Mass Communication

Poster Making competition to celebrate International Women’s Day On 13th March 2023, The Department of Mass Communication organised a Poster making competition on the theme ‘Women and the glass ceiling” as a part of Woman’s Day celebration Ojaswini 2.0. The students of all the semesters of the current batch participated in the competition. Around 150 students participated in the competition and presented their posters in groups; they covered issues ranging from domestic violence to professional challenges that women go through in their daily life. At the department level, it was judged
by the Department faculty members, Ms. Roma (Head of the Department), Prashant Ravi, Ajay Kumar Jha, Divya Gautam, Aprajita Pathak, and Gaurav Aranya.The winners of the competition were: 1st position: Group1 ( Mahi Gautam, Akansha, Sakshi, Ayushi, Vansikha, Kesa), 2nd Position :Group 2 (Shrishti Priya, Aashana Singh, Purnima kumari, Khushi, Avni Anand, Simran) 3rd Position : Group 3 ( Sneha, Anshika, Kajal, Jyoti, Akanksha Singh).

The Department of Mass Communication’s Bi-Annual Publication, ‘The Voice,’ for the academic year 2022-23, was launched on March 14, 2023. The first print was presented by the Head of the Department of Mass Communication, Roma to the Principal of the College, Dr Sister M. Rashmi A. C., Dr Amrita Chowdhury, IQAC Co-ordinator, and A. K. Sinha, Section Officer. Sister Principal congratulated the department on its successful publication and wished them continued success.
Every year, the department’s second-year students produce ‘The Voice’. The four-page broadsheet contains stories from various beats that were reported, edited, and designed by students from Batch 2021-24.
This allows students to broaden their practical knowledge and gain work experience while still in college. They have worked in groups to gather news, edit stories, and design the layout of the newspaper, teaching them teamwork and peer pressure. The faculty members Amitabh Ranjan, Ajay Kumar Jha, Prashant Ravi, Ankita, Divya Gautam, Gaurav Aranya and Aprajita Pathak were also present at the launch.

Guest Lecture on ‘Communicating Fashion: A way ahead’
On 16th March, 2023, A Guest lecture on ‘Communicating Fashion: A way ahead’ was organised by the Department of Mass Communication, Patna Women’s College. The keynote speaker of the lecture was the Centre Co-ordinator and Assistant Professor of the Department of Fashion Communication, NIFT, Patna, Mohammad Shadab Shami. The session began with the introductory speech by the Head of the Department, Mass Communication, Roma followed by the lecture of the speaker. Addressing the students, Md. Shadab Sami focused on explaining the importance of fashion in each one’s life which is just not limited to shoes, clothes or accessories. Fashion is a form of communication which is more of practical and functional than just being theoretical. Anyone who studies or wants to pursue a career in fashion must be acquainted with hand-based and skill-based knowledge. Making his lecture more interactive and understandable for the students, Assistant Professor Sami talked about different tools of fashion communication like pitching, communication designing and story-telling. “The students of Fashion Communication should have the capability of storytelling so that they can pitch in front of any organisation for prospects”, he said. The lecture was not just limited to talks; he showed videos to the students through ICT tools to make it more interesting and involving as Fashion is not just about words but visuals. He presented some of his spectacular works in Fashion Photography during COVID with the help of laser lights, paintings, torches and creative lighting. He suggested the students to check out the excellent works of Nick Knight, a notable Fashion Photographer for better understanding of the subject. He further added, “One should always hope for greater recognition and appreciation but should keep one’s expectations way beyond lesser then only they will get placed in the best places”. He also explained about organizational structure of the Electronic Entertainment Media which includes a Creative Team of Creative Directors, Episode Directors, Show Directors, and Production Team of Supervisors, Executives, Assistants and other people. Towards the end of the lecture, he described Visual Merchandising and its different elements like set designing, space designing, window designing, fashion communication corners, etc to the students who are studying Fashion Communication as a part of their syllabus. The interactive session ended by the vote of thanks by Assistant Professor, Aprajita Pathak. The
lecture was attended by the faculty members Mr Amitabh Ranjan, Mr Prashant Ravi and Mr Gaurav Aranya.

