Harsha Man Maharjan, PhD GPO Box 13470, 27 JeetJung Marg, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: +977-1-4238050 (Off.), +977-9841649915 (Mob.), +977-1-4334591 (Res.) Email: harsha.maharjan@gmail.com Current positions Senior Researcher, Material Transformation/Media Research Unit, Martin Chautari Education 2019 2007 2005 2001 PhD from Kyoto University, Japan. MA (Journalism and Mass Communication), Ratna Rajya Laxmi (R.R.) Campus, Kathmandu. BA (Journalism […]
Harsha Man Maharjan, PhD
GPO Box 13470, 27 JeetJung Marg, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: +977-1-4238050 (Off.), +977-9841649915 (Mob.), +977-1-4334591 (Res.) Email: harsha.maharjan@gmail.com
Current positions
Senior Researcher, Material Transformation/Media Research Unit, Martin Chautari
Education
2019 2007
2005 2001
PhD from Kyoto University, Japan.
MA (Journalism and Mass Communication), Ratna Rajya Laxmi (R.R.)
Campus, Kathmandu.
BA (Journalism and Mass Communication, Major English), R.R. Campus.
IA (Journalism and Mass Communication, Major English and Economics), R.R. Campus.
Training
2014 Training on Research Relevant to Broadband Policy and Regulatory Processesprovided by byLIRNEasia with the support of the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, India August 19-22.
2011 Training on Writing Research Papers in English Course delivered by Leading Edge in collaboration with SNV Nepal from 14-18 March.
2010 Social Inclusion Research Seminar Series II: Social Research Methodology and Filed Work organized by Social Inclusion Research Fund (SIRF)/ SNV and Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University form 3-5 October.
Working Experience
2020-2021 A member of team formed to revise and update MA in Mass Communication and Journalism, PU course
2021
2021
Lecturer in Madan Bhandari Memorial College Teaching: Introduction to Mass Communication Theory
Lecturer in Polygon College Teaching: Thesis Writing
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2012
2012 2012
2012 2011
2010 2010
2009 2005
2004 2004
Mass Communication Theories and Practices
Desk review (Media laws and their implications for media in Nepal) for Media & the Nepali Public: Survey Assessments of Media Capacity, Credibility and Media Literacy. Media Foundation- Nepal.
Course designing of Peace, Conflict and Media for Mid-western University, Nepal.
Academic Visitor at Department of South Asia,School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, from 15 February-15 March 2012.
Teaching Introduction to Mass Communication and Journalism, BA at College of Journalism and Mass Communication (CJMC), Kathmandu for a semester.
Being a resource person on Bibliography, Reference and Work Cited under the course, Study and Research in Diversity and Pluralism for Education fellows at Martin Chautari on 18 January.
Being a resource person on Content Analysis under the course, Study and Research in Diversity and Pluralism for Education fellows at Martin Chautari on 11 April.
Being a resource person on Bibliography, Reference and Work Cited under the course, Study and Research in Diversity and Pluralism for Education fellows at Martin Chautari on 9 February.
Being a resource person on Content Analysis under the course, Study and Research in Diversity and Pluralism for Education fellows at Martin Chautari on 13 April.
Internship for Academic Course in Kirtipur Darpan, a Nepali weekly at Kirtipur for four months to fulfillment of the requirement for the functional paper for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Internship for Academic Course in The Rising Nepal in 2004 for four months in fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC- 303, 2nd Paper),
Engaged as a reporter in Lakas, the first Newar Weekly from Kirtipur in 2001-2002.
Award and Scholarship
2015-2019 Monbukagakusho (Mext) Scholarship from the Japanese Government to do Phd in Kyoto University.
2014 Policy Research Fellowship 2014 from Alliance for Social Dialogue to conduct research on the distribution of governmental public welfare advertisement in Nepal.
2010 Research Apprenticeship of Social Inclusion Research Fund for the research title A Comparative Study of Adhivasi Janajati Issues in
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Gorkhapatra and Newari Print Media after Referendum in Nepal (1980- 1990)
Publications
Authored
2020 Background and Process of the Making of Electronic Transaction Act, 2063 v.s. (Research brief, in Nepali)
2014 Rethinking Pubic Welfare Advertisement in Nepal: From Media Welfare to Public Welfare (discussion paper).
Books Co-authored
2010 Media Training: Evaluation of Nepali Practices (In Nepali). Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.
2009 Radio Network (In Nepali). Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.
Books/Journals Co-edited
2020 Samaj Adhyayan (In Nepali) 16. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.
2020 Civil Society in Democracy: Review of 25 Years (In Nepali). Kathmandu: Martin
Chautari.
