Soma Basu

When your own university decides to highlight your work and suddenly it’s a full-on photo-sess and such… 😎 About my research and life in #Finland: www.tuni.fi/en/tau/news-... Thanks, Tampere Research Centre for Communication Sciences and @koneensaatio.fi!

Keep your eyes on #India. #Delhi was forced into lockdown because the govt didn't want students and Gen X protesting and making noise about 130 Million people who were stripped of their right to vote. But the cockroaches have persisted, and will continue to do so. #CJP #Protests aje.news/1yoy6z

This research broke my heart. Six years on, the violence of the 2020 Delhi pogrom endures across bodies, homes, mobile screens through what I theorise as “entangled skinscapes” and “haptic pulses.” #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.3167/aia.... @berghahnbooks.bsky.social @jaffrelot.bsky.social #Anthropology

MIT Press is hyping our book! Such a great honour to be featured next to The Well-Played Game, one of my all-time fave books on games and play. It originally came out in the golden year of game books, 1978, same year as The Grasshopper and From Ritual to Record.

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What a surprise to have my photo series selected for the annual photo festival by #Tampere #Photographic Society! The five photos are now up at the historic #Haihara manor, dating back 1800s. #PhDLife #Tip: Non-academic hobbies are important! The series is a tribute to my soul dog, Sultan ♥️

Our research center's cool video featuring all the research groups, including our own Media Studies led by @kaarinan.bsky.social! 📣 Spot the wonderful people of Taru in video, such as, @fransmayra.bsky.social @pisotalus.bsky.social @markmaletska.bsky.social @sumanghosh.bsky.social ++ #TampereUni

I would be the #firstgeneration #doctorate in my family. When I explain PhD vs previous degrees to my parents, I have often used the analogy of a Test match in cricket. And yet, when Google Scholar shares that I hv 100 citations, feels like one too. In a lonely academic journey, each win matters. 🤌🏽

Reposting my article from the special issue. Link: doi.org/10.1080/0958... It shows how an ordinary, neglected municipal infrastructure becomes a haunted social archive: a place where bodies, rumours, imagination, and memory gather to keep violence alive in everyday life.

This article synthesises interdisciplinary research to argue that protest art, memory, and immersive media together function as a counter-archival empathy machine, preserving and reimagining collective resistance. Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1108/USS-... #MuseumWithoutWalls #ShaheenBagh #AntiCAA

Thanks @jaffrelot.bsky.social for the introduction to the special section 'New forms of anti-Muslim violence in India' and to the section authors. Article links here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....; tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....; tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....; tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hindu-Muslim violence is changing: till recently riots were instrumentalised to polarise the voters & help BJP win elections; today BJP is in office: pogroms, lynchings, bulldozers are the order of the day. A great special issue of CSA explains why and how www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In this issue, you’ll find outstanding texts by Soma Basu on the Delhi riots, by Vihang Jumle on the situation of Muslims in Mumbai today, by Nidah Kaiser on the many facets of anti-Muslim persecution in UP & Fahad Zuberi on the Hindu nationalist use of bulldozer. @sciencespo

“And in the face of that certainty (death), we can only love as ardently as we can, for as long as we are here.” Reminiscing about love in Kolkata cemeteries in this very cool article by @varishatariq.bsky.social for @vogueindia.bsky.social. www.vogue.in/content/gen-...

#MustRead: Nidah Kaiser's new article in Contemporary South Asia examines the transition of ethno-religious violence beyond episodic or spontaneous, toward a broader ethnocratic order. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

10 years. A love letter to diversity workers. And gratitude for my complaint collective. substack.com/@feministkil...

@kaarinan.bsky.social’s research explores how emotions shape how we interpret and act through media. Through her work on #MediaSolidarities, she shows how media can also generate new forms of collective connection. More about her work: shorturl.at/ygss8 #MediaStudies #TampereUniversity #Finland

💡 New Special Issue (Eds: @corneliabrantner.bsky.social, @kaarinan.bsky.social & Georgia Aitaki) explores #DigitalGeographiesOfHope: how action, solidarity, alternative futures emerge in a datafied, platformized world. From feminist & anti-war organizing to AI governance debates tinyurl.com/37rb2v6k

Thought-provoking afternoon at TARU, Tampere University, with a screening of #HumansInTheLoop. Thanks to writer-director Aranya Sahay & audiences in Finland & India (NIT Silchar) for a discussion on hidden invisible labour, language hierarchies and data colonisation. #AIEthics #PluriversalAI

Most comprehensive study yet of Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals — It reveals a legal system in deep crisis: over 165,000 people have already been declared “foreigners,” with 85,000+ cases pending and more than 1 million NRC appeals headed to these opaque tribunals. 
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Thanks Nidah Kaiser for organising this workshop - Progressive Patriarchs: Manifestations of Patriarchy in Liberal Spaces - and giving me the opportunity to moderate the panel on Patriarchal Scripts in Intimate, Digital and Legal Lives. Such a space for solidarity and affirmative action!

📢 #CFP: Digital Mediation & Urban Spatialities in Contemporary India (Full description attached) 🗓 Abstracts (≤300w) due: July 15, 2025 📘 To be published in a peer-reviewed South Asia journal by Brill 📩 Submit: digitalmediationindia@gmail.com #UrbanStudies #DigitalIndia #SouthAsia

#LatePost: @hindustan-times.bsky.social interviewed me and published a story based on my research on "crying videos". Link to the original research: bit.ly/45UIBkK Story link: www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar... #CryingVideos #SadBait #Selfies #MediaStudies #ScreenCultures

What does backgammon have to do with Playboy? This talk explores how 20th century media encoded masculinity, intimacy, and control through board games, tech, and leisure aesthetics. #GameStudies #MediaHistory #PlayboyArchive

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! Are you interested in getting published? We are currently accepting academic articles and creative work! Visit www.uwa.edu.au/limina/submissions for more information. #academicsky

@kaarinan.bsky.social+team study 290,000 messages to reveal how confusion, ridicule, and censorship are articulated in a post-truth context. Hate speech is a political struggle entwined with challenges to institutional authority and democratic norms. #HateSpeech journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The submission deadline for this very relevant and timely call (hybrid) - Manifestations of Patriarchy in Liberal Spaces - has been extended to June 1, 2025. If you are an early-career scholar or independent researcher, send a 300-word abstract to nk.52@soas.ac.uk. #Patriarchy #MeToo #GenderStudies