Nishant Shah is Director Research at the Bangalore based Centre for Internet and Society, an International Tandem Partner to the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University in Germany, and a Knowledge Partner to Hivos, The Netherlands. His research is at the intersection of social and political change, digital identities, and everyday cybercultures practice. His academic and policy research is available under Open Access at http://cis-india.academia.edu/NishantShah and he can be personally reached at itsnishant@gmail.com
What lurks beneath the Network
Social media is often the scapegoat for a real crisis