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SHORENSTEIN FELLOWSHIP AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Sahana Udupa has been selected as a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. During her fellowship in Fall 2021, she will write a research paper on artificial intelligence, extreme speech and the autonomy of fact checkers. The paper will critically evaluate the global practice of fact checking by inquiring into the interrelated axes of digital labour, political control and technology deploymet.

Sahana Udupa has been selected as a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. During her fellowship in Fall 2021, she will write a research paper on artificial intelligence, extreme speech and the autonomy of fact checkers. The paper will critically evaluate the global practice of fact checking by inquiring into the interrelated axes of digital labour, political control and technology deploymet.

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ERC Consolidator Grant

Sahana Udupa received the European Research Council Consolidator Grant (2023) for a five year multi-country study on small social media platforms and contentious speech. A team of postdoctoral researchers and Udupa will explore small platform discourses and their implications in an anthropologically rooted comparative framework. The project will also provide policy recommendations for small platform governance. News coverage: European Research Council | Forschung & Lehre Magazine | LMU Munich

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UNESCO Design Challenge

At the UNESCO organized Design Challenge, 136 participants from 36 countries pitched their ideas to address gender discrimination and violence in the digital space using methodologies from digital anthropology. Sahana Udupa served on the jury with Gabriela Ramos, Richard Rogers, Anders Munk and Patrik Wikstorm to select the winning projects.

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