Digital Inequalities in Media Education in South Asia

Context and Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-55752-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education

This study explores the media education systems in South Asia, looking not just at the heavy disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic but also the long-standing digital inequalities and unequal socioeconomic opportunities that lead to reduced access to devices, technology, and digital media.

With a focus on eight South Asian countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – the chapters examine the adoption of technology for pedagogical purposes during the pandemic, and the underlying socioeconomic reasons behind difficulties in implementing such rapid digital transformation in the region. The authors then consider how we can draw from the performance of South Asian media education institutions, already suffering from various digital divides, during the Covid-19 pandemic, to apply these lessons to the broader academic community.

With contributions from an international team of authors, this book will interest students, scholars, and policymakers around the world working in the areas of media literacy, education studies, digital media, global development, and sociology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Acharya, Bhanu Bhakta

Rani, Padma

Trehan, Kulveen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Media Education in South Asia: Consequences of Digital Inequalities during the Pandemic

Part 1: Critical and Comparative Analyses

2. Media Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Literature Review using AI Tools

3. Media education in South Asia: Consequences of Digital Inequalities

4. Media Education from Face-to-face to Online and Technology Acceptance in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: Critical Reflections

5. NEP-2020 and Covid-19 Pandemic: A Review of Sustainable Approaches in Contemporary Media Education in India

Part 2: Country-Specific Studies

6. Evolution of Media Education in Afghanistan: Before, During, and After the Covid-19 Pandemic

7. Implementing Blended Learning Amidst the Pandemic: Insights from Post-Secondary Educators in Bangladesh

8. Stealing the Dragon’s Thunder: Bhutanese Higher Education in the Times of Covid-19 Pandemic

9. Student Perceptions of Online Learning and Evaluation: A Case Study of India during the Covid-19 Pandemic

10. Higher Education in Maldives Amidst the Pandemic: An Intersectional Approach to Digital Education

11. Impact of Digital Divides on Media Education in Nepal during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Educators’ Perspectives

12. Revisiting Media Studies in Pakistan during the Pandemic: Insights from Iqbal’s Worldview

13. Digital Divide in Media Education in Sri Lanka: Context and Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Part 3: Perspectives from Stakeholders

14. Pixels and Pedagogy: A Case Study of Experiential Learning by Media Students in Tamil Nadu During the Covid-19 Pandemic

15. Disruptions as Pedagogical Opportunities: Best Practices of Media Education During the Covid19 Pandemic in India.

16. Practices and Innovative Approaches in Post-Secondary Media Education during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh

17. Navigating the Perspectives of Media Educators During the Covid-19 Pandemic

18. Digital Dividends and Disconnects in Indian Media Education during the Pandemic: Findings from the Project ROTL

19. Silver Lining in the Dark Cloud: Media education in Sri Lankan Universities in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

20. Review and Reflections

Über Autor(innen)

Padma Rani, PhD, is the Director and Professor at Manipal Institute of Communication, which is a part of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India.

Bhanu Bhakta Acharya, PhD, is a Faculty of journalism, communication, and media studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Kulveen Trehan, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University School of Mass Communication, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India.