Can we evolve an ethical framework that guides our decision making in pandemics, from macro-level policy and planning to the immediacy of care? https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/covid-19-india-epidemic-ethics-communities/
Book reviews on The Wire/Science:
https://science.thewire.in/culture/books/book-review-the-overstory-richard-powers/
https://science.thewire.in/culture/books/gleick-time-marclay-wells/
An interview with Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of Alone Together: https://thewire.in/tech/technology-turkle-relational-media
A bit of science writing in The Caravan: https://caravanmagazine.in/periscope/psy-vspsy
Poetry, for instance, in The Scarlet Leaf Review: https://www.scarletleafreview.com/poems20/category/usha-raman and Undiscovered Journal: https://www.undiscoveredjournal.com/post/selfie
https://www.thehindu.com/society/time-for-the-big-names/article32351912.ece
https://www.thehindu.com/society/talking-to-equals/article32110995.ece
https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-whodunnits/article31867586.ece
https://www.thehindu.com/society/art-for-artists-sake/article31649701.ece
Others may be found on my author's page at The Hindu web site: https://www.thehindu.com/profile/author/Usha-Raman-2082/
I've also started an occasional newsletter on Substack that looks at the soundscape of our lives--podcasts and more. You can find The Listening Post here and subscribe to get the feed delivered to your mailbox.
Teacher Plus editorials, monthly: http://www.teacherplus.org/category/editorial/
A year into the pandemic, more reflections: http://confluence.ias.ac.in/pandemic-learning-how-do-we-make-it-all-count/
Thoughts on teaching after the pandemic: http://confluence.ias.ac.in/after-the-pandemic-the-precarious-classroom/?fbclid=IwAR1BN2dWE7S7u4iWILuMjTNhHSYEBJ92xNXq3Z_v8iD6Y0T7AuJJRWXPyTQ
From the Backpacker's Guide, a fortnightly column in The Hindu, 2012-2020: https://www.thehindu.com/profile/author/backpacker-s-guideusha-raman-8254/
Health/Science communication
(2024) Mukherjee, A., Yatirajula SK, Kulkarni S, Paslawar S, Lempp H, Raman U, Essue BM, Sagar R, Singh R, Peiris D, Norton R, Thornicroft G & Maulik P (2024). Using formative research to inform a mental health intervention for adolescents living in Indian slums: the ARTEMIS study. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 18:14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-024-00704-4
(2022) Mukherjee A, Daniel M, Kaur A, Devarapalli S, Kallakuri S, Essue B, Raman U, Thornicroft G, Saxena S, Peiris D, Maulik P. Operational challenges in the pre-intervention phase of a mental health trial in rural India: reflections from SMART Mental Health. International Journal of Mental Health Systems 16:42. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-022-00549-4
(2022) Yatirajula S K, Kallakuri S, Paslawar S, Mukherjee A, Bhattacharya A, Susmita C, Sagar R, Kumar A, Lempp H, Raman U, Singh R, Essue B, Billiot L, Peiris D, Norton, Thornicroft G. An intervention to reduce stigma and improve management of depression, risk of suicide/self harm and other significant emotional or medically unexplained complaints among adolescents living in urban slums: protocol for the ARTEMIS project. Research Square. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1550030/v1
(2022) Mukherjee A, Daniel M, Kallakuri S, Kaur A, Devarapalli S, Raman U, Thornicroft G, Essue B M, Praveen D, Sagar R, Kant S, Saxena S, Patel A, Peiris D, Maulik PK. Protocol for process evaluation of SMART Mental Health cluster randomised control trial: an intervention for management of common mental disorders in India BMJ Open 2022;12:e058669. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058669
- (2020). Chakrabarty A, Raman U and Thirumal P. Tracing science communication in independent India: towards an institutional and people’s history. In Gascoigne T (editor), The emergence of modern science communication, ANU Press.