2015 Media Adhyayan (Media Studies) 10(In Nepali). Kathmandu: Martin Chautari. 2014 Media Adhyayan (Media Studies) 9(In Nepali). Kathmandu: Bhrikuti Academic
Publications.
2013 Twenty Five Years of Nepali Magazine (In Nepali). Kathmandu: Martin
Chautari (co-edited)
2013 Media Adhyayan(Media Studies) 8(In Nepali). Kathmandu: Martin Chautari 2012 Media Adhyayan(Media Studies) 7(In Nepali). Kathmandu: Martin Chautari. 2011 Media Adhyayan (Media Studies) 6(In Nepali). Kathmandu:MartinChautari. 2008 Inclusive Media (In Nepali). Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2020 Civil Society : Concept and Nepali Practice. In Civil Society in Democracy: Review of 25 Years, pp. 3-41 (In Nepali).
2020 Federation of Nepali Journalists, Media Movement, and International Media Assistance. In Civil Society in Democracy: Review of 25 Years, pp. 211-238 (In Nepali).
2018 ‘We the Janajatis’: Activism of Inap Weekly for Newars and Pan-Janjati Movement in Nepal (1980-1990). In Conference Proceedings 2012., 121-146. Kathmandu: Social Science Baha.
2017 Vote for Prashant Tamang: Representations of an Indian Idol in the Nepali Print Media and the Retreat of Multiculturalism. In Political Change and Public Culture in Post- 1990 Nepal. Edited by Michael Hutt and Pratyoush Onta. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press.
2015 Nepali Policies Related to the Internet: A Commentary. Media Adhyayan 10: 119-140 (In Nepali, co-authored with Yogesh Raj).
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2014 Management of Intellectuals in New Polity: Relationship among Panchayat System, Writers and Ramjham. Media Adyayan 9: 25-53. (In Nepali)
2014 Linguistic and Cultural Activism of Inap: A Search for Cultural andLinguistic Recognition. In Citizen, Society & State: Crating an InclusiveFuture for Nepal. Pp. 49- 70.
2013 ‘Maoist Magazines’: Entangled Relation between Market and Party. In 25 Years of Nepali Magazines. Pp. 121-157. (in Nepali).
2013 Introduction: Nepali Magazines since 1990. In 25 Years of Nepali Magazines .pp. Pp. 1-26. (in Nepali).
2013 An Attempted Assassination of a Journalist: Rethinking Periodization in Nepali Journalism Historiography. In Ruptures and Repairs in South Asia: Historical Perspectives. Edited by Yogesh Raj, pp. 103-121.
2012 Vote for Prashant Tamang: Representations of an Indian Idol in the Nepali Print Media and the Retreat of Multiculturalism. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 41: 30-57.
2011 Machinery of State Control: History of Cinema Censor Board in Nepal. Bodhi 4(1): 168-190.
2010 Evolution of Film Industry in Nepal: A Story of Rise and Fall of Royal Nepal Film Corporation (In Nepali). Media Adhyayan 5: 135-174.
2009 Politics of the Concept of “Communications for Development” in Panchayat System (In Nepali). Media Adhyayan 4: 113-138.
2008. Comment on High Level Media Suggestion Commission’s Recommendation on State- owned Media (In Nepali). Media Adhyayan 3:253-275.
2005 Relation with Radio. In Growing with Radio: Experience of ThreeGeneration (In Nepali), pp. 390-394. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.
Bibliographies
2020 Digital Rights Bibliography (Co-compiled)
2019 Civil Society in Nepal: A Selective Bibliography (Co-compiled).
2019 Shiva RegmikaPrakashitPustak: EkSuchi.
2017 Author Index of Writings Published in Vasudha (Co-complied).
2015 PanchayatiVyavasthama Nepali MidiyasambandhiLekhani: EkSandarbhasuchi
[Writings on Nepali Media during Panchayat Period: A Bibliography
2014 Writings on the Internet in Nepal: A Bibliography.
2013 Bibliography of Writings on Journalism and Mass Communication/MediaEducation in
Nepal.
2012 NepalmaBikasSancharbareSandharbhasuchi [Bibliography of Developmen
Communication in Nepal].
