Kiran BhatiaKiran Vinod Bhatia is a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. A critical digital ethnographer by training, her scholarship largely explores the links between social networking sits, digital affordances and the global digital cultures of young people in India. Her work has been published in the Journal of Children and Media, Journal of Youth Studies, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Asian Journal of Communication, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy and Contemporary South Asia, among others. She has worked with school students, village/town communities and high school teachers in several parts of Gujarat, India, co-creating/conducting media education classes with them. She has co-authored a book based on this project, Challenging Discriminatory Practices of Religious Socialization among Adolescents: Critical Media Literacy and Pedagogies in Practice (2019).

Her research draws force from the desire to dismantle systems of oppression and violence in our societies. She believes that critical education and thinking have the potential to change the ways in which we engage with others and our lived realities. Read More Read Less