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Daya Thussu

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Daya Thussu

Daya Thussu is Professor of International Communication and founder and Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. He runs a Masters Programme in Global Media at the University of Westminster’s media department, the highest-ranked in research in the UK and internationally respected for its cutting edge research. Professor Thussu has a PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and has been a consultant for many international organizations including UNDP and UNESCO. He has extensive experience of journalism too, having worked for the Press Trust of India, the national news agency of India and as Associate Editor of the London-based Gemini News Service, specialising in developing countries. Author or editor of 17 books, among his key publications are: Communicating India’s Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood (Palgrave, 2013), the first book-length study of India’s Soft Power; Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Des Freedman, Sage, 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (Routledge, 2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (Sage, 2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (Routledge, 2007); International Communication - Continuity and Change, third edition (Bloomsbury, forthcoming); and Electronic Empires - Global Media and Local Resistance (Arnold, 1998). Professor Thussu is the founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication. His latest book is a co-edited (with Kaarle Nordenstreng) collection of essays on the media in the BRICS countries, Mapping BRICS Media, to be published by Routledge in 2015. Professor Thussu is series editor for two book series for Routledge: Internationalizing Media Studies and Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies. In 2014, he was honoured with a ‘Distinguished Scholar Award’ by the International Studies Association, a first for a non-American/Western scholar in the field of international communication.

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