2012 Nepali Gairsahityik Magazine: SandarbhaSuchi [Nepali Non-literaryMagazine: A
Bibliography]work)
2010 Online Media in Nepal: A Bibliography (In Nepali). Media Adhyayan 5:335-350. 2007 Press Freedom in Nepal: A Bibliography (In Nepali). Media Adhayan 2:319-352. 2005 Updated Bibliography on Nepali Women. Studies in Nepali History and Society 10(1):
181-258
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Unpublished Report/Thesis/Dissertation
2019 2011
2011
2010
Digital Transitions and the Making of Online Newspapers in Nepal. PhD dissertation, Kyoto University.
‘They’ vs ‘We’: A Comparative Study on Representation of Adivasi Janajati Issues in Gorkhapatra and Nepal Bhasa Print Media in the Post Referendum Nepal (1979-1990). Submitted to Social Inclusion Research Fund.
Politics of ‘Communications for Development’: Intentions of National Communication Service Plans 1971 and Its Consequences on Three National Communication Institutions in Nepal (1971-1990). MA Thesis, Tribhuvan University.
Media Training Trends and Practices in Nepal: A Status Report. Unpublished report submitted to OSI. (co-authored).
Popular Articles
2022 Promotion Of Media Journals Essential. The Rising Nepal. January 01, p.4.
2021 Need To Strengthen Media Studies. The Rising Nepal, December 04, p. 4.
2021 Why We Need Bibliographies ? (In Nepali ) Himal, October 31
2021 Importance Of Bibliographies In Media Studies. The Rising Nepal, October 02, p. 4. 2021 Panday: Nepal’s First Media Bibliographer. The Rising Nepal, September 4, p.4. 2021 Expanding Digital Spaces for Deliberations. Medium, August 7.
2021 The Infatuation Towards ‘Smart’ Concept. The Rising Nepal, July 3, p. 4.
2021 Role Of Audience In Media Accountability. The Rising Nepal, June 5, p.4.
2021 Safeguarding Privacy In The Digital World. The Rising Nepal, May 1, p.4.
2021 Tek Bahadur Khatri: An Early Media Historian. The Rising Nepal, April 3, p. 4.
2021 Privacy, Security Issues Of National ID Card. The Rising Nepal, March 6, p. 4.
2021 A Proposal to Improve Media Studies Curricula. The Rising Nepal, February 6, p. 4. 2021 Public Access to News Media Data in Nepal. The Rising Nepal. January 2, p. 4. 2020 Digital Media in Social Science Curricula. The Rising Nepal. December 5, p. 4.
2020 Pathyakramma Aba Digital Media (Digital Media in Curricula Now). NayaPatrika, Poush 10, p. 6.
2020 Kamal Dixit’s Contribution in Media Research. The Rising Nepal, November 7, p. 4. 5
2020 Management of YouTubers(In Nepali). Kantipur, October 14, p. 7.
2020 Governing YouTubers To Curb Fake Information. The Rising Nepal, 3 October, p.4. 2020 Shiva Regmi: Ek Samdachitra, Tin Adhyaya. Himalkhabar. 1 Asoj.
2020 Sharadchandra Sharma’s Contribution In Media Research. The Rising Nepal, 5 September, p. 4.
2020 Online School Education and Digital Literacy. The Rising Nepal, 4 August, p. 4.
2020 Remedies For Coronavirus-Hit Nepali Media Industry. The Rising Nepal, 11 July, p.4.
2020 Fact Checking In Time Of Corona Pandemic. The Rising Nepal, 6 June, p.4.
2020 Condition of Media Workers in COVID-19 Crisis. The Rising Nepal, 2 May, p.4.
2020 Media and Pandemic (In Nepali). Annapurna Post, 29 Chait, p.6. http://annapurnapost.com/news/152939.
2020 Grishma Bahadur Devkota’s Magnum Opus. The Rising Nepal, 4 April, p 4
2020 Notable Collector Of Historical Periodicals. The Rising Nepal, 07 March, p 4
2020 Shiva Regmi’s Contributions In Media Research. The Rising Nepal, 1 February, p. 4. 2020 Rethinking Media Studies Research. The Rising Nepal, 4 January, p. 4.
2020 Vinaya Kasajoo: A Believer In Media Power. The Rising Nepal, 7 December, p. 4. 2019 Danish Aid in Nepal’s Media Sector. The Rising Nepal, November 2, p. 4.
