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- E-Mail:
- pchakrav@umass.edu
- Telephone:
- 413-545-6346
- Website:
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- Interests:
- Media and Communications Policy, Globalization, Politics / Political Communication, Social Movements and Sectors
- Role(s):
- Researcher
- Location(s) of Work:
- USA, Brazil, India
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts -- AmherstAmherst , MA, United States
Biography
Paula Chakravartty is Assistant Professor of Communication at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the author of Globalization, Communication and Media Policy: A Critical Perspective (Edinburgh University Press , 2006), co-author Katharine Sarikakis, and co-editor of Political Economy of Global Communication: Towards a Transcultural Perspective (Rowan & Littlefield, 2007) with Yuezhi Zhao. Author of multiple book chapters as well as several articles including: "White-Collar Nationalisms," "Who Speaks for the Governed: The World Summit on the Information Society and the Limits of Multistakeholderisms," "Weak Winners of Globalization: Indian Workers in the American Information Economy," "Telecommunications, Development and the State: A Postcolonial Critique."
Her current research examines theories of governance, social movements and global media policy, gender and labor in emerging information economies, and the globalization of economic news with an empirical focus on India, Brazil and the US.
Publications and Resources
Books
- Paula Chakravartty (ed.), Yuezhi Zhao (ed.). Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy. Rowan and Littlefield, 2007
Journal Articles
- Paula Chakravartty. Weak Winners of Globalization: Indian H-1B Workers in the American Information Economy. Aapi Nexus.