Modernisation and Creative Communication

By Prof. Saswat Samay Das, Prof. Ananya Roy Pratihar | IIT Kharagpur, IMIS Bhubaneswar

Learners enrolled: 197 | Exam registration: 11

ABOUT THE COURSE:

The course would explore the history of modernisation, putting forward modernity as a creative idea that broke away from dogmatism, orthodox practices and unreflective conservatism based on massive misinterpretation and manipulation of religion. Secondly, it would explore modernisation as a historical phenomenon, focusing on those events such as colonization, industrial revolution, and the cataclysmic world wars that led to the shaping of the idea of modernity. Thirdly, the course would put modernisation as a continuous process, as an unfinished project, viewing recent ideas such as posthumanism and planetarity as products of modernisation. Finally, this course will put forward modernisation as a communicative practice, a way of networking different ideas into meaningful sites of production of new meanings and sensibilities for the coming community.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Undergraduate, Postgraduate students and PhD scholars

PREREQUISITES: Graduation

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	17 Feb 2025
End Date :	11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends :	17 Feb 2025
Exam Registration Ends :	24 Feb 2025
Exam Date :	03 May 2025 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Ideas of Modernisation and Creativity

Week 2: Historical Overview of Modernisation

Week 3: Current Developments in Modernisation

Week 4: Modernisation as a Communicative Practice

Week 5: Speaking into the Air - Part I

Week 6: Speaking into the Air - Part II

Week 7: Media, Market and Creative Communication

Week 8: The Dominion of Communication: One Planet, Many Worlds

Books and references

The Passing of Modernity: Communication and the Transformation of Society (1990) By Hamid Mowlana, Laurie J. Wilson
Modernism (2016) by Peter Childs
Explaining Communication: Theories and Exemplars (2013) by Bryan B Whaley and Wendy Samter
Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (2012) by John Durham Peters
Communication Theory (2008) by C. David Mortensen

Instructor bio

Prof. Saswat Samay Das

IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Saswat Samay Das is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has jointly authored Taking Place of Language (2013). He has jointly edited Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community (2022), Deleuze, Guattari and Terror (2021), Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic (Schizoanalytic Applications Series, 2023), Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Postneoliberalism (2024). He has published in well-known international journals such as Philosophy in Review, Deleuze Studies, Cultural Politics, Environmental Politics, Contemporary South Asia and EPW.

Prof. Ananya Roy Pratihar

IMIS Bhubaneswar

Prof. Ananya Roy Pratihar is an assistant professor in Communication Studies at the Institute of Management and Information Science, Bhubaneswar, India. She has jointly edited Technology, Urban Space and Network Community (2022), Deleuze, Guattari and the Global Pandemics (2023) and Deleuze, Guattari and Inquiry into the Postneoliberal (Schizoanalytic Applications Series). Her book reviews and articles have been published in Philosophy in Review, French Studies, Environmental Politics and Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: May 3, 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team