"Is enlightenment just a European idea?" An interview with Daya Thussu

  • Sašo Slaček Brlek Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
  • Jernej Amon Prodnik Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
  • Daya Thussu University of Westminster
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v15i1.862
Keywords: International communication, New World Information and Communication Order, UNESCO, the MacBride report, BRICS, China, India

Abstract

Interview with Daya Kishan Thussu, Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster. We discuss his journalistic experience at the Press Trust of India and Gemini News Service, the New World Information and Communication Order and the MacBride report, the rise of BRICS and changes in the sphere of international communications in recent decades, the significance of critical scholarship and the need to internationalize media and communication studies.

Author Biographies

Sašo Slaček Brlek, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
Researcher at the Social Communications Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana. His main research interests include theories of public opinion and the public sphere, and the critical political economy of communication with a particular focus on researching newswork and newsworkers from the labour process perspective.
Jernej Amon Prodnik, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

Assistant Professor at the Department of Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and researcher at the Social Communications Research Centre, which is based at the same institution. Between 2014 and 2015, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. His principal research interests encompass critique of political economy and historical transformations of capitalist societies with an emphasis on media and communication.

Published
2017-03-27
Issue
Vol 15 No 1 (2017)
Section
The Point is to Change It! Critical Political Interventions in Media and Communication Studies

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