People
Editors: Chindu Sreedharan, Rohit Chopra
Writers: Jameela Oberman, Amy Blyth
Design consultant: Sunil Krishnan
Technical consultant: Raj Neeyath
Rohit Chopra is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Babson College, Massachusetts. He has a PhD from the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University, Atlanta.
He has published articles in South Asian Review, New Media and Society, First Monday, Cultural Studies, and the Economic and Political Weekly as well as book chapters in edited collections. His book, forthcoming from Cambria Press, examines the historical relationship between technology and nationalism in India.
His research interests include the impact of global media and communication technologies; the history of media, communication, and technology in colonial and postcolonial India; and global identity politics.
Rohit writes in a journalistic capacity for Indian and American publications and runs the blog antihistory.
He worked in the Indian internet industry, at rediff.com, conceptualising web solutions for corporate clients. He has also worked as a copy editor in Sage India.
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Chindu Sreedharan is an accidental academic, a journalist who strayed into academia in the line of duty.
He has covered the Kashmir conflict from 1997 to 2003 and is currently writing up a PhD on media ethics in conflict situations. On the side, he lectures in news and feature journalism at the Media School, Bournemouth University, England.
In his previous avatar, he was an associate editor to the Mumbai-based rediff.com and its New York print sisters, India Abroad and India in New York.
He is interested in media effects and ethics, public opinion dynamics, online journalism and journalism education. Creative non-fiction is another special love.
He runs four blogs: The Accidental Academic, Indian in England, War on Conflict, and Footnotes.
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Sunil Krishnan is the Creative Director of PurplePatch, a Silicon Valley-based Marketing Communications firm.
A man of few words, with a particular affinity to snowy, mountainous places, he has spent 15 years in the design industry, along the way collecting a few international design awards – among those, the Magellan Award from the League of American Communication Professionals and the ‘Distinguished’ Award at the Society for Technical Communication Competition, Global.
His earlier hunting grounds include rediff.com, Contract Advertising, and Bates, Singapore.
He is the design consultant for Daira Centre for Art & Culture, a gallery specialising in contemporary Indian art.
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Amy Blyth is passionately in love with journalism, films, and feminism, though not quite in that order.
She has a degree in Film Studies and Cultural and Media Studies from the University of West of England, Bristol, and is now navigating an MA in Magazine Journalism at the Bournemouth University, England.
She is particularly interested in the media representation of women, and runs the blog Media Comment.
A fan of world cinema, Amy is interested in documentary and independent filmmaking.
She is producing a film studies and feminism website as part of her MA.
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Jameela Oberman has a Multi-Media Journalism degree from the Media School, Bournemouth University, England.
She has been addicted to journalism since she her first front page byline while on work experience. Her passion is news features, and she has written on topics including binge drinking and Guantanamo Bay.
She believes journalists have the responsibility to present the context of a news event accurately, give voice to the marginalised, and inspire debate on key issues.
She is now on a post-graduate course with the National Council for Training Journalists.
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