Participants of the April 2014 Transregional Virtual Research Institute workshop cosponsored by NYU, “Infrastructures of Empire: Mediated Activism and (Counter) Revolutions,” have contributed a special collection of essays to Media, Culture & Society’s May 2016 issue, titled “Crosscurrents Special Section: Media Infrastructures and Empire”
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Media, Activism, and the New Political: InterAsian PerspectivesOverview
In 2012, in close collaboration with colleagues at Göttingen University, the Council launched the Transregional Virtual Research Institute (TVRI), a collaborative enterprise that brings together faculty from different disciplines, different international campuses, and at different stages in their careers to further research and training on particular themes. In essence, the TVRI is designed to function as a research center that is not physically grounded at a single institution.
The inaugural TVRI theme, Media, Activism, and the New Political, focuses on the interrelationship of media and politics within and across InterAsia, with a particular emphasis on China, India, and the Arab world. This theme is at the center of timely discussions on mass mobilization, collective action, and the ways in which mediated practices are situated in relation to larger geopolitical and structural shifts, and it has the potential to be catalytic for further work in related areas and disciplines. TVRI scholars are actively working to generate original essays and academic resources for a new generation of researchers.
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View all →Watch members of the Transregional Virtual Research Institute-organized InterAsian Connections V: Seoul workshop “Media Populism across Asia,” including directors Paula Chakravartty and Srirupa Roy, and participants Rolien Hoyng, Duncan McCargo, and Valerie Soe, discuss the political implications of new mobile and social media technologies on Channel NewsAsia’s Between the Lines episode “New Media, New Politics?”
Applications are now open for the IIAS-SSRC Winter School “Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures,” coorganized by the International Institute for Asian Studies and the InterAsia Program’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute (deadline: June 13)
The InterAsia Program’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute members Paula Chakravartty and Srirupa Roy coedited and wrote the introduction for “Modi and the Media: Indian Politics and Electoral Aftermath,” a special issue of Television and New Media that also includes articles by TVRI members Somnath Batabyal and Aswin Punathambekar
