Radhika Gajjala
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3637323 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Radhika Gajjala |
| PRENOMES | Radhika |
| SOBRENOME | Gajjala |
| ASSINATURA | GAJJALA R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8170-2087 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 117 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Global media ethics
And Finally
Digital activisms and intersectionality in context
Editorial Special Issue: Digital Activisms and Intersectionality in Context
Un(veil)ing context collapse
In this essay, we comment on two highly visible, popular tweets in our datasets around the #hijab that were flagged as highly popular in October 2022. These two tweets are demonstrative of two types of commonly visible strategies on social media—one based on a strategy of intentional context collapse and the other performative activism that serves to extract value for the Twitter user through selective allyship. The essay is taken from a larger i…
Uncovering Right-Wing Digital Enclaves and Reactionary Politics
In October 2021, an advertisement for a fairness cream by the Indian company Dabur ignited a fierce controversy, unveiling deeply ingrained ideologies of lesbophobia, misogyny, colorism, casteism, and Hindu victimhood. The ad, featuring a lesbian couple performing the Hindu ritual of Karwa Chauth after using the skin whitening cream, sparked criticism for its attempt to integrate same-sex couples into mainstream Hindu society through skin tone mo…
Get the hammer out
This paper focuses on revealing how the interplay between algorithmic interactions and the intuitive ways humans navigate digital environments can be researched through a multi-method approach to collecting and critically examining data from online platforms. We use a case study that looks at the role that social media engagement by transnational activists, local activists and celebrities played in amplifying an offline protest by group of women …
Researching visual protest and politics with “extra-hard” data
A range of scholars have criticised scholarly tendencies to focus on “easy” data such as provided by the low-hanging fruit of Twitter hashtag networks (Burgess & Bruns, 2015; Hargittai, 2020; Tromble, 2021). As a result, digital social research has been said to create a glut of studies that favour particular platforms, data forms, and networking dynamics, choices that may create ‘digital bias’ (Marres, 2017). These issues are particularly signifi…
Transnational queer cultures and digital media
Queer cultures have long been transnational and in times of rapid technological advancements, large migration flows, and intense cross-cultural exchanges, queer connections are evolving in new forms and meanings. These developments occur at the intersection of various intertwined geopolitical scales: urban, regional, national, continental, and global, as well as physical and digital. This introduction synthesizes various theoretical and methodolo…
Transnationalising Dadis as Feminist Political/Activist Subjects
This article examines Twitter publics to map how the ‘ dadis of Shaheen Bagh’ (grandmothers of Shaheen Bagh) emerged as political subjects through transnational media space even though they themselves did not directly access social media. A team of feminist media researchers examine how social media networks were mobilised strategically to gain international visibility and traction. Through a feminist close reading of Twitter data and a select fe…
Introduction
In recent years Media and Communication disciplinary conferences have begun to highlight the issue of #communicationsowhite (Chakravartty et al., 2018). The International Communication Association has also continued to intensify its efforts at internationalization even as members continue to debate what this “internationalization” would look like in terms of inclusion of historically marginalized populations worldwide. Yet in a larger disciplinar…
The persistence of the housewife ideology
This article examines women’s shifting roles in the production of handwoven cloth in Sumba, Indonesia. The main themes that emerge are the invisible labor of women and the production of a self-empowered entrepreneurial, gendered, laboring subjectivity that works in tandem with a housewife ideology firmly situated in a ‘new’ liberal patriarchy. The inequalities emerging from these shifts are parallel to inequalities produced through neoliberalizat…
Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression
Reflections
Shaheen Bagh
In this article, we examine protest of India’s passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Registry of Citizens (NRC) which spurred instances of physical and digital protest. We study the intersections of gender, political subjectivities, and digital activism among anti-CAA-NRC activists, specifically the “Women of Shaheen Bagh.” We discuss our data collection methods, description, and analysis of the protests in the context of la…
The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration
Migration moves people, ideas and things. Migration shakes up political scenes and instigates new social movements. It redraws emotional landscapes and reshapes social networks, with traditional and digital media enabling, representing, and shaping the processes, relationships and people on the move. The deep entanglement of media and migration expands across the fields of political, cultural and social life. For example, migration is increasingl…
The making of "asli" Sumba woven cloth
