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About Noopur Raval
I am a postdoctoral researcher working at the intersection of Information Studies, STS, Media Studies and Anthropology. My PhD research was on the gig/platform economy and its effects on life and laboring in India. I am currently studying the global economy of data work and data laborers that are building AI systems by manually training machine learning models.Noopur Raval is a postdoctoral researcher working at the intersection of Information Studies, STS, Media Studies and Anthropology
NBN Episodes hosted by Noopur:
March 16, 2024
In the Land of the Unreal
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), bel…
May 9, 2022
Buy Now
How Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to become the ultimate service brand in the digital e…
July 23, 2021
Radiant Infrastructures
In Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Duke UP, 2020), Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclea…
July 6, 2021
Accidental Feminism
In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country's lawy…
July 5, 2021
Lives of Data
Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India (Institute of Networked Cultures, 2020) maps the historical and emergent dynamics of big da…
May 20, 2021
Data Lives
The word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new…