2019 Press Commission Recommendations. The Rising Nepal, 5 October, P.4.
2019 Publicity Of Wifi Hotspots. The Rising Nepal, 7 September, p. 4.
2019 Digital Archive of News Media. The Rising Nepal, 3 August, p. 4.
2019 Question of Media Monopoly and Concentration (In Nepali), Annapurna Post, 7 July 2019 Issues on Smart Cities, The Rising Nepal, 6 July, 2019. P. 4.
2019 What about Multiple Media Council,The Rising Nepal, 1 June, p. 4.
2019 Future of Online in Nepal (in Nepali). Gorkhapatra, 8 May.
2019 Gorkhapatra’s Technological Transformation, The Rising Nepal, 7May, p. 7.
2019 In Memory of Untiring Researcher (Obituary of Shiva Regmi in Nepali), Nepal,
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2006 2006 2006 2006
2014 A Brief Biography. Bishwabandhu Thapa: Krantidekhi Krantisamma by Binod Sijapati. Nepal 15(15): 46. (In Nepali).
2011 A Compassionate Journalist: The Life and Times of Bharat Dutta Koirala by Dharma Adhikari. Studies in Nepali History and Society 16(1): 175-78.
2009 AsrallaSamjhana (Scattered Remembrance), Tesbelako Patrakarita(Journalism of that Time) by Ghana Nath Ojha and Bhairab Risal. Nagarik, 27 June(13 Asar), p. ka. (In Nepali)
2006 Janamukhi Media KoWakalat. Vinaya Kasajoo’s book Media Ko Loktantrikaran., Mulyankan, Kartik-Mangsir 2063, no. 146. (In Nepali)
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Tale-Tell: What Does Hyperlink Tell Us About Nepali Online Journalism?, Medium, 27 February.
The Road Map of Nepal Media Society (In Nepal), Annapurna Today
Utopian visions (joint article with Yogesh Raj and Shailesh Pandey), The Kathmandu Post,
27 August.
Analyzing Samhita(In Nepali). Samhita 20: 30-39.
Act Now: Real Implementation of Gorkhapatra Corporation Act 1963. Republica, 14 May, p.11.
Snip this: Clip that: The Politics of Nepal’s Censor Board. Republica, 16 April, p. 10. Availability of Books on Mass Media (in Nepali). Annapurna Post, 9 Feb, p. 2.
Road Ahead for Alternative Book Fair. Republica, 24 December, p. 5.
Journalism Education in Doldrums. The Kathmadu Post, 4 December, p. 6.
Hard to Get. The Kathmandu Post, 19 September, p. 1.
Making and Unmaking of Development Communication in Nepal. The Kathmandu Post,
30 August, p. 7.
Media Literacy and Democracy in Nepal (In Nepali). Mulyankan,Saun, pp.40-41. High Level Media Commission in Practice (In Nepali). Kantipur, 19 September, p. 6. Road of Book Fair (In Nepali). Kantipur, June 11, p 7.
Book and Censorship (In Nepali). Kantipur 25 March. Book Reviews
Presentation/Conferences/Seminars
2021 Policy Process of Electronic Transaction Act, 2063 v.s (In Nepali), December 12. 2021 Digital Rights in Nepali National Policy (In Nepali), 4 May.
2021 Bibliography. Martin Chautari Seminar, September 29.
2021 Digital Media Accountability: Audience Participation on Social Media, Online Violence against Media and a Critical Incident from Nepal”. A paper presented online at IAMCR Conference 2021 under Audience Section from 11-15 July.
2021 ” No Policy without Us: Dominant Stakeholders and Making of Media Policy Drafts in Nepal “. A paper presented at a pre-conference, “Institutions, Interventions, Transgressions: Glocal Media Policies and Praxis from South Asia”, organized by the Global Media Policy Working Group of IAMC, July 10.
2019 From Media Accountability to Violence: Audience Participation and Opposition in the Proposed LED Bulb Procurement Episode on Social Media. A paper presented at The Eighth Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya, 24-26, July, at Kathmandu.
2019 The Digital Archives of Nepali Newspapers. Presentation in a seminar on Archives Related to Research on Nepali History, organized by Martin Chautari on 21 July.
2019 Introduction, Methodology, Literature Review. Presentation in Journal Article Writing Training/Workshopcoorganized by JanamaitriMutiple Campus and Martin Chautari on 13 July.
2019 Digital Transitions of a Public News Media: A Case of Gorkhapatra Corporation. Research seminar at Martin Chautari on 7 May.
2019 Ethics of Information Abundance: Recycling Nepali Newspaper Archive Content on Social Media. A paper presented in Chautari Annual Conference-2019.
