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Dr. Jayakrishnan N.

Assistant Professor, Mass Communication, Coimbatore

Qualification: BSc, MSc, Ph.D
n_jayakrishnan@cb.amrita.edu
Research Interest: Film & Television Studies, Media & Culture, Media & Language Variation, Media Semiotics, Music & Media, Visual Culture

Bio

Dr. Jayakrishnan N. currently serves as Assistant Professor at the School of Communication, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus.

Education

Year Degree Institution/ University
2015 Ph.D. (Awaiting Viva- Thesis Submitted)
Specialization: Media Semiotics (Media Studies)
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Chennai, TN, India)
2013 M.Sc.
Specialization: Electronic Media
Anna University (Chennai, TN, India)
2010 B. Sc.
Specialization: Visual Communication
Loyola College (Chennai, TN, India)
2005,
2007
Class X and XII (CBSE) Chettinad Vidyashram (Chennai, TN, India)
Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2021

The Play of Cultural Subcodes in Decoding the Visual Signs of Karnatik Music Videos

Cite this Research Publication : Jayakrishnan Narayanan & Senkamalam Periyasamy Dhanavel (2021) The Play of Cultural Subcodes in Decoding the Visual Signs of Karnatik Music Videos, Visual Communication Quarterly, 28:3, 166-175, DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2021.1949720

Year : 2021

The Musical Language of Piety: The Semiotics of Visual Media in Shaping the Divine Status of Karnatik Music

Cite this Research Publication : Jayakrishnan Narayanan & Dhanavel Senkamalam Periyasamy (2021) The Musical Language of Piety: The Semiotics of Visual Media in Shaping the Divine Status of Karnatik Music, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 38:8, 747-765, DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2020.1796180

Year : 2014

A Study on the Framing of ‘Margazhi’/December Music Festival in the English and Regional Language Newspapers in Tamil Nadu

Cite this Research Publication : Narayanan, Jayakrishnan & Velayutham Chandrasekharan (2014). A Study on the Framing of Margazhi/ December Music Festival in the English & Regional Language Newspapers in Tamil Nadu. International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 45*, pp. 77-98.

Publisher : Croatian Musicological Society

Conference Paper

Year : 2019

The Music of Gods: A Semiotic Analysis of the Representation of Classical Music in Visual Media

Cite this Research Publication : The Music of Gods: A Semiotic Analysis of the Representation of Classical Music in Visual Media, at the Annual International Conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) at Madrid, Spain (July 2019).

Year : 2019

Karnatik Music Videos and Ragamala Paintings: A Semiotic Study

Cite this Research Publication : Karnatik Music Videos and Ragamala Paintings: A Semiotic Study, at the National Conference on Histories of Media & Performance: The Political, Cultural and the Deep Pasts, University of Hyderabad, India (March 2019).

Year : 2017

Case of an Absent Code: The Semiotics of Visuals in Indian Classical Music Videos

Cite this Research Publication : Case of an Absent Code: The Semiotics of Visuals in Indian Classical Music Videos, at the Annual International Conference of the Semiotic Society of America, Puebla, Mexico (October 2017).

Year : 2017

Dubbed Television Adverts & the Induction of Artificial Language Variants

Cite this Research Publication : Dubbed Television Adverts & the Induction of Artificial Language Variants, at the International Conference on Recent Trends in Media & Technology, Anna University, Chennai (March 2017).

Book Chapter

Year : 2019

Linguistic Vernacularization in Malayalam Cinema: Urban Kochi Slang and Youth Identity

Cite this Research Publication : Narayanan, Jayakrishnan & Rajesh Kumar. (2019). Linguistic Vernacularization in Malayalam Cinema: Urban Kochi Slang and Youth Identity. In Rajesh Kumar & Om Prakash (Eds.). Text, Context and Construction of Identity, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp: 76-97.

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Book

Year : 2018

The Pure, the Divine and the Sublime The Semiotics of Visuals in Indian Classical Music Videos

Cite this Research Publication : Narayanan, Jayakrishnan. (2018). The Pure, the Divine and the Sublime: The Semiotics of Visuals in Indian Classical Music Videos, Semiotics 2017: Yearbook of Semiotic Society of America, pp. 145- 156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/cpsem201713

Newspaper Article

Year : 2021

The Road Less Travelled

Cite this Research Publication : The Road Less Travelled, The Hindu (2012, July 09). Retrieved from http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/the-road-lesstravelled/article3620639.ece

Year : 2021

Connoisseur and a Collector

Cite this Research Publication : Connoisseur and a Collector, The Hindu (2012, June 21). Retrieved from: http://www.thehindu.com/features/fridayreview/music/connoisseur-and- a-collector/article3554209.ece

Year : 2020

Thanjavur Sankara Iyer – Adherence to Classicism

Cite this Research Publication : Jayakrishnan N., Thanjavur Sankara Iyer – Adherence to Classicism, The Hindu (2020, July 30).

Professional Experience
Year Affiliation
Present Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Coimbatore
Present Research Scholar & Part-time Teaching Assistant, Dept of
Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai (Ongoing)
2014-2015 Asst. Professor, Dept of Visual Communication, Guru Nanak
College, Chennai
Achievements
  • Best research paper award for the paper presented at the International conference held at Anna University, Chennai (2017)
  • UGC NET qualified (2014) with Junior Research Fellowship (2014)
  • Gold Medal for best outgoing student, Anna University (2013)
  • Gold Media for Academic proficiency, Loyola College (2009)
  • Fellowship for Young Artistes (for Music) instituted by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. Of India (2009)
Memberships
  • Annual Member, Semiotic Society of America; Annual Member, IAMCR
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