Suruchi Mazumdar

Contact

• workRoom ELG 13 Block E
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• Suruchi.Maz@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

Suruchi Mazumdar joined the School of Humanities at University of Nottingham Malaysia as an Associate Professor, in 2026. Prior to her current position, Suruchi taught in India at O.P. Jindal Global University. She was a visiting scholar in Annenberg School for Communication's Center for Global Communication Studies at University of Pennsylvania. She got her PhD from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She has teaching and research interests in media-politics and social movements, digital activism, everyday digital cultures, and the interface of data, ethics, and global migration. Her ongoing research focuses on how marginalised social groups and diverse actors across South and Southeast Asia contest claims of citizenship and nationalism via platforms and web 3.0 technologies. She has been part of multiple transdisciplinary collaborative research projects. Her research was supported by the doctoral fellowship and fee-waiver awards for graduate studies at Nanyang Technological University and UNESCO (via research assistantship with the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre [AMIC]). Her research has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. Suruchi is the author of the book "Divided Media Politics and Mediated Movements in India" (Routledge, 2025). Suruchi has been part of the organising committee of the International Communication Association's (ICA) (the largest professional network of communication scholars) regional Political Communication workshops in New Delhi in 2024 and 2025.

Suruchi's publications can be accessed here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0995-5455 and https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=4Gsv6qMAAAAJ&hl=en

Teaching Summary

In India Suruchi taught foundational courses in media and communication studies as well as specialised courses on the sociology and ethics of data and AI, global technologies and geopolitics, and the… read more

Research Summary

Suruchi's upcoming and ongoing research address the following themes: i. Citizenship and Nationalism via Web 3.0 Platforms: This research project proposes exploratory investigation into the role of… read more

In India Suruchi taught foundational courses in media and communication studies as well as specialised courses on the sociology and ethics of data and AI, global technologies and geopolitics, and the future of digital work.

At UNM Suruchi is currently teaching the following courses:

Digital Communication & Media (HUMS3016) Research Methods in Media, Communication & Culture (HUMS4013) Researching Culture Film and Media (HUMS2009)

Current Research

Suruchi's upcoming and ongoing research address the following themes: i. Citizenship and Nationalism via Web 3.0 Platforms: This research project proposes exploratory investigation into the role of web 3.0. technologies, including platforms and decentralised distributed networks such as blockchains, and addresses the conflicting relationship between digital affordances and the claims of citizenship, nationalism, and political participation by forcibly displaced populations in South and Southeast Asia. ii. Data Colonialism: Suruchi is currently co-editing a special issue, forthcoming soon in the journal Big Data & Society, on the everyday negotiations and resistances to data colonialism in postcolonial societies. iii. Urban safety and smart city: Suruchi is currently collaborating with colleagues at The University of Sydney on a project that explores women and gender diverse groups' negotiation with urban safety in the face of growing digital innovation and platformisation in India.