Daya Thussu
Professor of International Communication
Email: D.K.Thussu@westminster.ac.uk
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Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication
and teaches mainly on transnational aspects of media and
communications, including leading on a new 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. |
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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. |
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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