For Digital Dignity

ICA PANEL ON ONLINE EXTREME SPEECH

27 May 2020
At the International Communication Association Annual Conference 2020, Sahana Udupa has organized a panel, “Aggressive Emotion, Precarious Labour and Colonial Continuities: Theoretical Debates on Disinformation and Extreme Speech Online”. The panel contributes to debates around online vitriol and disinformation by advancing theoretical insights into aspects of emotionality, cultural variation and political economy in a contextually rooted and historically sensitive global framework.
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KEYNOTE TALK: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION PRECONFERENCE ON DIGITAL SOUTH ASIA

21 May 2020
In the one-day preconference “Digital Cultures of South Asia: Inequalities, Infrastructures, Informationalization” organised by Radhika Parameswarnan, Indiana University, Kalyani Chadha, University of Maryand and Sangeet Kumar
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KEYNOTE AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY: POLITICS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN SOUTH ASIA

20 May 2020
Sahana Udupa is invited to give the keynote address at the international conference on politics of social media in South Asia, organized by David Gellner, Ralph Shroeder and Amogh Sharma. The title of her talk is, “Disinformation, Misinformation or None? Images and Videos in a Nationalist WhatsApp Group”.
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DIGITAL DIGNITY: EXPLORATIONS IN RELIGIOUS POLITICS ONLINE

In an invited presentation, Sahana Udupa, Salma Siddique and Max Kramer will build on their ongoing ethnographic fieldwork on online practices among prominent Hindu and Muslim political groups in India and the diaspora in the UK, to explore what it means to image in a life of dignity in the digital age.
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ACTIVISM AND CONTESTATION ONLINE

In an invited guest lecture and master class series on “activism and contestation” organized by Katrien Pype, KU Leuven University, together with anthropology colleagues from the University of Ghent and Antwerp, Belgium, Sahana Udupa will speak about decolonial approaches to online extreme speech and global resistance.
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HATE SPEECH, INFORMATION DISORDER AND CONFLICT

Sahana Udupa will speak about global research on hate speech, information disorder and conflict (a comprehensive review prepared in collaboration with Iginio Gagliardone, Alexandra Deem and Laura Csuka) at the workshop of the SSRC Academic Network on Peace, Security and the United Nations, in New York.
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SOCIAL MEDIA ETHICS AND THE JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI HIND

ONLINERPOL core team member Max Kramer will analyze the theory and practice of social media ethics of the Indian reform Islamic organization Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in his upcoming talk on January 22. He is going to compare the ethical understanding of the Jamaat with other traditions of ethics that deal with questions of social media on
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MULTIPLICITIES AND CONVERGENCE IN ONLINE EXTREME SPEECH

In the lecture series, “The End/s of History: Post 1989 Worlds in the Making” organized by Annika Lems, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Sahana Udupa will probe the nature and contours of a global conjuncture of exclusionary politics, using online extreme speech as a window to contemporary digital cultures.
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WHATSAPP, DISINFORMATION ‘SERVICES’ AND RENEWABLE INGENUITY OF ONLINE ABUSERS

In an invited talk at the University of Mainz, Sahana Udupa examined the assemblage of infrastructures, practices and actors of digital disinformation in contemporary India, and how this assemblage has especially benefited right-wing nationalism.
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FEMINISM AND ONLINE POLITICS IN INDIA: PRECARIOUS SOLIDARITIES, PROMISING OPPORTUNITIES

Project ONLINERPOL hosted Prof. Dr. Usha Raman, a media and communication scholar from the University of Hyderabad, to share her insights about how the digital has mediated feminist politics in India within the past decade. This period has seen not only feminist mobilization but also the emergence of a more nuanced, multi-faceted discourse around gender politics,
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