Suryansu Guha
Biographic Data
| ID | 6748467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suryansu Guha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suryansu |
| FAMILY NAME | Guha |
| SIGNATURE | GUHA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5250-4134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The poster boys of aspirational labor
Aspirational labor has been understood by scholars based in the Global North to encapsulate a form of labor undertaken by social media content creators that is mostly uncompensated for, but is, nonetheless, integral to the functioning of its economy. While this dominant theorization of aspirational labor is sometimes helpful for explaining the precarity of digital media labor in countries of the Global South, its uncritical application could also…
Making a “Hate-Watch”
Netflix’s 2020 release Indian Matchmaking drew a massive backlash particularly from South Asian and diasporic audiences who felt it normalized the experiences associated with arranged marriages. Audiences took to the internet to express how much they loved hating the show but at the same time also continued to obsessively watch despite their reservations. My paper takes up this paradox of simultaneously loving and hating a media product. By drawi…
Radiant Infrastructures
Review of: Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty , Rahul Mukherjee (2020) Durham and London: Duke University Press, 276 pp., ISBN 978-1-47800-806-4, p/bk, $26.95
Sketch Comedy
Making a “Hate-Watch”
Netflix’s 2020 release Indian Matchmaking drew a massive backlash particularly from South Asian and diasporic audiences who felt it normalized the experiences associated with arranged marriages. Audiences took to the internet to express how much they loved hating the show but at the same time also continued to obsessively watch despite their reservations. My paper takes up this paradox of simultaneously loving and hating a media product. By drawi…
Sketch Comedy
Radiant Infrastructures
Review of: Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty , Rahul Mukherjee (2020) Durham and London: Duke University Press, 276 pp., ISBN 978-1-47800-806-4, p/bk, $26.95
Making a “Hate-Watch”
Netflix’s 2020 release Indian Matchmaking drew a massive backlash particularly from South Asian and diasporic audiences who felt it normalized the experiences associated with arranged marriages. Audiences took to the internet to express how much they loved hating the show but at the same time also continued to obsessively watch despite their reservations. My paper takes up this paradox of simultaneously loving and hating a media product. By drawi…
The poster boys of aspirational labor
Aspirational labor has been understood by scholars based in the Global North to encapsulate a form of labor undertaken by social media content creators that is mostly uncompensated for, but is, nonetheless, integral to the functioning of its economy. While this dominant theorization of aspirational labor is sometimes helpful for explaining the precarity of digital media labor in countries of the Global South, its uncritical application could also…
Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Affordance (1 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 works) · Audience measurement (1 works)