Thank you to the Hype Studies group for bringing together such an eclectic group of scholars, practitioners, & artists at this conference! 🙌🏽
The critical experimental & non-hierarchical approach reminded me of Sarai :)

A short essay on the state of global digital capitalism(s) and futures in/from India and China, based on @linzhang.bsky.social 'The Labor of Reinvention' (2023)

Amidst everything (& its attendant self-censorship), I am so deeply grateful to my students this semester for keeping me sane through their curiosity, engagement, & comradery! 💙

Looking forward to (remotely) speaking at the 50 years of Media Studies Conference at Westminster today! #UoWMEDIA50

It's so fulfilling to see my STS students think through a critical sociotechnical problem like AI use in higher-ed more self-reflexively and relationally than most of the expert public commentators on the topic! 🥲

@aakashs.bsky.social and I have written an opinion piece in today’s The Indian Express. Our original title was “Startups as Reasons of the State: Why India Fails to Imagine New Techno-Futures.” Please do read and share your thoughts. Thank you!

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Happening tomorrow: A Quick History of Algorithms (for post-algorithmic teens) 🧓🏽🔥✨
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This is less canonical, and more of an attempt to answer why study STS in the here and now?https://www.academia.edu/127235339/HST120_Introduction_to_STS_Spring25_Mertia?source=swp_share

Drafting my coping strategy for the Spring’25 semester 😬✨

In my college days (back in Gandhinagar), we only had occasional unscheduled visits from stray dogs & monkeys 😌

Final presentations, Computers and Society, Fall’24: I’ve made it to my students meme-scapes! 🥲

Last lecture, Fall’24 ✨