Aasim Khan
Biography
Aasim Khan has a PhD in Politics and Public Policy (Contemporary India) and currently Head and Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, IIIT- Delhi. As a social scientist he has cross-disciplinary interests in theories of social media, social networks and Big Data. In political theory he has a keen interest in comparative politics of the Internet, new media and their implications for governance, policy and more broadly democracy in contemporary world. He was educated in Delhi (St. Stephen’s College and Jamia Millia Islamia) and London (SOAS and King’s College London). Besides academia he was worked in broadcast journalism and international development.
Website: https://www.iiitd.ac.in/aasim
Recent Publications
- Khan, Aasim, S. Natarajan, S. Bhalla “Climate Strikes in Millennial India: Social Capital and “On-Ground’ Networks in Digital-First Movements” in Communication, Culture and Critique (Oxford University Press). , Published online as an ‘advanced article’, September 2021. https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/14/3/518/6307130?guestAccessKey=79c3e7be-d829-47df-be47-85556d32c550
- Khan, Aasim. “Beyond consent: Surveillance capitalism and politics in the data state” in India Review (Taylor and Francis), Vol. 20. No. 2. (2021). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14736489.2021.1895563
- Khan, Aasim “From Objectivity to Openness: A Study of Digital Journalism in the 2019 Elections” in the Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 54, no. 51. (2019). https://www.epw.in/engage/article/objectivity-openness-study-digital-journalism-2019?0=ip_login_no_cache%3D78c93e9dc6ae12d598de9ad26f53eee9
- Udupa, Sahana. Venkataraman, Shriram. and Khan, Aasim. “Introduction: Digital Politics in Millennial India: Global Media in Context. Television and New Media, Sage. (2019). https://journals.sagepub.com/page/tvn/collections/special-issues-onlinefirst/digital-politics%22%22
- Khan, Aasim. “From Autonomy to Anonymity: Information Technology Policy and Changing Politics of the Media System in Indian Democracy”, Culture Unbound, Volume 10, issue 3, (2018): 405–425. https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/213
