Thank you N.Srikanth for choosing to review my work, and welcoming me earlier this yr to present my book GITAM Deemed University. I look forward to reading your insights about vernacular creator cultures in India.

Happy to share our article "From local to global: Village YouTubers and rural creator cultures in South India" published International Journal of Cultural Studies part of special issue on "Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Thrilled to be part of such an extraordinary cohort of creator network! Thanks.

I couldn't make it to #AOIR2024 due to prior teaching commitments but please do visit our roundtable for some exciting conversations around peripherical creator cultures if you can. Thank you in advance!

First article alert ✨ "Revolutionary discourses from the past: a digital hermeneutical analysis of widely read academic publications on the social impact and significance of the internet" published in IC&S with Susan Aasman @riksmit86 and Tom Slootweg doi.org/10.1080/136911…

Friends in Berlin! The first one is happening today, and you could drop by if this interests you!

India’s creators face a tough choice: toe the line or risk backlash, unlike the EU’s push for cultural diversity or China’s strict censorship. I discuss the controversial #IC814 on #Netflix in this commentary shorturl.at/Xpc2m

Thanks for the shout out! Credit to speakers and the listeners and special thanks to Tuğçe Bidav! Fortunate to have such an incredible intellectual and kind coauthor.

Thank you for the shout out Foundation London Story!

If you missed #AoIR2024, check out CCSN’s blog for key takeaways and insights on creator studies! Smith Mehta Arturo Arriagada

Hello Twitter! Want to spend an evening watching a beautiful, little sapphic short film? Doing a screening of #PehliDate in Mumbai on the 1st of December. Let’s watch the film, talk about our first dates and queer joy, shall we? DM for invites. RT for visibility? ❤️

In this new article, Dr. Priyam Sinha and I articulate the key factors that dominate the production of digital texts in India, including on global streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime video.

Next week, I’ll be presenting our work-in-progress book project Global South Creator Cultures with Smith Mehta at the Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute. oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Crashed an anthropologists’ conference last week in Seoul✨Shoutout to Yuna, Soojin & Reagan for inviting me🫶Spent my time talking about a HK feminist creator—super stoked that the paper will be published with ‘Global South Creator Studies’ edited by Tuğçe Bidav & Smith Mehta