Pradip Ninan Thomas is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Communication and Social Change at School of Journalism and Communications, University of Queensland, Australia. A leading academic in the area of communication and social change, Thomas is also on the advisory boards of a number of international institutes including the India Media Centre at the University of Westminster..
He is Chair of the Participatory Communications Section, IAMCR, and on the editorial committees of a number of journals, including Media Development, Journal of Creative Communications, Communication for Development and Social Change, Journalism and Communication Monographs and the International Journal of Press/Politics. In 2010, he was involved in a study of communication rights movements in India.
Thomas has published more than a hundred articles on communication, many in refereed journals including the International Communications Gazette, Info, Global Communications and Media, Economic & Political Weekly, Telematics & Informatics, Asian Journal of Communication, Media Development and Communication for Development and Social Change.
He has authored and/or co-edited a number of books, including:
Who Owns the Media: Global Trends and Local Resistance/2001/Zed-Southbound
Intellectual Property Rights and Communication in Asia: Conflicting Trends/2006/SAGE
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property in the Twenty First Century: Perspectives from Southern Africa/2007/Codesria
Strong Religion/Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and the Media in India/2007/SAGE
Political Economy of Communications in India: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly/2010/SAGE
Negotiating Communication Rights: Case Studies from India/2011/SAGE