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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 an Assistant Professor (on study leave) in Mass Communication and Journalism at the Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), Dhaka. Ms. Kundu’s research focuses on politics and technology, with a special emphasis on the Global South. In her dissertation project, she explores how political elites in democratically declining countries, such as Bangladesh, use social networking platforms to persuade voters, and how they engage with misinformation and computational propaganda in these processes.

Ms. Kundu regularly publishes journal articles and book chapters and presents her research at conferences. Her research titled “Platform Affective Populism (PAP): A Study on Bangladeshi Political Parties’ Use of Populism and Affective Politics in Pre-Election Facebook Campaigns” was awarded the Top Student Paper in the Political Communication Division at the 110th National Communication Association (NCA) conference in 2024, held in New Orleans. She has also presented her work at the International Communication Association conference, the American Political Science Association conference, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference, and others. Her journal articles and book chapters are published by Palgrave Macmillan, IGI Global, Nordicom, the Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, the Pacific Journalism Review, and others.

In her recent work, Ms. Kundu has been examining the social and political significance of AI, affective propaganda practices on social networking platforms, and playful political participation on TikTok.

The following are her recent publications (Find more at- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sZ0dZLEAAAAJ&hl=en)

Selected Publications

  1. Mheidly, N., Kundu, P. & Facey, M. Persuasive strategies in top TikTok breast cancer videos: a rhetorical analysis. Discover Social Science and Health 4, 81 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44155-024-00142-9
  2. Partha, S.B., Tabassum, M., Goni, M.A., & Kundu, P. (2024). Artificial intelligence (AI) and future newsrooms: A study on journalists of Bangladesh. Pacific Journalism Review: Te Koakoa, 30(1and 2), 96-110. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v30i1and2.1235
  3. Kundu, P., & Tabassum, M. (2023). Harassed and hushed: Bangladeshi women journalists’ experiences of gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 9, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.30958/ajmmc.9-3-3
  4. Kundu, P. & Bhuiyan, Md. M. H. (2021). Online Harassment of Female Journalists in Bangladesh: forms, Reactions and Consequences in S. Jamil, B. Coban, B. Ataman & G. Appiah-Adjei, Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity and Safety Risks in Journalism. IGI Publication, USA. DOI- 10.4018/978-1-7998-6686-2.ch009
  5. Hasan, M. & Kundu, P. (2021). Hip-Hop Music Activism: A New Phenomenon in Bangladeshi Popular Culture in H. Khondker, O. Muurlink & A. Ali Emergence of Bangladesh, Palgrave Macmillan, UK. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-5521-0_23
  6. Hasan, M. & Kundu, P. (2021). Conformers and rebels: Competing pattern among Bangladeshi rap musicians in Arild Engelsen Ruud & Mubashar Hasan (eds.) Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Lives in Bangladesh, Palgrave Mcmillan, UK. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4314-9_11

Education

Master of Social Science (MSS), Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka (2017)
Bachelor of Social Science (BSS), Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka (2016)