Sahana Udupa
Professor of Media Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität LMU Munich
Principal Investigator, ERC Projects www.fordigitaldignity.com and AI4Dignity
'24-25 Berkman Klein Fellow, '21 Joan Shorenstein Fellow, Harvard University
Francqui Chair, Belgium
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Digital Unsettling is a critical exploration of digitalization that puts contemporary “decolonizing” movements into conversation with theorizations of digital communication. Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan interrogate the forms, forces, and processes that have reinforced neocolonial relations within contemporary digital environments, at a time when digital networks—and the agendas and actions they proffer—have unsettled entrenched hierarchies in unforeseen ways.
Digital Unsettling examines events—the toppling of statues in the UK, the proliferation of #BLM activism globally, the rise of Hindu nationalists in North America, the trolling of academics, among others—and how they circulated online and across national boundaries. In doing so, Udupa and Dattatreyan demonstrate how the internet has become the key site for an invigorated anticolonial internationalism, but has simultaneously augmented conditions of racial hierarchy within nations, in the international order, and in the liminal spaces that shape human migration and the lives of those that are on the move. Digital Unsettling establishes a critical framework for placing digitalization within the longue durée of coloniality, while also revealing the complex ways in which the internet is entwined with persistent global calls for decolonization.
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"A timely and provocative contribution to debates about the contemporary digital environment, making a novel and important contribution to our understanding of digital media, power, and global society." ~Herman Wasserman, Stellenbosch University
"Masterfully excavates the complex affective, material, discursive, and cultural dynamics that allow social media platforms to function both as inspiration for anti-oppressive/resistive political possibility and as technologized refinement of more classic attempts at expropriation, extraction and colonialist exploitation. This thoughtful and decidedly teachable book by Udupa and Dattatreyan challenges our pat and simplistic understandings of what the digital can do, how it might rewardingly be studied, and what its varied popular and scholarly deployments tell us about the past’s ongoing influence on our increasingly digitized present." ~John L. Jackson, Jr., Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
"Starting with the digital as a relation rather than an object of study, Udupa and Dattatreyan’s Digital Unsettling takes us on a riveting journey through the spaces of radical transformation and historical continuity in the story of media, place, and power. This book commands a truly global vision of how digitality unseats extant forms of coloniality and at the same time disappoints naive hopes for democratic action." ~Sareeta Amrute, University of Washington
"Offers a kaleidoscopic analysis of the many ways digital media call contemporary iterations of eocoloniality into question. Exploring an impressive variety of subjects, Udupa and Dattatreyan present a richly textured and forcefully argued corrective to so many of the colonizing impulses of our contemporary, digitally mediated society. Their reflexively collaborative methods and prose style offer fresh and interdisciplinary perspectives on important and timely questions. An intelligent, galvanizing read that will appeal to scholars across a wide range of fields." ~Evan Elkins, author of Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture
Scroll down the webpage to find the full pdf to download under "Resources".
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Book description
The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale.
Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of "fake news," contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases—from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey—to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures.
Offering a much-needed global perspective on the "dark side" of the internet, Digital Hate is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises.This book brings together leading anthropologists and communication scholars to offer a much needed global critical perspective on vitriolic exchange and aggressive speech enabled by the Internet. Drawing on cutting-edge case studies from around the world—from China, India, Philippines, Denmark and Kenya to Chile, Turkey, US, Pakistan and Indonesia, the book investigates online extreme speech with a global approach nuanced by ethnography and field-based research.
Contributors:
David Boromisza-Habashi, Gabriele de Seta, Sal Hagen, Nell Haynes, Jonas Kaiser, David Katiambo, Max Kramer, Amy Mack, Carol Mcgranahan, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Indah Pratidina, Erkan Saka, Juergen Schaflechner, Mark Tuters.
Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone & Peter Hervik (eds.)
"Timely, original, and powerful, this anthology is packed with new insights about digital media and political cultures. Contributors comprise an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars grounded predominantly in anthropology and media studies. Their diverse studies in the global north and south approach extreme speech online as a cultural practice situated within wider social struggles. The collection reveals the dynamics of exclusionary politics that paradoxically thrive in the age of digital connectivity."
