Making design decisions is challenging when the study will be conducted online. Qualitative researchers who collect data with online interviews or focus groups are responsible for treating participants in a respectful and ethical manner. Researchers need ethical ways to collect written materials, photographs, or videos online. However, ethical online research design guidance is limited. This […]

This project explores how ideas about information privacy are translated into code – how local informational norms and practices take tangible form in global software products. This issue has recently been addressed through studies of developers. However, with few notable exceptions, this emergent body of research tends to regard developers as a generic professional category […]

My research project investigates Iranian women’s collective imagination of the future by focusing on the experience of doing digital feminist activism during the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising in Iran. I am particularly interested in exploring feminist digital activism both as a crucial component of the recent uprising and as part of the practice of feminism […]

This study seeks to interrogate the nexus between gig work and labour precarity in Nigeria. To this end, it will examine the case of remote workers in the rapidly growing fintech sector of the Nigerian economy. The study is anchored largely on the conviction that while there has been a growing body of work on […]

The project focuses on gender as one important aspect of AI fairness to study how gender is enacted in multiple ways through computational practices. Amidst the complexity of translating a social concept like fairness into computational procedures, the attempt of implementing fairness into algorithms reflects and contributes to the public demand for accountable and trustworthy […]

This project examines emerging online materialities of Phungawari (a form of traditional oral tales of the indigenous Meitei community of Manipur) as user generated content (UGC) which embodies the convergence of Meitei folklore with digital technologies. These digitized phungawari signal a sub-cultural phenomenon of indigenous identity expressions. This inventive, re-embodiment and adaptation of phungawari on […]

This project investigates the working conditions of data workers in Sub-Saharan Africa who enable the global artificial intelligence ecosystem. Using Karl Marx’s Workers’ Inquiry method that prioritizes workers’ voices, it will examine job security, wages, and legal protections. By analyzing policies, laws, and industry structures impacting these workers, the project aims to identify interventions to […]

We are at a critical juncture in how we understand internet freedom and its safeguarding. Even democracies that have been the staunchest promoters of global internet freedom are backtracking, guided by efforts to mitigate transnational threats connected to digital technologies, preserve digital sovereignty and strengthen cybersecurity. To secure the benefits unlocked by decentralised, global communications […]