Published Works by Associate Professor Pradip Thomas

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Associate Professor Pradip Thomas is a leading academic in the area of communication and social change, communication rights and the political economy of communications in India and the co-director of the Centre for Communication and Social Change.  As an activist scholar who worked formerly with the international media NGO, WACC, Pradip has travelled widely throughout the world and has been involved in the planning and evaluation of community media projects including community radio in Haiti. He played a key role in the Communication Rights in the Information Society campaign linked to the World Summit on the Information Society. He has been a frequent key note speaker at international media conferences and is at present the Vice President, Participatory Communications Section, IAMCR.  In addition, he is on the editorial council of a number of journals including Media Development, Journal of Creative Communications, Communication for Development and Social Change, Journalism and Communication Monographs and the International Journal of Press/Politics.  He is presently involved in an ACIAR research project in Vietnam on Participatory Communications in which he is specifically exploring Indigenous Knowledge Systems and agricultural practices among hill communities.

Books and Book Chapters

  • Thomas, Pradip Ninan Negotiating Communication Rights: Case Studies from India, Sage Publications, 2011
  • An Introduction to Communication and Social Change. Edited by Pradip Thomas and Michael Bromley St. Lucia , Qld, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2010.
  • Thomas, Pradip Ninan Political Economy of Communications in India: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. New Delhi, India: Sage Publications, 2010.
  • Thomas, Pradip Ninan Strong Religion, Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and Communication in India. New Delhi, India: Sage, 2008.
  • Mazonde, I. N. and Pradip N.Thomas, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century: Perspectives from Southern Africa. Edited by Mazonde, I. and Pradip N.Thomas, Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa/WACC, 2007.
  • Intellectual Property Rights and Communication in Asia: Conflicting Traditions. Edited by P. N. Thomas and J. E. J. Servaes New Delhi: Sage, 2006.
  • Who Owns the Media? Global Trends and Local Resistances. Edited by Pradip Thomas and Zaharom Nain London ; New York ; Penang, Malaysia: Southbound in association with WACC and Zed Press, 2004.
  • Thomas, Pradip (2010). Traditions of public journalism in India. In Angela Romano (Ed.), International Journalism and Democracy: Civic Engagement Models from Around the World (pp. 194-207) New York , NY, U.S.A.: Routledge.
  • Pradip Thomas (2010). The analysis of social change: From modernisation to new social movements. In Pradip Thomas and Michael Bromley (Ed.), An Introduction to communication and social change (pp. 11-21) St. Lucia , Qld, Australia: UQP.
  • Pradip, Thomas (2010). Communication and Social Change. In Pradip Thomas and Michael Bromley (Ed.), An Introduction to Communication and Social Change (pp. 23-35) St.Lucia, Qld, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
  • Thomas, Pradip (2010). The right to information movement in India. In Pradip Thomas and Michael Bromley (Ed.), An introduction to communication and social change (pp. 179-185) St. Lucia , Qld, Australia: UQP.
  • Pradip N.Thomas, (2009). Digital divide. In Stephen W. Littlejohn and Karen A. Foss (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Communication Theory (pp. 310-312) Los Angeles: Sage.
  • Pradip N.Thomas, (2009). Media sovereignty. In Stephen W. Littlejohn and Karen A. Foss (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Communication Theory (pp. 643-644) Los Angeles: Sage.
  • Pradip N.Thomas, (2009). Media democracy. In Stephen W. Littlejohn and Karen A. Foss (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Communication Theory (pp. 627-630) Los Angeles: Sage.
  • Pradip N.Thomas, (2009). Christian fundamentalism and the media in India. In Hoover, Stuart M. and Kaneva, Nadia (Ed.), Fundamentalisms and the media (pp. 198-218) London , U.K.: Continuum International Publishing Group.
  • Thomas, Pradip N. (2008). A contemporary denial of access: Knowledge, IPR and the public good. In C. Jin and Y. Zhao (Ed.), (pp. 334-343) Shanghai, China: Fudan University Press.
  • Thomas, Pradip Ninan (2008). Communication as an Academic Field: South Asia. In Wolfgang Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication (pp. Online-Online) Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Thomas, Pradip N. (2008). Making a difference: The right to information movement and social change. In Lee, Philip (Ed.), Communicating Peace: Entertaining Angels Unawares (pp. 137-155) Penang, Malaysia: Southbound Penang.
  • Thomas, P. N. (2007). Communication and Social Change: Expanding the research agenda. In Srampickal, J. and Aram, A. (Ed.), Understanding Development Communication First ed. (pp. 143-162) New Delhi, India: Media House.
  • Thomas, P. N. (2007). The case for communication in theological education. In Rolfes, H. and Zukowski, A. A. (Ed.), Communicatio Socialis: Challenge of Theology and Ministry in the Church (pp. 169-177) Kassel: Kassel University Press.
  • Thomas, P. N. and Nyamnjob, F. B. (2007). Intellectual property challenges in Africa: Indigenous knowledge systems and the fate of connected worlds.. In Mazonde, E. N. and Thomas, P. N. (Ed.), Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century First ed. (pp. 12-25) Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, WACC.
  • Thomas, P N (2006). Uncommon futures: Interpreting IP contestations in India. In P. Thomas and J. Servaes (Ed.), Intellectual Property Rights and Communications in Asia: Conflicting Traditions (pp. 174-190) New Dehli: Sage.
  • Thomas, P N and Servaes, J E J (2006). IPR and communications: Markets, communities and the public domain. In P. Thomas and J. Servaes (Ed.), Intellectual Property Rights and Communications in Asia: Conflicting Traditions (pp. 241-249) New Dehli: Sage.
  • Thomas, P. N. and Servaes, J. E. J. (2006). Introduction. In P. Thomas and J. Servaes (Ed.), Intellectual Property Rights and Communications in Asia: Conflicting Traditions (pp. 11-24) New Dehli: Sage.
  • Thomas, P. (2005). Contested futures: Indian media at the crossroads. In R. A. Hackett and Y. Zhao (Ed.), Democratizing global media: One world, many struggles (pp. 81-99) Lanham, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc..
  • Thomas, Pradip N. (2005). That persistent ‘other’: The political economy of copyright in India. In Bernard Bel, Jan Brouwer, Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi and Guy Poitevin (Ed.), Media and Mediation (pp. 436-464) New Delhi, India: Sage Publications.
  • Thomas, Pradip (2004). Media ownership and communication rights in India. In Pradip Thomas and Zaharom Nain (Ed.), Who Owns the Media? Global Trends and Local Resistances (pp. 213-226) London ; New York ; Penang, Malaysia: Southbound in association with WACC and Zed Press.

