbourg. 27th February 2012

• ‘Governance Reform and Role of ICT in India: A Case Study of Common Services Centre (CSC) Project’, by BidishaChaudhuri, Research Fellow, Heidelberg University. 23rd February 2012

• ‘Newspapers in Crisis: Context and Global Response’, by SukumarMuralidharan, Coordinator South-Asia, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) &Former Deputy Editor – The Frontline. 15th February 2012

• ‘The Chinese Hack: Addressing Cyber Security’, by Prof. Arun Mehta, Internet and Telecom Expert & President, BAPSI New Delhi. 8th February 2012

2011 • ‘The Gujarat program and the logics of post-censorship’, commercial TV journalism in India’ Dr. Britta Ohm, Researcher and Lecturer, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 9th December 2011

• ‘Media workers and Organized labour in India: Towards a Research Agenda’, by Dr. Scott Fitzgerald, Lecturer, and Dept. Of Social Science, Curtin Institute of Technology, Perth, Australia. 28th November 2011

• ‘Enculturation and Acculturation of Television use among Asian Indians in the US’ by Indira Somani Assistant Prof, Journalism and Mass Communication Washington and Lee University in Lexington, USA. 14th November 2011

• ‘Indian media’s coverage of rural news Inclusive Media for Change’ by VipulMudgal, Journalist and Media Scholar, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies New Delhi, 27th September 2011

• ‘Is it Mass Media or Social Media’ by AnandMitra, Prof. & Director, Graduate studies Dept. Of Communication Wake Forest University North Carolina, USA. 8th August 2011

• ‘The role of metaphors in the creation and institutionalization of new media’ by Harmeet Sawhney, Professor& Director, Graduate studies Dept. Of telecommunication Indiana University Bloomington USA. 25th July 2011

2010 • Public Diplomacy Lecture on “Indo-Us Relations: Post Obama Visit” by Shri Ronen Sen, IFS Former Ambassador to USA, on 7th December 2010.

• Knowledge Lecture Series on ‘"Understanding Communal Conflicts: Search for a new paradigm” by Shri PrateeK KLahiri, IAS Former Secretary to Govt. Of India, Finance (Revenue & Mines) & Former Executive Director, Asian Development Bank (Manila), 20th September 2010.

• Lecture on “Doing it by the Book: Publication & Legislation in 19th Century India” by Dr. Abhijit Gupta, Associate Professor, Jadhavpur University, 20th August 2010.

• Knowledge Lecture Series on ‘"Branding and Marketing India as a Tourism Destination” by Shri Amitabh Kant, IAS, CEO & MD, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation ( DMICDC), 11th August 2010.

• Knowledge Lecture Series on “General Election, 2009” By ShriNavinChawla,


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Chief Election Commissioner, Govt. Of India, 6th August 2010. • Knowledge Lecture Series on ‘Searches for MicroLife in Earth Atmosphere’ by

JayantNarlikar Professor Emeritus, Inter University in Astronomy and Astrophysics, IUCAA, Pune, 17th March 2010.

• ‘Knowledge Lecture Series on ‘Growth versus Development: Rural Urban Continuum’ by Professor Dipankar Gupta, Former Professor of Sociology, JNU Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Teen Murti House, 9th March 2010.

• ‘Panel Discussion on Swiss Media System’ by Prof. Frank Esser, Prof. Michael Latzer, Dr. Manuel Puppis, IPMZ, University of Zurich, 18 February 2010.

2009 • ‘Foreign News on Indian Television’ by Prof. Keval J. Kumar; 18th November 2009.

• ‘A Right to do what? Revisiting the issue of Rights and Communication in the contemporary Media Landscape’ by Dr. MinnaAslama, University of Helsinki & Fordham University; 18th November 2009.

• ‘The South African Telecommunications sector – Poised for Change’ by Sunil Chetty, Senior Manager in Eskom, South Africa, 29th October 2009.

• ‘Policy formulation for the internet and ICT for persons with disabilities’ by NirmitaNarasimhan, Programme Manager, Centre for Internet Society, Bangalore; 9th November 2009.

