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Vibodh Parthasarathi has been at the forefront of media policy research in India since 2005. With a Masters from Erasmus University, and a Ph.D. from University of Helsinki, he maintains a multidisciplinary interest across media regulation, digital transitions, and policy literacy.
Prof. Parthasarathi has won research grants from Ford Foundation, Canada’s IDRC, Social Science Research Council, India-New Zealand Education Council, and University Grants Commission; been invited as a visiting scholar by University of Queensland, KU Leuven, University of Helsinki, IIT Bombay, and Lund University; and, collaborated with academics and policymakers in Australia, South Africa, Belgium, France, Sweden, UK, and USA.
Besides his 50 publications in journals and books, his edited works include the best-selling Platform Capitalism in India (Palgrave, 2020), and the critically acclaimed double-volume Indian Media Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018). Prof. Parthasarathi’s innovations in the teaching of media governance have been significantly featured in Pedagogy in Practice (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Actively contributing to growing the media policy ecosystem, he is involved with institutions such as Media and Journalism Research Centre, and The Media Foundation; publishers such as MIT Press, and Oxford University Press; and, scientific journals including Platforms & Society (SAGE), and Journal of Digital Media and Policy (Intellect).
Since 2023, his research has focused on the online video market in India, and the globally emerging field of media infrastructures. His work is available @Academia
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