Journal Articles

  • Thomas, Pradip N. (2010) On the journey of concepts. Media Development, 4: 29-32.
  • Thomas, Pradip (2010) Exploring Indian Media. Australian Journalism Review, 32 2: 139-140.
  • Thomas, Pradip N. (2010) Traditional knowledge and the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library: Digital quandaries and other concerns. The International Communication Gazette, 72 8: 659-673.
  • Pradip N.Thomas, (2009) Bhoomi, Gyan Ganga, e-governance and the right to information: ICTs and development in India. Telematics and Informatics, 26 1: 20-31.
  • Pradip N.Thomas, (2009) Cyanide for gold: Dealing with e-waste. Media Development, 1 4: 39-42.
  • Pradip N.Thomas, (2009) Selling God/saving souls: Religious commodities, spiritual markets and the media. Global Media and Communication, 5 1: 57-76.
  • Thomas, Pradip N. (2008) Information technologies and the life-sciences. Media Development, LV 3: 25-31.
  • Thomas, Pradip (2007) The Politics of Radio in India. Media Asia, 34 2: 113-117.
  • Thomas, P. N. (2007) The right to information movement and community radio in India. Communication for Development and Social Change, 1 1: 33-47.
  • Thomas, P. N. (2007) Christian Fundamentalism and the Media in South India. Media Development, LIV 1/2007 1: 23-31.
  • Thomas, P. N. (2007) Telecom musings: public service issues in India. Info, 9 2-3: 97-107.
  • Thomas, Pradip N. (2007) Why End Fundamentalism?. Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, 22 2: 131-134.
  • Rnning, Helge, Thomas, Pradip, Tomaselli, Keyan G. and Teer-Tomaselli, Ruth (2006) Intellectual property rights and the political economy of culture. Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural Studies, 20 1: 1-19.
  • Thomas, P N (2006) Understanding the new sciences in the pursuit of life. Media Development, LIII 2/2006: 51-56.
  • Louw, P E, Servaes, J E J and Thomas, P N (2006) Drugs, development and the media: How has the media performed? Can it perform better?. Development Bulletin, Feb 69: 36-38.
  • Thomas, Pradip (2006) The communication rights in the information society (CRIS) campaign: Applying social movement theories to an analysis of global media reform. The International Communication Gazette, 68 4: 291-312.
  • Thomas, P. (2005) Christian fundamentalism and the media. Media Development, 2005 2: 3-9.
  • Thomas, Pradip Ninan (2003) Gats and trade in audio-visuals: Culture, politics and empire. Economic and Political Weekly, 38 33: 3485-3493.
  • Thomas, Pradip Ninan (2003) Digital Cohabitations: The Social Consequences of Convergent Technologies. Media Development, 2 : 3-12.

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