In this episode, Professor Mohan Dutta’s guest Professor Usha Raman discusses her early professional career and how it shaped her scholarly interests. She describes her current worker-centered and feminist approach to the design and deployment of digital platforms and tools to align, with a special eye to the Global South, the future of work with human dignity, creativity, and pleasure.

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Featuring

Mohan Dutta

Usha Raman

Sponsor:

The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University Qatar

More from our guests:

Mohan Dutta

Dean’s Chair Professor of Communication | Journalism and Marketing

Massey University | University of New Zealand

Director, Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE)

Twitter: @mjdutt; @CAREMasseyNZ

Usha Raman

Professor in the Department of Communication | University of Hyderabad

Vice President | International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

Twitter: @usharaman

Works referenced in episode:

Raman, U., & Arora, P. (n.d.). Femlab. FEMLAB.

Raman, U., & Komarraju, S. A. (2018). Policing responses to crime against women: unpacking the logic of Cyberabad’s “SHE Teams”. Feminist Media Studies, 18(4), 718-733.

Komarraju, S. A., Arora, P., & Raman, U. (2021). Agency and servitude in platform labour: a feminist analysis of blended cultures. Media, Culture & Society, 01634437211029890.

Raman, U. (2018). MAYANOTES. Super Vision.

Raman, U. (2021). Pandemic Learning: How do we make it (all) count?. Indian Academy of Sciences.

Bhattacharya, S. (2021). Desperately seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the search for intimacy and Independence. Harper Collins Publishers India.

Copy and Audio Editor:

Dominic Bonelli

Daniel Christain

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown