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He completed his Ph.D. with Distinction at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University in Summer 2023. He is an ICT engineer by training and former Research Associate at The Sarai Porgramme, Center for the Study of Developing Societies (Sarai-CSDS), New Delhi. <br /><br />He is broadly interested in historical and anthropological research on media technologies, computing, urbanism, and futures. His current book project, "Starting-up with the State: Computing, Entrepreneurship, and the Governance of Aspiration in India," examines the imaginaries, infrastructures, and everyday practices of digital future-making at the intersections of the state and technology start-ups in India. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and NYU’s inaugural Urban Doctoral Fellowship, among others.<br /><br />Sandeep is the editor of "Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India" (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2020), and the convener of "Lives of Data" workshop series at Sarai-CSDS. He has served as the Assistant Editor of 'Public Culture'. His work has appeared in the Economic & Political Weekly, The Fibreculture Journal, Computational Culture, Sarai, LSE Impact, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, DataKind, and other venues. 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more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Theory on Demand #39 <br />Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India <br />Edited by Sandeep Mertia <br />Foreword by Ravi Sundaram <br /> <br />Authors: Sandeep Mertia, Karl Mendonca, Sivakumar Arumugam, Ranjit Singh, Puthiya Purayil Sneha, Lilly Irani, Anumeha Yadav, Preeti Mudliar, Prerna Mukharya and Mahima Taneja, Guneet Narula, Gaurav Godhwani, Noopur Raval, Aakash Solanki, and Anirudh Raghavan. <br /> <br />This publication is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerrivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. <br /> <br />----------------------------------- <br />Reviews: <br />Chintan Girish Modi, Business Standard, 29 January 2021. “Data and the Indian State: A set of essays examines the interaction between the expansion of the digital economy and India’s socio-political framework.” <a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/data-and-the-indian-state-121012901948_1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/data-and-the-indian-state-121012901948_1.html</a> <br /> <br />Nafis Hasan, The Wire, 06 February 2021. “Book Review: The Many Lives of Data in India: The book 'Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India', edited by Sandeep Mertia, delivers a fantastic range of meditations on how data lives, and how we, as individuals and collectives, are shaped by it.” <a href="https://thewire.in/books/book-review-the-many-lives-of-data-in-india" rel="nofollow">https://thewire.in/books/book-review-the-many-lives-of-data-in-india</a> <br /> <br />Vikas Pathe, “Book Review: Lives of Data (ed.) Sandeep Mertia.” Mainstream, Vol. LIX, No. 30, 10 July 2021, <a href="http://mainstreamweekly.net/article11184.html" rel="nofollow">http://mainstreamweekly.net/article11184.html</a> <br />Vikas Kumar, Book Review, “The Transition to Big Data in India.” Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 56, No. 47, 20 November 2021, <a href="https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/47/book-reviews/transition-big-data-india.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/47/book-reviews/transition-big-data-india.html</a> <br /> <br />Nimmi Rangaswamy, “Book review: Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India.” Online Information Review, Vol. 46 No. 3, 639-641. 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class="wp-workCard wp-workCard_itemContainer"><div class="wp-workCard_item wp-workCard--title"><a class="js-work-strip-work-link text-gray-darker" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-title" href="https://www.academia.edu/34364562/Socio_Technical_Imaginaries_of_a_Data_Driven_City_Ethnographic_Vignettes_from_Delhi">Socio-Technical Imaginaries of a Data-Driven City: Ethnographic Vignettes from Delhi</a></div><div class="wp-workCard_item"><span>The Fibreculture Journal, special issue on "Computing the City"</span><span>, 2017</span></div><div class="wp-workCard_item"><span class="js-work-more-abstract-truncated">As an imagination, the 'smart city' is rapidly becoming an integral part of our urban futures. Si...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">As an imagination, the 'smart city' is rapidly becoming an integral part of our urban futures. Situated in the contemporary moment of 'data revolution' and India's techno-urban context, this paper is an attempt to reflect upon the socio-technical imaginaries of data-driven urbanism and the incumbent reconfigurations of how we know, experience and govern a city. The author provides ethnographic vignettes of five little traditions of data-driven urbanism in Delhi pertaining to: the new 'image of the city', the changing nature of expertise, civic data activism, data-driven consumer applications and political communication and analytics. 