Saumava Mitra is an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University. He is worried about how we see the world.
Joined December 2019
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Proud supervisor moment as @bonritu Rituparna Banerjee flew through her Viva Voce exam today with no revisions recommended. Rituparna investigated the visual practices of women politicians in West Bengal on social media. @DCU_SoC, @DCU_Research.
Thanks @debbieging and @AnastasiaVeneti for being wonderful examiners and thanks Neil O'Boyle for chairing.
Thanks @Researchirel for the New Foundations grant. @SalimSaay @UL and me @DCU_Research are collaborating on the DiSSENT project and held an expert panel @mict_intl in Berlin in March to discuss digital security for journalists working in exile. Watch this space for more soon.
Research Ireland has announced funding for 59 projects under its New Foundations programme.
These awards will support researchers in developing collaborative projects with community organisations and government departments.
Read here:
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Can ‘radical sharing’ of information mean equitable sharing among journalists of risks, resources or rewards? The April 2025 special issue of Journalism explores these questions. Find it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/JOU…
Thanks @MLouisaE and all the others who participated and made the event possible. Sad to have missed it but it was in good hands.
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Exiled journalists often secure their digital communication with tools offered free or at low cost by US tech giants. Could these be affected by the changing US political climate? To horizon scan the risks, join our panel of experts in Berlin on March 20: tinyurl.com/yuux22rm
Please consider applying to work with me and my wonderful colleague @andreas_rauh on your PhD at @DCU_SoC . Deadline 31st March. Details below.
Announcing two fully funded PhD opportunities @dcu_soc Join Ireland's most vibrant and research intensive school of communications, journalism and multi media. Deadline for applications is 31 March and full details are available at tinyurl.com/38avt4n8 All r/ts appreciated.
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Open call: Nominate an outstanding journal article in #visualcommunication by 1st March 2025! VCSD will be awarding the winning author at #ICA25 Denver, Colorado!
Read about the award and submission details at: icavisualcommunicationstudie…
#ICA #ICAVCSD #VCSD #viscomm #cfp #opencall
Joining the Sage journal Media, War and Conflict as an editor alongside the stellar group of colleagues is a real privilege. Look forward to working with scholars across borders and disciplines studying conflict & media. @DCU_Research, @DCU_SoC, @DCU.
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1/ 🚨 Publication alert! Our article "Fostering Safety and Solidarity: Collaborative Journalism in Latin America" is now available! 🌎✍️
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We explore how cross-border collaborations transform journalism, providing safety and solidarity. A 🧵:
Wrote today on that other thing I spend most of my waking hours thinking about: food. To be precise, the politics of food.
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Absolute honour to engage in a Q&A session with Dr. Shahidul Alam to kick off the 10th Safety of Journalists Conference in Oslo Metropolitan University this morning. Dr Alam's asks what is it that those of us with more freedom are doing for those who do not have that privilege.
Proud supervisor moment! Check out Rituparna Banerjee's article on how women political candidates visually constructed their political performance on social media during the 2021 West Bengal Elections. It's open access on Convergence. tinyurl.com/mr467kus
DW.com's live page screenshot from earlier this afternoon. Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Qubaisi's place of death given as Berlin not Beirut by mistake. It's been fixed since but just for a moment it made you think how we would react if it was in Berlin.
Got to work with two of my favourite colleagues @soomins and @LindsayPalmerUW on a topic close to all three of us and maybe more of us: are we asking ourselves the right questions about what we are doing as journalism researchers?
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