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Aswin Punathambekar

Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison

Contact Information
Rm. 244, 1225 S. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2523
Phone: 734 615 0949
Email: aswinp@umich.edu

Fields of Study:
Media, Culture and Society; New Media Technology; Mass Media and Identity

Aswin Punathambekar's research and teaching revolve around globalization, culture industries, new media and media convergence, and public culture. He is currently working on a book that provides a historical and critical account of ongoing changes in the media sector in Bombay and examines the operations of film, television, and dot-com companies as they grapple with the challenges of imagining "Bollywood" as a global cultural industry. Aswin's research also involves ethnographic work among fan communities that cohere around different aspects of film and television (e.g., fans of A.R. Rahman, the TV show Indian Idol) in order to map the dynamics of participatory culture in South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. He has published articles on these topics in Biblio, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Gazette: International Journal for Communication Studies, and has also co-edited an anthology of essays (Global Bollywood, NYU Press, 2008). He blogs about these and other topics at BollySpace 2.0 (http://bollyspace.wordpress.com).

Curriculum Vitae
View Aswin Punathambekar's C.V.