Biography
Sangeet Kumar’s research interests are focused on the global dimensions of digital and popular culture. His ongoing projects explore the global dimensions of digital media infrastructures analyzing the social, cultural and political consequences of their growth and uptake in the global South. He is the author of the recently published “The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web” (Indiana University Press 2021). Additionally, his research has also appeared in journals such as Internet Policy Review, Information, Communication and Society, International Journal of Communication, Popular Communication, Global Media and Communication and several anthologies. He teaches courses that explore digital media and popular culture from critical, theoretical, global and postcolonial perspectives. Prior to his academic career he was a journalist for a daily based out of New Delhi in India.
Among the classes he frequently teaches at Denison include Algorithmic Culture (Comm 421) and Google and the Global Politics of Search (Comm 315).
Degree(s)
B.A., Delhi University, India; M.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Ph.D., University of Iowa