- (2020) Keeping the person in the data: communicating care in the networked clinic. Communicative Figurations. ZeMKI Working Paper Series No 35: ISSN 2367-2277. Available at: https://www.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/fachbereiche/fb9/zemki/media/photos/publikationen/working-papers/2020/CoFi_EWP_No-35_Usha-Raman.pdf
- (2019) Nookaraju B and Raman U. What’s it all worth: the political economy of disability representation in Indian media. In Harris K, Goggin G, Haller B and Curtis R (eds), Routledge Companion to Disability and Media. New York: Routledge.
- (2016) Nookaraju B and Raman U. Framing disability news in the Indian news media: A political economy analysis of representation. Journal of Creative Communication 11 (2): 1-19.
- (2015) Raman U. Beyond substance: grammar, style and syntax. Pages 139-152 in Sahni P and Aggarwal R (eds), Reporting and Publishing Research in the Biomedical Sciences. The National Medical Journal of India.
- (2012). Raman U. I write, therefore I am…a scientist. RGUHS Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Nov-Dec: 2 (4): 4-9.
- (2012) Mocherla S, Raman U and Holden B. Expressions of equity: imbalances in the patient clinician interaction. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 2012 April-June: 9 (2): 92-98.
- (2011) Raman U and Sheeladevi S. Considering ethics in community eye health planning: perspectives from an existing model. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 2011 Oct-Dec; 8 (4): 216-222
- (2011) Mocherla S, Raman U and Holden B. Clinician-patient communication in a glaucoma clinic in India. Qualitative Health Research 2011 Mar; 21(3): 429-40
- (2009) Raman U. Medical ethics in the media. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 6 (1). www.ijme.in/issue171.html
- (2007) Khanna R, Rao GN amd Raman U. Blindness and Poverty in India: The Way Forward. Clinical and Experimental Optometry 90:406-414.
- (2007) Raman U and P Thirumal. “Mediating scientific debate: talking about human tissue engineering”. In the Proceedings of the Second International Critical Legal Studies Conference, NALSAR, Hyderabad, India.
- (2005) Raman U and B R Shamanna. Communicating Eye Health Messages: Challenges and Constraints in a Developing Country. MICA Communications Review 2 (1): 31-40.
New media, Journalism and Cultural Studies
Komarraju SA, Pathak-Shelat M, Arora P & Raman U. (2025). Men in beauty work and feminization of digital labour platforms. Social Media + Society 11 (1): https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251326665 ISSN:2056-3051
Raman, U. (2024). A global communications standpoint: what might that mean? Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241277903
Koenig R, Arora P and Raman U (2024). Confronting politicized research: the case for reflexive neutrality. Schäfer, M.T., K. van Es, and T.P. Lauriault (eds.), Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. doi 10.5117/9789463727679_ch03
Raman, U., & Deshbandhu, A. (2024). The Digital Shaping of a City: A Biography of ‘Cyberabad’in Three Acts. In The Palgrave Handbook of Everyday Digital Life (pp. 61-75). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
P. Arora and U. Raman, "The Case for Femwork: Feminist Design Principles in Tech and Tech-Enabled Work" in Computer, vol. 57, no. 01, pp. 100-104, 2024. doi: 10.1109/MC.2023.3325593
Raman U and Deshbandhu A. (2023) Stuart Hall and IAMCR. Pages 487-496 in Becker J and Mansell R (editors), Reflections on the History of the International Association for Media and Communication Research: Many Voices, One Forum. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16383-8_33
Mehta, C., Arora, P., & Raman, U. (2023). A Feminist Human–Machine Communication Framework: Collectivizing by Design for Inclusive Work Futures. Pages 357-365 in Guzman, A., McEwen, R. and Jones, S. (editors), The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage..
Mehta, C., Arora P., and Raman, U. (2023). Digitalisation and transformation of women’s labour in sanitation work. In Dewan, S., & Sanyal, K. (Eds.). (2023, May). Empowerment or Exploitation: Global Perspectives on Women's Work in the Platform Economy. JustJobs Network.
