I teach and research on transnational diasporas, new media technologies, critical ethnography, and critical theory at Bowdoin College.

My publications include:

Book

Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age. Under contract for 2012 with Polity Press.

Journal articles

“Nationalism Remixed? The Politics of Cultural Flows between the South Asian Diaspora and ‘Homeland’”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33:8, 2010 (via iFirst)

Muslim punks online: a diasporic Pakistani music subculture on the Internet, South Asian Popular Culture, Volume 8, Issue 2 July 2010, pages 181 – 194.  (unformatted pre-print PDF)

“Digital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research”, Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 837-855. 2008.

“A South-Asian American diasporic aesthetic community? Ethnicity and New York City’s ‘Asian electronic music’ scene”, Ethnicities, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 225-247. 2007.

“Communicative flows between the diaspora and ‘homeland’: The case of Asian Electronic Music in Delhi”, Journal of Creative Communication, Vol. 2. Nos.1&2, pp. 143-161. 2007. (unformatted pre-print PDF)

“Representing South Asian alterity? East London’s Asian electronic music scene and the articulation of globally mediated identities.”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 327-346. 2009. (unformatted pre-print PDF)

Chapters in Books

“Emergent Digital Ethnographic Methods for Social Research” in S. N. Hesse-Biber (Ed.), Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

‘“Muslim Punk” Music Online: Piety and Protest in the Digital Age’ (PDF) in K. Salhi (Ed.), Performance, Politics, Piety: Music as Debate in Muslim Societies. Abingdon: Routledge, Forthcoming 2010.