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Friday, May 27, 2011

Media Studies in Kitchen

LEARN MEDIA STUDIES THROUGH MAKING FOOD IN YOUR KITCHEN

Ratheesh Kaliyadan
Can you believe it? Learn journalism by making varieties of food in your kitchen! This is an interesting question that I faced while I suggested to gather information about traditional food items in Thalassery. Journalism students of Govt. Girls Higher Secondary School, Thalassery begin their enquiry.

What is the relationship between eating and media studies? If you have a proven think about your aim, there is a link. That link is the strength of our new project to gather information about indigenous know-hows on traditional food items of Thalassery.

What we will do is a simple exercise. Visit grandmas and grandpas. After melting the ice burg, open up minds and share what they ate and eat. Assembling the first hand information, we will prepare pieces of How to do it articles.

The how to do it articles will help us to go further. The next step is preparation of features on special dishes and personalities. Through these exercises, the learners will be introduced the world of feature writing. Theoretical and technical aspects of features and how to do articles are discussed in detail. Also we will prepare certain hard stories regarding food court, exhibition, bakeries etc. inverted pyramid and related theories are familiarized.

The major tool used for the stories is interview. Interview technics, kinds of interviews, role of homework for interviews and other aspects will be covered here.

On the analytical part, we will try to analyses the food tradition on the background of cultural differences. Also the learners get a chance to compare the present food system and the traditional ones. We feel that food cult is a reflection of the cult of the community. Also we hope food can be an indicator of historical research. The politics of food is an interesting thing for analytical journalists. Alas! We are here in the kitchen to learn media studies.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

AUTHOR SUPPORT SCHEME

 AUTHOR SUPPORT SCHEME
Media Analysis  Research Center is a non-profit platform of mediamates and communication experts. Registered under Indian Trust Act 1882 on March 25, 2008. Reg No. 45/2008/BK IV.
Part of NGO partnership program of Planning board, Govt. of India. Member, Indian Chamber of Non-Government Organizations, Delhi.
Being a research organization, we focus on academic activities, documentation and activists supporting initiatives.
Media Analysis & Research Center's Author Support Scheme is a unique scheme to support new writers and new creations. Novel ideas are promoted through this programme. The programme is an author-MARC participatory venture to publish innovative books. Being an academic community, we concentrate on publication of authentic books. On the sale of the books, an author/ distributor will get 40% and 10% of the MRP as commission and royalty respectively. Also the author will get a special royalty decided by the MARC team.

• Any author of an authentic book can send a hard copy and a soft copy of the book to the director. The MARC selection committee of will scrutinize the work.

• After the completion of the scrutiny, the author will be informed whether the book is accepted for publication or not.

• If the book is accepted, author will be informed the same. The author can expect the book within three months.

• The author should advance the actual production cost. It would be reimbursed after 60% of the copies are sold out.

• Copy right of the book is solemnly vested to MARC forever. All rights regarding the book will be reserved. No part of the material may be reproduced in any form without special permission from the copy right owner.

• The author will get a special royalty for reserving the copy right. The amount will be decided by the MARC team.

• The author will get 10 copies of the published work at free of cost as author’s copy. MARC will use 100 copies at free of cost for review/introduction and file purposes.

• Sale/distribution of the book will be a mutual responsibility of the author and the MARC. Both should make initiatives to sell the copies.

• The author is awarded 10% of the total sale as royalty in each edition.

• If the author initiates for distribution, 40% is deducted on the MRP as commission.

• For book sellers/agents/distributors will get up to 50% as commission for bulk sale. The rate of commission will be fixed time to time considering the volume of books use to distribute.

• If 40% and more copies are pending for sale after one year of publication, the author is responsible for the dead stock. Such stocks should be cleared by paying 50% of the MRP.

• For authors from Lakshadweep, 50% of MRP of the total number of books published will be paid in advance and deliver the copies. We will try to arrange special representatives for distribution in islands. Commission for the represents, accommodation and other facilities are fixed on the basis of discussion.