From: Shawn Sobers <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: UNESCO Chair on Community Media set up at U. of Hyderabad
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Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 10:47 AM
This is fantastic news, congratulations! Great to see these developments taking place, and taking root.
Shawn
Dr Shawn Sobers
Senior Lecturer - Photography & Media
Firstborn Creatives
Faculty of Creative Arts, Humanities and Education
University of the West of England
Bower Ashton Campus
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Bristol BS3 2JT
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Sent: 16 February 2012 16:35
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Subject: Re: UNESCO Chair on Community Media set up at U. of Hyderabad
Dear Vinod
congratulations on this to you and to all of your team at the University of Hyderabad.
Dorothy Kidd.
Congratulations on the new UNESCO Chair. I am sure this will bring a great deal of strength to community media in India.
Clemencia Rodríguez
Professor
Department of Communication
The University of Oklahoma
610 Elm Avenue Norman OK 73019
405 325 1570
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Prof. Vinod Pavarala, Dean, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication, University of Hyderabad has been chosen to be the first ever UNESCO Chair on Community Media. An agreement to this effect has been signed by the Director-General, UNESCO and the Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad. The Chair being set up at the University for an initial period of four years will serve as a knowledge and resource centre for the study and promotion of community media, including such things as community radio, participatory video, and other citizen-driven initiatives with media and communication technologies.
The prestigious Chair, which is the first of its kind anywhere in the world, comes in recognition of Prof. Pavarala’s work in the last decade on community radio. His research and writings, including the book, Other Voices: the struggle for community radio in India, has contributed to the opening up of airwaves in India. He has also been the founder-President of the Community Radio Forum of India, a collective of civil society organizations, activists, and other advocates of community radio in the country.
The Chair would operate as a liaison among the communities, media activists, academia and policymakers while, simultaneously undertaking research and documentation of best practices in the country and capacity sharing with the community members.
UNESCO now has the Chair information at this link:
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Dorothy Kidd
Professor, Department of Media Studies
Kalmanowitz Hall (K-Hall) 157
2130 Fulton St.
University of San Francisco
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415-422-5061
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