Graduate Student
dasv@umich.edu
Communication Studies
Education/Degree:
B.A., Human Sciences, University of Oxford, 2012
M.Sc., Contemporary India, University of Oxford, 2013
About
Vishnupriya is a PhD student at University of Michigan’s Department of Communication Studies. She is interested in the interaction between technology use and identity formation among migrant communities and the gendered nature of media production and consumption. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Human Sciences and Master’s degree in Contemporary India, both from Oxford University. As part of her Master’s thesis she examined the relationship between gender, mobile phones and development initiatives in India. Following these two degrees Vishnupriya worked as a researcher for a variety of development organisations in Nepal, Sri Lanka, India and Jordan. Most recently she worked with social enterprise Gram Vaani to understand the impact of mobile phone based community media platforms on marginalised communities in in rural Bihar and Jharkhand.
Field(s) of Study
- Mobile Phones and New Media
- Modernity and Migration
- Gender and Media
- Internet and Identity Formation
