Gayas Eapen
Biographic Data
| ID | 934589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gayas Eapen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gayas |
| FAMILY NAME | Eapen |
| SIGNATURE | EAPEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8256-7283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Platform Mechanics of Hate and Marginality
This panel critically examines platform imperialism by exploring platform affordances, constraints, and the social practices they reshape. Through four case studies from India and Kenya, we challenge dominant Western theoretical frameworks, emphasizing how platforms intersect with shared histories of colonialism, racialized dispossession, and extraction across the majority world. Through this panel, we aim to generate theoretical alternatives tha…
The Precarity, Perils, and Promises of Emerging Creator Economies
This panel focuses on the relationship of emerging creator economies to conditions of precarity, as they have come to develop in several distinct yet partially overlapping social, historical, and geographical contexts, including: Dalit mobile street performances in Haryana, India; YouTube street interview videos recorded in China, Japan and South Korea; the digital circulation of ethnonationalist themes and tropes surrounding the 2024 parliamenta…
Platforming Vibes
In this panel, we offer four papers on some of the complex ways in which sound, sensation, affect, and embodiment shape, and are shaped by, digital platforms. This approach does not eschew questions of power as a key concern, but rather foregoes broad dystopian (or utopian) generalizations, pointing instead to specific instances of platformized and platform-adjacent cultural production to see how power manifests in complex contextually specific w…
Jugaad Infrastructures
Infrastructure has often been approached through the built, and yet hidden, substrates that facilitate modern life. In postcolonial contexts, the rise of platformized solutions tasked with performing infrastructural functions has introduced complexity in theorizing infrastructure. However, provisional and temporary solutions that bring together networks, relationships, and habitations as jugaad (informal or workaround) infrastructure have the pot…
Mediating Precarity Through Mobile Apps
This panel analyzes the use of mobile apps to mediate experiences of precarity—that is threats to life and livelihood itself. While we acknowledge that mobile apps offer opportunities to form networks of resistance, many apps also pose substantial risks to users. To begin to articulate these risks, the presentations in this panel consider case studies of several apps targeted at mediating experiences of precarity. First, we offer an analysis of “…
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Mediating Precarity Through Mobile Apps
This panel analyzes the use of mobile apps to mediate experiences of precarity—that is threats to life and livelihood itself. While we acknowledge that mobile apps offer opportunities to form networks of resistance, many apps also pose substantial risks to users. To begin to articulate these risks, the presentations in this panel consider case studies of several apps targeted at mediating experiences of precarity. First, we offer an analysis of “…
Jugaad Infrastructures
Infrastructure has often been approached through the built, and yet hidden, substrates that facilitate modern life. In postcolonial contexts, the rise of platformized solutions tasked with performing infrastructural functions has introduced complexity in theorizing infrastructure. However, provisional and temporary solutions that bring together networks, relationships, and habitations as jugaad (informal or workaround) infrastructure have the pot…
Platforming Vibes
In this panel, we offer four papers on some of the complex ways in which sound, sensation, affect, and embodiment shape, and are shaped by, digital platforms. This approach does not eschew questions of power as a key concern, but rather foregoes broad dystopian (or utopian) generalizations, pointing instead to specific instances of platformized and platform-adjacent cultural production to see how power manifests in complex contextually specific w…
The Precarity, Perils, and Promises of Emerging Creator Economies
This panel focuses on the relationship of emerging creator economies to conditions of precarity, as they have come to develop in several distinct yet partially overlapping social, historical, and geographical contexts, including: Dalit mobile street performances in Haryana, India; YouTube street interview videos recorded in China, Japan and South Korea; the digital circulation of ethnonationalist themes and tropes surrounding the 2024 parliamenta…
Platform Mechanics of Hate and Marginality
This panel critically examines platform imperialism by exploring platform affordances, constraints, and the social practices they reshape. Through four case studies from India and Kenya, we challenge dominant Western theoretical frameworks, emphasizing how platforms intersect with shared histories of colonialism, racialized dispossession, and extraction across the majority world. Through this panel, we aim to generate theoretical alternatives tha…
Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Precarity (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Computer security (1 work) · Copycat (1 work)