About First Edition of the Conference

The first edition of ICAN 2018 was conducted successfully on March 9, 10 and 11, 2018. The highlights of the same following.

172 Abstracts, out of which 123 approved for inclusion in conference proceedings
Presentation of 74 papers in 12 technical sessions over 3 days
Papers from most of the states in India and also from the across the continents, Asia, Europe, America and Australia
Papers not only by academicians and researchers but also from industry professionals
30 sub-themes which included nationalism, secularism and ethics in news, development news, paid news, fake news, positive and negative news
2 Plenary Sessions in addition to the Master Class by Dr. Nirmala Mani Adhikary from Kathmandu University, Nepal, on Theory Building through Research
4 books with 118 conference papers published and released in the conference
- Nationalism, Ethnicity and Media Ethics
- Liberty, Dignity and Change in Journalism
- Fake News, Paid News and Media Trial
- Badalte Daur Ki Patrakarita” (Journalism in Changing Era)
Galaxy of media educators, researchers and professionals in the conference
- Devesh Kishore, Professor Emeritus
- K. G. Suresh, DG IIMC
- Ashok Agora, Director, Apeejay
- Subhash Dhuliya, Dean, Sharda University
- Pradeep Mathur, senior media educator
- Gita Bamezai, Professor, IIMC
- Biswajit Das, Director, Jamia Millia Islamia
- Shahid Rasool, Director, CEMCA
- Anirban Sarma, National Program Officer, UNESCO
- O.P. Dewal, Indira Gandhi National Open University
- Dhruv Jyoti Pati, Dean, India Today Media Institute
- Sukhnandan Singh, Dean, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya
- Namrata Joshi, Head, Guru Nanak Dev University, Jalandhar