Awards and Fellowships
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Professional Development Award, 2023, The University of Texas at Austin

Graduate School Decentralised Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin

Austin’s Provost Supplement Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin

Thomas Thompson Fellowship, 2023, Moody College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Religion and Media Interest Group Student Paper Award, Detroit, Michigan, the USA

Publication
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Kaliyarakath, R. (2024). The virus and an enemy within: Construction of an invidious news discourse by the mainstream press in India. Discourse & Communication, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241281710

Kaliyarakath, R. (2021). Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media: Information Pathologies. Information, Communication & Society, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2021.1986562 (Book Review)

Conference Papers
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Kaliyarakath, R. (2024, June 20-24). Hate Speech in Mainstream Press under Authoritarian Populist Regimes: Insights from Global South’s Backsliding Democracies. [Paper Presentation]. Annual ICA Conference, Brisbane, Australia

Kaliyarakath, R. (2022, August 3-6). Why anti-misinformation strategies fail: India’s ‘Love Jihad’ and architectural complexities of conspiracy theories. [Paper Presentation]. Annual AEJMC Conference, Detroit, USA

Kaliyarakath, R. (2022, May 26-30). Inequitable News Discourse [Paper Presentation]. Annual ICA Conference, Paris, France

Services
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Reviewer for the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference: Journalism Studies Division (2023, 2024)

Reviewer for the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference: Political Communication Division (2022)

Guest Lectures
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Hate propaganda, Journalism Reform Movements. Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (2021, 2022)

Disinformation Ecosystem and International Fact-checking Efforts. Farook College, India (2022)