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 global communication policy issues and supranational institutions, and has examined media technologies, globalization, and journalism in contexts of development. She is also interested in the political economy of global media, and theory and modes of inquiry in international communication. Her geographical areas of interest include South Asia and Africa, and areas with a history of Anglophone and Francophone colonization.
Prior to coming to the United States, Sujatha lived in Bangalore, India, where she worked as copywriter in Everest Advertising, a subsidiary of Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising, and Marketing and Advertising Services (MASS). She has written for various media such as print, radio, promotional documentary film, and public kiosks (in India, the equivalent of mini billboards). She has also worked as a freelance writer, contributing features, profiles, and reviews to a regional newspaper in South India, the Deccan Herald, and former Bangalore-centered weeklies, The Times of Deccan, and The City Tab.
Before joining UI, Sujatha was on the Communication faculty at Georgia State University. At UI, she teaches undergraduate courses in globalization and the news, and research methods. She teaches graduate courses in the political economy of global media, qualitative research methods, and media theory.
Sujatha’s scholarship coheres around the theme of media and developing societies. She studies politics, economics, technology, and culture of media and aspects to media – including journalism—as they are manifested in ideas and practices about global social change. She has examined these dimensions through an analysis of debates about international communication policy, and official discourse in supranational arenas like the UNESCO and the ITU. She continues to work with media development and policy in current projects.
Her most recent publications include Communication, Development, and Democracy: Mapping a Discourse (Hampton Press, copyright 2008, available now) and an issue of Journalism and Communication Monographs (Spring 2007) title “ ‘Pre-modern’ Online: Converging Discourses of Globalization and Development.” Her work has also appeared in journals such as 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.
Sujatha is Head of the International Communication Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and is an active member of the International Communication Association (ICA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).