Annapurna Sinha, B.A., M.A., M.PHIL, PH.D.

Annapurna Sinha, B.A., M.A., M.PHIL, PH.D.

Subject Content Creator

  • annapurna.sinha@binus.edu
  • FX Campus 6th Floor FX Sudirman Mall Jl. Jend. Sudirman, Pintu Satu Senayan, Jakarta Pusat 10270

Profile & Qualification

Profile & Qualification:

Annapurna Sinha is a Lecturer in the International Communication Programme at Bina Nusantara University International. Her research interest spans the areas of communication for development and social change, community media, gender and multiple literacies. She obtained her PhD in Communication from Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, India. She holds an MPhil degree in Media Studies along with dual Masters degrees in Mass Communication and Economics, and she is an Economics (hons) graduate. Before choosing to become a full-time academician, she worked as a mainstream journalist with leading business dailies in India, including The Economic Times, Business Standard and Business Bhaskar. She joined Binus University International in 2022 as a Subject Content Coordinator (SCC) who is responsible for teaching courses and syllabus design along with the Binus Catur Dharma components including Teaching, Research and Publication, Community Service, and Personal Development.

 

Teaching subject areas:

 

  • Introduction to Communication Science
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Crisis Communication and Public Relations
  • Society and Digital Culture
  • Public Relations Publication
  • Theory of Mass Communication

Research & Publication

Research:

IAMCR 2022, Beijing, China

 

 1.     Sinha, A. (2022). Community Media Coverage of Gender Issues: Struggles and Successes in Rural India. Gender and Communication Section at the Annual Conference of International Association for Media and Communication Research (hybrid), Beijing, China.

 

2.     Sinha, A., Yadav, R. A., Jena, A. (2022). Democratizing Development, Deprofessionalizing Alternative Media, and the Struggle for Sustainability: The Case of Appan Samachar in Bihar, India. Emerging Scholars Network Section at the Annual Conference of International Association for Media and Communication Research (hybrid), Beijing, China.

 
IAMCR 2021,

Nairobi, Kenya

 

 Sinha, A. & Malik, K. K. (2021). Women Journalists of Khabar Lahariya and Namaskar: Enabling Gendered Media Ecology in Rural India. Community Communication and Alternative Media working group at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (hybrid), Nairobi, Kenya.
IAMCR 2019,

Madrid, Spain

 Sinha, A. (2019). Reading Community Media as Radical and Critical Media: An Analysis of Namaskar’s Advocacy Practices in Odisha. Joint Session of Emerging Scholars Network and Community Media and Alternative Communication Section at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Held at the School of Communication, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
University of Hyderabad, India, 2019 Sinha, A. (2019). ‘Every Reader is a Reporter’ – Believing in The Power of People. National Seminar on Culture, Communication and India’s Development: Contributions of Anthropology of Communication, Media and Communication. ASSDEC, Dept. of Anthropology and UNESCO Chair, Dept. of Comm., University of Hyderabad.
English and Foreign Language University, India 2018 Sinha, A. & Malik, K. K. (2018) Evolution of a Community Newspaper: A Study of ‘Rhizomatic’ Expansion of Khabar Lahariya in Uttar Pradesh in India. International Conference on Digitality and Communication: The Cultural Logic of Data Societies. The English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad.

 

Publications:

 

  1. Singh, N. & Sinha, A. (2023). Trolley Times: A Newsletter Communicating Farmers’ Protests. Economic and Political Review. Vol 58(3). Pp. 58-63. https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/3/notes/trolley-times.html

 

  1. Sinha, A & Malik, K. K. (2022). Women Journalists of Khabar Lahariya and Namaskar: Enabling Gendered Media. In Kaushik, A & Suchiang, A. (ed.) Narratives and New Voices from India: Cases of Community Development for Social Change. Communication, Culture and Change in Asia book series (CCCA, Vol 8). pp. 59-71. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2496-5

 

  1. Sinha, A. (2022). Community Media Coverage of Gender Issues: Struggles and Successes in Rural India. Journal of Communication Inquiry. Vol 46(4). pp. 361-372. https://doi:10.1177/01968599221096645

 

  1. Sinha, A. & Malik, K. K. (2020). Reimagining Community Media: A Rhizomatic Analysis of Khabar Lahariya in Central India. Media Asia, Vol 45 (3-4). pp. 102-113.Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2020.1752433

 

  1. Sinha, A. & Malik, K. K. (Jan-March, 2016). Our Right to Write. Vidura, 8(1), pp 7-9. https://www.academia.edu/21511823/Vidura_Vol._8_Issue_1_January-March_2016

 

  1. Sinha, A. (2016). A Study of Communication Strategies of NGOs in the Wake of Internet. In Jena, P.K. (ed.). Development Communication in the Digital Era (pp. 103-109). CMT GJUS&T: Hisar.

Professional Engagement

  • Regular Member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) since 2018.
  • Member of the abstract review committee of the Gender & Communication Section (GEC), Health Communication Working Group (HEC) of the International Association of Media & Communication Research (IAMCR).
  • PhD Co-supervisor with the Department of Mass Communication, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India.

Reward & Grants

  • Junior Research Fellowship in Dec. 2012 and Senior Research Fellowship in July 2016 from UGC, India.
  • Awarded with Banarasi Das Chaturvedi Patrakarita Award for academic excellence by the honourable Ministry of Human Resource Development India at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi, in 2009.