Profiling Speakers - Dr. Sundeep R Muppidi

As part of our pre-coverage of our International Symposium we will profile the various speakers who will be giving presentations and discussing in panel discussions. Also, anybody who has questions for these speakers can post them in our comments, or on our facebook and twitter portals. We will be giving credit to the people who ask questions via our podcast interviews!

Dr Muppidi who is an associate professor in communication research at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore is one of our speakers.

Dr. Muppidi is the Secretary General of the Asian Media Information and Communication Center (AMIC). He is an alumnus of the Management Development Programme of the School of Education of Harvard University. Dr. Muppidi has a doctorate in Mass Communication from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USA and a Master’s in Communication from the University of Hyderabad, India. He has over 15 years of teaching experience at universities around the world. His teaching and research interests are in media studies, international communication, new media and communication technologies, health communication, globalization, communication for social change and empowerment, video and multimedia production, and both Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods. Dr. Muppidi is presently on leave from his job as an associate professor of communication at the School of Communication, University of Hartford, CT, USA. Dr. Muppidi is the Editor-in-Chief of the Media Asia and the AMCB and also serves as the Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of Communication.

Dr. Muppidi's teaching and research interests are in media studies, international communication, new media and communication technologies, health communication, globalization, communication for social change and empowerment, video and multimedia production, and both Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods.