In this episode, Professor Mohan Dutta’s guest Professor Usha Raman discusses her early professional career and how it shaped her scholarly interests. She describes her current worker-centered and feminist approach to the design and deployment of digital platforms and tools to align, with a special eye to the Global South, the future of work with human dignity, creativity, and pleasure.
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Featuring
Mohan Dutta
Usha Raman
Sponsor:
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University Qatar
More from our guests:
Dean’s Chair Professor of Communication | Journalism and Marketing
Massey University | University of New Zealand
Director, Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE)
Twitter: @mjdutt; @CAREMasseyNZ
Professor in the Department of Communication | University of Hyderabad
Vice President | International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
Twitter: @usharaman
Works referenced in episode:
Raman, U., & Arora, P. (n.d.). Femlab. FEMLAB.
Raman, U. (2018). MAYANOTES. Super Vision.
Raman, U. (2021). Pandemic Learning: How do we make it (all) count?. Indian Academy of Sciences.
Copy and Audio Editor:
Dominic Bonelli
Daniel Christain
Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown