Paromita Pain

Dr. Paromita Pain is an Associate Professor, Global Media Studies, & Cybersecurity Center Affiliate Faculty, University of Nevada, Reno. She is also an Affiliate Faculty at the Ozmen Institute.

Her research focuses on alternate media and global journalism practices from feminist perspectives. International communication and newsroom norms is an abiding area of interest. She has researched journalism and news practices in India, Taiwan, the USA and Venezuela. A former journalist with The Hindu Newspaper, India’s most respected broadsheet, she has also written for The Guardian and Al Jazeera. Deeply motivated to understand the epistemological concerns raised by emerging forms of media that are hybrids between old and new forms, between citizen and professional news practices, she has published extensively on the intersection of gender and social media besides exploring areas of online commenting and uncivil behavior and its impact on journalistic praxis.

She is on the editorial board of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ), Media Asia, Media Practice and Education, Digital Journalism, Review of Communication ,Korean Journal of Communication (KJC) and the ICA Handbook Series. She is on the Advisory Committee for the Second Edition of The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender. She is also the associate editor for Media Asia and was the Co-Editor for Media Practice and Education.

She uses qualitative and quantitative methods and has, recently, started focusing on computational methods of data collection and analysis. Her research has been published in refereed journals like the Journalism, Feminist Media Studies, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, and Media Asia. As an Associate Professor of Global Media Studies, at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno, her particular focus, at the moment, is digital feminist activism in the global south and Latin America countries. She is on Twitter (@ParoP) and on LinkedIn. More about her research can be found here: https://paromitapain.com/research/