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“Raging Soundbytes: Listening for the Political in Digital India”

Aswin Punathambekar is an Associate Professor in the department of Communication studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research and teaching revolve around globalization, media industries and production cultures, media convergence, media history, and public culture with a focus on South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. He is the author of From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (NYU Press, 2013) and co-editor of Global Bollywood (NYU Press, 2008) and Television at Large in South Asia (Routledge, 2013). His current book project, provisionally titled Mobile Publics: Cultural Politics of Participation in Digital India, examines how convergence between television and mobile media technologies (the Internet and the mobile phone) is reconfiguring the meanings and performance of citizenship.
Sounds of South Asia is a yearlong series of visiting speakers whose work exists at the intersection of Sound Studies and South Asian Studies. The series brings together scholars and students interested in expanding the global scope of Sound Studies and to listening to South Asian cultures with fresh ears.
Presented by the School of Communication, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Asian Studies Graduate Cluster, Asian Studies Program, Screen Cultures Program, Department of Radio-TVFilm, Department of Communication Studies.
For more information, please contact Gabby Garcia at gabbygarcia@u.northwestern.edu