Bio
Usha Raman is an independent researcher and writer, having retired as Professor, Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad. Her work spans journalism pedagogy, science and health communication, children’s media, feminist media studies, and digital cultures, with a focus on issues of identity and selfhood. Her recent work includes the edited volumes “Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labor in the Digital Economy” (with Payal Arora and Rene Konig), “Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India” (with Sumana Kasturi), and “The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-pandemic” (with Yonty Friesen, Igor Kanizaj, and Grace Choi). She is co-author of “Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India” (with Avishek Ray, Gabriel Dattatreyan, Martin Webb and others).