Seven Questions Unpacking Cancel Culture
Cancel culture has called out historical injustices but it could threaten the most marginalized among us. R Vaishno Bharati With…
The Exception Cannot Be Made the Norm
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed and widened existing socioeconomic and political fault lines, it is time we address them. Kumudini…
Researching our Digitally Mediated World: An Argument for Feminist Digital Anthropology
By Ingrid Brudvig Ingrid Brudvig explores how feminist research methodologies need to be reconfigured in the digital context, assessing their…
South Americas and the Surveillance Society
By Aram Aharonian We live in times when algorithms facilitate electoral fraud, track people’s movements and can analyze micro- expressions…
Social Media Giants & the Resurgence of India’s Modi Wave
Q: Compared to 2014, how did political parties utilize social media platforms in India’s 2019 general elections? How has this…
The Scored Citizen: Data Scores as a New Form of Governance
The datafication of social life has led to a profound transformation in how society is ordered, how decisions are made,…
Data Black Magic
“Data is the new oil,” you’ve probably read this. Since it was coined by the English mathematician Clive Humby back…
Assange, Democracy, and the People’s Internet
The arrest of Julian Assange on April 11, following his forcible expulsion from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and…
