About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. My research and teaching revolve around globalization, cultural industries, new media and media convergence, and public culture. I am 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. My research also involves ethnographic work among fan communities that cohere around different aspects of film and television (for 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. I have published articles on these topics in Biblio, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Gazette: International Journal for Communication Studies, and co-edited an anthology of essays (Global Bollywood, NYU Press, 2008).

I serve as consulting researcher for the Convergence Culture Consortium at M.I.T. And I occasionally contribute to a food blog, Ahaar.

8 Responses to “About Me”

  1. Simran Says:

    Hey Aswin,

    Just stopping by to check out your new Bollyspace 2.0 and wondering if you’d add me to your blogroll. Thanks. Great new blog, by the way.

    Simi

  2. Prasanna Thandri Says:

    Hey CS

    Happen to see ur blog accidently,way to go CS….. ;-)

  3. sitaji Says:

    Came upon your blog a few weeks back and have enjoyed reading it so much that I added it to our blogroll.

  4. aswinp Says:

    sitaji - thanks! Glad to hear this :)

  5. Amit Rai Says:

    Excellent blog, man!

  6. Kanupriya Says:

    Hey came here accidently and liked this blog a lot! Keep it up.

  7. aswinp Says:

    Thanks, Kanupriya!

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