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New Delhi, 7 December, 2008: When I first met Vibodh Parthasarathi we found that we had both studied with professor Cees Hamelink, who specialized in International Communication and Human Rights.
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Vibodh Parthasarathi
Documentary filmmaker and Reader at the Centre for Media, Culture and Governance at Jamia Millia Islamia, university in Delhi
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Vibodh Parthasarathi maintains a multidisciplinary interest in communication theory, media policy and comparative media practice. Parthasarathi’s current research explores the trans-national
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When transposing a concept like Witnessed Presence from one culture to another some tuning is acquired, according to Vibodh Parthasarathi. When one takes the two words separately, presence could be
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Technology deeply influences how people can witness each other and experience each other’s presence. Parthasarathi argues that because music can be recorded and be listened to at any time and any
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Parthasarathi’s research suggests that in live performances early 20th century in India the interaction between the singer and the listener was vital. The way the listener responded to what was
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Because people use technology devices, they also adapt to them. In the last hundred years have gotten used to another idea of being witness to each other. When studying these adaptation processes one
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Information and communication technologies function in structures of governance. There is the governance ‘of’ communication systems and there is the governance ‘through’ communication
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When addressing witnessed presence in crisis situations, Parthasarathi elaborated on the media coverage of the Mumbai attacks, which only happened two weeks before. Parthasarathi argues that being
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Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness
Hereunder the transcript in text.
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