-Raman, U., & Kasturi, S. (2023). The Frontlines and Margins: Gendered Care and Covid-19 in the Indian Media. Media and Communication, 11(1), 102-113. doi: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.6104
(2022) Arora, Payal, and Raman, U. "Fair Work, Feminist Design, and Women’s Labor Collectives." In Digital Work in the Planetary Market, edited by Mark Graham and Fabian Ferrari. Cambridge, MA/Ottawa: MIT Press/IDRC.Open access: https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625/61034/IDL-61034.pdf
- (2021) Sarwatay, D and Raman U. Everyday negotiations in managing presence: young people and social media in India. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1988129
- (2021) Komarraju SA, Arora P and Raman U. Agency and servitude in platform labor: a feminist analysis of blended cultures. Media, Culture and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211029890
- (2021) Sarwatay D, Raman U and Ramasubramanian S. Media literacy, social connectedness and digital citizenship in India: Mapping stakeholders on how parents and young people navigate a social world. Frontiers in Human Dynamics 3:601239. Doi:10.3389/fhumd.2021.601239 (Open access: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.601239/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Human_Dynamics&id=601239)
- (2020) Jain S and Raman U. Indian magazines revitalized in response to demand for longform storytelling. Pages 427-439 Sternadori M and Holmes T (eds), Handbook of Magazine Studies. Wiley-Blackwell.
- (2018) Raman U and Komarraju S A. Two stories: dancing between risk and responsibility. Café Dissensus special issue on The New Indian Woman. 25 November 2018. https://cafedissensus.com/2018/11/25/two-stories-dancing-between-risk-and-responsibility/
- (2018) Raman U and Komarraju S A. Policing responses to crime against women: Unpacking the logic of Cyberabad’s “SHE Teams”. Feminist Media Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1447420
- (2017) Komarraju SA and Raman U. Indian Millennials Define Feminism. Commentary & Criticism. Feminist Media Studies 17(5): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1350519
- (2017) Raman U and Komarraju, SA. Researching online worlds through a feminist lens: text, context and assemblages. Pages 131-157 in Kannabiran K and Swaminathan P (eds). Re-presenting feminist methodologies: interdisciplinary explorations. Routledge.
- (2014) Raman U and Choudary, D. Have travelled, will write: User generated content and travel writing. In Fursich E and Hanush F, Travel Journalism: Exploring production, impact and culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- (2014) Raman U and Verghese, R. Indian youth and social media: modes of engagement? In Wlnat L and Aw A (eds) Social media, culture and politics in Asia. New York: Peter Lang.
Media education & pedagogy
(2025) Sarwatay, D and Raman, U. Access/Use. In Schaerer, E (editor) Children, Media and Technology: Access, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. London: Routledge.
(2023) Rayaprol A, Raman U, Farooqui S, and Joshi A. Gender sensitisation for schoolteachers: agents of change in the classroom. Sociological Bulletin 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380229231196769
(2022) Raman U and Sarwatay D. Teaching and learning media practice in India during distanced times: Studios, screens, skills and sensibilities. Pages 267 -285 in Friesem Y, Raman U, Kanizaj I and Choi G (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic. London: Routledge.
(2021) Raman U. Pandemic learning: how do we make it (all) count? http://confluence.ias.ac.in/pandemic-learning-how-do-we-make-it-all-count/
(2021) Raman U. After the pandemic: the precarious classroom. Pages 31-37 in Babu, S & Ramaswamy R (eds), Higher education going online: the challenges in India. Bangalore: Indian Academy of Sciences. https://www.ias.ac.in/public/Resources/Other_Publications/e-Publications/014/Higher-Education-Going-Online.pdf
(2019). Raman U. Principle or Practice? Pedagogic challenges in Indian journalism education. Pages 271-289 in Rao, S (ed) Indian Journalism in a New Era: Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
(2015) Raman U. Failure of Communication. The Caravan, December 2015. http://www.caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/failure-of-communication-rift-between-india-newsrooms-clasrooms
(2014) Raman U. Modes of engagement: creating reflective practitioners through engaged learning. The Journal of Development Communication 25 (1-2): 104-108.
(2010) The changing and changeable encyclopedia: Wikipedia and its implications for teaching and learning. Ludwigsburger Baitrage Zur Medienpadagogik (German, Media and Pedagogy)