Author Profile: Shashidhar Nanjundaiah

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah (he/him/his) is a Ph.D. candidate and instructor at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he researches and teaches media literacy. His current research interests lie in U.S. and Indian social media policies, political communication, and the theory of media literacy. He is an award-winning researcher on India’s post-liberalization television programming, and has started, headed, and taught in reputed private media institutes in India. He holds an M.S. (1995) in Communication from Radford University, Virginia, and an M.A. in English and B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Mysore, India.