Assistant Professor
Communications
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Biography
Aniruddha Jena is an Assistant Professor in the Communications Area at the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. He previously worked at KIIT University (2021-23) and served as a Research Assistant to the UNESCO Chair on Community Media at the University of Hyderabad (2019-21). He holds a doctoral degree in Communication from the University of Hyderabad. Under the Shastri Indo-Canada Institute’s Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF) program, he joined York University, Toronto as an International Visiting Research Trainee (IVRT) from December 2021 to May 2022.
- Jena, A. (2023, September 29). Researching Community Radio: The Need for a Cultural Turn. CR News-UNESCO Chair on Community Media. https://uccommedia.uohyd.ac.in/news/researching-community-radio-the-need-for-a-cultural-turn/
- Jena, A., Roy, R. K., & Garai, S. (2023). Mapping the Meanings of Squid Game in South Asia. Economic & Political Weekly, 58(25 & 26), 92–93. https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/25-26/postscript/mapping-meanings-squid-...
- Jena, A., Pavarala, V., & Belavadi, V. (2023). Constructing Community and Building Identity through Indigenous Community Media: The Case of Radio Swayamshakti in Odisha, India. In A. Salawu, T. B. Molale, E. Uribe-Jongbloed, & M. S. Ullah (Eds.), Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South (pp. 179–198). Rowman & Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666912050/Indigenous-Language-for-Social-Cha...
- Sahoo, D., & Jena, A. (2023, April 29). Panchayat: Casteism and Mockery in the Name of Humour. Economic and Political Weekly. 58 (17), 65-66. https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/17/postscript/panchayat-casteism-and-moc...
- 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...
- Belavadi, V., Jena, A. (2022). Reinforcing Desia Culture Through Community Radio: A Cultural Analysis of Radio Dhimsa in Koraput, Odisha. In: Kaushik, A., Suchiang, A. (eds) Narratives and New Voices from India: Cases of Community Development for Social Change (1st ed., pp. 73-83), Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2496-5_6
- Pavarala, V., Malik, K. K., & Jena, A. (2022). Community Radio as Development Radio: A Critical Analysis of Third-Sector Radio in South Asia. In M. Lindgren & J. Loviglio (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies (1st ed., pp. 287–297). Routledge.
- Written & Oral Communication
- Executive Communications
- Strategic Communication
- Critical Thinking & Interpersonal Skills
- Leadership Communication
- Movies for Management
- Cross-Cultural Communication & Management
2023: IAMCR Travel Grant to present two research papers at IAMCR 2023 Annual Conference in Lyon, France.
2021: Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF) of Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI), New Delhi
2019: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) Doctoral Scholarship
2018: NTA-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) in Mass Communication & Journalism
2017: Ambedkar-Bhagat Singh National Media Fellowship
Chairperson, Media & Public Relations Committee
PhD: Communication, University of Hyderabad
Masters: Journalism & Mass Communication, Central University of Orissa, Koraput
Bachelors: Bachelor of Commerce (Finance), NC Autonomous College, Jajpur Town
Communication for Development and Social Change, Alternative and Communication Media Studies, Political Economy of Communication and Media, and Media and Margin