Bella Mody
Armory 203A
James de Castro Chair in Global Media Studies
Journalism and Mass Communication
1511 University Ave
University of Colorado UCB 478
Boulder Co. 80309
Bella.Mody@Colorado.edu
Tel: 303-492-1912
Fax: 303-492-0969
Professor Bella Mody joined the JMC faculty in Fall 2004 as the first James E. deCastro Chair in Global Media. She specializes in the political economy of media in developing countries and in design research on public service applications of communication media. Her “The Geopolitics of Representation in Foreign News: Explaining Darfur Sudan” (Lexington Press, Rowman and Littlefield, publication date: Fall 2010) showcases the collaboration of eighteen students, staff and professors. Her continuing research addresses the sociology of global knowledge production (patterns of doctoral dissertation production on Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in Journalism and Mass Communication departments at U.S. universities) and audience involvement in the design of media use against economic inequality. Her books include “International and Development Communication: a 21st Century Perspective” (ed., Sage 2003), “The Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication”(co-ed., Sage 2001), “Telecommunication Politics” (co-ed., Lawrence Erlbaum 1995), and “Designing Messages for Development Communication” (author, Sage 1991). Her research articles have been published in Global Media and Communication, Communication Theory, The Journal of International Communication, The Information Society, The Journal of Communication, Telecommunication Policy, Media Development, Telematics and Informatics, Gazette, International Development Review, Educational Broadcasting International, Communication Research, Journal of Research in Personality and the Journal of Social Psychology. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Mody was a professor and administrator at Stanford University, San Francisco State University and Michigan State University for over 25 years, and prior to that, a social scientist in India’s space research organization for five years, and a J. Walter Thompson Company advertising writer in Calcutta. She has consulted for universities, UN agencies, national governments and humanitarian organizations on media applications for agriculture, health and education in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Barbados, Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa. Mody’s academic degrees are from Gujarat University, the University of Pennsylvania and Ranchi University.