Mr. Denmark Shan (Shanmuham Subramaniam), a senior filmmaker and the director of the recent popular Tamil film ‘Nerunchimul’ shared his filmmaking experiences with the Media Studies students on the 8th of December 2022. The students gathered valuable insights on filmmaking in the local context through this sharing session.
Parallel to the launch of ‘Integrated Newsroom’ at the Media Lab of the Department of Media Studies, Media Students of the University of Jaffna launched their media products through the exhibition at the Lobby of the Faculty of Arts building and created dialogue on the themes such as freedom of expression, digital citizenship, gender and right to information on the 6th of…
The event to officially launch the ‘Integrated Newsroom’, a novel idea to provide the exposure and training to the Media Studies students on print, electronic and new media under one umbrella at the University of Jaffna took place on the 6th of December 2022. The Newsroom has been established as per the MoU signed between the HELVETAS Intercooperation gGmbH Sri Lanka…
The students from Department of Media Studies at the University of Jaffna underwent a refresher training on the module developed under the project InSPIRE on the 5th of December 2022 at Hotel Tilko in Jaffna. They learned theoretical aspects on Freedom of Expression, Right to information, digital citizenship and, women in new media. The program was facilitated by Isbahan Sarfdeen.
Media students of Jaffna university launched their media products inside the incubator spaces and created dialogue on the themes such as freedom of expression, digital citizenship, gender in new media and right to information on the 5th of December 2022 at the Media Lab of the Media Studies.The activity is implemented as part of Incubator spaces for Promoting Information Rights and…
As per the MoU signed with the Center for Media and Information Literacy (CMIL), selected female students from Media Studies participated in the three days workshop which is part of the initiative called Film for Equality (F4E) aims to advocate for human rights of women and young girls through Mobile Short Films. The workshop was conducted by the CMIL at the…
Mr. Ranjith Joseph, Filmmaker of 'Sinam kol' (சினம் கொள்), a full-length feature film in Tamil participated in a sharing Session with the Media Studies students on the 25th of November 2022 at the Library Auditorium, University of Jaffna. Following the screening of the movie 'Sinam kol' (சினம் கொள்), Mr. Ranjith and Mr. Theepachelvan, the Dialogue Writer of the film answered the questions from the…
Fourteen documentary films produced by the Media Studies students on different themes were screened on the 22nd of November 2022 at the Kailasapathy Auditorium, University of Jaffna. The documentary films were produced in a systematic way as an outcome of the course unit ‘Film and Television Production Technologies’ at the third year of studies. ‘கடல்விளை அமுதம்’ : The present condition of…
The selected students of Media Studies rendered their services as resource persons in school-based prevention programs on alcohol and drugs in Jaffna district schools. The Alcohol and Drug Information Center (ADIC) trained the students and made the organization the school-based prevention programme. The students along with ADIC officials successfully conducted the prevention programmes on the 3rd, 4th and 9th of November…
The recently initiated short course on parliamentary functions and procedures by the Parliament of Sri Lanka for Universities was introduced to the Media Studies students.The inauguration of the course was held on the 31st of October 2022 at the University of Jaffna. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna Professor S. Srisatkunarajah thanked the Parliament for organizing such a course and…