Aniruddha Jena
Aniruddha Jena
Assistant Professor
Dr Aniruddha Jena was associated with UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad and Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal in the capacities of Research Assistant and Academic Assistant respectively. He also served as Editorial Assistant for CR News, an e-newsletter published by UNESCO Chair on Community Media. Currently, He finished his Doctoral Degree at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad. He has received Ambedkar-Bhagat Singh National Media Fellowship in 2017. For carrying out his doctoral research, he was funded by Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund for Doctoral Scholars for two years i.e. 2018-2020. He is the recipient of Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF) from Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI) for 2019-20. As part of the SRSF, he joined York University, Toronto, Canada as an International Visiting Research Trainee (IVRT) for a period of 26 weeks. He has published his writings (Articles, Review Essays, Interviews, Commentaries, and Postscripts) in journals like Communication Theory, Media Asia, Asia Pacific Media Educator, Economic & Political Weekly, Community Development Journal, South Asia Research, and Journal of South Asian Development. A few of his Book Chapters as part of Edited Volumes are published with Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and Springer. His research and teaching interests include Alternative and Community Media Studies, Communication for Development and Social Change, Communication Theory, Communication and Media Research, Communication and Culture, and Media and Margin.
Educational Qualification
Research Interests
Alternative and Community Media, Communication and Culture, Communication for Development and Social Change, Communication and Crisis, Media and Margin.
Administrative Responsibility
Exam, Event, Hostel, Research, Social Media
Awards & Honours
a) Awarded with the prestigious Shastri Indo-Canada Institute’s Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SICI-SRSF) for the year 2019-2020. As part of which I joined York University, Toronto, Canada as an International Visiting Research Trainee (IVRT)between December 2021 – May 2022. b) Granted with GBP£400 by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to present a conference paper in the 2019 Millennium Conference organised by the Department of International Relations and Millennium Journal of International Relations on the 19th and 20th of October, 2019. c) Granted with AU$400 by the conference organiser to present a conference paper in the International Conference on Citizen and Community Media organised by the School of Communication at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia on 6th and 7th of June, 2019. d) Awarded with the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) Doctoral Scholarship for two years (2019 & 2020) for conducting Doctoral Research. e) Qualified University Grants Commission (UGC) National Eligible Test (NET) exam for the post of Assistant Professor in July 2018. f) Awarded with Ambedkar – Bhagat Singh National Media Fellowship by the Centre for Criminology, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai for a period of ten months from Feb 1, 2017 to Dec 31, 2017. g) Awarded Gold Medal in M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Central University of Odisha, Koraput for securing highest grade point (8.3/10 CGPA) for the academic year 2013-15.
Memberships
Member, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).
- MA in Journalism and Mass Communication from Central University of Odisha, Koraput in 2015.
- MPhil in Journalism and Mass Communication from Central University of Odisha, Koraput in 2016.
- PhD in Communication from University of Hyderabad in 2022.
Research Interests
Alternative and Community Media, Communication and Culture, Communication for Development and Social Change, Communication and Crisis, Media and Margin.
Administrative Responsibility
Exam, Event, Hostel, Research, Social Media
Awards & Honours
a) Awarded with the prestigious Shastri Indo-Canada Institute’s Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SICI-SRSF) for the year 2019-2020. As part of which I joined York University, Toronto, Canada as an International Visiting Research Trainee (IVRT)between December 2021 – May 2022. b) Granted with GBP£400 by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to present a conference paper in the 2019 Millennium Conference organised by the Department of International Relations and Millennium Journal of International Relations on the 19th and 20th of October, 2019. c) Granted with AU$400 by the conference organiser to present a conference paper in the International Conference on Citizen and Community Media organised by the School of Communication at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia on 6th and 7th of June, 2019. d) Awarded with the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) Doctoral Scholarship for two years (2019 & 2020) for conducting Doctoral Research. e) Qualified University Grants Commission (UGC) National Eligible Test (NET) exam for the post of Assistant Professor in July 2018. f) Awarded with Ambedkar – Bhagat Singh National Media Fellowship by the Centre for Criminology, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai for a period of ten months from Feb 1, 2017 to Dec 31, 2017. g) Awarded Gold Medal in M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Central University of Odisha, Koraput for securing highest grade point (8.3/10 CGPA) for the academic year 2013-15.
Memberships
Member, International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).