~Victoria Bernal, author of Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
"This superb collection contains a number of stimulating contributions by authors from around the world. The introduction lays out the book's unique intellectual re-reading of online extreme speech, civility, and rationality. It offers insightful and innovative ways of understanding these issues from decolonial and ethnographically grounded approaches. This is the only book to connect history, colonial formations, and coloniality in the study of extreme speech in the digital age".
~Sarah Chiumbu, Associate Professor, Department of Communication & Media, University of Johannesburg
"How is the term 'hate speech' mobilized to further specific political ends, so deepening rather than alleviating inequalities in the public domain? This is the question that this highly sophisticated collection of essays addresses, drawing on a wide range of cases from Kenya to Chile, the Philippines to Germany. These deeply contextualized studies constitute a huge step forward in our understanding of the cultural and technological underpinnings of extreme speech on a global scale—a landmark study."
~Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
'Sahana Udupa has written a ground-breaking, lively, and important media ethnography exploring the worlds of print journalists and journalism in Bangalore, showing how their work is inseparable from India's rapid urbanization, and transforming logics of region, caste, class and language.'
FAYE GINSBURG, New York University
'Sahana Udupa's lively and perceptive ethnography of English and Kannada news production in Bangalore goes beyond the usual antitheses of local and global to show the emergence of new pathways of social change, and new sites and styles of cultural resistance. An important contribution to the literature on the contemporary dynamics of cultural globalization in India.'
ARVIND RAJAGOPAL, The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University
'Sahana Udupa's Making News in Global India ranks among the most important theoretical and ethnographic studies of news media in South Asia to be published in recent years. She argues convincingly that our assumptions about publicity and privacy, vernacular and standard, local and global need to be rethought in order to fully understand the operations of news media in India's 'world-class' cities.'
DOMINIC BOYER, Rice University
From the puzzling liberalization of media under military dictatorship in Pakistan to the brutal killings of journalists in Sri Lanka, and the growing influence of social media in riots and political protests in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, the chapters analyse some of the most important developments in the media fields of contemporary South Asia. Attentive to colonial histories as well as connections within and beyond South Asia in the age of globalization, the chapters combine theoretically grounded studies with original empirical research to unravel the dynamics of media as politics. The chapters are organized around the three frame of participation, control and friction. They bring to the fore the double edged nature of publicity and containment inherent in media, thereby advancing postcolonial perspectives on the massive media transformation underway in South Asia and the global South more broadly.
For the first time bringing together the cultural, regulatory and social aspects of media expansion in a single perspective, this interdisciplinary book fills the need for overview and analytical studies on South Asian media.
Papers by Sahana Udupa
This chapter analyzes the obscure activity of “auctioning” women on social media and a corpus of provocative content surrounding the practice in the Indian online spheres. It explores new social processes of hateful cultures emerging at the intersection of gender, religion, political majoritarianism, and platform affordances. Highlighting the importance of pornography in anti-women hate cultures, the chapter shows how digital sexual violence gets enmeshed with majoritarian political aggression via the consumption of porn. For digital hate scholarship, the social dynamics captured in this study reveal the ways in which exclusionary ideologies with long histories combine with widely consumed tropes of sex and porn through niche groups of supporters as they draw strength and have “fun” from the viscerality of sharing, playing, and mashing up objects floating in the Internet world in a variety of social media and social interaction processes.
This article builds on ethnographic research among an emergent group of self-styled political consultants and digital influencers in India to highlight the contours of what is defined here as "shadow politics" and its implications for disinformation research and policy. Shadow politics refers to the dual structure of "official" and "unofficial" streams of campaign organization that can integrate diverse influence actors with the party campaign system. The specificity of this form of political influence management emerges from the growing uptake for digital tools and how commercial consultants anchor "data" to the goal of "narrative building" to favor their political clients, thereby delinking data practices from the moor of political moralities. It sets the stage to draw extreme content as one data type among many to choose from. Through such data practices, a vast substratum of indirectly sanctioned influence operators is linked to the public campaign stream as a "shadow," with incentive structures to "innovate" upon excitable and inflated content.
Open access.
