Dr. S. Arulchelvan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Sciences, Anna University, Chennai, India. Earlier, he worked as a Journalist in leading Tamil dailies. He has been awarded FCT Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the University of Aveiro, Portugal and The Graciano Lopez Jaena Fellowship in Community Journalism by the University of Philippines. His specializations are Journalism, Development Communication, Educational Media and Community Media. He has been passionately engaged in several research projects with the support of UNICEF, Government of Tamil Nadu and other agencies and he completed around ten major and minor research projects in the area of communication, development and journalism. He visited more than ten countries for conference presentations and research activities. He is serving as an expert member for various Board of Studies, Journals, and Conferences.