In "Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries", Smith Mehta (@mediaindustries.bsky.social) explores the interplay of identity, privilege, and precarity in academic research. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

So grateful to have read this chapter with @tugcebidav.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing the book out soon!

Cecilia Ka Hei Wong@ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · last yr.

Crashed an anthropologists’ conference in Seoul✨Shoutout to Yuna, Soojin & Reagan for inviting me🫶Spent my time talking about a HK feminist creator—super stoked that this paper will be published w/ ‘Global South Creator Studies’ edited by @tugcebidav.bsky.social & @mediaindustries.bsky.social

If you're around Oxford, next week, please consider attending @tugcebidav.bsky.social's session introducing our forthcoming book's theoretical and conceptual framework for mapping Global South creator cultures (Pakistan, Chile, China, Turkey, Hong Kong, Nigeria and Brazil).

Tuğçe Bidav@tugcebidav.bsky.social · last yr.

Next week, I’ll be presenting our book project Global South Creator Cultures with @mediaindustries.bsky.social at the Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

Exciting news for those writing books on Asia. There's a new book series in town: Power Currents: Asian Media in the World! Edited by some great folks including @jonabel.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social and Rahul Mukherjee, this series looks exciting: upittpress.org/series/power...

academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-... 🆕 publication alert on how Indian cultural workers are negotiating work on global streaming services. Led by incoming Humboldt fellow Dr Priyam Sinha.

Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India

Abstract. In this article, we investigate the integrated commodity forms within Internet-based production cultures in India based on four key transactional

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📢 New publication alert with an amazing co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social 🎊 Our paper “Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey” is out in Social Media + Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs. The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...

Please take a read and let us know what you think! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited to work with @tugcebidav.bsky.social and other stellar scholars working on global south creator cultures.

Tuğçe Bidav@tugcebidav.bsky.social · 3y ago

✨Excited to share that Smith @mediaindustries.bsky.social and I just signed a book contract with Routledge to publish an edited collection provisionally titled 'Global South Creator Cultures'.

indianexpress.com/article/opin... My 'cent'iments on draft #Broadcasting Regulations Bill 2023 by #MIB #India published in today's #Indianexpress. t.co/mez8fVpaUo (link w/o paywall).

Regulating OTT: Draft Broadcasting Regulation Bill may be an attempt to control digital infrastructu...

A regulation on conflicts of interest is the need of the hour. All other regulatory measures to facilitate ‘ease of business’ are merely attempts at facilitating ‘ease of control and regulation�...

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Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...