- gives a global overview of challenges in countering online hate
- outlines the theoretical departures of the extreme speech framework
- recommends a list of interventions and activities that civil society groups, governments and social media companies should undertake to counter hateful language and disinformation online.
The paper proposes four priority areas for UN entities:
* tackling global unevenness in platform governance
* connecting critical communities
* monitoring 'gray' zones, fringe actors, and smaller/domestic platforms
* engaging repressive states to tackle coordinated disinformation and hate campaigns
When trained on large, unfiltered crawls from the internet, language models pick up and reproduce all kinds of undesirable biases that can be found in the data: they often generate racist, sexist, violent or otherwise toxic language. As large models often require millions of training examples to achieve good performance, it is difficult to completely prevent them from being exposed to such content. In this paper, we investigate whether pretrained language models at least know when they exhibit some undesirable bias or produce toxic content. Based on our findings, we propose a decoding algorithm that reduces the probability of a model producing problematic text given only a textual description of the undesired behavior. This algorithm does not rely on manually curated word lists, nor does it require any training data or changes to the model's parameters. While our approach does by no means eliminate the issue of language models generating biased text, we believe it to be an important step in this direction.
Udupa, Sahana. 2019. Digital disinformation and election integrity: Benchmarks for regulation. Economic and Political Weekly Engage 54(51), 28 December.
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Print copies:https://nyupress.org/9781479819157/digital-unsettling/
Digital Unsettling is a critical exploration of digitalization that puts contemporary “decolonizing” movements into conversation with theorizations of digital communication. Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan interrogate the forms, forces, and processes that have reinforced neocolonial relations within contemporary digital environments, at a time when digital networks—and the agendas and actions they proffer—have unsettled entrenched hierarchies in unforeseen ways.
Digital Unsettling examines events—the toppling of statues in the UK, the proliferation of #BLM activism globally, the rise of Hindu nationalists in North America, the trolling of academics, among others—and how they circulated online and across national boundaries. In doing so, Udupa and Dattatreyan demonstrate how the internet has become the key site for an invigorated anticolonial internationalism, but has simultaneously augmented conditions of racial hierarchy within nations, in the international order, and in the liminal spaces that shape human migration and the lives of those that are on the move. Digital Unsettling establishes a critical framework for placing digitalization within the longue durée of coloniality, while also revealing the complex ways in which the internet is entwined with persistent global calls for decolonization.
***
"A timely and provocative contribution to debates about the contemporary digital environment, making a novel and important contribution to our understanding of digital media, power, and global society." ~Herman Wasserman, Stellenbosch University
"Masterfully excavates the complex affective, material, discursive, and cultural dynamics that allow social media platforms to function both as inspiration for anti-oppressive/resistive political possibility and as technologized refinement of more classic attempts at expropriation, extraction and colonialist exploitation. This thoughtful and decidedly teachable book by Udupa and Dattatreyan challenges our pat and simplistic understandings of what the digital can do, how it might rewardingly be studied, and what its varied popular and scholarly deployments tell us about the past’s ongoing influence on our increasingly digitized present." ~John L. Jackson, Jr., Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
"Starting with the digital as a relation rather than an object of study, Udupa and Dattatreyan’s Digital Unsettling takes us on a riveting journey through the spaces of radical transformation and historical continuity in the story of media, place, and power. This book commands a truly global vision of how digitality unseats extant forms of coloniality and at the same time disappoints naive hopes for democratic action." ~Sareeta Amrute, University of Washington
"Offers a kaleidoscopic analysis of the many ways digital media call contemporary iterations of eocoloniality into question. Exploring an impressive variety of subjects, Udupa and Dattatreyan present a richly textured and forcefully argued corrective to so many of the colonizing impulses of our contemporary, digitally mediated society. Their reflexively collaborative methods and prose style offer fresh and interdisciplinary perspectives on important and timely questions. An intelligent, galvanizing read that will appeal to scholars across a wide range of fields." ~Evan Elkins, author of Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture
Scroll down the webpage to find the full pdf to download under "Resources".
***
Book description
The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale.
Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of "fake news," contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases—from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey—to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures.