This article discusses how the production of “original”/“asli” commodity through a local/global dialectic in how “intangible heritage” is defined and how contemporary global market-facing Sumba weaving contributes to shifts and contradictions in gender roles as they are shaped simultaneously through local community needs and through a global facing westernised patriarchal business ethos. The increasing global north facing integration of global so…
The Routledge Companion to Media and Class
Advancements in digital technologies have set the stage for corporations in the Global North to drive down their labor costs by outsourcing work to the Global South. Burdened by employment woes such as infrastructural immobility and low wages, countless Filipino professionals, one of the largest suppliers of digital labor globally, are found to be migrating to online platform labor in exchange for autonomy, spatial flexibility, and the possibilit…
Routledge Companion to Media and Class
Caring Archives of Subalternity
Digital Diasporas
When we work or play through digital technologies – we also live in them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in the past – and still do – we have never before actually synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes and networks in quite the way we do now. Digital Diasporas engages co…
Feminism, Labour and Digital Media
Kylie Jarrett’s book Feminism, labour and digital media: The digital housewife (2015) examines digital, free, consumer labour as gendered, at the same time as revealing how the seemingly mutually e
When an Indian Whisper Network Went Digital
In October 2017 the Indian feminist sphere exploded with debate around what came to be known as #LoSha (a list of sexual harassers in Indian academia).1 This list originated on the Facebook page of law student Raya Sarkar (living in the United States). It then traveled as a crowdsourced Google Doc that promised anonymity to those entering names of sexual harassers. Soon after, a statement against the list was published on Kafila.online, which is …
Financial services to the poor
In India, microfinance and associated strategies of forming self-help groups came about in response to a newly independent nation and its need to include the rural non-banking population into national structures of development and governance. This article examines how the rapid growth of microfinance institutions during the last two decades – especially in the context of the more recent transition from non-profit to for-profit non-banking finance…
Terrorists or cowards
This paper examines images and words shared on the Twitter hashtag #refugeesNOTwelcome to understand the portrayal of male Syrian refugees in a post-9/11 context where the Middle-Eastern male is often primarily cast as a potential terrorist. Queer theorist Jasbir Puar (2007) and Middle- East scholar Paul Amar (2011) provide us with a theoretical approach to make sense of the contradictions we see emerging in this social media context
Woman and Other Women
Keywords: CyberfeminismTechnologyGenderSubalternGlobalNetworks
Terrorists or cowards
This paper examines images and words shared on the Twitter hashtag #refugeesNOTwelcome to understand the portrayal of male Syrian refugees in a post-9/11 context where the Middle-Eastern male is often primarily cast as a potential terrorist. Queer theorist Jasbir Puar (2007) and Middle- East scholar Paul Amar (2011) provide us with a theoretical approach to make sense of the contradictions we see emerging in this social media context
An Interrupted Postcolonial/Feminist Cyberethnography
South Asian digital diasporas and cyberfeminist webs
This paper discusses theoretical and applied concerns that arise in attempts to design and produce South Asian cyberfeminist e-spaces. Such attempts must inevitably negotiate diasporic and nationalist gender, class and caste identity formations, as well as online corporate and academic cultures situated in an increasingly global economy. In addition, they must also negotiate liberal cyberfeminist celebrations of technology as empowering to all wo…
Cyberfeminism, technology, and international 'development
This article reports on the implications and benefits of Internet technology among women from developing countries. Cyberfeminism is the practice of feminism in cyberspace. Feminists believe that women should take control and augment Internet technologies to empower themselves. Learning to use the computers, getting "connected," and surfing the Internet are encouraged among all women with the aim of advancing feminist causes and empowering women.…
Global Media, Culture, and Identity
Foreword Emile McAnany 1. Introduction: Media, Culture, and Identity in the Time of the Global Rohit Chopra I. Georgraphies and Currents of Global Media and Identity 2. Endemic Reporting: Calibrating the 'News' and 'Normal Disease' Cindy Patton 3. The Ethnoscape of Hip Wop: Alterity and Authenticity in Italian North American Hip Hop Joseph Sciorra 4. The Global Nomad: Navigating Mediated Space at a Global Scale Michael Jenson 5. Overseas Print Ca…
Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas
Queering and transgendering practices have been visible across the Internet since the time of multiuser domains (MUDs), MUD object oriented domains (MOOs), e-mail lists, and Web bulletins. This article maps some themes of queering in the Indian digital diaspora through an intergenerational lens, produced in the acts of online and offline coauthoring, weblogging, and reading of instances of such online queering relationally. By way of a dialogic e…
Get the hammer out
