Ravi Ramaswamy was invited to be the key note speaker at the Media

Conclave, 2017 organized by the Department of Media Studies, Christ

University, Bengaluru, on Sat, 15 th July.

Final year M.A students of Development Communication’ presented research papers on issues ranging from Accessing knowledge of the benefits of the Aadhaar among the youth, the Effect of Public Service Advertisements ( PSA’s) on development of Bengaluru, Community Radio, Students and Social issues, and Virtual Reality.

In his address following the presentations, Ravi shared a few of his insights and

pointed out the importance of having a personal stand on these issues in order

to have an agency to communicate these ideas to the larger society. Secondly,

when we look at the issues that we heard today from a rights based

perspective.

it is interesting to see how we see ourselves and how we voice our

views. 

Do we see ourselves as consumers or as citizens? Is there a difference?