Print media and electronic media: implications for the future

Jitendra Kumar Sharma obtained his doctorate under the direction of Canadian Media Tinker, Marchall Mcluhan, and was associated with Mcluhan’s Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto. Guelph and McGill Universities. He has been a visitsing Professosr at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and at present, he is an Academic Counsellor with the Indira Gandhi National Open University Study Centre at Rohini, New Delhi. E has authored India Unbound, Time and T.S. Eliot, Doctor Faustus: A Vedantist Interpretation, Divided Lands of Asia, and Ethics of Journalism in Transition. He has published essays in leading scholarly academic journals in India, Europe and the USA. Professor Sharma is an advocate of interaction between education and technology, and has introduced innovative techniques for imparting training to professional groups, including politicians and administrators in the pioneering days when communication was not a descipline in the Indian universities. He is a freelance journalist and has contributed editorial page articles to leading dailies such as the Hindustan Times, the Statesman, Hamilton Spectator and to political weeklies. He has visited more than sixty countries of the world and organized for a for advancement of human rights.