Paris was a great venue for the first in-person international conference in a long time for the Department of Communication, SN School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad (UoH) which was represented by two research scholars and a faculty member at the 72nd annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA). Research Scholars from the Department, Ms. Devina Sarwatay and Ms. Chinar Mehta, attended the 5-day conference, held in Paris between May 27 and 31, along with Professor Usha Raman. The ICA is the largest association in the media and communication discipline, and the Paris meeting was attended by over 3000 scholars from across the globe.
Ms. Sarwatay chaired sessions in the Communication & Technology and Mobile Communication Divisions and participated in a research escalator where she had the opportunity to discuss her work with senior scholars from the discipline. She also served as a peer mentor for another emerging scholar in the Children, Adolescents, and Media Division. Ms. Mehta presented a paper as part of a Feminist Scholarship panel entitled “Interfacing with Informality: A Decolonial Feminist Labour Lexicon”, drawing from an IDRC-funded study on informal women workers in the digitized economy.
Prof. Raman participated as a speaker, presenter and chair across six different sessions, primary among them an invited panel that discussed challenges of platform design and regulation in the context of adolescent mental health and vulnerability. She also presented a paper on how datafication mediates decision making in the clinic, as part of the Communication & Technology Section.
About University of Hyderabad
The University of Hyderabad is an institute of post-graduate teaching and research. The school was established by an act of the Parliament of India in 1974 as a Central University. Over the years, it has emerged as a top ranking institute of higher education and research in India. The university also offers courses under distance learning programs. The university is a member of the ‘Association of Indian Universities’ (AIU), the ‘Association of Commonwealth Universities’ (ACU) and ‘International Council for Distance Education’. An Academic Staff College has been functioning on the university campus since 1988 under the UGC scheme for improving the standards of teaching in colleges and universities. The college organizes orientation and refresher courses for college and university teachers.
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