• ‘Transnational Media Today: Bollywood in Fiji’, by Dr. CharuUppal, Formerly University of South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 5th November, 2009.

• ‘Television News as Entertainment?’ By Prof. DayaThussu, Head Department of International Communication, University of Westminster, Britain, 17th July 2009.

• ‘Evolution of Television Policy in India’ by Dr. Victoria L. Farmer, State University of New York - Gensco, New York, 6th August 2009.

• ‘Regulatory Governance in Telecommunication Sector in India’ by Prof. Stephen McDowell, Head &Chair, Department of Communication, Florida State University, Florida, USA, 17th July 2009.

• ‘Communication Studies: An Interdisciplinary Perspective’ by Prof. AnandMitra, Chair, Department of Communication, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA, 16th July 2009

• ‘Social Network Analysis: Concept & Approaches’ by Noshir Contractor, Prof. & Chair, Department of Communication, North-western University, USA organised in collaboration with FTK Centre for Information Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2nd July 2009.

• ‘Radio and Borders Two’ lectures by Alisdair Pinkerton, Southbank University on ‘India in the Cold War’, and Ravina Agarwal, Smith College on ‘A Biography of Radio in Ladakh’, 2nd March 2009.

• ‘Contested Connections: Media and Mutuality in Turbulent Times’ by Graham Murdock, Chair & Professor of Communication, Loughborough University, 25th February 2009.9)

2008 • ‘Census as Archives of Strategic Knowledge’ by Prof. R. Gopinath, Dept. of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, September 2008.

• ‘Riddles of Media Governance: Multiple Stakeholders’, Multiple Objectives, Multiple Perspectives by Monroe Price, Director, Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 8th December 2008.

• ‘Preventing and rebuilding ‘failed states’: Is there an emerging international regime’ by Prof.Susan L. Woodward, August 2008 City University.


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• ‘Asia at the leading edge of Communication and New Media Developments?’ By Dr. RohanSamarajiva, Executive Director, LIRNEasia, Colombo, 20th August 2008.

• ‘E-Diaspora: Critical Research on Audience in Internet’ by Prof. AnandaMitra, Chair, Department of Communication, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, 10th July 2008.

45. List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.

• Students inclusion in ongoing projects:Students are involved in the ongoing research projects relevant to paper.The students analyse the data, reflect upon it and write a term paper.

• Field work-Students undertake fieldwork in ongoing research on mapping media in the neighbourhood of JMI.

• Library Exercise - Students undertake studies on media firms, investment, diversification and do library exercises to write their term papers.

• Seminar Presentation–Students make presentationsof their projects in classroom seminars.

• Workshop- The students present their findings from the research project in workshop which are evaluated by a select number of faculty.

46. How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and learning outcomes are monitored? The Centre annually reviews the academic programme such as curriculum innovations, syllabus and teaching pedagogy. The students’ inputs are incorporated.

47. Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities.

Full participation by students and faculty in all extension activities in item no 30 and 44, i.e. extension lectures and workshops and Video Conferences.

48. Give details of “beyond syllabus scholarly activities” of the Department. Besides, classroom teaching, it is mandatory for the students to attend the ongoing following activities at the Centre:

• Public lectures • Policy dialogues • Students workshop • Summer Projects/Internship • Extension lectures • Film screenings

49. State whether the programme/ Department is accredited/ graded by other agencies?

If yes, give details. • UGC Special Assistance Programme (DRS-SAP) (2014-2018) • Centre has been identified as “Potential” Centre, on June 2010 according to Research

Councils,UK (Arts and Humanities Research Mapping, India) http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/india/humanitiesresearchlandscape.pdf

• Centre has been identified as a nodal Centre for Cultural Policy on Curatorial/Exhibition Policy Research &Advocacy By Tata Dorabji Foundation/Indian Foundation for the Arts( IFA), on 22nd March 2010,http://www.indiaifa.org/article.asp?id=707&viewtype=online


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50. Briefly highlight the contributions of the Department in generating new knowledge, basic or applied.

