Communication Reimagined: Media, Technology & Society

Author : Dr. Kaushik Mishra & Padmaja Tamuli

The edited volume Communication Reimagined: Media, Technology & Society brings together interdisciplinary scholarship to unpack how contemporary communication is being transformed across digital, socio-cultural, and political contexts. Building on Global South perspectives and comparative approaches, the book foregrounds how platformization, datafication, and algorithmic mediation are reshaping everyday communication practices, public discourse, and cultural narratives. It features theoretically informed and empirically grounded chapters that interrogate the changing roles of media technologies in journalism, strategic communication, development, health communication, and civic engagement. Contributors examine digital media and platform cultures, AI and communication futures, misinformation and media literacy, as well as questions of policy, regulation, and ethics in an increasingly data-driven environment. Designed for scholars, researchers, doctoral candidates, and practitioners, the volume aims to serve as a critical resource for understanding the shifting relationship between media, technology, and society, while also mapping emerging challenges and possibilities for communication for social change and development.