PhD , Philosophy of Communication

Kiran Prasad is Associate Professor in Communication and Journalism, Sri Padmavati Mahila University, Tirupati, India. She was Commonwealth Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Communication Research, Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds, UK and Canadian Studies Research Fellow at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is also the youngest ever recipient of the ‘State Best Teacher Award’ for university teachers from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. She is series editor of Empowering Women Worldwide, a book series published by the Women Press, New Delhi.  She was former Public Relations Officer of Sri Padmavati Mahila University and was secretary of the university teachers association.A prolific writer and well known Indian communication philosopher, she is author/editor of over fifteen books. Throughout a rank holder in her University education, she was awarded the Masti Venkatesh Iyengar Gold Medal in M.S. (Communication) degree. She is author of Philosophies of Communication and Media Ethics: Theory, Concepts and Empirical Issues (2000) and Communication for Development: Reinventing Theory and Action (2008); and has edited The Glory of Indian Heritage (1998), Intercultural Communication (1999) and V.K. Krishna Menon: Man of the Century (2000) under her earlier name Kiran R.N. Her recent books include Health Strategies and Population Regulation (2001, in 2 Vols.); Communication, Modernisation and Social Development: Theory, Policy and Strategies (2002, in 2 Vols.); Political Communication: The Indian Experience (2003, in 2 Vols.); Communication and Empowerment of Women: Strategies and Policy Insights from India (2004, in 2 vols.); Information and Communication Technology: Recasting Development (2004), Women and Media: Challenging Feminist Discourse (2005);  Women in Rural Development: Contemporary Social Policy and Practice (2006); Women, Globalization and Mass Media: International Facets of Emancipation (2006); Media Law and Ethics: Readings in Communication Regulations (2008, in 2 Vols.); HIV and AIDS: Vulnerability of Women in Asia and Africa (2008); Feminist Development Communication: Empowering Women in the Information Era (2009); and e-Journalism: New Directions in Electronic News Media (2009). She has to her credit over 100 papers in journals of national and international repute.She has conducted research projects/studies for many national and international agencies. She has researched extensively in India, Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada and the UK on the interrelations between communication and development studies. Currently she is authoring a monograph on “International Encyclopaedia of Media Law – India” to be published by the prestigious International Encyclopaedia of Law from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium in association with Kluwer Law International, Netherlands. She is also currently researching a UGC major research project on ICTs and people’s participation in e-governance.Her theoretical contributions include a conceptual model of Ethics Affecting Variables (EAV) in Communication; Pragmatic Communication Model; a conceptual model on Media Policy Affecting Variables for the implementation of media policy in the developing countries; Conceptual Model of Health Communication for Child Survival; and a conceptual model on Voting Behaviour Affecting Variables in Political communication Campaign. She has specialized in several branches of communication and has successfully guided doctoral degrees in communication and journalism. She is resource person and guest speaker at various faculty improvement programmes, workshops, seminars, orientation and refresher courses, and professional bodies in adult literacy, population education, women’s development, environment and media awareness workshops for NGOs, women’s groups and community organizations. She can be reached at kiranrn_prasad@hotmail.com; kiranrn.prasad@gmail.com