2018 Digital Transition of Nepali News Media: A Case of Kantipur Publications, Chautari Sunday Seminar on 20 May.
2018 Typewriters in Newsrooms: Writing Machine and Writing Culture in Nepal, March 18, 4th Nepal and Himalayan Studies Seminar, Kyoto University.
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2018 Online Newspapers in Nepal and the Emergence of ‘Merely Digital Presence’ in the 1990s.Young Scholars International Workshop on Transdisciplinary Approaches to Asian and African Area Studies on15 January, Kyoto University.
2017 My Rite to Passage: From Zero to Final Draft of an Article, Research and Writing: Orientation Workshop on 17-18 September.
2017 The Trend of Studies Related to Online Newspapers in Nepal. A paper presented in Program on Practices of Online Newspapers and Its Research in Nepal, organized by Martin Chautari on 14 September.
2017 Making a Brand Product: Nepali Newspapers on the Net in the 1990.Chautari Annual Conference ‐ 2017
2016 Stakeholder Participation in Policy Process: Making of Media Policy Drafts in Nepal (2012-2013).Frontiers in Himalayan Area Studies, The 8th KINDAS International Seminar,16 February.
2015 Rise and Fall of High Level Information Technology Commission in Nepal. A paper presented at the Fourth Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya 22 to 24 July, Kathmandu.
2014 Holding Stake or Power: Stakeholder Participation in Nepal and Making of Media Policy Drafts (2012-2013).A paper presented at the Third Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya 23-25 July, 2014, Kathmandu.
2012 ‘Maoist Magazines’: Relation between Market and Political Party. A paper co- presented at the’ workshop on Media Research’ co-organized by Martin Chautari and Kathmandu University on 10 September in Kathmandu.
2012 The Attempted Assassination of PadamThakurathi in 1986: Rethinking Periodization in Nepali Media Historiography. A paper presented at the workshop on ‘Ruptures and Repairs in Nepali History’ co-organized by Martin Chautari, Central Department of History, Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu Nepal and Kyoto University on 19-20 August 2012 in Kathmandu, Nepal.
2012 ‘We the Janajatis’: Activism of Inap Weekly for Newars and other Janajatis during the Decade of the ‘Reformed Panchayat’, 1982-1990. A paper presented at Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya 18-22 July, 2012, Kathmandu.
2012 Vote For Prashant Tamang: Representation of an Indian Idolin the Nepali Print Media and Manufacturing of a Nepali“National Identity”. A paper presented at Oxford seminar on 13 March.
2012 Vote For Prashant Tamang: Representation of an Indian Idolin the Nepali Print Media and Manufacturing of a Nepali“National Identity”. A paper presented at SOAS, London seminar on 7 March.
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2012 Lecture on State of News Media in Nepal: Scenario and Trends, at SOAS for ‘Society, Culture and Politics in Nepal’ undergraduate class on 28 February.
2012 Lecture on Chaos or Rebuilding: Some Trends of Nepali Media in the Post Conflict Situation at SOAS, for ‘Culture and Conflict in the Himalaya’ MA class on 23 February.
2011 Countering Exclusion in Reformed Panchayat System in Nepal: A Case Study of Portrayals of Adivasi Janajati in Nepal Bhasa Weekly Inap (1982-1990). A paper presented at the University of Delhi on Structures of Exclusion, organized by the Indian Formation Research Society, 23-25 Nov.
2011 Resurgence of ‘Nepali National Identity’ in the Age of Identity Politics and Media Globalization: Prashant Tamang’s Performance in Indian Idol 3 and Discourses in Nepali Print Media. A paper presented at the Kathmandu workshop on ‘Creation of Public Meaning during Nepal’s Democratic Transition’ (4-5 September 2011)
2011 Politics of Melodrama: Discourses of Modernity and Tradition in State-made Cinemas in Nepal (1973-1990). A paper presented at 24th conference of IAMHIST on Media History and Cultural Memory, 6-10 July, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2011 Propaganda of Panchayat System: A Story of Magazine Ramjham(1974-1990). A paper presented at Second Media Conference 2011 organized by Martin Chautari on 27 March.
2011 Politics of ‘Communication for Development’. Intentions and Consequences of the National Communication Services Plan 1971 in Nepal (1970-1990). A paper presented at the Winter School of ETH, Zurich on Historical Development Experiences organized from 23 -28 January.
2010 The History of Life and Death of Royal Nepal Film Corporation. A paper presented at Media Research Conference 2010 organized by Martin Chautari on 26 March.
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