Saesha Kini
Assistant Professor
Saesha Kini is presently an Associate Professor with the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (DLHS) under the Bengaluru Campus of 沙巴体育 Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). Prior to this, she worked primarily in research capacities at Center for Development Management and Communication (CDMC) & Center for Media and Entertainment Studies (CMES) at MICA, Ahmedabad, and the School of Communication at FLAME University, Pune. Saesha is on the verge of completing her 4-year Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) at MICA, Ahmedabad. Her thesis topic conceptually explores the phenomena of fat body acceptance through body positivity, plus-size, etc. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Management - Communication (PGDM-C) from FLAME University. Her articles are published on websites including Scroll.in and Gaysi. She is also a Sahapedia-UNESCO research fellow. Saesha has worked on and participated in several media communication and inter/trans-disciplinary academic and industry publications, research reports, international conferences, panel discussions, etc.
Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (DLHS) Bengaluru
Qualification: Bachelors in Business Administration, Postgraduate Diploma in Management - Communication (PGDM-C). Fellow Programme in Management (FPM)
CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
Assistant Professor (Courses: Media and Communication) - Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
| Degree | Specialisation | Institute | Year of passing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) | Communication | MICA | Pursuing; Thesis Submitted |
| Postgraduate Diploma in Management - Communication (PGDM-C) | Journalism | FLAME University | 2016 |
| Bachelors in Business Administration | Marketing Management | Maharaja Sayajirao University | 2014 |
Experience
| Institution / Organisation | Designation | Role | Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICA | 沙巴体育er [Consultant] - Center for Development Management and Communication (CDMC) | 沙巴体育 | February 2024 - June 2024 |
| MICA | 沙巴体育 Associate [Center for Media and Entertainment Studies] | Teaching Assistance; Industry-Oriented 沙巴体育; Administration | July 2017 - June 2019 |
| FLAME University | 沙巴体育 Associate [School of Communication] | 沙巴体育 & Publication | July 2016-March 2017 |
Culture-Centred Framework for Ethical Design for Young People: Foregrounding Young people's Perspectives (Pilot study)
Ongoing Young people's media and cultural studies Institutional authorship
A Western Sydney University & MICA-CDMC project?
Indian Kids Online: Negotiating the Global and the Digital Flows: A Pilot Study (Ahmedabad City, Gujarat, India)
2022 New media and children and young people's studies Manisha Pathak-Shelat, Saesha, & Priyanki Choudhury
A CDMC - MICA & Global Kids Online initiative?
Indian OTT Platforms Report 2018-19
2019 Media and entertainment Studies Institutional authorship
Part of research team for industry-oriented report?
AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH
Area of Interest
1) Fat and body studies 2) New media technologies and communicational practices 3) Children and young people’s media studies 4) Qualitative & Post-qualitative research 5) New materialism 6) Diffractive methodologies 7) Sociology of the body and media 8) Feminist and post structuralist theory 9) Continental philosophy
Area of Expertise
1) Fat studies 2) New media communication studies 3) Agential Realism Onto-Epistemology 4) Diffractive and post-qualitative methodologies
Area of 沙巴体育
1) Fat and body/embodiment studies 2) New media technologies and communicational practices 3) Children and young people’s media studies 4) Post-qualitative methodologies
The Myths of Hate: Digital Deception in the (Communal) times of COVID-19.
2023 Media communication & Politics Saesha Kini & G. Gyanesh
Book chapter for Routledge publication: 'Media Narratives and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Asian Experience'
Conceptualizing “Filter-ing”: Affordances, Context Collapse, and the Social Self Online
2022 Communication and Sociology Saesha Kini, Manisha Pathak-Shelat, & Varsha Jain
Journal article in '沙巴体育 Journal of Communication' [Scopus: Q1]
Children’s entertainment television in India: The changing scenario and the Indian child
2018 Media studies and Children's studies Shukla Das & Saesha Kini
Peer-reviewed journal article for 'Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture'