Expertise

Critical Digital Studies, Gender Studies, and Social Justice.

Education

BA (French Language and Literature), Jawaharlal Nehru University
MA (French Interpretation and Translation), Jawaharlal Nehru University
MA (World Literatures and cultures), University of Ottawa
PhD (Humanities), York University

Biography

Nanditha Narayanamoorthy’s work draws from a combination of computational and qualitative methods to understand the relationship between technology and democracy and rethink digital governance for marginalized communities in the Global South.

As an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of Critical Digital Studies, Gender Studies, and Social Justice, she investigates the role that platforms play in centering vulnerable groups online. She studies digital activism to examine how gendered, religious, and ethnic minorities employ social media platforms to create and perform their political identities. She also investigates how these marginalized communities are targeted by state-sponsored digital hate that undermines democracy.