- Professor, Deakin University
Dr Usha Manchanda Rodrigues is a Professor with the Manipal Institute of Communication at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India (Hybrid location - Manipal and Melbourne).
Dr Rodrigues has taught multi-platform, investigative and international journalism and research focused communication subjects at four Australian universities primarily (20 years) at Monash and Deakin. Her research expertise and achievements are in both Australian and Indian media topics including social media and political communication, media policy, diversity and the media, gender and media, citizen journalism and community media. Currently, she is researching gender justice and efficacy of fact-checking fake news. She has co-authored four books and pblished a number of peer-reviewed publications.
Experience
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2022–presentProfessor, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
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2012–2021Senior Lecturer, Deakin University
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1998–2009Lecturer, Monash University
Education
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University of Queensland, PhD in Journalism
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University of Bombay, India, Master of Commerce, Applied Science
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Michigan State University, USA, Masters of Arts, Journalism
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University of Bombay, India, Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting and Economics
Publications
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2022Reporting on Sexual Violence in the Hashtag Era, Routledge
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2015Indian News Media: From Observer to Participant, Sage
Professional Memberships
- International Association for Media and Communication Research
Contact Usha for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Melbourne, Australia and Manipal, India
- Website
- X (formerly Twitter): @umanchanda
- Article Feed
- ORCID
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