MS. B. MANJULA
Assistant Professor

CENTRE FOR MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Qualifications

• Master’s in Communication and Journalism, Kerala University
• M.Phil. (Applied Economics), Jawaharlal Nehru University

Areas of Interest

• Media Studies : Political economy of the media; Media and post-modernism.
• Communication : Participatory communication and grassroots democracy; Communication and development.
• Democratic Decentralisation : Communication approaches in decentralisd planning, Gender and local self-governance and tribals and local self-governance.

Teaching

• Communication: An Introduction to Audio-Visual Media

Research and Productions

• Gender and Local Self-Governance, sponsored by the Board of Research Studies, TISS (ongoing)
• Formulating Local Development Indices at the Panchayat Level in Kerala (Joint Project-UNDP).
• Scripted and directed documentary on TISS ‘Towards Community Centred Tomorrow’ (2003)
• Directed documentary on ‘Spect Actor: Theatre for Development’ (2004)

Recent/Significant Publications

• Communication for Development, Humanscape, 9(9), 2–5, (2002).
• Euphoria of Social Capital: A Re-reading, Indian Association of Social Science Journal Quarterly, (2003)
• Globalisation of Television and Classigenisation of Doordarshan, ASC- UGC (2005).