Radhika Gajjala
Radhika Gajjala (PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1998)
is Professor in Media and Communication and in American Culture Studies
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8170-2087
She was Fulbright Scholar/Professor of Digital Culture at University of Bergen for the AY 2015-2016.
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Her home institution is Bowling Green State University, Ohio where she is Professor of Media and Communication (joint appointed faculty in American Culture Studies - previously Director of American Culture Studies and prior to that Interim Director of Women's Studies) at Bowling Green State University. She has published books on Cyberculture and the Subaltern (Lexington Press, 2012) and Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women was published (Altamira, 2004). She has co-edited collections on Cyberfeminism 2.0 (2012), Global Media Culture and Identity (2011), South Asian Technospaces (2008) and Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice (2008).
She is also a member of the Fembot Collective and FemTechnet (having been part of a core team that developed the beta versions of the DOCC nodal teaching model now continuing) and is co-editor (with Carol Stabile) of “ADA: Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology.”
Research:
She is currently working on interrelated projects—
1] The unpacking of the concept of "digital subaltern" in relation to dataization and globalization at the encounter between NGOization, Digital Financialization and IT ization of everyday work and leisure. She looks at Microfinance online, digital financialization to P2P lending and borrowing based in social media practices, marketing, philanthropy and neoliberal entreprenuership
2] DIY hand/fiber/crafting communities with a focus on “women’s work”, value and tacit practices/contributions in transitioning economic times through an (auto)ethnographic focus on craft communities (book in-progress - Tangled Yarn, Tangled Wires).
3] (South Asian) Migrants, digital diasporas and everday Technologies (book in progress).
is Professor in Media and Communication and in American Culture Studies
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8170-2087
She was Fulbright Scholar/Professor of Digital Culture at University of Bergen for the AY 2015-2016.
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Her home institution is Bowling Green State University, Ohio where she is Professor of Media and Communication (joint appointed faculty in American Culture Studies - previously Director of American Culture Studies and prior to that Interim Director of Women's Studies) at Bowling Green State University. She has published books on Cyberculture and the Subaltern (Lexington Press, 2012) and Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women was published (Altamira, 2004). She has co-edited collections on Cyberfeminism 2.0 (2012), Global Media Culture and Identity (2011), South Asian Technospaces (2008) and Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice (2008).
She is also a member of the Fembot Collective and FemTechnet (having been part of a core team that developed the beta versions of the DOCC nodal teaching model now continuing) and is co-editor (with Carol Stabile) of “ADA: Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology.”
Research:
She is currently working on interrelated projects—
1] The unpacking of the concept of "digital subaltern" in relation to dataization and globalization at the encounter between NGOization, Digital Financialization and IT ization of everyday work and leisure. She looks at Microfinance online, digital financialization to P2P lending and borrowing based in social media practices, marketing, philanthropy and neoliberal entreprenuership
2] DIY hand/fiber/crafting communities with a focus on “women’s work”, value and tacit practices/contributions in transitioning economic times through an (auto)ethnographic focus on craft communities (book in-progress - Tangled Yarn, Tangled Wires).
3] (South Asian) Migrants, digital diasporas and everday Technologies (book in progress).
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Books by Radhika Gajjala
Advance reviews:
Due to the range of its themes, approaches, voices and contexts, this volume will be an indispensable guide to all scholars working on migration and media, and will furthermore open up a new space for methodological and conceptual reflection on a world in which movement and mediation are two sides of the same coin. -Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University.
Highlighting questions of power inequalities, processes, and dynamics within the intersections of media and migration, this book is a path-breaking vital and welcome contribution to migration and media studies. This Handbook provides insights into a central question of both these fields, that of representation and mediation. With careful attention paid to definitions, methodologies, and emerging issues, this book will be invaluable to scholars and students alike. - Nina Glick Schiller, Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester, UK.
This volume of over 50 chapters traverses enormous terrain in interrogating the entanglements of migration and media, highlighting the politics of encounter and the powerful combinations and permutations that shape contemporary migrant lives across the globe. What is truly excellent is the timely focus on social media, data science and digital technologies, and the impact on knowledge hierarchies and social justice in migration research. - Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore.
Scholarship on media and migration research has exploded in recent years. This outstanding volume captures the breadth and urgency of this important and rapidly-evolving work. A must-read for anyone working on media, migration and displacement. - Mirca Madianou, Goldsmiths, University of London.
