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N.Srikanth
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Asst. Prof. of Media Studies @GITAMUniversity, Hyderabad; PhD @IIT Tirupati; MPhil @JNU, New Delhi; MA @HydUniv; BA @EFLU, Hyderabad; first-gen student
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“Media of the Masses” was named the 2024 co-winner of the MLA Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars! To fellow scholars, who conduct research amid immense precarity off the tenure track, I see you. My future in academia remains uncertain, but this recognition means the world to me.
"In his surprising and engaging account of the stories an often-overlooked medium can tell, Andrew Simon uses the cassette tape as a way to elucidate the broader dynamics of nationhood, power, consumerism, religion, culture, global trade, and governmental control in modern Egypt. Simon’s revelatory work rethinks media studies, the history of technology, sensory encounters, and the forms of contemporary archives. Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt is original, thorough, and written with confidence and flair. Simon uses an ordinary item to spin out a thrilling story, to interrogate his own techniques, and to think deeply about what it might mean for modern scholars to generate stories following this model."
December 11, 2024 at 2:31 PM