Biography

GOPALAN RAVINDRAN is Professor and Head of the Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Madras, India. His research interests seek to explore digital, diasporic and fi lm cultures. He served as a visiting fellow at the Department of International Communication, Nagoya University, Japan, and also taught fi lm theory and history at the School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Before joining the University of Madras, he taught at the Department of Communication, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India (corresponding author: [email protected] / [email protected]).