ISBN: 9781526447210
November 2019
656 pages
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-media-and-migration/book260835
Journal Articles by Radhika Gajjala
local/global dialectic in contemporary global 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 westernized patriarchal business ethos. The increasing
global north facing integration of global south production communities
into the world markets for instance, leads to a masculinization of
management and global facing leadership while along with a feminization
of the local production process. Evidence for observations were drawn
from over fifty indepth interviews and onsite observation.
13. Gajjala, R. (2002). Interrogating identities: Composing other cyber-spaces. International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 25.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo26175939.html
Advance reviews:
Due to the range of its themes, approaches, voices and contexts, this volume will be an indispensable guide to all scholars working on migration and media, and will furthermore open up a new space for methodological and conceptual reflection on a world in which movement and mediation are two sides of the same coin. -Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University.
Highlighting questions of power inequalities, processes, and dynamics within the intersections of media and migration, this book is a path-breaking vital and welcome contribution to migration and media studies. This Handbook provides insights into a central question of both these fields, that of representation and mediation. With careful attention paid to definitions, methodologies, and emerging issues, this book will be invaluable to scholars and students alike. - Nina Glick Schiller, Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester, UK.
This volume of over 50 chapters traverses enormous terrain in interrogating the entanglements of migration and media, highlighting the politics of encounter and the powerful combinations and permutations that shape contemporary migrant lives across the globe. What is truly excellent is the timely focus on social media, data science and digital technologies, and the impact on knowledge hierarchies and social justice in migration research. - Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore.
Scholarship on media and migration research has exploded in recent years. This outstanding volume captures the breadth and urgency of this important and rapidly-evolving work. A must-read for anyone working on media, migration and displacement. - Mirca Madianou, Goldsmiths, University of London.
ISBN: 9781526447210
November 2019
656 pages
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-media-and-migration/book260835
local/global dialectic in contemporary global 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 westernized patriarchal business ethos. The increasing
global north facing integration of global south production communities
into the world markets for instance, leads to a masculinization of
management and global facing leadership while along with a feminization
of the local production process. Evidence for observations were drawn
from over fifty indepth interviews and onsite observation.
13. Gajjala, R. (2002). Interrogating identities: Composing other cyber-spaces. International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 25.
domesticity “in the service of environmentalism, DIY culture, and
personal fulfillment”—is taking shape in mostly Westernized DIY
spaces. New domesticity exists in a neoliberal and digital DIY
ontology that distinguishes itself from the domesticity of previous generations while also making claims to a “return.” This essay lays 10 out some key issues that need to be taken into account regarding this emerging form of Wi-Fi gadget facilitated public engagement through domestic space while noting how the issue of unwaged labor resurfaces in the context of digital labor by women.
informal spaces that gets constructed as surplus, and extracted
and managed into a (transitioning/emerging) global economy
through varying logics of commodification, informationalisation,
financialisation and monetisation. Particularly, a significant common
theme binding together our four main intersecting research projects
is a focus on how ‘women’s work’ and tacit practices or contributions
are made visible/invisible in transitioning economic times. Issues
regarding layers of literacies, biopolitics of differing temporalities,
slow time/fast time, as well as space and place emerge in nuanced ways.
In book -
DIGINAKA
Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in Post-Capitalist India
Anjali Monteiro, K.P. Jayasankar and Amit Rai (editors)
Niharika Banerjea, Debanuj DasGupta, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Aniruddha Dutta, Radhika Gajjala, Amit S. Rai and Jack Harrison-Quintana
- with Dinah Tetteh and Anca Birzescu
Forthcoming in MATTER, Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender edited by Stacy Alaimo
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This chapter examines how the digital (wireless, Internet, computer, and mostly screen-based technologies) and the material (three-dimensional objects we touch, feel, and smell every day) come together in what can be termed digital materialities. Matter is often defined as the substance of physical objects with which we interact. An assumption is made about what physical matter is and about the nature of touching and feeling in defining such matter [three dimensionality of physical matter and the invisibility of the screen and technology for digital access as material]. The digital is defined as that with which we interact onscreen—the visual, the discursive, the coded interface (although, in actuality, these digital interfaces are also produced through material infrastructures). This complexity of the relationship between the digital and material therefore is reduced to a mutually exclusive binary between the " digital " (assumed to be non-physical and located in the audiovisual) and the " material. " The examples given here approach the idea of materiality as based in the act of doing – of everyday practice both in relation to digital space and analogue physical place. Thus materiality in this chapter is defined as more than the substance of the physical objects around us that we touch and feel. Materiality is far more complex than the division between tactile physical matter and digital code or visual image and written discourse suggests. Dividing the " digital " from the " material " into discrete, mutually exclusive categories is fairly difficult when we think about our everyday activities. Thus the examples used in this chapter draw on two different definitions of materiality. The first example engages the issue of tactility and the digitizing of physical objects;
Simultaneously, in global settings, a model of “Development 2.0” which uses Web 2.0 tools and practices to mobilize connectivity, action at a distance, and relational, interpersonal investments through digital and mobile tools. The resulting model of microfinance therefore occurs through Web 2.0 and mobile phone based technologies and also works to connect women and girls from the Global North (including immigrants) and women and girls from the Global South through movements such as The Girl Effect. What we see here is a paradigm based in a neoliberal market economy framework that mobilizes women’s labor from the Global North and from the Global South in the service of a global digital financial capitalism. This essay maps out a literature review that connects the idea of Development 2.0 with the economic and political visibility of the girl child and of the woman as the one who empowers while also still needing to be empowered.
