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Comunicar Journal 32: Mapping Media Education. Policies in the world (Vol. 16 - 2009)
Media education as a development project: Connecting emancipatory interests and governance in India
Biswajit Das
The recent explosion of communication tools and services within last two decades has posed new questions that are beyond the comprehension of existing pedagogy in Indian Comm unication Studies. Indian society has witnessed a widespread proliferation of media technologies to such an extent that they have become ubiquitous in society. Media education, in In dia, however, remains an almost unexplored area of studies. This contribution puts forward the need for
Media education far from a non-elitist point of view and proposes this Media education as a new pedagogy although its efficiency has not been proved convincingly yet.
Keywords
Media technologies, media education, research, social responsibility, public involvement