This paper focuses on revealing how the interplay between algorithmic interactions and the intuitive ways humans navigate digital environments can be researched through a multi-method approach to collecting and critically examining data from online platforms. We use a case study that looks at the role that social media engagement by transnational activists, local activists and celebrities played in amplifying an offline protest by group of women …
Shaheen Bagh
In this article, we examine protest of India’s passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Registry of Citizens (NRC) which spurred instances of physical and digital protest. We study the intersections of gender, political subjectivities, and digital activism among anti-CAA-NRC activists, specifically the “Women of Shaheen Bagh.” We discuss our data collection methods, description, and analysis of the protests in the context of la…
Woman and Other Women
Keywords: CyberfeminismTechnologyGenderSubalternGlobalNetworks
Lexicons of Women's Empowerment Online
In this essay, we examine discourses of women's emancipation online. We examine some nuances of how these lexicons of empowerment play out. One discursive formation examined is websites around female genital mutilation (FGM) in online activism while a second is the Americans for United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) website. The third case is based in work offline trying to develop strategies for online marketing. This case discusses the (im)pos…
When an Indian Whisper Network Went Digital
In October 2017 the Indian feminist sphere exploded with debate around what came to be known as #LoSha (a list of sexual harassers in Indian academia).1 This list originated on the Facebook page of law student Raya Sarkar (living in the United States). It then traveled as a crowdsourced Google Doc that promised anonymity to those entering names of sexual harassers. Soon after, a statement against the list was published on Kafila.online, which is …
Third World' perspectives on cyberfeminism
Cyberfeminists share the belief that women should `take control of and appropriate the use of cybertechnologies in an attempt to empower ourselves.' The author argues that the demystification of technology is necessary, but not sufficient, for empowerment (or re-empowerment, a term she prefers) since mainstream cyberfeminism fails to `address the complexities of the lived contexts of women in the South.' This article is hosted by our co-publisher…
Gendered Indian Digital Publics Along Matrices of Domination/Oppression
Microfinance in online space
Microfinance practices were originally developed in offline contexts. Modern microfinance practices were based on development models for the financial and social empowerment of the poorest of poor in developing countries. Several of these practices drew from existing traditions of money lending within local communities that were reformed to be in sync with rural development and the empowerment of the underprivileged individual. In present ‘postmo…
Researching visual protest and politics with “extra-hard” data
A range of scholars have criticised scholarly tendencies to focus on “easy” data such as provided by the low-hanging fruit of Twitter hashtag networks (Burgess & Bruns, 2015; Hargittai, 2020; Tromble, 2021). As a result, digital social research has been said to create a glut of studies that favour particular platforms, data forms, and networking dynamics, choices that may create ‘digital bias’ (Marres, 2017). These issues are particularly signifi…
Transnational queer cultures and digital media
Queer cultures have long been transnational and in times of rapid technological advancements, large migration flows, and intense cross-cultural exchanges, queer connections are evolving in new forms and meanings. These developments occur at the intersection of various intertwined geopolitical scales: urban, regional, national, continental, and global, as well as physical and digital. This introduction synthesizes various theoretical and methodolo…
Introduction
In recent years Media and Communication disciplinary conferences have begun to highlight the issue of #communicationsowhite (Chakravartty et al., 2018). The International Communication Association has also continued to intensify its efforts at internationalization even as members continue to debate what this “internationalization” would look like in terms of inclusion of historically marginalized populations worldwide. Yet in a larger disciplinar…
The making of "asli" Sumba woven cloth
This article discusses how the production of “original”/“asli” commodity through a local/global dialectic in how “intangible heritage” is defined and how contemporary global market-facing Sumba weaving contributes to shifts and contradictions in gender roles as they are shaped simultaneously through local community needs and through a global facing westernised patriarchal business ethos. The increasing global north facing integration of global so…
Financial services to the poor
In India, microfinance and associated strategies of forming self-help groups came about in response to a newly independent nation and its need to include the rural non-banking population into national structures of development and governance. This article examines how the rapid growth of microfinance institutions during the last two decades – especially in the context of the more recent transition from non-profit to for-profit non-banking finance…
Digital Media, Race, Gender, Affect, and Labor
This essay provides a brief introduction to how the special section of Television & New Media came about and discusses the concepts of race, gender, affect, and labor in relation to digital media as it is manifested in the present decade of public availability of the Internets
Home of Hope
