Pradip Ninan Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 389394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pradip Ninan Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pradip Ninan |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS P N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Digital India: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures
Transforming India into a digital state has been an objective of successive governments in India. However, the digital, by its very nature, is a capricious, multi-dimensional entity. Its operationalization across multiple sectors in India has highlighted the fact that the digital compact with publics in India is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, devices such as mobile phones have enabled access and efficiencies, and on the other, they have incr…
The Imperialism of Categories: Concepts and Contexts in Communication for Social Change
This article is a critique of communication and social change (CSC) theory. It makes a case for re-centring context in theory and practice and for appropriate uses of categories and concepts to the making sense of of situations in the developing world. Based on fieldwork with an indigenous community in South India, the Irulas, the article explores their very specific context on the margins of globalising India and their experience with access to …
Contentious Actions and Communication for Social Change: The Public Hearing ( Jan Sunwai ) as Process
This article explores the relationship between ‘contentious actions’ and communication processes in communication for social change (CSC) theory. Beginning with an analysis of the contributions made by Charles Tilly to the understanding of the methods and repertoires of popular protest and E. P. Thompson’s interpretation of the moral economy of protests, it explores the history of contentious action in India, before focusing on the empowerment po…
Social inequalities and the media
Review of Jan Servaes and Toks Oyedemi (eds) Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots, Lexington Books: Lanham, MD; Boulder, CO; New York; London, 2016 and Jan Servaes and Toks Oyedemi (eds) The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective, Lexington Books: Lanham, MD; Boulder, CO; New York; London, 2016
Communication for Social Change, Making Theory Count
This article argues for communication for social change theory to be based on a theory of knowledge, a specific understanding of process that feeds into practice, a knowledge of structures, a specific understanding of context and flows of power. It highlights the example of the Right to Information Movement in India as an embodiment of meaningful practice that was in itself a response to the felt needs of people. It argues that the RTI movement p…
Public Spheres and the Media in India
This themed issue of MIA highlights the complex nature of evolving, emerging, mediated public spheres in India, a large, imperfect democracy that is home to the most diverse mediated public spheres anywhere in the world. The history of the public sphere in India has followed a trajectory that is very different from - even at odds with - the history of this sphere as described by Habermas
Public Hearings and Public Spheres in India: The Case of the Right to Information (RTI) Movement
This article explores issues related to the Right to Information movement in India specifically in relation to the public sphere, a concept that is habitually invoked to describe spaces for deliberation and communication. It explores the role played by the jan sunwai (public hearings) in the creation of a counter public sphere based on the local idiom, local means of communication and performative traditions that enabled a balance between speakin…
Global and Local Televangelism
Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice
Exposing how memory is constructed and mediated in different societies, this collection explores particular contexts to identify links between the politics of memory, media representations and the pol
The empowerment potential of public sector software (PSS)
Investigations into the potential for public sector software (PSS) to empower citizens are at a very nascent stage. This article explores the theoretical basis for, and practical advantages of, PSS, in the making of an informed and pro-active citizenry. Using the example of the emerging PSS movement in India and in particular the ICT literacy movement in Kerala, South India, it argues, that access to and use of software based on the principles of…
The Imperialism of Categories: Concepts and Contexts in Communication for Social Change
This article is a critique of communication and social change (CSC) theory. It makes a case for re-centring context in theory and practice and for appropriate uses of categories and concepts to the making sense of of situations in the developing world. Based on fieldwork with an indigenous community in South India, the Irulas, the article explores their very specific context on the margins of globalising India and their experience with access to …
Communication for Social Change, Making Theory Count
This article argues for communication for social change theory to be based on a theory of knowledge, a specific understanding of process that feeds into practice, a knowledge of structures, a specific understanding of context and flows of power. It highlights the example of the Right to Information Movement in India as an embodiment of meaningful practice that was in itself a response to the felt needs of people. It argues that the RTI movement p…
Global and Local Televangelism
Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice
Exposing how memory is constructed and mediated in different societies, this collection explores particular contexts to identify links between the politics of memory, media representations and the pol
The empowerment potential of public sector software (PSS)
Investigations into the potential for public sector software (PSS) to empower citizens are at a very nascent stage. This article explores the theoretical basis for, and practical advantages of, PSS, in the making of an informed and pro-active citizenry. Using the example of the emerging PSS movement in India and in particular the ICT literacy movement in Kerala, South India, it argues, that access to and use of software based on the principles of…
Public Spheres and the Media in India
This themed issue of MIA highlights the complex nature of evolving, emerging, mediated public spheres in India, a large, imperfect democracy that is home to the most diverse mediated public spheres anywhere in the world. The history of the public sphere in India has followed a trajectory that is very different from - even at odds with - the history of this sphere as described by Habermas
Public Hearings and Public Spheres in India: The Case of the Right to Information (RTI) Movement
This article explores issues related to the Right to Information movement in India specifically in relation to the public sphere, a concept that is habitually invoked to describe spaces for deliberation and communication. It explores the role played by the jan sunwai (public hearings) in the creation of a counter public sphere based on the local idiom, local means of communication and performative traditions that enabled a balance between speakin…
Communication for Social Change, Making Theory Count
This article argues for communication for social change theory to be based on a theory of knowledge, a specific understanding of process that feeds into practice, a knowledge of structures, a specific understanding of context and flows of power. It highlights the example of the Right to Information Movement in India as an embodiment of meaningful practice that was in itself a response to the felt needs of people. It argues that the RTI movement p…
Contentious Actions and Communication for Social Change: The Public Hearing ( Jan Sunwai ) as Process
This article explores the relationship between ‘contentious actions’ and communication processes in communication for social change (CSC) theory. Beginning with an analysis of the contributions made by Charles Tilly to the understanding of the methods and repertoires of popular protest and E. P. Thompson’s interpretation of the moral economy of protests, it explores the history of contentious action in India, before focusing on the empowerment po…
Social inequalities and the media
Review of Jan Servaes and Toks Oyedemi (eds) Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots, Lexington Books: Lanham, MD; Boulder, CO; New York; London, 2016 and Jan Servaes and Toks Oyedemi (eds) The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective, Lexington Books: Lanham, MD; Boulder, CO; New York; London, 2016
The Politics of Digital India: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures
Transforming India into a digital state has been an objective of successive governments in India. However, the digital, by its very nature, is a capricious, multi-dimensional entity. Its operationalization across multiple sectors in India has highlighted the fact that the digital compact with publics in India is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, devices such as mobile phones have enabled access and efficiencies, and on the other, they have incr…
The Imperialism of Categories: Concepts and Contexts in Communication for Social Change
This article is a critique of communication and social change (CSC) theory. It makes a case for re-centring context in theory and practice and for appropriate uses of categories and concepts to the making sense of of situations in the developing world. Based on fieldwork with an indigenous community in South India, the Irulas, the article explores their very specific context on the margins of globalising India and their experience with access to …
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political theory and Gramsci (4 works)