I teach and research on new media technologies, online diasporas/subcultures, digital ethnography, and critical theory at Bowdoin College. I run the Social Network Innovation Lab.
My publications include:
Recent Publications
Book
Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age. Under contract for 2012 with Polity Press.
Journal articles
‘Towards a Sociological Understanding of Social Media: Theorizing Twitter’,Sociology, forthcoming, 2011.
‘New Media and Natural Disasters: Blogs and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami’, Information, Communication and Society, forthcoming, 2011.
‘Twitter: Microphone for the Masses’. Media Culture Society 33(5):779-789, 2011.
“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
‘Muslim Punks Online: A diasporic Pakistani music subculture’ in Dudrah, R. et. al (ed.) Intermedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen. Abingdon: Routledge, Forthcoming 2011.
‘Emergent Digital Ethnographic Methods for Social Research’ in Hesse-Biber, S.N. (ed.) Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 158-179. 2011.
‘“Muslim Punk” Music Online: Piety and Protest in the Digital Age’ (PDF) in K. Salhi (Ed.), Music, Culture and Identity in the Muslim World: Performance, Politics and Piety. Abingdon: Routledge, Forthcoming 2011.
Selected Conference Proceedings with Student Co-Authors (* indicates student co-author)
Murthy, D., Gross, A. & Longwell, S.* (2011) ‘Visualizing Health Networks in Social Media’ in United Kingdom Social Networks Association (ed.), 7th UK Social Networks Conference Proceedings. London, UK
Murthy, D., Gross, A. & Longwell, S.* (2011) ‘Twitter and e-health: a case study of visualizing cancer networks on Twitter’ in Shoniregun, C. A. (ed.) International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011) Proceedings. London, UK