Smith Mehta

In "Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries", Smith Mehta (@mediaindustries.bsky.social) explores the interplay of identity, privilege, and precarity in academic research. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

03.09.2025 11:06 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

🙏 thanks Tugce :)

02.09.2025 18:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You are such a powerful scholar! Really enjoyed reading your piece.

31.07.2025 06:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So grateful to have read this chapter with @tugcebidav.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing the book out soon!

30.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

If you're around Oxford, next week, please consider attending @tugcebidav.bsky.social's session introducing our forthcoming book's theoretical and conceptual framework for mapping Global South creator cultures (Pakistan, Chile, China, Turkey, Hong Kong, Nigeria and Brazil).

20.03.2025 08:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Power Currents: Asian Media in the World - University of Pittsburgh Press

Exciting news for those writing books on Asia. There's a new book series in town: Power Currents: Asian Media in the World! Edited by some great folks including @jonabel.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social and Rahul Mukherjee, this series looks exciting:

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11.03.2025 17:10 — 👍 33    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 0

Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India Abstract. In this article, we investigate the integrated commodity forms within Internet-based production cultures in India based on four key transactional

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🆕 publication alert on how Indian cultural workers are negotiating work on global streaming services. Led by incoming Humboldt fellow Dr Priyam Sinha.

20.02.2025 22:59 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey - Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta, 2024 Drawing on Indian, Irish, and Turkish YouTube creators’ perceptions of their work, this article focuses on peripheral creator work cultures to broaden the under...

📢 New publication alert with an amazing co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social 🎊 Our paper “Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey” is out in Social Media + Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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“Along with the subheads, we’ll add a table of contents to the top of articles so each section becomes a link that can drive traffic on its own. “ A blog post on a fake lizard site is chopped in the subheads with keyword crammed writing that mirrors People Also Ask sections in Search.

“We’re also adding significantly more professional background details. We’re going to round up how long we’ve been writing about reptiles — it’s mostly true. Can Google even tell? “ An author bio section shows a longer blurb about experience, targeting Google’s EEAT guidelines.

“Our lizard blog doesn’t look much like what we started out with, but it probably resembles hundreds of sites you’ve seen before.” Shows the contrast between the website before SEO took over and after.

New from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs.

The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...

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Sage Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Please take a read and let us know what you think!

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04.01.2024 14:55 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

thank you!

04.12.2023 21:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to work with @tugcebidav.bsky.social and other stellar scholars working on global south creator cultures.

04.12.2023 19:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Regulating OTT: Draft Broadcasting Regulation Bill may be an attempt to control digital infrastructu... A regulation on conflicts of interest is the need of the hour. All other regulatory measures to facilitate ‘ease of business’ are merely attempts at facilitating ‘ease of control and regulation�...

indianexpress.com/article/opin... My 'cent'iments on draft #Broadcasting Regulations Bill 2023 by #MIB #India published in today's #Indianexpress. t.co/mez8fVpaUo (link w/o paywall).

16.11.2023 20:45 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

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