Sahana Udupa is a media anthropologist and professor at
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, with a research focus on digital global cultures, AI assisted content moderation, online extreme speech, and digital media politics. She serves on several editorial and advisory boards and regularly takes part in popular media [1][2] and policy debates [3] around online abuse and disinformation.
2022 Franqui Chair award by Franqui Foundation (Belgium)[12]
Publications (selection)
Books & edited volumes
Udupa, S., Dattatreyan E. G. (2023). Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media. New York University Press.
Udupa, S., Gagliardone, I. and Hervik, P. (2021). Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech. Indiana University Press.
Udupa, S. and McDowell, S. (2017). Media as Politics in South Asia. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Udupa, S. (2015). Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Papers
Udupa, S., Maronikolakis, A. and Wisiorek, A. (2023) "Ethical scaling for content moderation: Extreme speech and the (in)significance of artificial intelligence." Big Data & Society, 10(1), pp. 1-15.
Udupa, S., Venkatraman, S. and Khan, A. (2020). "Millennial India: Global Digital Politics in Context." Television & New Media, 21(4), pp. 343–359
Udupa, S., Gagliardone, I., Deem, A. and Csuka, L. (2020). "Hate Speech, Information Disorder, and Conflict." Social Science Research Council.
Udupa, S. (2019). "Nationalism in the Digital Age: Fun as a Metapractice of Extreme Speech." International Journal of Communication, 13, pp. 3143–3163.
Udupa, S. (2018). "Gaali cultures: The politics of abusive exchange on social media." New Media & Society, 20(4), pp. 1506–1522.
Udupa, S. (2018). "Enterprise Hindutva and social media in urban India." Contemporary South Asia, 26(4), pp. 453–467.
Interviews
Pentney, K. and Udupa, S. (2021). Episode 5: Moderating Global Voices.[13]
Grover, N. and Udupa, S. (2021). Q&A: Why cultural nuance matters in the fight against online extreme speech.[14]
Reuter, L. and Udupa, S. (2020). At the heart of data driven digital capitalism: Interview with Sahana Udupa from LMU Munich about extreme speech cultures online.[15]
Gödde, M. and Udupa, S. (2020). Extreme Speech on Social Media: Defending Dignity in a Digital World.[16]
Scherf, M. and Udupa, S. (2018). "Mein Job ist es, die dunkle Seite zu beleuchten".[17]