| 8:00 - 10:00 |
Student Session |
- Gazal Shekhawat (London School of Economics and Political Science) - Platformising Weddings, Obfuscating Arrange-ments: Questions about desi digital enclosures
- Sejal Khurana, Suhani Mathur, Paro Mishra (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi) - Old Wine In a New Bottle: Indian Momfluencers Performing New Momism on Instagram
- Kartikeya Reddy (Hertie School) - Celluloid campaigners: Hindi cinema characters as conduits for political messaging
- Jaya Mathur (Jawaharlal Nehru University & Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) - On Psychotherapy, Psychotherapists, & Psy-Speak: Reflections on Social Media Expertise and Psychologisation in India
- Sonia Kumari (Indira Gandhi National Open University) - Influencers from low-income groups: Some notes from the field
- Dhruv Raghavan (Brown University) - The Evolving Landscape of Indian Political Interviewing
- Riccardo Campana (Bennett University & Ca' Foscari University of Venice) - Political influencers and Ayodhya Temple inauguration: a new way to do politics
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| 10:00 - 12:00 |
Session 4: The Business and Power of Influence |
- Viraj Sheth - Influencer Management and Platform Negotiation in India
- Ria Chopra - The Treasure in Small Data: Rethinking the ways influencing is analyzed in India
- Steph Ann Tomy - Making Light of Everyday Situations
- Pratik Sinha - The Economy and Ecosystem of Information Verification in India
- Pranav Malhotra - Chair
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| 12:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch Workshop: Integrating state-of-the-art AI tools in social media work by Dibyendu Mishra, Soham De and Kiran Garimella |
| 2:00 - 4:00 |
Session 5: Social Media, Local Voices, and Changing Narratives |
- Sonam Wangchuk - Online Glaciers: Moving the dial on Climate Activism in India
- Tanzil Asif - Hyperlocal and Rural Journalism in India: Evidence from Bihar
- Santosh Jadhav - Influencing through Agricultural Content: The case of Indian Farmer in Maharashtra
- Siddhesh Gautam - Art side of the moon: Aesthetics of Ambedkarism
- Sucharita Tyagi - Speaking Truth to Cinema: When Criticism is an act of resistance
- Bilal Butt - Chair
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| 4:00 - 5:00 |
Townhall + Awards + Concluding remarks |