Media, Performance & Identity Research Circle
deterritorialization of culturecultural translationlocal uses of global mediameaning productiondiscourses of controlmodes of expressioncontexts of expression
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Participant RoomsKsenija BilbijaPeggy ChoyMichael CurtinAlbert GuntherShanti KumarTomislav LonginovicHemant ShahR. Anderson Sutton

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Hemant Shah, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Journalism & Mass Communication

Biography

Hemant Shah is professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication. He earned his Ph.D. in mass communication from Indiana University, his M.A. in communication studies from Purdue University, and his B.A. in communication and sociology from the University of California-San Diego.
Shah joined the faculty in 1990 and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on mass media, race and ethnicity; international communication; mass communication in developing nations; and critical and cultural approaches to mass communication research.

In both the U.S. and international contexts, Shah’s research investigates the role of mass media in various types of social change, such as national development, the construction of cultural identities, creation of racial anxieties, social movements, and other similar processes. Shah has conducted fieldwork in India and Uganda and his research has been published in Communication Theory, The Communication Review, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Howard Journal of Communication, International Journal of Intercultural Communication, Journalism Monographs, Journalism Quarterly, Media Asia, and other journals. Shah is the co-author of Newspaper Coverage of Interethnic Conflict: Competing Visions of America, a book analyzing general circulation and ethnic minority newspaper reporting to interracial conflict in three US cities.

Shah is affiliated with the UW Asian American Studies Program, and the Media, Performance and Identity Research Circle of the UW International Institute. Shah is also active in campus initiatives on diversity and multicultural education. He is the Faculty Diversity Liaison for the School of Journalism & Mass Communication.

 

 

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Themes
Deterritorialization of Culture | Cultural Translation
Meaning Production | Local Uses of Global Media
Discourses of Control | Contexts of Expression
Modes of Expression

Participants
Ksenija Bilbija | Peggy Choy | Michael Curtin
Albert Gunther | Shanti Kumar | Tomislav Longinovic
Hemant Shah | R. Anderson Sutton

The MPI Research Circle is sponsored by
The UW-Madison International Institute