We welcome Media, Technology, Geopolitics and Social Change in the BRICS+ Countries team to the Collaboratory with a 5×5 Incubator grant. With an interdisciplinary approach to media, this team will focus on BRICS+ countries – namely India, China, Russia and Nigeria – to assess how uses, practices, and understandings of media, art, and technology reproduce inequitable power relations at various levels such as industrial, economic, and geopolitical. Further, the team will explore how media, art and technology potentially open up spaces for individual and collective agency, and thus social change.
This team is led by Swapnil Rai, Assistant Professor of Film, TV, and Media.