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"I have co...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Research Note #4, Social Media Research Fellowship 2014, The Sarai Programme, CSDS. <br /> <br />"I have consistently found, through my fieldwork and those of other scholars, that ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) projects in rural areas are context insensitive. However, I am yet to come across a sound description of the invoked rural ‘context’. The ethnographic studies on ICTs in rural areas, including my own earlier work, have often focused only on those factors which seem to most directly affect success or failure of technology led development. This was perhaps for a good reason, given the millennial euphoria of ICT4D. Moving forward however, one needs a broader understanding of socio-technical changes in rural life, which have outpaced scholarship [1]. In this final research note, I would like to introduce some important features of the ‘rural’ socio-technical context by presenting a comparative picture of my two field sites, briefly discussing the emerging discursive practices of social and digital media access and uncertainties which characterise ICT ecologies in the villages."</span></div><div class="wp-workCard_item wp-workCard--actions"><span class="work-strip-bookmark-button-container"></span><a id="d344dd892bdeff263e107f5e26b2c0b7" class="wp-workCard--action" rel="nofollow" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-download" data-download="{"attachment_id":62928308,"asset_id":8688392,"asset_type":"Work","button_location":"profile"}" href="https://www.academia.edu/attachments/62928308/download_file?st=MTczMzMxNzE1Miw4LjIyMi4yMDguMTQ2&s=profile"><span><i class="fa fa-arrow-down"></i></span><span>Download</span></a><span class="wp-workCard--action visible-if-viewed-by-owner inline-block" style="display: none;"><span class="js-profile-work-strip-edit-button-wrapper profile-work-strip-edit-button-wrapper" data-work-id="8688392"><a class="js-profile-work-strip-edit-button" tabindex="0"><span><i class="fa fa-pencil"></i></span><span>Edit</span></a></span></span><span id="work-strip-rankings-button-container"></span></div><div class="wp-workCard_item wp-workCard--stats"><span><span><span class="js-view-count view-count u-mr2x" data-work-id="8688392"><i class="fa fa-spinner fa-spin"></i></span><script>$(function () { var workId = 8688392; window.Academia.workViewCountsFetcher.queue(workId, function (count) { var description = window.$h.commaizeInt(count) + " " + window.$h.pluralize(count, 'View'); $(".js-view-count[data-work-id=8688392]").text(description); $(".js-view-count[data-work-id=8688392]").attr('title', description).tooltip(); }); });</script></span></span><span><span class="percentile-widget hidden"><span class="u-mr2x work-percentile"></span></span><script>$(function () { var workId = 8688392; window.Academia.workPercentilesFetcher.queue(workId, function (percentileText) { var container = $(".js-work-strip[data-work-id='8688392']"); container.find('.work-percentile').text(percentileText.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + percentileText.slice(1)); container.find('.percentile-widget').show(); container.find('.percentile-widget').removeClass('hidden'); }); });</script></span><span><script>$(function() { new Works.PaperRankView({ workId: 8688392, container: "", }); });</script></span></div><div id="work-strip-premium-row-container"></div></div></div><script> require.config({ waitSeconds: 90 })(["https://a.academia-assets.com/assets/wow_profile-f77ea15d77ce96025a6048a514272ad8becbad23c641fc2b3bd6e24ca6ff1932.js","https://a.academia-assets.com/assets/work_edit-ad038b8c047c1a8d4fa01b402d530ff93c45fee2137a149a4a5398bc8ad67560.js"], function() { // from javascript_helper.rb var dispatcherData = {} if (true){ window.WowProfile.dispatcher = window.WowProfile.dispatcher || _.clone(Backbone.Events); dispatcherData = { dispatcher: window.WowProfile.dispatcher, downloadLinkId: "d344dd892bdeff263e107f5e26b2c0b7" } } $('.js-work-strip[data-work-id=8688392]').each(function() { if (!$(this).data('initialized')) { new WowProfile.WorkStripView({ el: this, workJSON: {"id":8688392,"title":"Understanding 'Rural' Techno-Culture \u0026 Social Media","translated_title":"","metadata":{"abstract":"Research Note #4, Social Media Research Fellowship 2014, The Sarai Programme, CSDS.\r\n\r\n\"I have consistently found, through my fieldwork and those of other scholars, that ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) projects in rural areas are context insensitive. 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"Many scholars have tried...