May Jacob

M.Sc in Communication Studies, MA in International Communciations

Position: PhD Student

Email: ics5mj[at]leeds.ac.uk, M.Jacob[at]leeds.ac.uk
Location: Houldsworth Building
 May Jacob
After an under-graduate degree and masters degree in Business Studies and Communication Studies respectively, I joined the Institute of Communication Studies for an MA degree in International Communications for a more critical approach to communications research. I have now returned to pursue my Doctoral studies at ICS.

My MA dissertation was an inquiry into e-learning and internet usage amongst the Pakistani Muslim community in Bradford. This furthered my interest in the community and their sense of identity especially amongst second generation Muslim women in Britain. The research Im undertaking focuses on the interactions of Pakistani Muslim women with Information and Communication technology and how this leads to construction of identity; national, cultural et al. This project focuses on women from ethnic communities, and their uses of information and communication technologies with specific reference to new media and domesticity. These spheres of activity will, in the long run reveal more about the behaviour of social groups as the subaltern in contested spaces. The domestic and prosaic details, especially within communities that have been estranged from one situation and forced/moved into another, will divulge much about marginalisation, identity creation and cultural paradoxes. Supervisors: Dr. Myria Georgiou and Dr. Juliet Lodge

I am in the initial stages of my research- compiling my literature review and getting key concepts ironed out without losing focus is where I am at!