Smith Mehta
@smitmehta
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Assistant Professor @univgroningen. Ex-producer @Viacom18 (Motion Pictures and Voot). Dreadful singer. Below average dancer. Good cook.
Joined November 2009
The box, the book and the author of the book 📚 https://t.co/kZcu2oVCFU. Thanks @seldridge for 🎉 this moment with me. Thanks @msrebergen for collecting the 📦. What wud I do without my wonderful colleagues!
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As part of the session, we’ll be joined by senior internet scholars from across the globe: Prof. @wishcrys Crystal Abidin | Dr. @tanyalokot | Dr. @smitmehta | Dr. Ashwin Nagappa | Dr. Peter Nagy | Prof. Usha Raman and Dr. @jetsumgerl Zoetanya Sujon
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New article out in the European Journal of Cultural Studies: “Navigating privilege and precarity.” An autoethnographic reflection on how caste, class, religion & mobility shape my journey across the media industry and academia. 🔗
journals.sagepub.com
This autoethnographic study explores the interplay of identity, privilege, and precarity in academic research. Reflecting on a migrant academic’s journey across...
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Crashed an anthropologists’ conference last week in Seoul✨Shoutout to Yuna, Soojin & Reagan for inviting me🫶Spent my time talking about a HK feminist creator—super stoked that the paper will be published with ‘Global South Creator Studies’ edited by @tugcebidav & @smitmehta
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Next week, I’ll be presenting our work-in-progress book project Global South Creator Cultures with @smitmehta at the Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute. https://t.co/fkA8eGpdyv
oii.ox.ac.uk
This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.
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In this new article, @PriyamSinha and I articulate the key factors that dominate the production of digital texts in India, including on global streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime video.
I am thrilled to share my co-authored article with @smitmehta "Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India https://t.co/iX9RvrxdZf
#mediastudies #Platform #DigitalIndia #productionculture
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Hello Twitter! Want to spend an evening watching a beautiful, little sapphic short film? Doing a screening of #PehliDate in Mumbai on the 1st of December. Let’s watch the film, talk about our first dates and queer joy, shall we? DM for invites. RT for visibility? ❤️
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If you missed #AoIR2024, check out CCSN’s blog for key takeaways and insights on creator studies! @smitmehta @artarriagada
NEW BLOG POST 🎃💫 Featuring CCSN adventures (and spooky costumes!) at #AoIR2024 See how #content took over Sheffield by clicking the 🔗 in 🧵⬇️:
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https://t.co/hpYwf5TsQe Thankful to the @newslaundry team for reporting @EeDanhi and my paper on the ideological motives driving Indian media digital policy.
newslaundry.com
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Thank you for the shout out @FoundationTLS!
Meet Dr. @smitmehta Asst. Prof. At @CMJS_UGroningen at @univgroningen 👨🏾🏫! He has expertise in topics like #CreativeLabour, #DigitalDistribution, #MediaCensorship, #influencers & #NewMedia 🛜. Before his time at RUG, Dr. Mehta worked as an associate producer for films and a web
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Thanks for the shout out! Credit to speakers and the listeners and special thanks to @tugcebidav! Fortunate to have such an incredible intellectual and kind coauthor.
Big thanks to @tugcebidav (& @smitmehta) for organising THE Global South Creator Cultures roundtable! It was fantastic to lineup with @Artarriagada, @KarisWilson4, & @WangariNjathia💜Shoutout to @XeniaQianHuang for taking this pic & to the audience for joining us! Bye #AoIR2024
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Friends in Berlin! The first one is happening today, and you could drop by if this interests you!
So, friends in Berlin, I will be speaking about my ongoing research across two events (1st and 6th November) at the @HumboldtUni. Do have a look at the attached posters. #SouthAsia #mediajobs #CreatorMedia #genderstudies #Disability #India
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First article alert ✨ "Revolutionary discourses from the past: a digital hermeneutical analysis of widely read academic publications on the social impact and significance of the internet" published in IC&S with @aasmanna @riksmit86 and Tom Slootweg
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From the start, the academic community was deeply involved in both the technological and conceptual development of the internet. Works by Rheingold, Castells, and others put forward influential, in...
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I couldn't make it to #AOIR2024 due to prior teaching commitments but please do visit our roundtable for some exciting conversations around peripherical creator cultures if you can. Thank you in advance!
Join us for the Global South Creator Cultures roundtable at #AoIR2024 on Thursday, Oct 31 at 3:30pm! I’ll be introducing the collection I’m co-editing with @smitmehta #creatorcultures #globalsouth
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Thrilled to be part of such an extraordinary cohort of creator network! Thanks.
✨@grohmann_rafael ✨@samuelcabbuag ✨@sapiensgil ✨@smitmehta✨@susannapaasonen ✨@TaylorAnnabell ✨@tpoell ✨@LukanTinca ✨
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"New Screen Ecology in India can be a welcome addition in courses that delve into the nature of creative and cultural work and creative economies outside the geographies of Global North." Thank you @prernasmanian for recommending my work.
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Many thanks to feminist media scholar @prernasmanian for choosing to review my work. Your analysis of the book and the conversations it was hoping to kindle is gratifying!
My long wait is over. I read @smitmehta 's fantastic book and here is the review: https://t.co/WWVB5K7dP8
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Happy to share our article "From local to global: Village YouTubers and rural creator cultures in South India" published @IJCS_journal part of special issue on "Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production." https://t.co/Ki6sAvKJ7A
journals.sagepub.com
This article examines emerging rural creator cultures in South India. Specifically, it focuses on the uptake and production of YouTube videos by village creator...
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Thank you @KanthSri168 for choosing to review my work, and welcoming me earlier this yr to present my book @GITAMUniversity. I look forward to reading your insights about vernacular creator cultures in India.
Enjoyed reading and reviewing "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media by @smitmehta. https://t.co/EJmnRGFYqs
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