We are proud to share that Bala Balakrishna Ganesan (MA, Class of 2017) of Dept of Communication University of Hyderabad won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award 2022 for a series of articles on manual scavenging that he co-authored with colleages at TheNewsMinute, Prajwal Prajwal and Azeefa Fathima.

Dr. Madhavi Ravikumar, Asst Prof, Dept of Communication University of Hyderabad was the chief guest at the Prof. Jayashankar Telengana State Agricultural University, and spoke to students of B.Sc. Agriculture on "Visualising Agriculture: the power of mobile photography" on March 19, 2024.

The Dept of Communication University of Hyderabad welcomes our newest faculty member, Manoj Deori Dr. Manoj Deori, who joined as Assoc Prof. He has been at Tezpur University and his areas are new media, electronic media production, and disaster management. Also in the pic are Pradip Thomas and Shashidhar Nanjundaiah.

It was a pleasure hosting a research roundtable by Prof. Shashidhar Nanjundaiah, Dean, School of Media, Mahindra University. His talk, What makes our societies media-illiterate? drew from his new book, News Aesthetics and Myth: the Making of Media Illiteracy in India (Routledge).

The next Research Roundtable at Dept of Communication University of Hyderabad will be by Dr. Nicholas John, President, Association of Internet Researchers, and Assoc Prof at Hebrew University of Jerusalem on April 15. He will be speaking on "The Past, Present, and Future of Unfriending." 2.30 pm, CR3.

Happening tomorrow, starting at 10 am at IIIT, Hyderabad. The Dept of Communication University of Hyderabad, in collaboration with the IIIT Hyderabad, is hosting the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Flashpoint Symposium on "Constructing the Digital: Working from the Global South". aoirhyd2024.github.io

Pleased to announce a Research Roundtable with Dr. Pradip Thomas, School of Communication & Arts, University of Queensland on Thursday, April 18, 2024, 2.30 pm at Dept of Communication University of Hyderabad, CR3. He will be speaking on: From Community Radio to Community Networks.

Prof. Pradip Thomas, University of Queensland, concluded his visit to Dept of Communication University of Hyderabad with a Research Roundtable today on the potential for community networks, politics of spectrum allocation, communication rights, and civil society movements for communicative justice.

Pleased to share news of one more important publication on contemporary digital cultures from the prolific desk of Prof. @usharaman Head, Dept of Communication University of Hyderabad. Also involved in the publication are our alumna, Dr. K Sai Amulya, now at IIM-A, and current doctoral student, Anuja Premika.

Proud to share news of @_kvaishali, MA 2018 winning the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar Award for her book, Homeless: Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India (Simon & Schuster 2023). Congratulations! Univ of Hyderabad Ministry of Education

Prof. Vinod Pavarala, Senior Professor of Communication and the UNESCO Chair on Community Media, successfully completed his two-week stint as the George Watson Visiting Fellow at University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia during August 2024. The fellowship was awarded to

Happy to share news of this latest publication in Journalism Studies by Dr. Madhavi Ravikumar, with Vinod Pavarala Nimmagadda Bhargav, PhD , dept alum, Debasreeta Deb, John Downey Loughborough University, and Rohit Dasgupta (LSE). Collaborative project funded by a UK AHRC Grant. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In the same issue of MCS Journal in which Prof. KANCHAN K. MALIK and our alum manas kanjilal had an article, another colleague @usharaman also has an essay, "A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?" Double delight for the department! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Naznin Sultana (Ph.D. Scholar), is selected for the Laura Bassi Scholarship (2024 Winter). Selected from 1000+ applicants, she will receive $500 via Editing Press for her doctoral research. She thanks Univ of Hyderabad for their guidance and support. #scholarships #UniversityOfHyderabad

Deivendra Kumar A and Treesa Reena John from , Department of Communication Dept of Communication University of Hyderabad, University of Hyderabad Univ of Hyderabad have been awarded the ICSSR Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Doctoral Fellowship 2024-25 under the guidance of Prof. P. Thirumal and Prof. Vinod Pavarala, respectively.

The Dept. of Communication, UoH, hosted a workshop on parliamentary reporting by Yashika Kedia & Chakshu Roy from PRS Legislative Research, a Delhi-based non-profit working to make India’s legislative process more transparent & participatory.

📷 Moments from the workshop on Caste - Sexuality - Technology (27–28 January 2025), hosted by Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad. A heartfelt thank you to all the speakers, participants, and organizers for contributing to the success of this event!

The Dept. of Communication, UoH, hosted a hands-on Lego Serious Play workshop by Prof. Elske van de Fliert (Univ. of Queensland). Participants used Lego to model research, teaching & writing, gaining fresh insights. Faculty, scholars & professionals attended. Univ of Hyderabad

Congratulations to Shahal B. on his successful PhD defense for his thesis titled 'Songbooks, Theatres & Buses: The Many Embodiments of Cinema in Kerala’s Socialscape.' Congratulations to his supervisor, Prof. P. Thirumal, for his guidance. Wishing him continued success! 👏

Are you a journalist based in Hyderabad? It’s time to take your storytelling skills to the next level! The High Commission of Canada in New Delhi, in collaboration with Newsreel Asia and the Communication Department of the University of Hyderabad, is organizing a 2-day workshop.