EFLU

Department

Journalism and Mass Communication

School

Regional Campus, Shillong

Contact Details

: akaushik@efluniversity.ac.in

Academic Details

Academic qualifications

Ph.D

Brief bio note

Alankar Kaushik is an Assistant Professor in the department of Journalism and Mass Communication since 2009. He has been teaching Communication and Social Change for the last ten years. His research interests involve the areas of Children and Media and Community Media. He has been practicing Community Media for Social Change by working on various projects with UNICEF on Participatory Media since 2012 in Assam and Meghalaya thereby assisting children, women and other members from the economically disadvantaged section of the society to build the skills required to report their issues by using various communication tools. Currently he has been involved with a project on Regional Language Media in NE India commissioned by ICSSR, New Delhi. His other current projects are on Participatory Video Initiative in Assam with the flood affected people commissioned by IATSS Forum, Japan and on the internal migration in Assam.

Thrust areas of interest and research

Participatory Media and Storytelling
Community Media
Regional Language Media in NE
Local Media and Indigenous communities
Social Memory and Disaster

Research articles published in peer reviewed journals with ISSN no.

⚽ Kaushik, A. The Men and the River: Visual Narratives of the Brahmaputra in Bornodi Bhotiai and Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipare, The Mirror, pp 82-95, Vol 9, 2022, ISSN: 2348-9596

⚽ Kaushik, A. Understanding Reportage of Violence by the Regional Print Media: The Assam Movement (1979-1985) in Context, The Mirror, pp 97-114, Vol 8, 2021, ISSN 2348-9596

⚽ Kaushik, A. Using radio to spreading the voices of marginalised communities, page 9-10, Vidura April - June 2021, Volume 13, Issue 2, ISSN 0042-5303

⚽ Kaushik, A. The Media City ‘Guwahati’: Ethics and the Emerging Regional Television Network in Assam, page 32-42, Communicator, The State of Indian Language Journalism, Oct- Dec 2018 issue, ISSN 0588-8093

⚽ “Violent ‘Summer of 2012” in Assam: Regional Print Media and Deadly Ethnic Riot in Context”: MZU Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, Vol III Issue 2, December 2016, 36-51. ISSN 2348-1188

⚽ The Print Media of Assam and Nellie Violence of 1983: An Analysis” in Man and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies, Vol XIV, Winter 2017, 124-149. ISSN 2229-4058

Books authored, edited, chapters in books with ISBN no.

⚽ Narratives and New Voices from India: Cases of Community Development for Social Change, edited by Alankar Kaushik and Abir Suchiang, Springer Publication, Singapore, July 2022, ISBN: 9789811924958

⚽ Child Rights in the Northeast India: Perspectives on Media – coedited by Alankar Kaushik and Abir Suchiang, MRB Publishers, Guwahati, 2015, ISBN: 978-93-83403-07-3

⚽ Kaushik, A. (2022). Revitalising the Language and Culture Through Community Radio: A Case Study of Hajong Community from Dhemaji District, Assam. Narratives and New Voices from India: Cases of Community Development for Social Change, edited by Alankar Kaushik and Abir Suchiang, Springer Publication, Singapore, July 2022, ISBN: 9789811924958

⚽ Kaushik, A. (2018). Plurality and Diversity of Voices in Community Radio: A Case Study of Radio Brahmaputra from Assam. Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change, Vol-I 1455-1468, 2020, Springer Publications, Singapore, ISBN: 978-981-15-2015-0

⚽ Regional Television and Democratic Discourse in Assam: The Cultural Politics of Space and Representation (pp. 187-199) in Democracy and Diversity in Northeast India (edited by Dr. Alaka Sarmah), DVS Publishers,2014, ISBN: 978-81-86307-78-6

⚽ Localization of Television Networks in Assam(pp-55-65) in Journalism and Media Industry of Northeast India (edited by Zakirul Alam), EBH Publishers, India, ISBN: 978-93-83252-31-2

⚽ Participatory Video Communication and Issues of Adolescents in Meghalaya (pp 122-134) in Decoding Communication For Development in India’s Northeast (edited by Dr. Ankuran Dutta, Dr. B. Bharali and Dr. Anupa L. Goswami), ARMT South Asia Publications, ISBN: 978-81-933588-3

Research projects (ongoing and completed)

Ongoing:

⚽ Principal Investigator on behalf of IATSS Forum India Alumni Association on a project titled Registering the People’s Perspective Through Participatory Video sponsored by IATSS Forum, Japan from 15 January, 2023 to 30 June, 2023

⚽ Major Research Project on Media Systems in Transition: Locating the Regional Language Media in Northeast India sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi, from 2020-22

⚽ Principal Investigator on behalf of IATSS Forum India Alumni Association on a project titled Co-creating Future Strategies from Grassroots Stories: Covid 19 and Internal Migration sponsored by IATSS Forum, Japan in partnership with Radio Brahmaputra, Dibrugarh, Assam from 01 September to 28 February, 2022

Completed:

⚽ Participatory Video initiative – Project with UNICEF Assam on Community Media Journalism (https://chimenortheast.wordpress.com/) from 2012-2019

Administrative responsibilities

Convenor, Examination Cell
Convenor, Internet and Website Committee
Member, Media Cell

Professional affiliations (membership, editorial board, etc.,)

⚽ Member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research

Awards and recognitions

⚽ Selected for 61st batch of International Leadership Training Programme from India by the IATSS Forum, Suzuka, Japan, held from May 13, 2019 to July 08, 2019