| Feature Interview with ICD Member: Sanjay Asthana, Vice-Head Program Chair
Get to know your fellow colleagues. ICD Members share their thoughts on their involvement in the organization and international communication. If you are interested in being a featured ICD member for the website, email aejmciicd@aejmcicd.org.
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How long have you been a member of ICD? How long have you served in a chair capacity of ICD?
For over 8 years now. I started working as an officer in 2004 as the PF & R Chair, in 2005 as the Research Chair, and 2006 as the Vice Head and Program Chair.
What aspects of international communication interest you the most?
I am particularly interested in comparative work in international and global studies within the broad rubric of postcolonial theory.
What are your current research projects and pursuits?
I would like to characterize my interests and research work as heterodox that pertain to critical media studies with a focus on various neo-marxist approaches and postcolonial theory.
My current UNESCO book project, “Innovative practices and youth participation in the media,” includes several initiatives from around the underdeveloped and developing regions of the world where young people are directly involved in content creation and production of various media materials from newspaper/magazine graphics work, page design and layout, radio broadcasts, television/video production, and digital multimedia-based materials.
I have also been working with several others in writing and developing a multimedia, “Media Training Resource Kit” on education as a fundamental right. This kit was published as a book last month. It is also available online in a digitized (and interactive) format and may access the kit at the following weblink:
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal/download/mtk/2006/
Mac users, if you have “Safari” as your web browser you will encounter difficulties in accessing the materials. It works fine on “Internet Explorer.”
What international communication resources on the Internet do you use often that you would like to share with your ICD members?
Diversity of resources - from multiple perspectives and locations.
What five trends do you see occurring in international communication scholarship today?
A quick response: There is going to be a deepening engagement with media, technologies, and globalization. I might be belaboring the obvious here.
Any other comments you would like to add?
I would urge that fellow scholars and students to develop a broad range of ethical perspectives in the field of international communication and strive to foster dialogues and conversations.
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