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", "Communi...