Join the Fembot Collective on Thursday, October 23rd, 2014, in welcoming Radhika Gajjala, and taking part in a conversation about Digital “Globalization(s).”

WHEN: Thursday, October 23rd, 2014, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
WHERE: 230 Lawrence Hall

Refreshments will be provided. This event is open to all departments.
Contact/Inquiries: shamid@uoregon.edu

Radhika Gajjala, aka Cyber Diva, is a Professor of Media and Communication (joint appointed faculty in American Culture Studies) at Bowling Green State University. She has published books on Cyberculture and the Subaltern (Lexington Press, 2012) and Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women was published (Altamira, 2004). She has co-edited collections on Cyberfeminism 2.0 (2012), Global Media Culture and Identity (2011), South Asian Technospaces (2008) and Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice (2008).

Currently, Radhika is continuing work on Affect, Labor and Placement in online worlds and social networks. Following trajectories of local and global, online and offline, her research examines the connections between social media practices, neoliberal entrepreneurship with a focus on “women’s work,” and presentations of self/identity and value in global work-space and virtual worlds.

Radhika is also a member of the Fembot Collective and FemTechnet (participated in the Femtechnet Beta teaching and in the DOCC 2013 nodal teaching project), is co-editor of “ADA: Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology,” and an avid crocheter and spinner of yarn.