Digital Diasporas

Radhika Gajjala is Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Her previous books include Cyberculture and the Subaltern (Lexington, 2012) and Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women (Altamira, 2004). She has co-edited collections including Cyberfeminism 2.0 (Peter Lang 2012), Global Media Culture and Identity (Routledge 2011), South Asian Technospaces (Peter Lang 2008) and Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice (Hampton Press2008). She is also a member of the Fembot Collective and FemTechnet and is co-editor of ADA: Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology.

• Acknowledgements IntroductionSection One1.Radhika Gajjala, Gendered Indian Digital Publics: Digital and Domestic2.Radhika Gajjala in conversation with Sriya Chattopadhyay, Sarada Nori, Shobha S.V., and Puthiya Purayil Sneha, Dialogue Interlude: Ghar and Bahir3.Radhika Gajjala in conversation with Shilpa Phadke, Dialogue Interlude: #WhyLoiter4.Radhika Gajjala in conversation with Sukhnidh Kaur, Varsha Ayyar, Nithila Kanagasabai, and Divya Kandkuri, Dialogue Interlude: Centering Marginalized FeministsSection Two5.Radhika Gajjala, Gendered Indian Digital Publics: Digital Streets6.Radhika Gajjala in conversation with Debipreeta Rahut and Damini Kulkarni, Dialogue Interlude: Pushing on and Nuancing the Framework7.Radhika Gajjala in conversation with Smita Vanniyar, Dialogue Interlude: The Digital Queer Question 8.Radhika Gajjala in conversation with Christina Thomas Dhanaraj, Dialogue Interlude: Reflections on Digital Mediation and on becoming and being a Dalit F

Radhika Gajjala has been an important expert on digital culture in India and the United States for decades, as well as an innovator in ethnographic research. This book exemplifies her deep commitments to feminist scholarship and to collaborative methodologies. For those wishing to understand phenomena such as hashtag feminism or digital domesticity, Gajjala’s insights about online behavior among members of the vast South Asian digital diaspora are powerful, complex, and deeply engaged with the lives of her subjects and fellow researchers.