Current Areas of Research Interest

Media Semiotics, Culture Studies, Visual Culture, Sociology, Film and Television Studies, Indian Music, Language Variation, Gender Studies

Teaching Experience:

1. Asst. Professor – Department of Mass Communication, School of Arts, Humanities and Commerce, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Coimbatore Campus (September 2021-August 2025)
2. Asst. Professor – Department of Visual Communication, Guru Nank College (2014-2015)
   

Invited Lectures:

1. Resource person, Orientation Lecture on “Composing in Carnatic Music as an Extension of Manodhamra”, Department of Music, Kannur University, September 2025
2. Panel Discussion on AI and Media for International Conference onMedia and Responsibility, for Department of Visual Communication,DG Vaishnav College, Chennai, 12th March 2025
3. Lecture on “Cultural aspects of Music” for The Department of Musicand Research Centre, Government College Chittoor, Palakkad, 22ndFebruary 2025
4. Lecture on “Research in Cultural Heritage: Scope for EngineeringIntervention” for the ICSSR sponsored workshop on School of IndianKnowledge system and Engineering Research, Indian Institute ofInformation Technology (IIIT), Kottayam, 19th July 2023.
5. Lecture on “Transcending Borders: Reassessing the Media Sphere”for the Annual International Symposium on Media and EducationResearch, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi Campus, Kerala, 23rdMarch 2023.
   

Memberships:

1. Semiotic Society of America (Annual Member)
2. IAMCR (Annual Member)

Recipient of the Research Fellowship (2022-23) from the Centre of Cultural Resources and Training – under the Ministry of Culture, for an ongoing project.

Publications:

1. Gatty, Harsha Raj & Jayakrishnan Narayanan (2025). Participatory Rural Appraisal as a tool of DevelopmentCommunication: A Systematic Literature Review, in N Tugiman et al (eds.) Proceedings ofInternational Conference on Communication and Media (i-COME 24), AtlantisPress. Pp. 75-84.
2. D'Souza, Sandhya Christabel & Jayakrishnan Narayanan (2025). Radical Voice of Community Change: The Case of Two BearyLanguage Films. in N Tugiman et al (eds.) Proceedings of International Conference on Communication and Media (i-COME 24), Atlantis Press. Pp. 85-95.
3. Narayanan, Jayakrishnan & Dhanavel Senkamalam Periyasamy.(2021). The Play of Cultural Sub-codes in Decoding the Visual Signsof Karnatik Music Videos, Visual Communication Quarterly 28(3)*:166-175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2021.1949720
4. Narayanan, Jayakrishnan & Dhanavel Senkamalam Periyasamy.(2021). The Musical Language of Piety: The Semiotics of Visual Mediain Shaping the Divine Status of Karnatik Music. Quarterly Review ofFilm and Video 38(8)*: 747-765.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2020.1796180
5. Narayanan, Jayakrishnan & Rajesh Kumar. (2019). LinguisticVernacularization in Malayalam Cinema: Urban Kochi Slang andYouth Identity. In Rajesh Kumar & Om Prakash (Eds). Text, Contextand Construction of Identity, Newcastle upon Tyne: CambridgeScholars Publishing, pp: 76-97.
6. Narayanan, Jayakrishnan. (2018). The Pure, the Divine and theSublime: The Semiotics of Visuals in Indian Classical Music Videos,Semiotics 2017: Yearbook of Semiotic Society of America, pp. 145-156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/cpsem201713
7. Narayanan, Jayakrishnan &Velayutham Chandrasekharan (2014). AStudy on the Framing of Margazhi/ December Music Festival in theEnglish & Regional Language Newspapers in Tamil Nadu.International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 45*, pp.77-98. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23758168
   

Conferences and Seminars

1. The Music of Gods: A Semiotic Analysis of the Representation ofClassical Music in Visual Media, Paper Presented at the AnnualInternational Conference of the International Association of Media andCommunication Research (IAMCR) at Madrid, Spain (July 2019).
2. Karnatik Music Videos and Ragamala Paintings: A Semiotic Study,Paper Presented at the National Conference on Histories of Media &Performance: The Political, Cultural and the Deep Pasts, University ofHyderabad, India (March 2019).
3. Case of an Absent Code: The Semiotics of Visuals in Indian ClassicalMusic Videos, Paper presented at the Annual InternationalConference of the Semiotic Society of America, Puebla, Mexico(October 2017).
4. Dubbed Television Adverts & the Induction of Artificial LanguageVariants, Paper presented at the International Conference on RecentTrends in Media & Technology, Anna University, Chennai (March2017).