I'm Rachel Plotnick, assistant professor of cinema and media studies at Indiana University.

- 我是印第安纳大学电影与媒体研究助理教授 Rachel Plotnick。

According to a 2011 media study, only two percent of India's mainstream media coverage is about rural issues.

根据 2011 年的一项媒体研究，只有 2% 的印度主流媒体报道是关于农村问题的。

There's a common misconception that a media studies course of some kind will help, but that's not always true.

有一种常见的误解，认为某种媒体研究课程会有所帮助，但这并不总是正确的。

It's my first media studies assignment, and I'm not sure how to go about it. You must have done it last year.

是我的第一个媒体研究作业，我不知道该怎么做。你去年一定做过这件事。

And I think in many years and decades to come, this series of interviews will be taught in media studies classes on how to not respond to a crisis.

而且我认为在未来的许多年和几十年里，这一系列的采访将在媒体研究课程中教授如何不应对危机。

I'm majoring in Media Studies, so with media studies I'm learning about film production, we get to make movies, like short movies and documentaries and script-writing and also doing producing or editing, all aspects of media production.

我的专业是媒体研究，所以我学的专业课有电影制作，我们可以拍电影，比如一些短片和纪录片，还有剧本写作、制作或编辑，媒体制作的所有方面我们都会学习。