Offering a much-needed global perspective on the "dark side" of the internet, Digital Hate is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises.This book brings together leading anthropologists and communication scholars to offer a much needed global critical perspective on vitriolic exchange and aggressive speech enabled by the Internet. Drawing on cutting-edge case studies from around the world—from China, India, Philippines, Denmark and Kenya to Chile, Turkey, US, Pakistan and Indonesia, the book investigates online extreme speech with a global approach nuanced by ethnography and field-based research.
Contributors:
David Boromisza-Habashi, Gabriele de Seta, Sal Hagen, Nell Haynes, Jonas Kaiser, David Katiambo, Max Kramer, Amy Mack, Carol Mcgranahan, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Indah Pratidina, Erkan Saka, Juergen Schaflechner, Mark Tuters.
Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone & Peter Hervik (eds.)
"Timely, original, and powerful, this anthology is packed with new insights about digital media and political cultures. Contributors comprise an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars grounded predominantly in anthropology and media studies. Their diverse studies in the global north and south approach extreme speech online as a cultural practice situated within wider social struggles. The collection reveals the dynamics of exclusionary politics that paradoxically thrive in the age of digital connectivity."
~Victoria Bernal, author of Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
"This superb collection contains a number of stimulating contributions by authors from around the world. The introduction lays out the book's unique intellectual re-reading of online extreme speech, civility, and rationality. It offers insightful and innovative ways of understanding these issues from decolonial and ethnographically grounded approaches. This is the only book to connect history, colonial formations, and coloniality in the study of extreme speech in the digital age".
~Sarah Chiumbu, Associate Professor, Department of Communication & Media, University of Johannesburg
"How is the term 'hate speech' mobilized to further specific political ends, so deepening rather than alleviating inequalities in the public domain? This is the question that this highly sophisticated collection of essays addresses, drawing on a wide range of cases from Kenya to Chile, the Philippines to Germany. These deeply contextualized studies constitute a huge step forward in our understanding of the cultural and technological underpinnings of extreme speech on a global scale—a landmark study."
~Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
'Sahana Udupa has written a ground-breaking, lively, and important media ethnography exploring the worlds of print journalists and journalism in Bangalore, showing how their work is inseparable from India's rapid urbanization, and transforming logics of region, caste, class and language.'
FAYE GINSBURG, New York University
'Sahana Udupa's lively and perceptive ethnography of English and Kannada news production in Bangalore goes beyond the usual antitheses of local and global to show the emergence of new pathways of social change, and new sites and styles of cultural resistance. An important contribution to the literature on the contemporary dynamics of cultural globalization in India.'
ARVIND RAJAGOPAL, The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University
'Sahana Udupa's Making News in Global India ranks among the most important theoretical and ethnographic studies of news media in South Asia to be published in recent years. She argues convincingly that our assumptions about publicity and privacy, vernacular and standard, local and global need to be rethought in order to fully understand the operations of news media in India's 'world-class' cities.'
DOMINIC BOYER, Rice University
From the puzzling liberalization of media under military dictatorship in Pakistan to the brutal killings of journalists in Sri Lanka, and the growing influence of social media in riots and political protests in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, the chapters analyse some of the most important developments in the media fields of contemporary South Asia. Attentive to colonial histories as well as connections within and beyond South Asia in the age of globalization, the chapters combine theoretically grounded studies with original empirical research to unravel the dynamics of media as politics. The chapters are organized around the three frame of participation, control and friction. They bring to the fore the double edged nature of publicity and containment inherent in media, thereby advancing postcolonial perspectives on the massive media transformation underway in South Asia and the global South more broadly.
For the first time bringing together the cultural, regulatory and social aspects of media expansion in a single perspective, this interdisciplinary book fills the need for overview and analytical studies on South Asian media.
This chapter analyzes the obscure activity of “auctioning” women on social media and a corpus of provocative content surrounding the practice in the Indian online spheres. It explores new social processes of hateful cultures emerging at the intersection of gender, religion, political majoritarianism, and platform affordances. Highlighting the importance of pornography in anti-women hate cultures, the chapter shows how digital sexual violence gets enmeshed with majoritarian political aggression via the consumption of porn. For digital hate scholarship, the social dynamics captured in this study reveal the ways in which exclusionary ideologies with long histories combine with widely consumed tropes of sex and porn through niche groups of supporters as they draw strength and have “fun” from the viscerality of sharing, playing, and mashing up objects floating in the Internet world in a variety of social media and social interaction processes.
