Rohan Grover
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rohan Grover |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rohan |
| FAMILY NAME | Grover |
| SIGNATURE | GROVER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9042-8259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Data disaffection: Toward a relational and affective understanding of datafication
Research on user experiences with datafication, the transformation of social life into data, identifies “digital resignation” and “privacy cynicism” as rational responses to feeling overwhelmed and disempowered. But how, exactly, do shared feelings and emotions mediate relationships between datafication and disengaged responses – both individually and institutionally? We develop a relational analysis of datafication, deploying an infrastructural …
Unpacking Expertise in the Privacy Tech Industry
Companies that collect personal data have spent billions of dollars complying with a patchwork of global data privacy laws since 2018. In response, a nascent privacy tech industry has emerged, consisting of tech startups, consultants, investors, platforms, and domain experts that collectively help companies build compliant data governance programs. This study recognizes the key role of translating the law into software products by asking: how is …
Beyond Digital Protection(ism)
What values and conceptualizations of data are being advanced through new data protection regulations in Asia? This article answers this question with a comparative analysis of data protection regulations in China, India, and South Korea. The article identifies four key dimensions of divergence: conceptualizations of personal and sensitive information, cross-border data transfer restrictions, state exceptions, and considerations for platforms. Th…
Platforms as templates: Emerging datafication dynamics in digital news outlets’ datawalls
News outlets have responded to platforms disrupting audience engagement and revenue models by pursuing more stable revenue through paywall subscriptions and membership programs. However, many outlets continue to struggle, and scholars have suggested that outlets experiment with data monetization strategies by asking readers to "pay" with their data – in other words, by implementing a "datawall." We conducted an exploratory landscape analysis of d…
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship
The Indian state has invested simultaneously in connectivity by pursuing universal Internet access and in disconnectivity by leading the world in state-ordered Internet shutdowns. How can we make sense of these contradictory approaches to technology policy? This article argues that this paradox illustrates a bifurcated experience of digital citizenship moderated infrastructurally through differential access to mobile connectivity. While previous …
Destabilizing Race in Political Communication: Social Movements as Sites of Political Imagination
How do social movement actors use consciousness-raising communicative practices to reconfigure political understandings of race? And how can such practices shape the analysis of political communication? We explore these questions by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, and archival materials to examine two case studies: an historical example of Grace Lee Boggs' structural guidelines for creating a revolutionary study gro…
The geopolitics of digital rights activism: Evaluating civil society's role in the promises of multistakeholder internet governance
Internet Governance for Whom? Civil Society, Representation, and Digital Rights
Internet governance institutions embrace a multistakeholder approach, which calls for civil society organizations (CSOs) to represent community interests. How well do digital rights CSOs fulfill these expectations of “community representation”? Through a case study of the Internet Freedom Foundation, an Indian digital rights organization, this paper evaluates community engagement mechanisms through the lens of equity and democratization, and iden…
Destabilizing Race in Political Communication: Social Movements as Sites of Political Imagination
How do social movement actors use consciousness-raising communicative practices to reconfigure political understandings of race? And how can such practices shape the analysis of political communication? We explore these questions by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, and archival materials to examine two case studies: an historical example of Grace Lee Boggs' structural guidelines for creating a revolutionary study gro…
Data disaffection: Toward a relational and affective understanding of datafication
Research on user experiences with datafication, the transformation of social life into data, identifies “digital resignation” and “privacy cynicism” as rational responses to feeling overwhelmed and disempowered. But how, exactly, do shared feelings and emotions mediate relationships between datafication and disengaged responses – both individually and institutionally? We develop a relational analysis of datafication, deploying an infrastructural …
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship
The Indian state has invested simultaneously in connectivity by pursuing universal Internet access and in disconnectivity by leading the world in state-ordered Internet shutdowns. How can we make sense of these contradictory approaches to technology policy? This article argues that this paradox illustrates a bifurcated experience of digital citizenship moderated infrastructurally through differential access to mobile connectivity. While previous …
Internet Governance for Whom? Civil Society, Representation, and Digital Rights
Internet governance institutions embrace a multistakeholder approach, which calls for civil society organizations (CSOs) to represent community interests. How well do digital rights CSOs fulfill these expectations of “community representation”? Through a case study of the Internet Freedom Foundation, an Indian digital rights organization, this paper evaluates community engagement mechanisms through the lens of equity and democratization, and iden…
The geopolitics of digital rights activism: Evaluating civil society's role in the promises of multistakeholder internet governance
Contingent connectivity: Internet shutdowns and the infrastructural precarity of digital citizenship
The Indian state has invested simultaneously in connectivity by pursuing universal Internet access and in disconnectivity by leading the world in state-ordered Internet shutdowns. How can we make sense of these contradictory approaches to technology policy? This article argues that this paradox illustrates a bifurcated experience of digital citizenship moderated infrastructurally through differential access to mobile connectivity. While previous …
Destabilizing Race in Political Communication: Social Movements as Sites of Political Imagination
How do social movement actors use consciousness-raising communicative practices to reconfigure political understandings of race? And how can such practices shape the analysis of political communication? We explore these questions by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, and archival materials to examine two case studies: an historical example of Grace Lee Boggs' structural guidelines for creating a revolutionary study gro…
Beyond Digital Protection(ism)
What values and conceptualizations of data are being advanced through new data protection regulations in Asia? This article answers this question with a comparative analysis of data protection regulations in China, India, and South Korea. The article identifies four key dimensions of divergence: conceptualizations of personal and sensitive information, cross-border data transfer restrictions, state exceptions, and considerations for platforms. Th…
Platforms as templates: Emerging datafication dynamics in digital news outlets’ datawalls
News outlets have responded to platforms disrupting audience engagement and revenue models by pursuing more stable revenue through paywall subscriptions and membership programs. However, many outlets continue to struggle, and scholars have suggested that outlets experiment with data monetization strategies by asking readers to "pay" with their data – in other words, by implementing a "datawall." We conducted an exploratory landscape analysis of d…
Unpacking Expertise in the Privacy Tech Industry
Companies that collect personal data have spent billions of dollars complying with a patchwork of global data privacy laws since 2018. In response, a nascent privacy tech industry has emerged, consisting of tech startups, consultants, investors, platforms, and domain experts that collectively help companies build compliant data governance programs. This study recognizes the key role of translating the law into software products by asking: how is …
Data disaffection: Toward a relational and affective understanding of datafication
Research on user experiences with datafication, the transformation of social life into data, identifies “digital resignation” and “privacy cynicism” as rational responses to feeling overwhelmed and disempowered. But how, exactly, do shared feelings and emotions mediate relationships between datafication and disengaged responses – both individually and institutionally? We develop a relational analysis of datafication, deploying an infrastructural …
Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (3 works) · Internet governance (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (3 works)