This article is an attempt to explore the issues of online representations of orphans in China and India in the intersection of power, voice, and placement. Textual and visual representations of orphans at www.homeofhopeindia.org and www.homeofhope.org are analyzed using the theoretical frameworks of voicings, Whiteness, and the colonial (technological) gaze. We examine how online networks are spaces for discursive reproduction of existing offlin…
Juxtaposing handloom weaving and modernity
This article investigates the interaction between the processes of building development theory and development practice, arguing that theory must start with practice – and should not be top–down, starting with the ‘outside gaze’ of a supposedly detached academic or policy maker. The questions posed point to critiques of mainstream development narratives and notions of innovation through the diffusion of new technologies. The authors suggest that …
Racing and Queering the Interface
This essay is concerned with social and cultural problems of producing, consuming, and using technology. Based on epistemologies of doing, we race and queer the interface while doing technologies as they are located in specific contexts and moments. Our multi-vocal cyberethnographic engagement explores the production of selves at the intersection of online/offline activities. Our narratives shed light on how power works in multiply mediated conte…
Cyberfeminism, technology, and international 'development
This article reports on the implications and benefits of Internet technology among women from developing countries. Cyberfeminism is the practice of feminism in cyberspace. Feminists believe that women should take control and augment Internet technologies to empower themselves. Learning to use the computers, getting "connected," and surfing the Internet are encouraged among all women with the aim of advancing feminist causes and empowering women.…
Third World' perspectives on cyberfeminism
Cyberfeminists share the belief that women should `take control of and appropriate the use of cybertechnologies in an attempt to empower ourselves.' The author argues that the demystification of technology is necessary, but not sufficient, for empowerment (or re-empowerment, a term she prefers) since mainstream cyberfeminism fails to `address the complexities of the lived contexts of women in the South.' This article is hosted by our co-publisher…
An Interrupted Postcolonial/Feminist Cyberethnography
South Asian digital diasporas and cyberfeminist webs
This paper discusses theoretical and applied concerns that arise in attempts to design and produce South Asian cyberfeminist e-spaces. Such attempts must inevitably negotiate diasporic and nationalist gender, class and caste identity formations, as well as online corporate and academic cultures situated in an increasingly global economy. In addition, they must also negotiate liberal cyberfeminist celebrations of technology as empowering to all wo…
Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas
Queering and transgendering practices have been visible across the Internet since the time of multiuser domains (MUDs), MUD object oriented domains (MOOs), e-mail lists, and Web bulletins. This article maps some themes of queering in the Indian digital diaspora through an intergenerational lens, produced in the acts of online and offline coauthoring, weblogging, and reading of instances of such online queering relationally. By way of a dialogic e…
Juxtaposing handloom weaving and modernity
This article investigates the interaction between the processes of building development theory and development practice, arguing that theory must start with practice – and should not be top–down, starting with the ‘outside gaze’ of a supposedly detached academic or policy maker. The questions posed point to critiques of mainstream development narratives and notions of innovation through the diffusion of new technologies. The authors suggest that …
Racing and Queering the Interface
This essay is concerned with social and cultural problems of producing, consuming, and using technology. Based on epistemologies of doing, we race and queer the interface while doing technologies as they are located in specific contexts and moments. Our multi-vocal cyberethnographic engagement explores the production of selves at the intersection of online/offline activities. Our narratives shed light on how power works in multiply mediated conte…
Lexicons of Women's Empowerment Online
In this essay, we examine discourses of women's emancipation online. We examine some nuances of how these lexicons of empowerment play out. One discursive formation examined is websites around female genital mutilation (FGM) in online activism while a second is the Americans for United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) website. The third case is based in work offline trying to develop strategies for online marketing. This case discusses the (im)pos…
Microfinance in online space
Microfinance practices were originally developed in offline contexts. Modern microfinance practices were based on development models for the financial and social empowerment of the poorest of poor in developing countries. Several of these practices drew from existing traditions of money lending within local communities that were reformed to be in sync with rural development and the empowerment of the underprivileged individual. In present ‘postmo…
Snapshots from sari trails
