Dr. Taha Siddiqui | Faculty Media and Mass Communication

Dr. Taha Siddiqui
Associate Professor & Head

RESEARCH AREA
Misinformation, Disinformation, Media Literacy, Social media, Media habits, Gender and Media

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D in ‘Media Trust and Rise of Fake News: Information disorder and its effect on the credibility of real news’.
  • MA in Convergent Journalism (Television Specialization), AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
  • Certificate course in Translation proficiency in English, and Hindi. Urdu from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, Department of Humanities and Languages
  • Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English Literature from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
  • Certified Trainer with GNI (Google News Initiative India) Training Network

AWARDS/HONORS

  • Dr. has made several documentary films like City’s Step Child (won 30 national and international awards), Dissent Overdose, shortlisted and screened at 5th International Kerala Film festival in June 2012, Indraprasth film festival, Gorakhpur film festival and VIBGYOR Film Festival.

Dr. Taha Siddiqui is a certified Trainer with GNI (Google News Initiative) India Training Network wherein she conducts training for journalists, media educators and media students. She is also part of FactShala India Media Literacy Network and conducts training for local communities like SHGs to prestigious institutes like IMA( Indian Military Academy) . Under this flagship program she has trained more than 2000 people including NGOs, student groups, teachers, local leaders, rural women, youth groups and many others from hilly areas of Uttarakhand and other states. Dr. Taha has also worked as a freelancer in areas of filmmaking, scripting and research. She has also worked a Researcher to Professor Christiane Brosius of Heidelberg University, Germany. Her areas of interest are social media, media literacy, misinformation and disinformation, fact checking, and development communication and gender studies.

RESEARCH DETAILS

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3605-9587
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=dGUT1OIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AOV7GLNJAgf6kK8BiVGTEF5CFG4s77gywQxT0lx-Cqw4d2URArcgjrop3pze7NKyv62egOnoa-U22p55TtXmgn4pr4iQMvn8dX-HcUBlkAlA8JSAt2BLhLeM63s0VOI

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