Brief Profile

I have been educated at Delhi University and the Pennsylvania State University USA.  I have over 30 years experience in communications and media related fields.  I started my career as a journalist, writing on business and travel in India for a reputed international magazine.
I have teaching experience both in the USA and India. I have served as a faculty member at IIMC for the last two decades teaching in the areas of Development Communication, International Communication and social aspects of digital area.  I am currently engaged in writing about health communications in India.
I have authored and edited scholarly books on the television industry and digital media in India.  I have served as the editor of the IIMCs academic journal communicator from 2008-2020.
I have organised may training programs and workshops at IIMC in collaboration with partners such as the BBC World Service Trust, Commonwealth Broadcast Association, and others. As head of the Centre for Executive Education at IIMC, my responsibilities include training defence and government officials in various aspects of media and communications.

Publication Profile 

Books: 42
Chapter in books: 20
Proceedings: 05
Research Articles in Journal: 48 (21: International, 27: National).
Articles in National News Papers / Magazines: 1000+.
Module for MOOCs: 01
Total: 115
Articles in National Newspapers/Magazines: More than 1000+.

Ph.D. Supervising/Evaluation Profile 
No. of Ph. D. students supervised- 05
No. of Ph. D. students supervising: 06
Evaluated Ph.D. Thesis – 43

Qualification

Area of Interest/ Specialization

Experience

• I have been a full time faculty member at IIMC for the last two decades, teaching courses in  Development communication, International Communication, social aspects of digital media as well as health communications. During this period I have headed the departments of Development Journalism, Publications, Radio and Television Broadcasting and currently the Centre for Executive Education.
• I have served on the Doctoral Research Committees of the Media and Communications Schools of many Universities including IGNOU, Jamia Milia Islamia, Hyderabad Central University, Amity, GGSIPU and others.
• I have been an invited speaker at many institutions of repute, both national as well as international. These include Pennsylvania State University, Sri Lanka Press Institue, Administrative Staff College, Wellington, National Audit and Accounts Academy, Tata Memorial Hospital, Manipal Academy of Higher Education and many others.
• I have presented my research based papers at many conferences.

Awards and Honours

Publication (Top 10)

Books:

• The WhatsApp India Story. Inside the Digital Maya Sphere. Published by Routledge Publications (2024). This is co-authored along with Dr. Shalini Narayanan.
• Globalization and Television: A Study of the Indian Experience 1990-2010.   November (2013). Book authored by Sunetra Sen Narayan, published by  Oxford University Press : New Delhi, India. ISBN -13: 9780198092360/9780198092360.
• India Connected: Mapping the Impact of New Media. Book edited by Sunetra Sen Narayan and Shalini Narayanan. (2016)  Sage Publications: New Delhi. ISBN: 9789385985027.
• India Connected : New Media ke Prabhavo ki Sameeksha.. Book Edited by Sunetra Sen Narayan and Shalini Narayanan. (2018) Hindi translation Sage Publications: New Delhi. ISBN: 97893853282226.
• India Connected : Nav Madhyamanchya Prabhavachey Sameekshan. Book Edited by Sunetra Sen Narayan and Shalini Narayanan. (2018) Marathi translation Sage Publications: New Delhi. .ISBN: 9789353282653.
• Overview of New Media in India. Chapter co-authored by Sunetra Sen Narayan and Shalini Narayanan for the book “India Connected: Mapping the Impact of New Media.”. Book edited by Sunetra Sen Narayan and Shalini Narayanan. (2016)  Sage Publications: New Delhi.     
• Editor of IIMC's academic Journal Communicator from 2008- 2020.        
• Transportation and Communication, Chapter in Globalization, Encyclopedia of Trade Labor, and Politics, (edited by Ashish Vaidya), 2006, co-authored with R. Badri Narayan, Volume I, Part One, pp 301-309, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.ISBN:1-57607-826-4.    
• BRICS, International Communication and a New Emerging Order.  Communicator Vol. LII, No.3,July- September 2017. ISSN: 0588-8093.  
• Digital Diplomacy and Soft Power: the Case of India. Amity Journal of Media and Communication Studies Volume 5, Number 3, 2016. ISSN 2231-1033.  Based on Amity conference proceedings paper at conference which was in November 2015.
• Governance and Mobiles: Some Indian Initiatives. Article published in Communicator 2015 Annual Issue January-December.  Article co-authored with Shalini Narayanan. ISSN: 0588-8093.    .
• The New World Order: International Relations and Communications in a Post-Cold War Era. Published in the Communicator, January- December 2006, New Delhi.  ISSN: 0588-8093.  Published in 2009.          
• Broadcasting Regulation in India, Published in the Asian Journal, special issue on Regulation, May/June 2001. ISSN: 0971-8710.    
      
  Does Web Advertising Work?  Memory for Print Vs Online Media.  Paper co-authored with S. Shyam Sundar, R. Obregon and C. Uppal, Presented at the Communication Technology and Policy Division, Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, Chicago, July 1997.  Paper was selected for the Top Three Paper Award.  Published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.  Winter 1999, Vol. 75, No. 4. ISSN: 1077-6990

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