Kasun Ubayasiri

Dr Kasun Ubayasiri is a Sri Lankan born Australian PhD in media and political violence, and has conducted extensive research on the role of cyber-media in [...] conflicts.His doctoral thesis titled : “Media, Tamil Tigers, [...] and the Internet: The cyber interface between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and mainstream media,” focuses on the use of cyber media in Sri Lanka’s thirty year civil war.

Before commencing his academic career he worked as a journalist in Sri Lanka covering political and military issues including the civil war between the government and the Tamil Tigers. He has worked as a journalist for a number of Sri Lankan and Australian newspapers and continue to work as a freelance photo-journalist and documentary photographer.

Kasun Ubayasiri completed his primary and secondary education at S.Thomas' College in Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka and completed his higher education at the Central Queensland University and the Queensland University of Technology in Australia.

Selected Writing

• A virtual Eelam: Democracy, Internet and Sri Lanka’s Tamil struggle in Asian Cyberactivism: freedom of expression & media censorship by Steven Gann, James Gomez and Uwe Johannen. ISBN 0974917753

• Internet and Media freedom: A case study of contemporary media censorship in Sri Lanka and the emergence of web-based rebel media’.Asia Pacific Media Educator: Issue 12, (2003). New Communication Technologies in Asia: Issues of Control and Concerns,

• eTerror: Journalism, [...] and the Internet. co authored with Prof Alan Knight (CQU).Ejournalist: 2002, vol.2(1), 1

• One Temple, One Bomb and Three lines of Political Narrative. Co-authored with Linda Brady. Ejournalist:2003, vol 3(2).2

• Virtual hostage dramas and real politics. Ejournalist: 2004, vol 4(2).3

• Tamileelam Air Force: Its Military, Political and Psychological Realities in the South. Paper no. 2230, South Asian Analysis Group.4

• Fragile peace or prelude to war. paper no 1679. South Asian Analysis Group.5