Prof. Punathambekar is an Associate Professor of media studies and Founding Director of the Global Media Studies Initiative in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My work focuses on global media and communication, digital studies, and media and cultural history. My books and articles explore the impact that processes of globalization and digitalization have on the media industries, audiences and user practices, and cultural identity and politics. The two main projects I am engaged with now  – a co-authored book provisionally titled The Digital Popular: Media, Culture and Politics in Networked India, and a co-edited anthology on Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia – map how mobile and digital media infrastructures, platforms, and practices have transformed the meanings and performances of citizenship.