Payal Arora is an Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Founder of Catalyst Lab, a center that reignites relations between academia and the public through social media campaigns. Her research work focuses on digital economies and c
...MorePayal Arora is an Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Founder of Catalyst Lab, a center that reignites relations between academia and the public through social media campaigns. Her research work focuses on digital economies and cultures in the global South and new media activism. She is the author of several books including Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas (Ashgate, 2010), The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0 (Routledge, 2014; Winner of the EUR Fellowship Award), and Poor@Play: Digital Life beyond the West (in contract with Harvard University Press). She is the co-editor of Crossroads in New media, Identity & Law: The Shape of Diversity to Come (Palgrave, 2015). She has published over forty papers and given more than a 100 presentations in 62 cities and 25 countries. Arora sits on several boards including The Earth Institute Columbia University’s Connect to Learn, Technology, Knowledge & Society Association and The World Women Global Council in New York. She has held Fellow positions at NYU Steinhardt, General Electric, and Rio’s Institute of Technology and Society. She has degrees from Harvard University (Masters in International Policy) and Columbia University (Doctorate in Language, Literacy & Technology).
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