[Chapter four of "Cyberculture and the Subaltern" co-authored with B. Syamasundari and Seemanthini Niranjana].
co-authors: Behrmann, E. M., Gajjala, R., Losh, E., Cowan, T.L., Boyer, P., Rault, J., Wexler, L., Cole, C.L. (2015).
Gajjala, R, Edwards, E, Ford, S (2021) Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Vol 37, NO.2 “Living it Out” section 119- 165
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jfemistudreli.37.2.08?refreqid=excelsior%3Ac7da185ff02bc047a971b753d3bbf084&fbclid=IwAR3Zk76jHQZAfRu8jsmZ6lRr4YGyzI4NU1y-N8YspkVtwnOsf7vnM0lhy3w
see
http://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid%3D163139%26ptid%3D131915%26ctid%3D15%26t%3DSpecial%20Issue%20on%20E-Diaspora%3A%20Living%20Digitally
Produced with the labor of several others (see issue for all the credits and details)
https://www.amazon.com/Collection-Writings-Second-Generation-America/dp/096883700X
The Digital publishing team from Bowling Green State University's branch of the Fembot Collective (comprised of graduate students in the American Culture Studies, School of Media and Communication and the Rhetoric and Writing Program) along with Radhika Gajjala (and in consultation with the Fembot Advisory Board) are working to publish existing and continuing projects on the Manifold.
DO NOT USE without citing - individual contributing tweets and their handles are included in the storify document if you wish to contact people who were in discussion.
The content is based in in-progress publications (book chapters in Handbooks) and in-progress book on "South Asian Digital Diasporas: Labour, Affect and Technomediation." - all expected to be published in 2018.
However feel free to cite the Storify version if referring to any content - or message me to find out if the in progress work is published.
Published in 120. Cultures of Cyberspace
edited by Alan Sondheim
Winter 1999
Laurie Cubbison, Alexanne Don, Jerry Everard, Amy Fletcher, Radhika Gajjala, Eve Andree Laramee, Nick Mamatas, Jon Marshall, Caitlin Martin, Michael W. Spirito, John Suler, Ryan Whyte, and others. Images by Robert Cheatham, Emily Cheng, Janieta Eyer, Nancy Haynes, Hokusai, Ichi Ikeda, Fanny Jacobson, Eve Andree Laramee, Kim McGlynn, Barbara Simcoe, David Smith, Tyler Stallings, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, and Thomas Zummer.
to Online Socio-Business-Networking: Microfinance in the age of Social
networking. Paper presented at the First European Conference on Microfinance, Brussels, Belgium
http://blogs.uoregon.edu/globalizationgenderdevelopment/schedule/.
I will eventually have proofread version uploaded.
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Taught by Dr. Radhika Gajjala Online @ Bowling Green State University
(May 16 2015 to June 29 2015 – For details of parts of the course that will be open to semi-public participation via facebook and cyberdiva.org site, contact Radhika)
http://www.radhikagajjala.org
http://adanewmedia.org/category/issue-no-8/
go to my medium profile (writing and series) for some explanation - linked from radhika gajjala.org
http://www.fordigitaldignity.com/cyberfeminism-and-content-creation-online-gods/
How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith, the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital? Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists. Presented by anthropologist Ian M. Cook, " Online Gods " is a key initiative of the ERC funded project ONLINERPOL www.fordigitaldignity.com led by media anthropologist Sahana Udupa at LMU Munich. It is co-hosted by the HAU Network for Ethnographic Theory. Online Gods represents our collective commitment to multimedia diffusion of research in accessible and engaging formats.