On March 1st, 2023, The Department of Mass Communication in collaboration with the Placement and Career counselling Cell organised a campus placement drive by Dainik Bhaskar.
The final year and pass out students of Mass Communication and Communicative English with Media studies appeared for a screening for the post of Editorial Trainee conducted as part of the placement programme.
The resource person from Bhaskar explained the selection process and the subsequent internship program. Abhishek Prakash, the HR head of Dainik Bhaskar, Bihar gave a presentation on the organisation. He informed the students about the sequence of the internship program.
Following the presentation, the program moved ahead with the screening. The candidates were interviewed one by one by Abhishek Lutoriya, State HR business partner (Bihar and Jharkhand) and Ashish Singh, Product manager.
A total number of 50 Candidates appeared for the screening. Moreover, the organisers informed the students about further selection rounds for the shortlisted candidates.

On Friday, 17th Feb 2023, the Department of Mass Communication, Patna Women’s College organised a guest lecture on ‘Combating gender stereotypes in the development sector’. The lecture was delivered by Dr Shivani Nag, Assistant Professor, School of education studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi. The lecture began with an introduction by Ms Roma, Head, Mass Communication.
Ms Nag threw light on the various facets involving concept of gender and gender stereotyping in her talk. She discussed about an expansive area of gender ranging from enabling workspace for women, safety and freedom in public space etc .
She enlightened the students on how even the development sector is responsible for the extension of gendered role assigned to the women. Even the social sector schemes include marginalised women under the pretext that women are more nurturing as compared to men. “Sectors end up playing on the stereotypes for their own benefits”, said Nag.
Sharing anecdotes from her own student life, Nag talked about the ‘feminization’ of certain fields of education. Her experience in field work, while researching, revealed lack of women friendly public spaces and inadequate infrastructures.
Furthermore, she pointed out how freedom of women is curtailed in the name of safety which was just a manifestation of fear of choice rather than safety.
During the Q&A session, students asked a number of questions regarding gender stereotypes in private and public spaces. Ms. Nag answered questions on internalised sexism, consent and marital rape. At the end she urged the students to be each other’s allies and promote solidarity.
Ms. Divya Gautam, Assistant Professor, delivered the vote of thanks. She emphasised the need to understand the importance of more visibility of women in public space, consent and interpersonal communication.

A photo exhibition under the title, ‘The Imagication – 2023’ on the theme ‘Changing face of my city’ was organised by the Department of Mass Communication. The exhibition displayed 123 pictures clicked by the graduation final year students. The photographs beautifully arrayed the changes the city of Patna has been going through in recent times. The students beautifully captured the new developments of the city which included some of the new architectures, roads and bridges along with establishing the old monuments and infrastructures. Gangapath aka Marine Drive, JP Setu and the bank of Ganges were vividly shown through different pictures.
On the occasion, Principal Dr. Sister M. Rashmi A.C. extended her wishes to the students and congratulated them for their efforts for making it a successful event. The exhibition was inaugurated by slashing of the ribbon by the Head of the Department, Roma and welcoming the guest of honour. Senior photojournalist A.M. Faruqui who acknowledged the work of the students and gave them his feedback individually.
The exhibition has been organised every year since 2016. It was open for students and staff members from all the departments of the college. The students were guided by Assistant Professor, Prashant Ravi throughout the event. The Department faculty members, Ajay Kumar Jha, Ankita, Aprajita Pathak and Gaurav Aranya were also present on the occassion.

The Dept. of Mass Communication organised a value-based education class for the students of semester VI & II on 11th January and sem IV on 17th January 2023. The facilitator for the class were Aprajita Pathak & Gaurav Aranya, Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication. A short video about ‘The Relationship between a father and his adult children (son and daughter-in-law) was shown. The relationship tends to evolve more reciprocally day by day.
Students were taught that when parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, obedient, and humble.
Emphasis was laid on the responsibility of both genders towards their parents.
It was an interactive class where students shared their ideas and notions.

