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Suman Ghosh

@sumanghosh.bsky.social
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Building VR museum of protest art and PhDing at Tampere University 🇫🇮 Visual artist & researcher of ‘Artivism’. Exploring intersection of design anthropology with human computer interaction. Interest #Art, #DigitalCultures, #Affect, #Solidarity and #Protest

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Suman Ghosh @sumanghosh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When a protest ends, what remains, and who decides how it is remembered? Our new article explores how protest memories endure and introduces virtual museums of protest art as “counter-archival empathy machines.” doi.org/10.1108/USS-... @kaarinan.bsky.social #ConvergenceProject #MuseumWithoutWalls
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Literature review: virtual museum of protest art as empathy machine
Purpose. This study offers an integrative narrative review of interdisciplinary scholarship on protest art, digital circulation, surveillance, memory and immersive media. It aims to examine how memori...
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Soma Basu @somabasu.com · 29/01/2025
#NewPublication 📣 Politicization of the sexual and not sexualization of the political (discourse): through an ethnography of prngraphic sites, I attempt to explore how ethnicized intimate erotic fantasies are entwined with the vision of a Hindu Rashtra. journals.openedition.org/samaj/9764#t...
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Porn, Protests, and Politics: Hindu Male Imaginations of Muslim Women
“How to make Muslim women Hindu cock whore—Conquer, Humiliate, Breed”—r/Hindudom This was the text of a meme found on scrolller.com, an image aggregation platform, in the r/Hindudom discussion thre...
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Soma Basu @somabasu.com · 19/01/2025
Link to my (open access) article - “Why do Indians cry passionately on Insta?”: Grief performativity and ecologies of commerce of crying videos - in South Asian Popular Culture: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“Why do Indians cry passionately on Insta?”: Grief performativity and ecologies of commerce of crying videos
The article attempts to explore the specific performative and digital practice of users sharing digital self-images and videos on social media platforms in which they cry, with or without a ‘tear f...
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Soma Basu @somabasu.com · 19/01/2025
Excited to share that my 2023 research on why people cry passionately on Insta/TikTok was featured in this BBC article. Huge thanks to @aidanwalker.bsky.social for reaching out & articulating my insights so thoughtfully in this fascinating piece on 'sadbaiting': www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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'Sadbait': Why algorithms, audiences and creators love to cry online
People say they don't want to be sad, but their online habits disagree. Content that channels sorrow for views has become a ubiquitous part of online culture. Why does it work?
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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Everyone’s loving #starterpacks on #Bluesky. So, here’s a #thread of 12 starter packs for #digital #internet & #platform studies & adjacent disciplines (tech law, #css, #sts). Pls share/add. I start with my own pack on (digital) #activism & social movements. #AcademicSky bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Yuri van Hoef @vanhoef.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Starter pack of scholars of #emotions, #friendship, #positivepeace, #specialrelationships, #affect, etc in politics. Suggestions welcome! go.bsky.app/4X77g88 @simonkoschut.bsky.social, @bctallis.bsky.social, @yoniabramson.bsky.social, @piakoivunen.bsky.social, @europeanisa.bsky.social
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