Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Shailendra Kumar Pathak
Telephone: +91-512-2594507
+91-512-2594508
E-mail: spathak@iitk.ac.in
Address: B-201, Hall-7
IIT Kanpur
Uttar Pradesh 208016
Previous Education: BA 1999 (University of Allahabad), MA 2002-Political Science
(University of Allahabad).
Currently in the Second Semester of the Ph D programme.
Research Area (Tentative)
The research is aimed to explore the mechanism of media manipulation of information and patterns of reality construction, in relation to people’s right to information. The construction of reality through the manipulation of information is detrimental to the concept of right to information. It causes confusion in human mind about what is right and what is wrong and affects the decision making process at both individual and social level.
Awards:
Institute fellowship from IIT Kanpur for pursuing Doctoral programme in Sociology, 2004-08.
Selected for the Award of ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship for the period of three years available at Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Jhusi, Allahabad
Qualified UGC-NET (June 2002)
Experience:
Worked on a project “MPLADS: A Comparative Policy Study of Three Lok Sabha Constituencies of Allahabad District: (1993-2003)”, at Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Jhusi, Allahabad (Part of the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship)
Collected material for “NAI AZADI UDGHOSH”-a monthly magazine devoted to the spread of Gandhian values for period of one year, published from Gandhian Institute of Peace Studies, University of Allahabad.
Page last updated: August 2004