In this paper, the author draws upon an examination of two apparently opposed cyborg locations and technologies to show how, in specific instances, globalization, technology, economics, culture and diasporas intersect. Such intersections produce very specific, situated contexts for productive labor forces to emerge at the interface of technologies 'old' and 'new'. These situated contexts place the individual in relation to market forces and commu…
South Asian Digital Diasporas
Some present‐day rearticulations of South Asian diasporas are identified through the politics of nation‐state, while others take shape through more complex transnational linkages. In this chapter, Radhika Gajjala and Yeon Ju Oh focus on diasporas that have formed along transnational affective links based in fandom, popular culture, and music online. For these rearticulated South Asian diasporas, digitally produced and circulated media play a sign…
Always at Crossroads
This chapter explores the transition from audience studies to cyberethnography on the basis of the author's own experience in doing research in computer‐mediated communication and in teaching in online environments. The chapter describes her experience in developing methodologies for studying Internet interactions through theoretical perspectives by drawing on postcolonial feminist theories and critical cultural studies. Doing ethnography at onli…
Home of Hope
This article is an attempt to explore the issues of online representations of orphans in China and India in the intersection of power, voice, and placement. Textual and visual representations of orphans at www.homeofhopeindia.org and www.homeofhope.org are analyzed using the theoretical frameworks of voicings, Whiteness, and the colonial (technological) gaze. We examine how online networks are spaces for discursive reproduction of existing offlin…
Global Media, Culture, and Identity
Foreword Emile McAnany 1. Introduction: Media, Culture, and Identity in the Time of the Global Rohit Chopra I. Georgraphies and Currents of Global Media and Identity 2. Endemic Reporting: Calibrating the 'News' and 'Normal Disease' Cindy Patton 3. The Ethnoscape of Hip Wop: Alterity and Authenticity in Italian North American Hip Hop Joseph Sciorra 4. The Global Nomad: Navigating Mediated Space at a Global Scale Michael Jenson 5. Overseas Print Ca…
Digital Media, Race, Gender, Affect, and Labor
This essay provides a brief introduction to how the special section of Television & New Media came about and discusses the concepts of race, gender, affect, and labor in relation to digital media as it is manifested in the present decade of public availability of the Internets
Woman and Other Women
Keywords: CyberfeminismTechnologyGenderSubalternGlobalNetworks
Terrorists or cowards
This paper examines images and words shared on the Twitter hashtag #refugeesNOTwelcome to understand the portrayal of male Syrian refugees in a post-9/11 context where the Middle-Eastern male is often primarily cast as a potential terrorist. Queer theorist Jasbir Puar (2007) and Middle- East scholar Paul Amar (2011) provide us with a theoretical approach to make sense of the contradictions we see emerging in this social media context
Financial services to the poor
In India, microfinance and associated strategies of forming self-help groups came about in response to a newly independent nation and its need to include the rural non-banking population into national structures of development and governance. This article examines how the rapid growth of microfinance institutions during the last two decades – especially in the context of the more recent transition from non-profit to for-profit non-banking finance…
Feminism, Labour and Digital Media
Kylie Jarrett’s book Feminism, labour and digital media: The digital housewife (2015) examines digital, free, consumer labour as gendered, at the same time as revealing how the seemingly mutually e
When an Indian Whisper Network Went Digital
In October 2017 the Indian feminist sphere exploded with debate around what came to be known as #LoSha (a list of sexual harassers in Indian academia).1 This list originated on the Facebook page of law student Raya Sarkar (living in the United States). It then traveled as a crowdsourced Google Doc that promised anonymity to those entering names of sexual harassers. Soon after, a statement against the list was published on Kafila.online, which is …
The Routledge Companion to Media and Class
Advancements in digital technologies have set the stage for corporations in the Global North to drive down their labor costs by outsourcing work to the Global South. Burdened by employment woes such as infrastructural immobility and low wages, countless Filipino professionals, one of the largest suppliers of digital labor globally, are found to be migrating to online platform labor in exchange for autonomy, spatial flexibility, and the possibilit…
Routledge Companion to Media and Class
Caring Archives of Subalternity
Digital Diasporas
When we work or play through digital technologies – we also live in them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in the past – and still do – we have never before actually synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes and networks in quite the way we do now. Digital Diasporas engages co…
The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration
Migration moves people, ideas and things. Migration shakes up political scenes and instigates new social movements. It redraws emotional landscapes and reshapes social networks, with traditional and digital media enabling, representing, and shaping the processes, relationships and people on the move. The deep entanglement of media and migration expands across the fields of political, cultural and social life. For example, migration is increasingl…
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