Dr. Sagorika Singha

Dr Singha was previously an International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (IRGAC-RLS) Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2024) at the Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi as well as Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. She completed her doctoral studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2020). Her research contemplates the contemporary moment where the state, politics, new media and geographies at large converge. Her specific research focus areas include cultural identities, digital objects, influencer cultures, digital and mobile media cultures, and subcultural politics. In 2022, she was a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum and an Indian Council of Social Science Research Postdoctoral Fellow (ICSSR). She has also received the IGP-DAAD Visiting Fellowship in 2017 at Freie University in Berlin. Dr. Singha has taught new media and film studies courses at both private and public universities in Delhi, and contributes to ASAP|art Connect: Alternative South Asia Photography Art.

Selected Publications:

• “The Case of the YouTube Motivational Speakers As Hustlers: The Privatization of Hope in Neoliberal India,” IRGAC-RLS Website, 2024.
• “Digital Expression from the Shadow States: The in-betweeners in the Late-capitalist Era.” South Asian Popular Culture, 21(3): 325-341. 2023. DOI: 10.1080/14746689.2023.2260989
• “Networked Infrastructures and the Emergence of Northeast India’s First Reality TV Star,” BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 13(1): 74-93. 2022. DOI: 10.1177/09749276221114180
• “Meme Collectives and Preferred Truths in Assam.” Social Media and Social Order. Pg. 52-66. de Gruyter (February 2022). DOI: 10.2478/9788366675612-006