This article builds on ethnographic research among an emergent group of self-styled political consultants and digital influencers in India to highlight the contours of what is defined here as "shadow politics" and its implications for disinformation research and policy. Shadow politics refers to the dual structure of "official" and "unofficial" streams of campaign organization that can integrate diverse influence actors with the party campaign system. The specificity of this form of political influence management emerges from the growing uptake for digital tools and how commercial consultants anchor "data" to the goal of "narrative building" to favor their political clients, thereby delinking data practices from the moor of political moralities. It sets the stage to draw extreme content as one data type among many to choose from. Through such data practices, a vast substratum of indirectly sanctioned influence operators is linked to the public campaign stream as a "shadow," with incentive structures to "innovate" upon excitable and inflated content.
Open access.
- gives a global overview of challenges in countering online hate
- outlines the theoretical departures of the extreme speech framework
- recommends a list of interventions and activities that civil society groups, governments and social media companies should undertake to counter hateful language and disinformation online.
The paper proposes four priority areas for UN entities:
* tackling global unevenness in platform governance
* connecting critical communities
* monitoring 'gray' zones, fringe actors, and smaller/domestic platforms
* engaging repressive states to tackle coordinated disinformation and hate campaigns
When trained on large, unfiltered crawls from the internet, language models pick up and reproduce all kinds of undesirable biases that can be found in the data: they often generate racist, sexist, violent or otherwise toxic language. As large models often require millions of training examples to achieve good performance, it is difficult to completely prevent them from being exposed to such content. In this paper, we investigate whether pretrained language models at least know when they exhibit some undesirable bias or produce toxic content. Based on our findings, we propose a decoding algorithm that reduces the probability of a model producing problematic text given only a textual description of the undesired behavior. This algorithm does not rely on manually curated word lists, nor does it require any training data or changes to the model's parameters. While our approach does by no means eliminate the issue of language models generating biased text, we believe it to be an important step in this direction.
Udupa, Sahana. 2019. Digital disinformation and election integrity: Benchmarks for regulation. Economic and Political Weekly Engage 54(51), 28 December.
“millennials” who are drawn to digital media to articulate political matters. These processes, we suggest, have led to a democratization of public participation through the self-activity of online users. Qualifying the assumption that participation leads to empowerment, we show that a politics of civic action has grown simultaneously with
violent exclusions via digital circulation. Millennial India emphasizes the need to take a contextual approach to global digital politics, and recognizes the continuities in the structures of political action in as much as the disruptions engendered by digital infrastructures.
This interview reflects on Mankekar’s formative intellectual inspirations, her understandings of affect and conjunctural ethnography, and the role of digital media in shaping political life.
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This month we’re speaking about Nerd Politics with John Postill and Gaylaxy Magazine with Sukhdeep Singh.
This month we talk about Religious Nationalism with Peter van der Veer and Political Comics with Appupen.
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This month we’re talking about digital news images with Zeynep Gürsel and online surveillance with Nayantara Ranganathan.
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This month we talk with Marwan Kraidy about the body and with Mahima Kukreja about Me Too India.
How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith, the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital?
Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists.
Presented by anthropologist Ian M. Cook, “Online Gods” is a key initiative of the ERC funded project ONLINERPOL www.fordigitaldignity.com led by media anthropologist Sahana Udupa at LMU Munich. It is an official podcast collaborator of the American Anthropological Association. OnlineGods represents our collective commitment to multimedia diffusion of research in accessible and engaging formats
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This month we’re speaking with Daniel Miller about scalable sociality and Abhishek Mazumdar about The Logical Indian.
How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith, the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital?
Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists.
Presented by anthropologist Ian M. Cook, “Online Gods” is a key initiative of the ERC funded project ONLINERPOL www.fordigitaldignity.com led by media anthropologist Sahana Udupa at LMU Munich. It is an official podcast collaborator of the American Anthropological Association. OnlineGods represents our collective commitment to multimedia diffusion of research in accessible and engaging formats.