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Research Note #3, Social Media Research Fellowship 2014, Sarai-CSDS. <br /> <br />"Many scholars have tried to reconceptualise digital divide as a socio-technical problem, by pointing out the continuum of gradations between the information haves and have-nots [1], still there are several nuances left to be grasped. One such subtlety which I have come across in my fieldwork is that of an intra-technological divide between telecentre’s computers and individuals’ mobile phones. <br /> <br />As I mentioned in my previous post [2], the dominant mode of Internet access in Rampur is through mobile phones, rather than the telecentre’s computers, which have optical fibre based high speed Internet facility. Such technological choices are hard to understand. Why would anyone in a resource constrained environment pay from his pocket for a mobile Internet pack rather than avail the free and much faster Internet service at the telecentre? 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"Q. So, which one do you...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Research Note #2, Social Media Research Fellowship 2014, Sarai-CSDS. <br /> <br />"Q. So, which one do you like more, your school classes or the digital literacy class here at the telecentre? <br />A. Yeh toh timepass hai, school mein toh padhai hoti hai! (Translation: This is just a time pass (fad), real learning happens in school)" <br /> <br />This is an excerpt from one my field interviews with a boy studying in secondary school, who visits the telecentre (or Kiosk) regularly. <br /> <br />His response, similar to many other Internet users in the tehsil (block) village Rampur [1] in Rajasthan, suggests that using social media in particular is not really considered to be a productive thing in the village. However, this inference is not as simple as it seems. 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In this post, Sandeep Mer...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Research Note #1, Social Media Research Fellowship 2014, Sarai-CSDS. <br /> <br />In this post, Sandeep Mertia, one of the researchers who received the Social Media Research grant for 2014, introduces his proposed work. <br /> <br />"Why rural people, especially the youth, are attracted to social media and how do they use it? <br /> <br />Why would an ICT engineer-cum-STS (Science & Technology Studies) researcher be interested in asking this question which perhaps has obvious responses such as – a natural stage of technological development, progress towards becoming an ‘information society’, pervasiveness of social networking sites, improved infrastructure in rural areas, etc.? 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Irani, Anumeha Yadav, Preeti Mudliar, Prerna Mukharya and Mahima Taneja, Guneet Narula, Gaurav Godhwani, Noopur Raval, Aakash Solanki, and Anirudh Raghavan. <br /> <br />This publication is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerrivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. <br /> <br />----------------------------------- <br />Reviews: <br />Chintan Girish Modi, Business Standard, 29 January 2021. “Data and the Indian State: A set of essays examines the interaction between the expansion of the digital economy and India’s socio-political framework.” <a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/data-and-the-indian-state-121012901948_1.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/data-and-the-indian-state-121012901948_1.html</a> <br /> <br />Nafis Hasan, The Wire, 06 February 2021. “Book Review: The Many Lives of Data in India: The book 'Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India', edited by Sandeep Mertia, delivers a fantastic range of meditations on how data lives, and how we, as individuals and collectives, are shaped by it.” <a href="https://thewire.in/books/book-review-the-many-lives-of-data-in-india" rel="nofollow">https://thewire.in/books/book-review-the-many-lives-of-data-in-india</a> <br /> <br />Vikas Pathe, “Book Review: Lives of Data (ed.) Sandeep Mertia.” Mainstream, Vol. LIX, No. 30, 10 July 2021, <a href="http://mainstreamweekly.net/article11184.html" rel="nofollow">http://mainstreamweekly.net/article11184.html</a> <br />Vikas Kumar, Book Review, “The Transition to Big Data in India.” Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 56, No. 47, 20 November 2021, <a href="https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/47/book-reviews/transition-big-data-india.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/47/book-reviews/transition-big-data-india.html</a> <br /> <br />Nimmi Rangaswamy, “Book review: Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India.” Online Information Review, Vol. 46 No. 3, 639-641. June 2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-06-2022-622" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-06-2022-622</a> <br /> <br />Kim Fernandes, “Review of Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India by Sandeep Mertia.