• Mapping the field of Media Governance in India. • Mapping the field of Communication Studies in India • Media Diversity Index • Innovations in Local Governance

51. Detail five major Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the Department STRENGTH:

• Introduced interdisciplinary post-graduate programme on Media Governance, the first of its kind in South Asia and in the World.

• Bagged research projects from major International Bodies and Government of India (amount is 4.08crorefrom all project between 2008-09 to 2011-14)

• Excelled in pedagogy and curricular innovation in introducing courses in various central universities, state universities in India.

• Attracted foreign academia for association with Centre in teaching, collaborative research and showcasing Centre’s activities at the global level by co-hosting and promoting Indian Communication Studies.

• The Centre has signed 10MoUs with Universities and civil society institutions both in India and abroad.

• Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi • Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore • University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland • York University, Toronto, Canada • University Libre De Brussels, Brussels, Belgium • Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada • University of Toronto, Canada • Katholik University, Leuven, Belgium • Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey • Kadir Has University, Turkey

WEAKNESSES: • The Centre needs to develop a Media Monitoring Lab to monitor the visuals

to undertake research on Media Pluralism and Media Diversity in India. The present source of procurement of Visual data and analysis is cumbersome and time consuming and costly affair

• The Centre needs to develop a multi-media lab to have a regular interactions with various stake holders to evolve suitable models of governance and problems solving mechanism for effective governance in society.

• The Centre needs to develop a good library with access to more academic journals on communication and governance issues.

• The Centre needs more working hands, both technical and academic, to engage with its ongoing activities

• The Centre needs sufficient funds to publish & disseminate its Project Report, Working Papers and Seminar proceedings.

OPPORTUNITIES: • The idea and imagination of the Centre has attracted scholars and

professional of media to introspect on the practices and governance in the field. We can tap on this pool of knowledge and make the students and


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curricula benefit from it. • The Centre has submitted under CPEPA scheme a proposal to UGC so as to

carry forward the proposed and ongoing activities at the centre. • Our students have tremendous opportunities of working in their capacity as

media experts in various policy groups, research bodies as also in the corporate sector, international agencies and civil society organizations.

• The Centre realizes the potential as well as the need to develop materials in order to meet challenges in teachings, research and policy-oriented issues on theory, history and methods in communication studies and research.

• The Centre is approached by Civil Society group and Donors to train students & mid-career professionals in the skill of media advocacy and democracy.

CHALLENGES: • One of the biggest challenges ahead for the Centre is to provide a pathway

for developing curriculum and pedagogy on Media Education for the country.

• Strengthening young faculty members through refresher courses on the one hand and to update the faculty and students about recent developments in the field and knowledge about media governance in the country.

• Developing and sustaining networks among young researchers and faculty across media scholars in India through various activities such as summer programmes, conferences and workshops

• Consolidate and develop collaborative research among various universities in India to generate empirical data and encourage research traditions in the field

• Initiate a peer-review journal on Communication Studies for dissemination of findings as well as developing a culture for research and writing.

52. Future plans of the Department. One of the major challenges for the Centre is to address the inter-disciplinarily in Communication Studies. Besides, the discipline of Communication exists and taught in Indian Universities are not able to address the rising concern and challenges posed by policy, civil society and Industry requirements. The changes in technology demands new courses such as print, electronic and online media. Such courses are oriented towards professional requirements rather than studies orientation. Due to lack of studies orientation, the field of Communication witnesses a knowledge deficit and unable to address the disciplinary concern and develop a body of knowledge like other disciplines. Fragmentation of the field along medium has further affected the field for any intellectual engagement. The centre’s primary thrust is to work towards interdisciplinary of Communication and develop a knowledge base for future engagement. From Medium to Media: The Locus Reshaped Central to our approach is a research orientation that should not confine itself to any medium of communication per se; rather, it must reflect upon the historical and cultural nature of the media. In doing so, it must combine the study of both, the material organization of the media---i.e. goods which human uses---and the institutional organization structuring it. In other words, the renewed emphasis must engage with three spheres of the ‘medium’, where question of how culture, technologies and the social interact find a locus. This is indeed a major challenge as it involves the fuzzy zone of interactions between technology and culture, or the


