Saumya Pant
Biographic Data
| ID | 4149779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saumya Pant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saumya |
| FAMILY NAME | Pant |
| SIGNATURE | PANT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding Smartphone Apps Usage among Young Adults in India
The objective of this paper is to understand use of phone apps and attitude towards selection and use of apps among young adults. This study addresses the following questions: What is the usage behaviour of people when it comes to phone apps? What do consumers prefer more and why – phone apps or websites, across categories? What are the most common issues that users face while using phone apps? What constitutes consumer satisfaction when it comes…
I only need her uterus”
The authors analyse how reproduction in the Scandinavian countries has gone global and intersects with neo-liberal reproductive practices. Of particular interest is how neo-liberal discourses are constructed in Scandinavian and Indian biopolitical and bioethical debates on surrogacy as well as how they are produced and negotiated by different reproductive actors in cases of transnational surrogacy in India. The multi-sited and cross-cultural empi…
Fertility Travel
Assisted reproduction in a global world produces not only new babies and new parents but also new citizens and raises new bioethical concerns (e.g., Campbell 2007; Franklin 2001; Thompson 2005). This essay outlines an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective in understanding how fertility travel and transnational reproduction unfold from the perspectives of the different actors involved. Three theoretical pairs—care and engineering, reproscapes …
Entertainment-Education and Social Change
Most past studies of entertainment-education programs have not provided an adequate theoretical explanation of the process through which community members enact system-level changes as a result of exposure to entertainment-education media message. Here we study the effects of an entertainment-education radio soap opera by means of an observational case study in one Indian village. We investigate the paradoxes, contradictions, and audience members…
I only need her uterus”
The authors analyse how reproduction in the Scandinavian countries has gone global and intersects with neo-liberal reproductive practices. Of particular interest is how neo-liberal discourses are constructed in Scandinavian and Indian biopolitical and bioethical debates on surrogacy as well as how they are produced and negotiated by different reproductive actors in cases of transnational surrogacy in India. The multi-sited and cross-cultural empi…
Fertility Travel
Assisted reproduction in a global world produces not only new babies and new parents but also new citizens and raises new bioethical concerns (e.g., Campbell 2007; Franklin 2001; Thompson 2005). This essay outlines an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective in understanding how fertility travel and transnational reproduction unfold from the perspectives of the different actors involved. Three theoretical pairs—care and engineering, reproscapes …
Entertainment-Education and Social Change
Most past studies of entertainment-education programs have not provided an adequate theoretical explanation of the process through which community members enact system-level changes as a result of exposure to entertainment-education media message. Here we study the effects of an entertainment-education radio soap opera by means of an observational case study in one Indian village. We investigate the paradoxes, contradictions, and audience members…
I only need her uterus”
The authors analyse how reproduction in the Scandinavian countries has gone global and intersects with neo-liberal reproductive practices. Of particular interest is how neo-liberal discourses are constructed in Scandinavian and Indian biopolitical and bioethical debates on surrogacy as well as how they are produced and negotiated by different reproductive actors in cases of transnational surrogacy in India. The multi-sited and cross-cultural empi…
Fertility Travel
Assisted reproduction in a global world produces not only new babies and new parents but also new citizens and raises new bioethical concerns (e.g., Campbell 2007; Franklin 2001; Thompson 2005). This essay outlines an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective in understanding how fertility travel and transnational reproduction unfold from the perspectives of the different actors involved. Three theoretical pairs—care and engineering, reproscapes …
Understanding Smartphone Apps Usage among Young Adults in India
The objective of this paper is to understand use of phone apps and attitude towards selection and use of apps among young adults. This study addresses the following questions: What is the usage behaviour of people when it comes to phone apps? What do consumers prefer more and why – phone apps or websites, across categories? What are the most common issues that users face while using phone apps? What constitutes consumer satisfaction when it comes…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (2 works) · Art (1 works)