Editing People (section)

=== Srishti Chatterjee (Northwestern University) ===

I'm a 2nd year PhD student in Rhetoric, Media and Publics, at the Department of Communications at Northwestern University, co-advised by Robert Hariman and Aaron Shaw. My research interests are in how marginalized people form networks of co-education, resistance, and resilience in conditions of tech emergence and acceleration. Broadly in the field of rhetoric of science and technology, I research how science interacts with the capacities of social movements, and provocations to credibility and expertise posed by such socio-technical interactions. 

Lately, I've been immersed in researching how large-scale computational systems of data collection in India pose ontological mismatches to the diverse lives, identities, and philosophies of citizens. I study the Aadhaar & Bhu-Aadhaar systems as biometric authority, and people's adoptions (and rejection) of them. 

Before starting graduate school, I earned a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Sociology and Communications from the University of Melbourne. My research looked at a critical theory of how political organizers in Australian Unions use digital media platforms for organizers, and interact with surveillant platform logics. I was also a Policy Advisor to the Australian Greens in the Senate, managing LGBTQ+, Immigration, and Technology portfolios. 

I read a lot of media philosophy, and like cooking large batches of curries and soups. Sometimes, I paint. 

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