“If I wasn’t from Bihar, I would not be able to become what I am today,” said Panchayat fame actor Chandan Roy in a guest lecture organized by Department of Mass Communication, Patna Women’s College on the topic “The Journey from theatre to OTT platforms” on Monday.
The lecture began with Ms Roma, Head of Department, Mass Communication welcoming Chandan Roy.
Chandan Roy, who gained fame as Vikas Shukla from Panchayat web series, shared struggle filled journey. In the interactive session with students he shared different anecdotes from his life as a student, as a struggler and an actor. He encouraged the students by saying that “You don’t need internet to reach somewhere. I used to cut articles of mass communication from newspapers just in a hope that someday I will need them and it is those articles which have landed me in Mumbai and helped me developing my acting career starting from Patna College to theatre to OTT Platforms”.
Gulmohar, Lakhot, Chuna, Misfits are some of the projects in his sleeves where Vikas Shukla get a new identity.
The faculty members Prashant Ravi, Divya Gautam, Aprajita Pathak and Gaurav Aranya and Enakshi Dey Viswas were also present at the event. The lecture ended by the vote of thanks by Ankita, Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication.

Indian Newspaper Day is celebrated on January 29 every year to commemorate the birth of the first Indian Newspaper, “Hicky’s Bengal Gazette”.Department of Mass Communication organized a poster making competition on ‘The story of Hicky’s Bengal Gazette – India’s First Newspaper ‘ on 28th January 2023. The competition was for 2nd Semester students. The competition was Judged by Ms Roma, Head , Department of Mass Communication & Ms Divya Gautam, Assistant Professor, Mass communication.

Value added class with semester – I

The department of Mass Communication organised a value based education class for the students of semester – I on November 24^th, 2022. The facilitator for the value added class was Ms. Ankita, Assistatnt Professor, department of Mass Communication. The fourteen minutes video dealt with depression among teenagers. The video showed a teenage girl battling within herself because of depression. Her mother was also troubled by the changed behaviour of her daughter. It is when the daughter’s friend stepped in, recognized the issue and encouraged the girl to talk to her mother about it. Her friend suggests her to see a doctor and assured that depression is just like any other disease and people should not hesitate to share their problems to their close ones. The video portrayed the hesitance teenagers have in sharing their problems. The doubt of being judged, not understood, rejected or demeaned by the society stops them from opening up. In such cases it becomes the responsibility of people around them to be sensitive towards them. This was an interactive session where the students also shared their views.

On 21st October 2022, Department of Mass Communication organized an alumni meet ‘The Confluence 2022’ at 12pm in the department. The programme started with a welcome address by Ms. Roma ,Head, Department of Mass Communication. Professor Ameeta Jaiswal, Head of the Department of Philosophy and President of Patna Women’s College Alumni Association was the guest of the meet. She expressed her gratitude to the alumni and the faculty members. She shared information about Patna Women’s College Alumni Association ( PWCAA) and asked the alumnis to register for the same.
She also said the alumnis can contribute to the society by becoming a life time member of PWCAA. At the end she also requested the alumnis to be present in the annual alumni meet of the college which is to be held on 21st December.
The meet included different performances like solo performance, chorus singing and group dance by the students of semester 1st,3rd and 5th. Games were also organized for the alumni which were enjoyed by them. After the performances and games, alumni were invited on the stage to share their college memories and relive the moment.All the faculty members attended the program.
The program was concluded by Ms. Ankita with the vote of thanks.

A guest lecture on ‘Language of Cinema and Satyajit Ray’ was organised by the Department of Mass Communication, Patna Women’s College on September 30, 2022. The speaker for the day was Prashant Ranjan who is a Producer, Director, Assistant Secretary of Cine Society and Convener of Patliputra Cine Society, Patna. Critically reviewed more than 40 films and writer of four books till now, Prashant Ranjan had a rigorous session with the Mass Communication students’ of semester I, III and V and pg diploma students where he briefed the 100 years’ journey of Indian Cinema. Sharing his experiences with the students he discussed about how people are percieving cinema and relating it with their daily life now a days. He added that cinema is gaining more social acceptance and legitimacy. Talking about the millennial film maker and pride of Indian Cinema, Satyajit Ray he focused on Ray’s style of film making. The lecture also had instances from German Expressionism and Neo-realism, Ray’s inspiration of films. Satyajit Ray’s ‘Two’ was screened for the students. He said that in India film is a celebration of life more than language, art form or business. He encouraged students to watch cinema.
The lecture was attended by the Head of the department, Ms Roma, faculty members Ajay Kumar Jha, Prashant Ravi, Ankita, Divya Gautam and Gaurav Aranya.

