Paula Chakravartty, Associate Professor

Communication
305 Machmer Hall    
(413) 545-6346   
pchakrav@comm.umass.edu
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Education: Ph.D. in Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

Research Interests:  Media and telecommunications policy; inequality and information societies; media and social movements

Paula Chakravartty's teaching and research cover news media as well as telecommunication and information and communication technologies, science and technology studies, postcolonial and feminist political theory and political economy, with a focus on India, Brazil and the US. She is currently working on a book about the political culture of exclusion, access and citizenship in India’s fractured information society. She is also working on a second project on the changing political economy of development communication in Brazil and India. She is the co-author of Media Policy and Globalization (Edinburgh University Press 2006 and Palgrave 2007 – with Katharine Sarikakis) and co-editor of Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 – with Yuezhi Zhao).