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CSSS organises a talk by Dr. Manoj Jena

CSSS organises a talk by Dr. Manoj Jena

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Centre for the Study of Social Systems

School of Social Sciences

 

CSSS Colloquium

 

Invites you to

 

a presentation on

 

Media, Mediation and Death in Digital Age

 

By

Manoj Jena

(Assoc. Prof., CSSS, JNU)

 

Date & Time: September 5, 2019 (Thursday), 11am

Venue: CSSS Committee Room (No: 13), SSS-II

 

Death and birth is tempo of our life cycle.  Death can be decoded as a herald of life, it revitalizes, dis/integrates the social system. Death is deeply embedded with our social, cultural and ritual practices.  In the wake of digital technology particularly the convergence medium, death is a much more celebrated event, a communicative process as well a performative act. Death in our recent time is a vibrant mediated and shared social realty in the digital space. The mediation and representation of death event in the digital platform have altered the way in which we see and perceive death.  In this context, the present paper tries to understand two-death occurrences; one is of film star Sridevi and the other is Café Coffee Day owner V. D.Siddharth as a mediated event.

 

Manoj Jena is an Associated Professor at Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU. His area of interest is Media Studies, Technology studies.

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.