Thussu, Daya
Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre
Email: D.K.Thussu@westminster.ac.uk
Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre, the world’s first academic centre dedicated to the study of media in India and its globalizing tendencies (westminster.ac.uk/indiamediacentre). Daya teaches mainly on transnational aspects of media and communications, including leading on an MA programme in Global Media.
Daya has published extensively in the field of global media and communication. His International Communication - Continuity and Change (Arnold: London and Oxford University Press: New York, 2000, second edition published in 2006) has already established itself as a key text in the field of global communication, adopted for courses in universities around the world. A Chinese and a Korean edition of this book were published in 2004.
His latest publications are the edited collections International Communication: A Reader and Internationalizing Media Studies, while his last authored work is News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (Sage, London, 2008), the first book-length study of the globalization of the infotainment phenomenon. Other notable publications include: Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2007, Routledge, London and New York); Electronic Empires - Global Media and Local Resistance (Arnold: London and Oxford University Press: New York, 1998); War and the Media, Reporting Conflict 24/7, co-edited with Des Freedman (Sage, London, 2003); Contra-Flow in Global News: International and Regional News Exchange Mechanisms (John Libbey, in association with UNESCO, 1992), co-authored with Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Ideologies of the Internet (New Jersey: Hampton Press, 2006), co-edited with Katharine Sarikakis.
Daya has a PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Before joining the University of Westminster, he was Course Leader for the MA in Transnational Communication and Global Media at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He was Senior Lecturer in Mass Communications at University of North London and prior to that at Coventry University, specialising in international journalism and transnational media and communication.
Daya is the founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication and editor for a new book series for Routledge called Internationalizing Media Studies. He has over ten years’ experience in journalism, having worked at the Press Trust of India, India’s national news agency for five years, and as Associate Editor of Gemini News Service, a London-based international news agency with a particular interest in the developing world. Daya has also been a Visiting Research Fellow (on a Commonwealth Fellowship) at the Open University.
Daya is an elected member of International Council of International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and was on the international advisory committee of Asian Media and Information Centre (AMIC). He was a panel member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for journalism and has been an external advisor on professorial appointment panels and evaluator for research project proposals for, among others, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); Arts and Humanities Research Council; the Leverhulme Trust; the British Academy; the British Council; the Fullbright Commission; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the National Research Foundation of South Africa; de l'Institut Universitaire de France and Ireland’s Research Council.
Daya is on the editorial boards of Global Media Journal, Media Asia, Javnost (The Public), Imperium and Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies; and foundational editorial board member of Communication, Culture & Critique; Journal of African Media Studies and Middle East Journal of Communication and Culture. He has been an external examiner for MA in International Communication at the University of Leeds and Coventry University as well as for BA in Communication Studies at the University of Malta.
Current research interests include:
- Globalization and its impact on media cultures, particularly in the South
- Political economy of international communication
- Global news flow
- Internationalizing media studies
- Media and mediated culture in India and among South Asian diaspora
Daya will consider PhD proposals on any of the areas mentioned above.
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