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interferences between technologies of memorizing, transmission, and displacement, on the one hand, and our modes of belief, thought, and organization, on the other. From Culture to Media-Culture: The Contiguous Arena We must investigate, firstly, how a break in theories of transmission and transportation provoke a change in human behavior; and secondly, how a cultural tradition provokes, assimilates or modifies a technical innovation in its existing media-culture. Here, the function of media, namely transmission, must be considered in relation between media and history, human life and social circumstance. From Administration to Media Governance: The Structuring Arena The media occupy a space that is constantly contested--- viz. to organizational and technological restructuring, to economic and cultural constraints, to commercial pressures and to changing professional practices. As conveyers and purveyors of ideas, a media system is often called the ‘oxygen’ of democracy, one of the fundamental freedoms and enablers of participation in society. Nevertheless, the relation of the media with governance is not only functional but also transactional---an encoding of the dynamic shatter zone between society (governed) and polity (governor). And at this level, the ‘mass’ media--- as also other institutions of communication--- help sustain human relationships, revealing the mutuality of interests. Much current issues in media, culture and governance may be collapsed into a core set of questions, their answers may not be readily forthcoming. For, some relate to economic issues, others to human rights. Other issues are stable, with no serious debate or contention, but such a stability not being either at ease or indefinite. Still others are emerging for the first time, such as media advocacy. Engaging with these invariably necessitates the response of multiple agencies working in partnership, including when required, across national mediascapes. In turn, this calls for not only reorienting research, skill-building endeavors and media institutions but also managing deliberative processes about the estimated ‘public value’ of innovations in media education and governance. Making an overall assessment of the media environment, one can say that compared to the earlier times of scarcity, media environment is today characterized by information abundance and multiplicity of sectors and platforms. Curiously, Media Education in India also mirrors such a sectoral development of media industry. The growing industry requires an array of skilled professionals spanning both news and entertainment, from technical, creative, business to managerial. This has pushed the need for more specialized, practice oriented media related courses. Media Studies has thus become a capsule of various ‘mediums’ of the media - journalism, cinema, broadcasting etc - each demanding separate curriculum based on skills specific to the medium. Its emphasis on teaching has become a function of the dynamics of demand and supply in the media industry. As a result, the idea and imagination of communication studies and communication research has itself become fragmented and medium bound. This necessitates a critical interrogation of the existing media practice and the canvas of Media education in India therefore needs to spread wide. In this regard, media scholarship needs to engage both theoretically and empirically with the dynamic processes and practices of media policy, advocacy and governance. Any discipline features a corpus of theory, accepted ways of knowing and accumulated knowledge and in this respect communications’ emergence as an academic discipline in India is a work in progress. What is needed perhaps is a


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serious reflection and a thought out direction, to gather both coherence and legitimacy.

5 Year Roadmap of the Centre The Centre has proposed to University Grants Commission to undertake:

Strengthening Communication Studies Pedagogy • Identifying Mechanisms of Enhancing Teaching Tools & Techniques

through Curriculum Development and Teaching Workshops.

Strengthening Communication Research • Analysis & identification of institutions of higher education requiring

strengthening of research capabilities and of pedagogical innovations. • Identifying & analyzing research themes & areas for future engagement.

Prioritizing themes of basic/policy research addressing the emergent media milieu.

• Laying priority on Communication Research through an expansion of university funding.

Strengthening Collaborations: • Launching Journal/s on Communication Studies in India. • Making an Association that facilitates exchange between scholars, as also

publishes a newsletter, Journal and Website for book reviews. This can be modeled on the ICA/IAMCR.

• Exploring Institutional Collaborations both at a National and International level.

• Organizing Video Conferences between University Departments on communication both within India and abroad.

Forging aninter-university Network that involves: • Identifying opportunities for capacity-building for the Faculty and doctoral

students through thematic workshops. • Organizing Forums and Workshops to engage in methodological challenges

and conceptual issues. • Organizing Summer/Winter School for Communication Research Scholars. • Facilitating arrangements for Visiting Faculty from National and

International Institutions.

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