Geeta Kashyap

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor at Christ University

When the first COVID-19 lockdown of March 2020 forced educational institutions to teach online, the internet penetration in the country was below 50 per cent (Bloomberg, 2020; The World Bank, n.d.). The COVID-19 pandemic spurred internet connections while also significantly disrupting the education system in India, including media education, which...

Data journalism research recorded exponential growth during the last decade. However, the extant literature lacks comparative perspectives from the Asian region as it has been focused on select geographies (mainly Europe and the US). In this backdrop, the present study examined data journalism practices in the Indian media industry by conducting in...

Data Journalism has attracted considerable academic attention as an innovative journalism practice in the recent past. It has resulted in a steady increase in academic research on data journalism. A subset of these studies deals with imparting training in data journalism. This study attempts to systematically review the peer-reviewed academic liter...

Media newsrooms across the world are changing fast while adapting themselves to rapid technological advancements. In Indian media houses also, from big to medium to small, the newsrooms have started adapting to technology-driven journalism practices. With these changes in newsroom structure and the challenges posed by advancements in information te...

This study tries to analyze the popular narratives, created and sustained via hashtags, on social media platforms, including those related to online activism. It looks at how digital activism has shaped up in India over the last few years. It analyzes tweets and hashtag trends of the last five years to understand people's engagement with the Twitte...

With emergent subspecialties like data journalism bringing new skillsets and job roles, professionals and journalism educators find it difficult to imbibe the fast-changing industry demands. Such challenges in some countries and media industries put journalism educators in an advantageous position, offering them an agency to actively shape the cont...

Data journalism is emerging as a new sub-specialty in Indian journalism. Indian data journalism practice is in nascent stage and newsrooms have lately started recognizing it as a new practice. There were specific issues and challenges faced by journalists in western news rooms as they adopted the practice. To generate a comparative perspective, the...

Cinema and society are mutually reflective, influence each other in both constructively as well as precarious manner. While the practices of society pilots the ideas of filmmaking, the society also mirrors the values of its movies in various ways. The concerns of physically disabled (differently abled) group of the society has also attracted the fi...

Kashmir valley over the years witnessed a huge socio-political change which has not just affected the people living there but the industries also. Bollywood is one such industry which was badly affected by the disturbances in the valley. The films made before 1990s and after that, have a lot of differences’ not just in terms of number of films made...