My name is Abhilash Bapanasha and I am a Research Scholar at the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Tezpur University, India.
My previous research includes an ethnographic study focussed on understanding the role of participatory musical traditions inside the neo-Vaishnavite monasteries in the Indian state of Assam.
Currently, I wish to read, understand, learn and collaborate on the following themes:
My previous research includes an ethnographic study focussed on understanding the role of participatory musical traditions inside the neo-Vaishnavite monasteries in the Indian state of Assam.
Currently, I wish to read, understand, learn and collaborate on the following themes:
- Online Identity
- Presentation of self online
- Social Media dynamics
- Intercultural Communication
- Intergenerational Communication
Prior to joining academic research, I was working as a Content Writer at a prominent satellite news channel based in Guwahati, Assam.
From when I discovered it till now, I consider audio as a unique powerful medium of communication and continue to produce research-based podcasts from time to time.
Happy to connect and collaborate!
Projects
Produced a three episode special podcast on the Namghar Institution of Assam. Namghars, the socio-cultural congregational spaces in an Assamese Village, were conceptualised by Srimanta Sankaradeva, the 15th century proponent of Neo-Vaishnavism in the N...
Using Ritual View of Communication as the Theoretical Framework, the ethnographic study emphasised on understanding the role of musical traditions as a means of communication as a participatory cultural practice continuously evolving for many centuries.
