Digital Cultures

This focus area seeks to engage with efforts in research, learning and practice on key topics related to the growth and impact of internet and digital media technologies in India and on a global scale. These include critical interventions addressing the socio-political, economic and material/infrastructural aspects of the digital turn, with a focus on ways in which digital technologies mediate the production of new forms of knowledge, and affect/influence the development of the cultural and media landscape, in India and elsewhere.
Ongoing research includes a study of the growth feminist infrastructures (including the various interpretations of the term), through an exploration of the role of online feminist publishing spaces, and how it has informed the contemporary discourse on feminism, gender and sexuality in India, and research on the operation, community building, challenges and future of anti-caste publishing lead by dalit-bahujan-adivasi independent publishers in India.