The Dept. of Mass Communication organized a value based education class on the topic ‘Never break the trust of your loved ones’ for the students of semester V, III and I on 07th September 2022. The facilitator for Sem V was Ms. Ankita, Sem III was Ms. Roma and Sem I was Mr. Gaurav Aranya, Assistant Professors, Department of Mass Communication, Patna Women’s College.
Students were shown a 5 minute small video in which a strong message was given that one should never lie to their parents or break their trust. Parents are the ones who selflessly work towards their children to give the best life to them.
Altogether, it was an interactive class where students also shared their ideas and notions.

The Department of Mass Communication,Patna Women’s College in collaboration with Centre for National, International collaborations and consultancy services (NICCS)organized an Inter-College Mobile Journalism (MOJO) Competition on the topic ‘Role of Technology in Freedom of Expression’ on 29th August 2022.
The result declaration of the competition was conducted on 31st August 2022 in the Mother Veronica Hall of the college.
The program was inaugurated by Ms. Roma, Head of the Department of Mass Communication where she conveyed her best wishes to the participants.
After the screening 24 best videos out of 54 were selected to be displayed and judged. The participants of this competition shot their videos in the college premises and the students of the other colleges sent their videos via e-mail.

Out of 24 participants who reach to the final round,the first position was bagged by Prerna Sharma, sem V , student of Mass Communication, Humaira Azeem,Sem V,CEMS dept was on the second position. And third position was a tally with 3 students where Shweta Shree and Shambhavi of Mass Communication and Pragya Priyadarshini of English Department won.

The competition was judged by Mr. Amitabh Ranjan, Assistant Professor, CEMS Dept, Mr Prashant Ravi, Assistant Professor, Amity University Patna, Mr Ajay Kumar Jha, Assistant Professor,Mass Communication, Patna Women’s College.

The Judges also shared their views. Mr. Amitabh Ranjan enlightened the participants about the Role of Technology in Freedom of Expression.
He shared his experiences which he has faced in Freedom of Expression. He told all of the students about Gay Tellies, New Journalism which were very helpful and illuminating for the students. Mr. Prashant Ravi, Asst. Professor, Department of Mass Communication shared his thoughts in which he advised them to first research properly and then execute. He also told that today’s people are involved more in Reels and Social Media show off rather than the activities for the good of people. Mr. Ajay Kumar Jha, Asst. Professor, Department of Mass Communication shared his technical skills and suggestions about Mobile Journalism. He described how technology has evolved and could go beyond limits, what we couldn’t even imagine of.

The program was anchored by Vanshika Krishna and Aditya Raushan and vote of thanks was given by Kesa Haider, the students of sem V.

The faculty members of the Department Ms.Ankita, Ms.Divya Gautam, Ms.Aprajita Pathak & Mr.Gaurav Aranya attended the program.

A guest lecture on ‘Changing trends in Media Consumption’ was organised by the Department of Mass Communication, Patna Women’s College on 22nd September 2022. The keynote speaker for the lecture was Editor, News 18, Bihar& Jharkhand, Prabhakar Kumar. The lecture was attended by the undergraduate and post graduate diploma students of Mass Communication. Speaking on the occassion, Mr Kumar shared his field experience with the students alongwith providing them an insight of ownership and revenue in media, ground reporting, alternative media and changes in media consumption. The session was quite interactive where Mr Kumar answered the queries of the students. He encouraged the students to follow their interests. Also, he added that new media is the emerging face of journalism and students today must be updated to pursue their career in journalism and media.
The session was attended by the Head of the Department, Ms Roma, and faculty members, Ajay Kumar Jha, Prashant Ravi, Ankita, Divya Gautam and Gaurav Aranya.

SPEECH COMPETITION

A speech competition was organised by the department of Mass Communication in collaboration with All India Radio, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt of India to mark ‘ Aazadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

SPEECH COMPETITION

A speech competition was organised by the department of Mass Communication in collaboration with All India Radio, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt of India to mark ‘ Aazadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.