Editing People (section)

=== Manish Kumar (University of Texas at Austin) ===

[[File:Copy of 20230814 ISchoolPortraits bhs 074 copy.jpg|thumb|200px|The one professional picture Manish has which he is gonna use till the end of his days]]

Hello, I am a first-year PhD student at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. I am advised by Dr Nathan TeBlunthuis and Dr Edgar Gómez Cruz. My work explores political expression on social media and how it connects to people’s offline relationships. I’m fascinated by human experiences at scale, and I try to bridge qualitative inquiry with computational techniques to capture that complexity. Broadly, I study how social media/technology becomes woven into people’s everyday political sensemaking (and yes, I mean all kinds of politics, not just the capital-P kind).

I grew up in Patna, India. I earned a degree in Information Science & Engineering and spent a few years as a software developer, but I’ve always been drawn to the sociological side of technology. That curiosity took me to UC Berkeley for a Master’s of Information Management and Systems, where I discovered research and got completely hooked.

In my free time, I like to do nerdy stuff like reading historical fiction, going on walking tours, learning about local history (that includes the petty neighbourhood rivalries) and going to museums.
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