Journals/Conferences :
BOOK REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
Jena, A. (2022). Book Review: Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (Eds.). 2021. Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves. Journal of South Asian Development, 097317412211020. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741221102013
Jena, A. (2021). Book Review & Interview: Biswajit Das and Debendra Prasad Majhi (Eds). Caste, Communication and Power. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 31(2), 303–309.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1326365x211056700
Jena, A. (2021). Book Review & Interview: Preeti Raghunath. Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach. Asia Pacific Media Educator,
31(1), 161–166. https://doi.org/10.1177/1326365x211002363
Jena, A. (2020). Book Review & Interview: Biswajit Das (ed). Gandhian Thought and Communication: Rethinking the Mahatma in the Media Age. Asia Pacific Media
Educator, 30(1), 126–131. https://doi.org/10.1177/1326365x20924858
Jena, A. (2020). Book Review: Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good by Florencia Enghel and Jessica Noske-Turner (eds). Community
Development Journal, 55(3), 539–541. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsz038
Jena, A. (2019). Book Review: Community-Based Media Pedagogies: Relational Practices of Listening in the Commons, by Bronwen Low, Chloë Brushwood Rose, and Paula M.
Salvio. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(4), 1200–1201. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019867990
Jena, A. (2019). Book Review: Underserved Communities and Digital Discourse: Getting Voices Heard by Victoria L. LaPoe, Candi S. Carter Olson, and Benjamin R. LaPoe II, eds.
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 75(1), 152–153. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077695819864779
Jena, A. (2019). Book Review: Emotions, Media and Politics by Karin Wahl-Jorgensen. Mass Communication and Society, 23(1), 151–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2019.1649927
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, & COMMENTARIES
Jena, A., Deka, C., Mohapatra, J. P., Sahu, A., & Panda, R. K. (2022). The politics of media coverage of natural disasters in Odisha and Assam. Media Asia, 1–7.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2022.2136869
Yadav, R. A., & Jena, A. (2022, October 22). ‘Spiral of Silence’ in Indian Media? Economic & Political Weekly, 57(43), 64–65.
https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/43/postscript/%E2%80%98spiral- silence%E2%80%99-indian-media.html
Nanda, R., & Jena, A. (2022). Gender disparity in India’s COVID-19 vaccine communication program. Media Asia, 1–6.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2022.2066836
Jena, A. (2022, February 8). Home Truths: The hyper-local radio bringing trustworthy news to India’s rural listeners [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.qibt1089
Kanjilal, M. K., Jena, A., & Yadav, R. A. (2021). Media and marginalized communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Media Asia, 49(1), 70–75.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.1980674
Jena, A. (2021). Communities of Judges, Protection of Tribal Cultures, and the Principle of ‘Complete Justice.’ South Asia Research, 41(3), 415–422.
https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280211034864
Jena, A. (2021). Communities of Judges, Protection of Tribal Cultures, and the Principle of ‘Complete Justice.’ South Asia Research, 41(3), 415–422.
https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280211034864
Jena, A., Yadav, R. A., &Rambarki, R. (2021). Demonizing the others: vendetta coverage of Tablighi Jamaat and Kumbh Mela during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Media Asia, 48(4), 346–351. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.1946282
Jena, A (2021): “Not Just a ‘Bio’ Bubble: Cricket in Times of Life and Death,” Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 56, No 20, 15May,
https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/20/postscript/not-just-%E2%80%98bio%E2%80%99-bubble.html.
P, Vinod., and Jena, A., (2020): “Expanding Discursive Spaces: Community Radio during COVID-19 and Beyond,” Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 55, No 49, 12 Dec,
https://www.epw.in/engage/article/expanding-discursive-spaces-community-radio- during-covid-19.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Belavadi, V., and Jena, A.,(2022): “Reinforcing Desia Culture Through Community Radio: A Cultural Analysis of Radio Dhimsa in Koraput, Odisha,” in Kaushik, A. and Suchiang, A.
(Eds) in Communication, Culture and Change in Asia: Narratives and New Voices from India, Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2496-5
Pavarala, V., Malik, K. K., and Jena, A., (2022): “Community Radio as Development Radio: A Critical Analysis of Third-Sector Radio in South Asia,” In Loviglio, J. and
Lindgren, M (Eds) in Routledge Companion to Radio Studies, London: Routledge.
