Prof. Dr. S P Singh started his deliberation during the webinar by thanking Prof. Ujjwal Choudhary & Dr. Ankuran Dutta for introducing him to GCEC. He further praised Dr. Kuladhar Saikia for being a renowned IPS officer and a great father. As a professor of strategy and marketing, he mentioned “Social marketing is an important... Read More
Sandeep Marwah thanked Prof. Ujjwal K Choudhary and Florence Handique Rabha forintroducing him to GCEC. He congratulated Prof. Ujjwal K Choudhary for taking GMEC toabsolutely new heights and for making it such a vibrant organization in the shortest period oftime. Two years back, Marwah was the first Indian to be honored in Cannes InternationalFilm Festival... Read More
The chief guest Dr. Kuladhar Saikia started off defining developmental communication as aprocess through which we facilitate the development mechanism. He pointed out the actualstakeholders in the whole process of development communication. As per Dr. Saikia, a veryimportant aspect of developmental communication are the ‘people’, who act as the mediators,such as the media people, the... Read More
Dr. Ankuran Dutta chaired the session and he showed gratitude towards Dr. Ujjwal KChowdhury, congratulated the team for organizing the event that brought together peoplefrom different corners of the world. Development is a multi-faceted phenomenon andbelieves that it benefits the larger whole of society. Development communication holds ademocratic architecture for the country. The process of... Read More
Stories had always been important in India, a culture with strong oral traditions. Even concepts such as Sadharanikaran, Sahradaya, and Rasa in the Indian communication theory highlight the significant contribution of storytelling in capturing audience engagement. Storytelling had lost some of its significance in the times when we started privileging the masculine, the rational, quantitative... Read More
November 24, 2021: The 15th session of the Global Communication Education Conclave (GCEC) was enlivened by engrossing and meaningful stories shared by experts throughout the session. Storytelling today is not only limited to fiction. Leaders use storytelling to inspire, teachers use it to make complex information interesting for the students, marketers use it to sell... Read More
We live in the most interesting times as far as media is concerned. In fact, as I approach the topic. These lines from Charles Dickens signifying the scenario of the French revolution came instantly to my mind – yes there is an upheaval going on in the media too..and it is marked with opposing views... Read More
This first phase of the information and technological revolution was facilitated by the integration of computers, telecommunication and satellite. A networked global ‘village’ had emerged. People had access to diverse sources of news and information. The Internet created numerous platforms of political, social and cultural interactions. There were high expectations that information will be democratized... Read More
Media literacy is the method of dissecting media content in order to critically analyze it. Media literacy is a crucial skill all media consumers must-have. On the other hand, Information overload is a situation in which you receive much information at a time and cannot think about it in a clear way. The term was... Read More
About a century ago, noted British author and novelist, G. K. Chesterton, who had a gift for using proverbs, metaphors, and allegories wrote: “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” Chesterton’s pithy sentence celebrates the potential that lurks... Read More