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Anirban Baishya: Online Academic PortfolioMain MenuResearch StatementSyllabus: The Culture of the SelfieCourse DescriptionVideo Essay/ Digital ArgumentKeep Talking: A Mediation on Technology and CommunicationAnirban Kapil Baishya667c7a6dda1fc6a3fa36778ff0e8704b61e3568d
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1media/Me.pngmedia/Picture2.pngterm2017-11-29T13:43:52-08:00Anirban Kapil Baishya667c7a6dda1fc6a3fa36778ff0e8704b61e3568d2437520image_header2017-12-03T11:41:21-08:00Anirban Kapil Baishya667c7a6dda1fc6a3fa36778ff0e8704b61e3568dI am a fifth year PhD candidate and an Annenberg Fellow at the Cinema and Media Studies Division, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. Prior to joining the PhD program, I completed my MA and MPhil in Cinema Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. My research interests include digital media, surveillance and cellphone cultures. My PhD dissertation examines selfies and the rise of digital selfhood in contemporary India. My work has been published in International Journal of Communication, South Asian Popular Culture and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. I am currently co-editing two special issues—“Subjected to play: Power, Participation and Subjectivity in Gaming and Beyond” for Spectator which is due to be published in 2018, and another one for Porn Studies, titled “South Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissible and the Obscene” which will be published in 2019. You can find my work here: https://usc.academia.edu/AnirbanBaishya