Dr. Nimmagadda Bhargav is a faculty member in the Communications Area. Prior to joining IIM Indore, Bhargav taught communication theory and media practice courses at Manipal Institute of Communication, Manipal.
In addition to holding doctoral and master’s level research degrees in Communication Studies and Social Sciences, respectively, from the University of Hyderabad, he has worked as a journalist in both the editorial and reporting sections of national English language dailies.
As a postdoctoral Research Assistant, Bhargav was part of a UKRI-funded research project – “Framing the Nation: Citizenship, Conflict, and the Media in Contemporary India”, with Loughborough University as the lead research organisation.
Specialising in Media Sociology, his broader research interests fall in the overlapping areas of economics, geography, and communication and digital media studies in India and the Global South.
His decade-long ethnographic work is now a monograph – Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-town India (2023) – published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis), UK.
