Our Faculty

Dr. Balasubramanian has completed his M. A. and Ph. D. from the Department of Communication, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. He has a combined work experience of close to thirteen years in industry and academia.

Teaching areas at Amrita include television production, AV basics and documentary.

Before joining Amrita, he was heading the UG and the PG Department of Mass Communication at SIAD, Chennai. He has also worked in various institutions in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. He has also served in an advertising industry as Production Executive for two years .

Dr. Balasubramanian’s research interest include E- Governance in affiliating Indian Universities, Impact of TV programmes such as Top 10 movies and Mega Serials on the viewers. He has published papers on ICT and E – Governance, Presented papers at National and International Conferences. He also organized national level seminars at Christ College, Bangalore.

Dr. Balasubramanian has designed and developed many successful course modules including Visual Narrative Sequence, Film Studies, Information Education and Communication, and Documentary.

Dr. Balasubramanian has produced couple of documentaries for ministry of tribal welfare and the Department of Anthropology, University of Madras.

The Documentary about tribes in Tamil Nadu was Sponsored by the Ministry of Tribal Welfare, Government of Tamil Nadu. The purpose of this project was to produce a 30 minutes documentary about the tribes in various spots of Tamil Nadu, highlighting their belief system, tribal medical practice, life style and suggestions for tribal welfare.

Dr. A. Balasubramanian served as Reviewer in ICDIPC 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications, Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dr. A. Balasubramanian is an Editorial Board Member of Blue Ocean Research Journal, an online, internationally peer reviewed, open access academic journal

Reviewer/Editorial Board Member

• Scientific committee member for the International Soft Science Conference 2016 (ISSC’2016) organized by Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia.
• Editorial Board Member – American Journal of Social Science Research (ISSN: 2381-7712)
• Reviewer for the journal “Journalism and Mass Communication”, (ISSN: 2160-6579), David Publishing Company, USA.
• Reviewer for the fourth international conference on Digital Information Processing and Communication (ICDIPC 2014), organized by Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU), Kula Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Reviewer for The International Conference on Communication and Media 2014 [i-COME’14], Malaysia
• Reviewer for the International Conference on Arts and Humanities – 2014 (ICOAH 2014), Srilanka
• Reviewer for the journal Public Science Framework, USA

Papers Presented in Seminars

• Presented a paper entitled “Face Book and Security Issues pertaining to Friend’s Request” in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Social Networking Media -Current Trends and Research Challenges organized by Department of Mass Communication and Journalism and Mass Communication, Sri Padmavati Mahila University, Tirupati, India on February 09-10, 2012.
• Presented a paper entitled “ Institutional preparedness for e-governance in Indian Affiliating Universities” in the UGC-Sponsored National Seminar on Journalism in the Age of New Media organized by Surendranath College for Women, Kolkata, India on January 10-11, 2012.
• Presented a paper entitled “Need of E-Governance in Indian Affiliating University – University Students Perspective” in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on E-Governance: Issues and Challenges, organized by the Department of Political Science, Gobi Arts and Science College, Tamil Nadu, India on August 7-8, 2009.
• Presented a paper entitled “E-Governance: Issues and Challenges in Indian Affiliating University” in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on E-Governance: Isues and Challenges, organized by the Department of Political Science, Gobi Arts and Science College, Tamil Nadu, India on August 7-8, 2009.