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Priyanka Kundu

Doctoral Student

Email:

pkundu3@uic.edu

About

Priyanka Kundu is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She is also a lecturer of Mass Communication and Journalism in Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), Dhaka (on leave). Priyanka’s research revolves around political psychology, political persuasion, and new media technology. She has recently been looking into how affective populism is being used in everyday politics of Bangladesh, and is now working on a few research projects relating to social media political communication, hate speech, and self-censorship in the age of the digital security act in Bangladesh. Her journal articles and international book chapters are published from Palgrave MacMillan, IGI Global, Nordicom, and Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, regarding freedom of expression, social media and online incivility, press freedom in the age of digital security act, hip-hop culture and political protest in the context of Bangladesh. She has also participated in several international conferences (off and online) in Germany, USA, China, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

She was a part-time faculty member at the State University of Bangladesh, a private university, serving there since October 2018. She also worked as a full-time journalist for an independent news agency for around one year and a part-time contributor at a newspaper for three years. Priyanka did her Bachelor's (2016) and Master’s (2017) both in Mass Communication and Journalism from the University of Dhaka. So far, she has received four research grants, three from University Grants Commission, Bangladesh and one from University of Oslo, Norway.  Her research interests are on social media and political communication in South Asian context. For her excellence in her bachelor’s results, she received the Professor Sitara Parveen Award (2017) and the Ruqayyah Merit Scholarship (2017) from the University of Dhaka. In 2020, she successfully completed a year-long international training titled "Media Regulation in Democratic Framework" supported by SIDA of Sweden.

Education

MA in Mass communication and Journalism from University of Dhaka (2017)
BA in Mass communication and Journalism from University of Dhaka (2016)