College of Liberal Arts & Sciences The University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication The University of Iowa

Sujatha Sosale

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
W331 Adler Journalism & Mass Comm. Bldg. (AJB)
319-335-0663
sujatha-sosale@uiowa.edu

Sujatha Sosale’s main area of specialization is International Communication/ Media Globalization, with a focus on development and social change. Within this domain, she works with media policy issues and supranational institutions, and has examined media technologies, the political economy of global media, and journalism in contexts of development and the global South. Her geographical focus includes South Asia and Africa, in particular areas with a history of Anglophone and Francophone colonization.

She is author of Communication, Development, and Democracy: Mapping a Discourse (Hampton Press, 2008). Her latest work includes a chapter (in press) on BBC news in Northern Ireland, co-authored with Charles Munro, for the book, Localising Global TV:  New Perspectives On Program Formats.  Her work has also appeared in journals such as Journalism and Communication Monographs, the Journal of International Communication; Journalism: theory, practice and criticism; and the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, and as chapters in edited collections.

She has served on the advisory board of the Journal of Communication Inquiry, and is co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of International Communication, on international crises and the media.

Prior to coming to the United States, she lived in Bangalore, India, where she worked as copywriter in media industries, writing for a variety of media, for commercial as well as public service campaigns, and as a freelance journalist for regional and local dailies and weeklies.

Before joining UI, she was on the Communication faculty at Georgia State University. She teaches courses in global media and journalism, and research methods.

She is Head of the International Communication Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). She is also a member of the International Communication Association (ICA), Asian Media and Information Centre (AMIC), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).