Jena, A. (2021). Safeguarding Ethnic-cultural Identities through Ethnic Media: The Case of Radio Dhimsa in Odisha, India. In A. Gladkova & S. Jamil (Eds.), Ethnic Journalism in
the Global South: Ethnic Journalism in the Global South. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South (1st ed, pp. 141–154). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76163-9_8
BOOK REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
Jena, A. (2022). Book Review: Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (Eds.). 2021. Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves. Journal of South Asian Development, 097317412211020. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741221102013
Jena, A. (2021). Book Review & Interview: Biswajit Das and Debendra Prasad Majhi (Eds). Caste, Communication and Power. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 31(2), 303–309.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1326365x211056700
Jena, A. (2021). Book Review & Interview: Preeti Raghunath. Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach. Asia Pacific Media Educator,
31(1), 161–166. https://doi.org/10.1177/1326365x211002363
Jena, A. (2020). Book Review & Interview: Biswajit Das (ed). Gandhian Thought and Communication: Rethinking the Mahatma in the Media Age. Asia Pacific Media
Educator, 30(1), 126–131. https://doi.org/10.1177/1326365x20924858
Jena, A. (2020). Book Review: Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good by Florencia Enghel and Jessica Noske-Turner (eds). Community
Development Journal, 55(3), 539–541. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsz038
Jena, A. (2019). Book Review: Community-Based Media Pedagogies: Relational Practices of Listening in the Commons, by Bronwen Low, Chloë Brushwood Rose, and Paula M.
Salvio. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(4), 1200–1201. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019867990
Jena, A. (2019). Book Review: Underserved Communities and Digital Discourse: Getting Voices Heard by Victoria L. LaPoe, Candi S. Carter Olson, and Benjamin R. LaPoe II, eds.
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 75(1), 152–153. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077695819864779
Jena, A. (2019). Book Review: Emotions, Media and Politics by Karin Wahl-Jorgensen. Mass Communication and Society, 23(1), 151–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2019.1649927
ARTICLES, ESSAYS, & COMMENTARIES
Jena, A., Deka, C., Mohapatra, J. P., Sahu, A., & Panda, R. K. (2022). The politics of media coverage of natural disasters in Odisha and Assam. Media Asia, 1–7.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2022.2136869
Yadav, R. A., & Jena, A. (2022, October 22). ‘Spiral of Silence’ in Indian Media? Economic & Political Weekly, 57(43), 64–65.
https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/43/postscript/%E2%80%98spiral- silence%E2%80%99-indian-media.html
Nanda, R., & Jena, A. (2022). Gender disparity in India’s COVID-19 vaccine communication program. Media Asia, 1–6.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2022.2066836
Jena, A. (2022, February 8). Home Truths: The hyper-local radio bringing trustworthy news to India’s rural listeners [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.qibt1089
Kanjilal, M. K., Jena, A., & Yadav, R. A. (2021). Media and marginalized communities during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Media Asia, 49(1), 70–75.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.1980674
Jena, A. (2021). Communities of Judges, Protection of Tribal Cultures, and the Principle of ‘Complete Justice.’ South Asia Research, 41(3), 415–422.
https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280211034864
Jena, A. (2021). Communities of Judges, Protection of Tribal Cultures, and the Principle of ‘Complete Justice.’ South Asia Research, 41(3), 415–422.
https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280211034864
Jena, A., Yadav, R. A., &Rambarki, R. (2021). Demonizing the others: vendetta coverage of Tablighi Jamaat and Kumbh Mela during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Media Asia, 48(4), 346–351. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.1946282
Jena, A (2021): “Not Just a ‘Bio’ Bubble: Cricket in Times of Life and Death,” Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 56, No 20, 15May,
https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/20/postscript/not-just-%E2%80%98bio%E2%80%99-bubble.html.
P, Vinod., and Jena, A., (2020): “Expanding Discursive Spaces: Community Radio during COVID-19 and Beyond,” Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 55, No 49, 12 Dec,
https://www.epw.in/engage/article/expanding-discursive-spaces-community-radio- during-covid-19.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Belavadi, V., and Jena, A.,(2022): “Reinforcing Desia Culture Through Community Radio: A Cultural Analysis of Radio Dhimsa in Koraput, Odisha,” in Kaushik, A. and Suchiang, A.
(Eds) in Communication, Culture and Change in Asia: Narratives and New Voices from India, Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2496-5
Pavarala, V., Malik, K. K., and Jena, A., (2022): “Community Radio as Development Radio: A Critical Analysis of Third-Sector Radio in South Asia,” In Loviglio, J. and
Lindgren, M (Eds) in Routledge Companion to Radio Studies, London: Routledge.
Jena, A. (2021). Safeguarding Ethnic-cultural Identities through Ethnic Media: The Case of Radio Dhimsa in Odisha, India. In A. Gladkova & S. Jamil (Eds.), Ethnic Journalism in
the Global South: Ethnic Journalism in the Global South. Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South (1st ed, pp. 141–154). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76163-9_8