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How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith, the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital? Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists.
This month we speak to Craig Calhoun about the public sphere and Sunil Abraham about digital privacy. How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith, the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital? Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists.
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How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith, the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital? Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists. Presented by anthropologist Ian M. Cook, " Online Gods " is a key initiative of the ERC funded project ONLINERPOL www.fordigitaldignity.com led by media anthropologist Sahana Udupa at LMU Munich. It is co-hosted by the HAU Network for Ethnographic Theory. Online Gods represents our collective commitment to multimedia diffusion of research in accessible and engaging formats.
Online Gods – A Podcast about Digital Cultures in India and Beyond
Episode 5: The Mediated Construction of Reality and Change.org India (January 2018)
In this episode we speak with Nick Couldry about the Mediated Construction of Reality and Nida Hasan about Change.org India
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How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith, the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital?
Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists.
Look out for a new episode of Online Gods on the last day of every month.
Presented by anthropologist Ian Cook, “Online Gods” is a key initiative of the ERC funded project ONLINERPOL www.fordigitaldignity.com led by media anthropologist Sahana Udupa at LMU Munich. It is co-hosted by the HAU Network for Ethnographic Theory. Online Gods represents our collective commitment to multimedia diffusion of research in accessible and engaging formats.
Episode 3: Digital Diaspora Politics and a Right Wing Twitter Superstar (October 2017)
In this episode we speak with Victoria Bernal about digital diaspora politics & Rishi Bagree about being a right wing twitter superstar
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Online Gods is part theoretical exploration into some of the key concepts in the anthropology of media, and part research into how increased online interaction is changing the public sphere. Taking India and the India diaspora as its focal point, the podcast continues in the great anthropological tradition of bringing the global and the specific into conversation with one another as it analyses what online discussions do to political participation, displays of faith and feelings of national belonging. We are also intrigued as to whether a podcast can produce ethnographic theory. We believe It is possible to be both sophisticated and yet comprehensible, and that the spoken form can bring forth an accessibility that is sometimes missing from the written form. We even wonder whether academic podcasting might herald a technologically-enabled return to the centrality of oral traditions in intellectual exploration – can podcasting weaken reading’s hegemonic hold on consumption of academic knowledge? Online Gods is a key initiative of the project ONLINERPOL and is cohosted with HAU Network for Ethnographic Theory. This podcast is hosted by Ian Cook.
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In this episode, we speak to Angela Zito about Media as Religion and Kuffir Nalgundwar about Round Table India & Dalit Online Media
How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith, the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital?
Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists.
Look out for a new episode of Online Gods on the last day of every month. Coming up in Episode 3 - Victoria Bernal and Online Diaspora Politics
Presented by anthropologist Ian Cook, “Online Gods” is a key initiative of the ERC funded project ONLINERPOL www.fordigitaldignity.com led by media anthropologist Sahana Udupa at LMU Munich. It is co-hosted by the HAU Network for Ethnographic Theory. Online Gods represents our collective commitment to multimedia diffusion of research in accessible and engaging formats.
Online Gods is part theoretical exploration into some of the key concepts in the anthropology of media, and part research into how increased online interaction is changing the public sphere. Taking India and the India diaspora as its focal point, the podcast continues in the great anthropological tradition of bringing the global and the specific into conversation with one another as it analyses what online discussions do to political participation, displays of faith and feelings of national belonging. We are also intrigued as to whether a podcast can produce ethnographic theory. We believe It is possible to be both sophisticated and yet comprehensible, and that the spoken form can bring forth an accessibility that is sometimes missing from the written form. We even wonder whether academic podcasting might herald a technologically-enabled return to the centrality of oral traditions in intellectual exploration – can podcasting weaken reading’s hegemonic hold on consumption of academic knowledge? Online Gods is a key initiative of the project ONLINERPOL and is cohosted with HAU Network for Ethnographic Theory. This podcast is hosted by Ian Cook.
In this first episode of Online Gods, we speak to Ralph Schroeder about Big Data and Nisha Susan about The Ladies Finger.