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 74-75, 1 April-June 2022, doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2022.3169868. <br /> <br />-------------------------------------- <br />Book talks and podcasts: <br /> <br />‘Lives of Data’ Book Launch and Discussion Panel with Jahnavi Phalkey, Nimmi Rangaswamy and Stefania Milan, Chaired by Ravi Sundaram, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi, 19 February 2021. <br /> <br />Technology / Society in Action, Alumni Lecture Series, DA-IICT Gandhinagar, 13 March 2021. <br /> <br />‘Lives of Data’ Book Discussion Panel with Sarah Sharma, Tong Lam and Marian Valverde, Chaired by Francis Cody, Asian Institute, University of Toronto, 09 April 2021. <br /> <br />‘Lives of Data’ Book Discussion Panel with Natasha Schüll, Ramesh Srinivasan and Sareeta Amrute, Chaired by Arjun Appadurai, New York University, 23 April 2021. <br /> <br />‘Lives of Data’ Book Discussion Panel with Jasmine Folz and Pradip N. 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"I have co...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Research Note #4, Social Media Research Fellowship 2014, The Sarai Programme, CSDS. <br /> <br />"I have consistently found, through my fieldwork and those of other scholars, that ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) projects in rural areas are context insensitive. However, I am yet to come across a sound description of the invoked rural ‘context’. The ethnographic studies on ICTs in rural areas, including my own earlier work, have often focused only on those factors which seem to most directly affect success or failure of technology led development. This was perhaps for a good reason, given the millennial euphoria of ICT4D. Moving forward however, one needs a broader understanding of socio-technical changes in rural life, which have outpaced scholarship [1]. 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"Many scholars have tried...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Research Note #3, Social Media Research Fellowship 2014, Sarai-CSDS. <br /> <br />"Many scholars have tried to reconceptualise digital divide as a socio-technical problem, by pointing out the continuum of gradations between the information haves and have-nots [1], still there are several nuances left to be grasped. One such subtlety which I have come across in my fieldwork is that of an intra-technological divide between telecentre’s computers and individuals’ mobile phones. <br /> <br />As I mentioned in my previous post [2], the dominant mode of Internet access in Rampur is through mobile phones, rather than the telecentre’s computers, which have optical fibre based high speed Internet facility. Such technological choices are hard to understand. Why would anyone in a resource constrained environment pay from his pocket for a mobile Internet pack rather than avail the free and much faster Internet service at the telecentre? 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"Q. So, which one do you...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Research Note #2, Social Media Research Fellowship 2014, Sarai-CSDS. <br /> <br />"Q. So, which one do you like more, your school classes or the digital literacy class here at the telecentre? <br />A. Yeh toh timepass hai, school mein toh padhai hoti hai! (Translation: This is just a time pass (fad), real learning happens in school)" <br /> <br />This is an excerpt from one my field interviews with a boy studying in secondary school, who visits the telecentre (or Kiosk) regularly. <br /> <br />His response, similar to many other Internet users in the tehsil (block) village Rampur [1] in Rajasthan, suggests that using social media in particular is not really considered to be a productive thing in the village. However, this inference is not as simple as it seems. 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In this post, Sandeep Mer...</span><a class="js-work-more-abstract" data-broccoli-component="work_strip.more_abstract" data-click-track="profile-work-strip-more-abstract" href="javascript:;"><span> more </span><span><i class="fa fa-caret-down"></i></span></a><span class="js-work-more-abstract-untruncated hidden">Research Note #1, Social Media Research Fellowship 2014, Sarai-CSDS. <br /> <br />In this post, Sandeep Mertia, one of the researchers who received the Social Media Research grant for 2014, introduces his proposed work. <br /> <br />"Why rural people, especially the youth, are attracted to social media and how do they use it? <br /> <br />Why would an ICT engineer-cum-STS (Science & Technology Studies) researcher be interested in asking this question which perhaps has obvious responses such as – a natural stage of technological development, progress towards becoming an ‘information society’, pervasiveness of social networking sites, improved infrastructure in rural areas, etc.? 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