Vibodh Parthasarathi

Vibodh Parthasarathi maintains a multidisciplinary interest in media policy/business/history. Associate professor at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, he has held visiting positions at the Univerity of Queensland, KU Leuven, University of Helsinki and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has also been an affiliate researcher at SASNET (Lund University) and non-resident fellow at the Centre for Media, Data and Society (Central European University).
Parthasarathi has been at the forefront of media policy research in India and a winner of numerous grants from leading international bodies, including the Ford Foundation, Canada’s IDRC, Hivos and Social Science Research Council, besides India New Zealand Education Council steered by UGC.
Within and beyond his varied scholarly collaborations, he is fascinated by questions of media regulation in the longue durée, experiences of digital transitions and media policy as a knowledge enterprise. Widely published in journals in his field, including Digital Journalism, Media, Culture and Society and Journal of Digital Media and Policy, he has also curated special issues on themes ranging from media modernity to the public sphere. Parthasarathi’s co-edited books include Media and Mediation (2005), The Social and the Symbolic (2007) and Communication, Culture and Confrontation (2010), which were part of a triptych from SAGE; the critically acclaimed double-volume The Indian Media Economy (OUP, 2018) and Platform Capitalism in India (Palgrave/IAMCR, 2020). He has been invited to be the editor and advisor in book series at MIT Press and Oxford University Press and to the international editorial boards of journals such as the Journal of Communication (Oxford) and Global Media and Communication (SAGE). He is currently the associate editor of Journal of Digital Media and Policy (Intellect). His email id is vibodhp@yahoo.com.