Associate Professor Pradip Thomas
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Co-Director - Centre for Communication and Social Change
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Background:
Associate Professor Pradip Thomas is a leading academic in the area of communication and social change, communication rights and the political economy of communications in India. Associate Professor Thomas is the co-director of the Centre for Communication and Social Change.
As an activist scholar who worked formerly with the international media NGO, WACC, Pradip has travelled widely throughout the world and has been involved in the planning and evaluation of community media projects including community radio in Haiti. He played an important role in the Communication Rights in the Information Society campaign linked to the World Summit on the Information Society and has been a frequent key note speaker at international media conferences, most recently at the IAMCR Conference held in Braga in July 2010. He is Chair of the Participatory Communications Section, IAMCR, on the editorial committee of a number of journals including Media Development, Journal of Creative Communications, Communication for Development and Social Change, Journalism and Communication Monographs and the International Journal of Press/Politics and is also on the advisory board of a number of international institutes including the India Media Centre at the University of Westminster. In 2010 he was involved in a study of communication rights movements in India.
Qualifications:
- Phd, Centre for Mass Communications Research, University of Leicester, UK
Research Interests:
- Political economy of communications
- Media and Religion
- Communication and Social Change
- Indian Media
Methodological Expertise
- Political economy approach to the study of media structures
- Qualitative media analyses
Interested in studying for your PhD or MPhil?
A/P Thomas is currently taking expressions of interest from potential RHD candidates. Contact him here to register your interest.
Research Higher Degree Supervision
Current RHD Supervision
- Sadia Jamil. "Journalism ethics and media regulations: dose it protect freedom of press? A comparative case study of EU an SAARC developing countries". Supervisors: Dr Rhonda Breit (primary), Associate Professor Pradip Thomas (associate)
- Bambang Budiwiranto, "Participation and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Rural Community Empowerment in Indonesia"
- Gerald Musa. "People Controlled Organisations: The Basis for Sustainable Rural Development in Sokoto - Nigeria. Primary supervisor: Associate Professor Pradip Thomas, Associate supervisor, Dr Nicholas Carah
- Shailendra Singh
- Vira Ramelan, "Participatory approaches in media development: An action research project to facilitate and analyse institutional change in agricultural research for development in Indonesia", Primary Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Elske van de Fliert
- Ellen Strickland. "ICT Policy formation in the Pacific Island region exploring international and regional discourses of development and knowledge".
- Linda Austin. "Community radio and its potential to empower South Pacific communities for social change". Primary supervisor: Dr Kitty van Vuuren, Associate Professor Pradip Thomas (associate), Mr Martin Hadlow (associate).
- Rozita Abdullah. The Influence of Corporate Social marketing (CSM) Campaign among the Diverse Ethnic Groups in Malaysia. Supervisors: Dr Nicholas Carah (primary), Associate Professor Pradip Thomas (associate), Professor Michael Bromley (associate)
- Pham Thi Thuy, "Internalisation of participatory development communication principles in local governance in Vietnam", Primary Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Elske van de Fliert
- Walakkamol Changkamol. "The role of journalists in peace settlement: A blueprint for socially responsible journalism".Supervisors: Associate Professor Pradip Thomas (primary), Dr Folker Hanusch (USC) (associate), Dr Zala Volcic (associate)
Completed RHD Supervision
- Shu-Fei Chang
- Nerawi Sedu
- Giles Robert Dodson
- Shah MD Nister Jahan Kabir
Selected Publications:
Books:
An Introduction to Communication and Social Change. Edited by Pradip Thomas and Michael Bromley, University of Queensland Press, 2010.
Political Economy of Communications in India: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. New Delhi, India, Sage 2010.
Negotiating Communication Rights: Case Studies from India, Sage, 2011
Digital India: Understanding Information, Communication & Social Change, Sage, July 2012
Global and Local Televangelism ( co.edit. Philip Lee), Palgrave Macmillan, August 2012
Journal articles:
Bhoomi, Gyan Ganga, e-governance and the right to information: ICTs and development in India. Telematics and Informatics (2009), 26 1: 20-31.
On the journey of concepts, Media Development ( 2010), 4: 29-32.
Traditional knowledge and the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library: Digital quandaries and other concerns. The International Communication Gazette ( 2010), 72 8: 659-673.
Public Sector Software, Participatory Communications & Social Change, Special Issue of Nordicom Review, 2012
Book chapters:
Thomas, Pradip (2011). News makers in the era of citizen journalism: The view from India. In Judith Clarke and Michael Bromley (Ed.), International news in the digital age: East-west perceptions of a new world order (pp. 149-165) New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
Thomas, Pradip Ninan (2011). Accountability and media accountability: A view from India. In Manuel Pinto and Helen Sousa (Ed.), Communication and citizenship: Rethinking crisis and change (pp. 33-46) Coimbra, Portugal: Gracio Editor.
Beyond the Status Quo? Observations on Theorising Development, the Digital & Social Change in India, in Development Communication in Directed Social Change: A Reappraisal of Theory and Practice ( 2012), Srinivas Melkote (ed), Bowling Green/AMIC
Selected Presentations
Plenary Address, IAMCR Braga, 2010
Research Grants
Travel Grants (2005-2012) for conferences in the USA, UK, Italy, South Africa, Philippines, China, India, Singapore
Research Grants – Vietnam (ACIAR, 2nd researcher), South Africa (Workshop Leader), India (Research on Religious Fundamentalism)
