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Introduction to the GIAN Course:

This course will seek to understand some key dynamics of changing world order, shifting between history and courtroom, to try to understand the new contours of the international world order over the course of the 20th C and to the present time. "Media" constituted a new category for analysis and a new branch of academic inquiry in the post WWII period, and also a key battleground of the Cold War, with the United States determined to "export the first amendment" in response to its new role as a world superpower. Media norms became political weapons, but in much of the world, their relationship to law was often informal rather than constitutional. Since historically, political power depended on control over information, the Cold War era norm of the "free flow of information" created a new set of dynamics which we have yet to fully understand, but which have transformed the world in ways never foreseen by Cold Warriors. We will discuss shifts in the post WWII world order, as perceived through the category of media, and via issues of international law and justice.

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About Dr. Arvind Rajagopal

Arvind Rajagopal is a Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, and an affiliate faculty in the Department of Sociology, and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, at New York University. He is author or editor of four books, including the prize-winning Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India. He has held fellowships at Princeton, Stanford, and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, among other places. He has written for The Hindu, Indian Express and Seminar, and for journals such as the LA Review of Books, Current History, Huffington Post, and open democracy. His latest book is under contract with Duke University Press, on a global genealogy of media theory

http://www.arvindrajagopal.com/

Every Friday, DMCS students and faculty come together to watch path-breaking films and documentaries as part of the DMCS Silver Screen. The films are handpicked to cover various issues and genres and offer viewers a wide range of visual experiences to watch, critically analyze and learn from.

DMCS Monday Forum is a platform for students to engage with stalwarts from multiple disciplines, not restricted to the domains of Media and Communication. Professors, practitioners, artists and industry experts come together every Monday to deliver lectures and share their valuable experiences and learning with the students to help widen their perspective of the world around them.

November 30, 2019 (Pune): UNESCO led program Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) released the names of twelve youth ambassadors around the world selected to operationalize UNESCO’s Global Action Plan on MIL in various regions of the world. Among more than 600 applications and proposals from all over the world, Mr. Dhammaratna Shriram Jawale, a PhD student of Department of Media and Communication Studies of SPPU has been selected as UNESCO’s GAPMIL Youth Ambassador for Asia-Pacific region among 12 other youth ambassadors.

Dhammaratna holds M.Sc. degree in Media and Communication Studies from SPPU and now pursuing his Doctoral Research in “Sociology of Digital Exclusion” as an UGC-Junior Research Fellow (MHRD, Govt. of India) in the same department. He was selected with 3 other Youth Ambassadors from Asia-Pacific and other ambassadors from Africa, Arab States, Europe, North America, Latin America and Caribbean countries. All the youth ambassadors also represents the GAPMIL’s Global Youth Committee for the period 2019-2021.

Launched during the 2013 Global Partnership Forum in MIL in Abuja (Nigeria), the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) is a ground-breaking effort to promote international cooperation to ensure that all citizens have access to media and information competencies. GAPMIL is also dedicated to articulating concrete partnerships to drive the development and impact of MIL globally, and enabling the MIL community to speak in one voice on certain critical issues, particularly policy, education and new technology trends. GAPMIL Youth Ambassadors will pursue these goals by collaborating and cooperating with operational partners and stakeholders in each region to promote awareness of MIL among youth and contribute to youth training. They also give support to GAPMIL Youth Committee, the GAPMIL International Steering Committee, the GAPMIL regional chapters and sub-chapters to create awareness of advocacy actions to all citizens about MIL competencies.

GAPMIL is a joint initiative of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO: Paris, France); United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC: New York, United States); Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA: Stockholm, Sweden); European Commission (EU: Brussels, Belgium); United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF: New York, United States); International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX: Washington DC, United States) and Open Society Foundations (OSF: New York, United States) among other UN agencies and international development partners who agree to come on board in future.