Smith Mehta
@mediaindustries.bsky.social
Academic, Assistant Prof @Uni. of Groningen. More active on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/smithmehta
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In "Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries", Smith Mehta (@mediaindustries.bsky.social) explores the interplay of identity, privilege, and precarity in academic research. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
In "Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries", Smith Mehta (@mediaindustries.bsky.social) explores the interplay of identity, privilege, and precarity in academic research. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
So grateful to have read this chapter with @tugcebidav.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing the book out soon!
Crashed an anthropologists’ conference in Seoul✨Shoutout to Yuna, Soojin & Reagan for inviting me🫶Spent my time talking about a HK feminist creator—super stoked that this paper will be published w/ ‘Global South Creator Studies’ edited by @tugcebidav.bsky.social & @mediaindustries.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So grateful to have read this chapter with @tugcebidav.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing the book out soon!
If you're around Oxford, next week, please consider attending @tugcebidav.bsky.social's session introducing our forthcoming book's theoretical and conceptual framework for mapping Global South creator cultures (Pakistan, Chile, China, Turkey, Hong Kong, Nigeria and Brazil).
Next week, I’ll be presenting our book project Global South Creator Cultures with @mediaindustries.bsky.social at the Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop
This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.
www.oii.ox.ac.uk
March 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
If you're around Oxford, next week, please consider attending @tugcebidav.bsky.social's session introducing our forthcoming book's theoretical and conceptual framework for mapping Global South creator cultures (Pakistan, Chile, China, Turkey, Hong Kong, Nigeria and Brazil).
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Exciting news for those writing books on Asia. There's a new book series in town: Power Currents: Asian Media in the World! Edited by some great folks including @jonabel.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social and Rahul Mukherjee, this series looks exciting:
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Power Currents: Asian Media in the World - University of Pittsburgh Press
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March 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Exciting news for those writing books on Asia. There's a new book series in town: Power Currents: Asian Media in the World! Edited by some great folks including @jonabel.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social and Rahul Mukherjee, this series looks exciting:
upittpress.org/series/power...
upittpress.org/series/power...
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🆕 publication alert on how Indian cultural workers are negotiating work on global streaming services. Led by incoming Humboldt fellow Dr Priyam Sinha.
🆕 publication alert on how Indian cultural workers are negotiating work on global streaming services. Led by incoming Humboldt fellow Dr Priyam Sinha.
Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India
Abstract. In this article, we investigate the integrated commodity forms within Internet-based production cultures in India based on four key transactional
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February 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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🆕 publication alert on how Indian cultural workers are negotiating work on global streaming services. Led by incoming Humboldt fellow Dr Priyam Sinha.
🆕 publication alert on how Indian cultural workers are negotiating work on global streaming services. Led by incoming Humboldt fellow Dr Priyam Sinha.
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📢 New publication alert with an amazing co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social 🎊 Our paper “Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey” is out in Social Media + Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey - Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta, 2024
Drawing on Indian, Irish, and Turkish YouTube creators’ perceptions of their work, this article focuses on peripheral creator work cultures to broaden the under...
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February 29, 2024 at 4:13 AM
📢 New publication alert with an amazing co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social 🎊 Our paper “Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey” is out in Social Media + Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs.
The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
January 8, 2024 at 4:17 PM
New from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs.
The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
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Excited to work with @tugcebidav.bsky.social and other stellar scholars working on global south creator cultures.
✨Excited to share that Smith @mediaindustries.bsky.social and I just signed a book contract with Routledge to publish an edited collection provisionally titled 'Global South Creator Cultures'.
December 4, 2023 at 7:09 PM
Excited to work with @tugcebidav.bsky.social and other stellar scholars working on global south creator cultures.
indianexpress.com/article/opin... My 'cent'iments on draft #Broadcasting Regulations Bill 2023 by #MIB #India published in today's #Indianexpress. t.co/mez8fVpaUo (link w/o paywall).
Regulating OTT: Draft Broadcasting Regulation Bill may be an attempt to control digital infrastructu...
A regulation on conflicts of interest is the need of the hour. All other regulatory measures to facilitate ‘ease of business’ are merely attempts at facilitating ‘ease of control and regulation�...
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November 16, 2023 at 8:45 PM
indianexpress.com/article/opin... My 'cent'iments on draft #Broadcasting Regulations Bill 2023 by #MIB #India published in today's #Indianexpress. t.co/mez8fVpaUo (link w/o paywall).
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Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
November 7, 2023 at 3:50 PM
Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...