Digital Expressions of the Self(ie)

Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. He Holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Trent University, Canada. His research and teaching interests span digital media, space and mobility, (post)nationalism and postcolonialism. In 2021, he was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship. 

Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths. He holds a joint PhD in education and in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. His audio-visual and written research engages with the ways in which digital media consumption, production, and circulation shape understandings of migration, gender, race, and urban space.

Usha Raman is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Hyderabad. Her teaching and research interests span feminist media studies, digital cultures, science and technology studies and journalism pedagogy. She has been a visiting fellow at the University of Sydney and the University of Bremen, and was a Fulbright Faculty Fellow at MIT's Comparative Media Studies/Writing Department. She is currently serving as Vice-President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. 

Martin Webb is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths. He holds a PhD in Anthropology and Development Studies from the University of Sussex. His research engages with the politics of transparency and accountability, mediation, bureaucracy, citizenship, and civil society action. He is the convener of the MA Applied Anthropology, Community and Youth Work, Community Development and Community Arts Pathways at Goldsmiths. 

Sai Amulya Komarraju is a postdoctoral researcher at CDMC, MICA. She is also the sector leader (salon work) at FemLab.Co and has recently been awarded a research grant from the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS, University of Witwatersrand) to examine the experiences of male workers in highly feminized professions of domestic and salon work within and outside of platform. Her intersectional feminist work in the areas of global digital cultures, future of work(ers) and critical algorithmic studies have been published in international journals such as Feminist Media Studies and Media, Culture, & Society.

Riad Azam works as a Counseling Manager at Athena Education. He holds a PhD degree in English Literature from the Aligarh Muslim University. In 2016 he received the fully-funded Commonwealth Shared Scholarship to study his second Master's degree in International Development at the University of Bath. His areas of academic interest are Dalit Literature, Mediation and patronage, violence, and citizenship rights and entitlements. 

Pranavesh Subramanian is a writer, comedian and filmmaker based in Delhi. He holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London and is interested in how capitalism intersects with comedy, popular cinema and sports.

Farhat Salim is a Development Practitioner based in New Delhi. He is a PhD Research Scholar at the Centre for the study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has worked as a Research Coordinator on a Global Challenges Research Fund project, a collaboration of IIIT, Delhi and Goldsmiths, University of London that looks at digital divide and mediation processes in accessing social benefits. His areas of academic interest are Urban Development, Segregated Spaces, Global Production Networks and Indian Muslims.

Ankita Das holds MA in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics. Her interest in gender and intersectional research motivated her to pursue a second MA in Gender and Women's Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi. She has worked with the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights as a research intern. She freelances as a contributing writer at the feminist digital media platform called Feminism in India. Her areas of interest include the construction of space in relation to gender and labour, studying agency and gendered resistance from an intersectional approach. 

Neha Gupta is a Ph.D. research scholar at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Silchar. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in media studies at iLEAD College Kolkata. Her doctoral thesis focuses on digital performativities. Her areas of academic interest are digital media, space and mobility, and the digital performativity of the self.