Bio
Vibodh Parthasarathi maintains a multidisciplinary interest in media policy, digital transitions, and policy literacy. Vibodh is associate professor at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, and visiting fellow at the Centre for Media, Data and Society, Central European University. He has been a visiting scholar at KU Leuven, University of Queensland, University of Helsinki, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, besides being an affiliate scholar at SASNET, Lund University. Moreover, he has been at the forefront of media policy research in India and a winner of numerous grants, including from the Ford Foundation, Canada’s IDRC, Social Science Research Council, HIVOS, and University Grants Commission. His edited works include Platform Capitalism in India (Palgrave, 2020), the double-volume The Indian Media Economy (OUP, 2018), and the triptych Communication Processes (Sage 2007, 2009, 2010). Parthasarathi serves on the Board of the Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore), in editorial/advisory roles in leading scientific journals and in book series at MIT Press and Oxford University Press, and as associate editor of Journal Digital Media and Policy.