Aswin Punathambekar is a collaborator with For Digital Dignity, Project ONLINERPOL and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (NYU Press, 2013), co-editor of Global Bollywood (NYU Press, 2008), and co-editor of Television At Large in South Asia (2013). His research and teaching focus on digital media and political culture, media industries and production cultures, media history, and public culture with a focus on South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. He is an Associate Editor of Media, Culture and Society and he currently co-edits the Critical Cultural Communication series for NYU Press.