Daya Kishan Thussu is an internationally renowned scholar of global communication. He is a professor of International Communication and Co-Director of the India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. Daya has a PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books. Among his key publications are: Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (2012); International Communication – A Reader (2010) Internationalizing Media Studies (Routledge, 2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2007); International Communication - Continuity and Change, third edition (forthcoming – a Chinese and a Korean edition of the second edition has already been published); and Electronic Empires - Global Media and Local Resistance (1998). He is the founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication and series editor for two new Routledge series: Internationalizing Media Studies and Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies.
