
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- arora@esphil.eur.nl
Profile
Payal Arora is a Full Professor and Chair in Technology, Values, and Global Media Cultures at the Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is the Founder and Executive Director of a digital activism organization, Catalyst Lab. She is a digital anthropologist and 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, 2015; Winner of the EUR Fellowship Award), and, The Next Billion Users: Digital Life beyond the West (Harvard University Press, 2019). She is the co-editor of Crossroads in New Media, Identity & Law: The Shape of Diversity to Come (Palgrave, 2015). Much of her research focuses on digital cultures, global inequality and data governance in the Global South. She has published over 50 papers in her field and has given 165 presentations in 102 cities in 52 countries, including a TEDx talk on the future of the internet. Her work has been extensively covered by numerous global media outlets including The Economist, NRC, The Nation, BBC, NDTV-India, F.A.Z, De Standaard, Tech Crunch, Quartz, CBC, Salon, and Vrij Nederland. Forbes called her the “next billion champion” and the right kind of person to change tech. She has consulted for both the public and private sector including hp, KPMG, Dutch Brewers, GE, and UNESCO. Her teaching has been recognized through a number of best teacher nominations and awards including the prestigious University Education Prize in 2017. Arora sits on several boards/advisory committees such as the Facebook Social Science One, Columbia University Earth Institute’s Connect to Learn, Technology, Knowledge & Society Association, Soteryx, Makeosity, and The World Women Global Council in New York. She was a Columnist for the Erasmus Magazine (2017-2019) and is the Media and Communication Section Editor for the Global Perspective Journal, a University of California Press journal. She has held Fellow positions at NYU Steinhardt, GE, Rio’s Institute of Technology and Society and ZeMKI at the University of Bremen. She has degrees from Harvard University (Masters in International Development Policy) and Columbia University (Doctorate in Language, Literacy & Technology) and a Teaching Certification from the University of Cambridge.
- Payal Arora (2013) - Technological Innovations in Public Art Museums in Amsterdam and Mumbai - 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology
- Payal Arora & Filip Vermeylen (2013) - Bridging online and offline public social spheres to understand contemporary leisure space - 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology
- Payal Arora (2012) - Challenges in digitalizing medical software for diagnosis and treatment in rural India - Urban Developments and emerging issues of inclusion, governance and sustainability in India
- Payal Arora (2012) - Chinese cowboy paintings as Western art? New Digital and Global Learning in Rural India - Digital Crossroads: Media, Migration and Diaspora in a transnational perspective
- Payal Arora (2019) - Re-imagining digital leisure networks through global cities: A metaphorical journey - Logos (Russian Federation), 29 (1), 85-126 - doi: 10.22394/0869-5377-2019-1-85-126 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2019) - GDPR - a global standard? Privacy futures, digital activism and surveillance cultures in the Global South - Surveillance & Society, 17 (5), 717-725 - doi: 10.24908/ss.v17i5.13307 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2019) - Benign dataveillance? Examining novel data-driven governance systems in India and China - First Monday - Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet - doi: 10.5210/fm.v24i4.9840 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2018) - Decolonizing Privacy studies - Television & New Media, (special issue), 1-13 - doi: 10.1177/1527476418806092 - [link]
- Payal Arora & L H Thompson (2018) - Crowdsourcing as a platform for digital labor unions - International Journal of Communication (online), 12, 2314-2332 - [link]
- Payal Arora & L (Laura) Scheiber (2017) - Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins - Media Culture & Society (online), 39 (3), 408-422 - doi: 10.1177/0163443717691225 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2016) - Bottom of the data pyramid: Big data and the global South - International Journal of Communication (online), 10, 1681-1699 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2015) - Usurping Public Leisure Space for Protest: Social activism in the digital and material commons - Space & Culture, February (3), 1-14 - doi: 10.1177/1206331213517609
- Payal Arora & N Rangaswamy (2015) - Mobile Internet in the Wild and Every day: Case Studies from the Slums of Urban India - International Journal of Cultural Studies, 1 april, 1-16 - doi: 10.1177/1367877915576538 - [link]
- D Gladysheva, J (Jessica) Verboom & Payal Arora (2014) - The Art Tube: Strategies, perceptions and outcomes of museums’ online video portals - Digital Culture and Education, 6 (4), 393-408 - [link]
- Payal Arora & N Rangaswamy (2014) - Digital leisure for development: Rethinking new media practices from the global south - Information Technologies and International Development, 10 (3), V-VII - [link]
- Payal Arora & N Rangaswamy (2013) - Digital leisure for development: Rethinking new media practices from the global south - Media Culture & Society (online), 35 (7), 898-905 - doi: 10.1177/0163443713495508 - [link]
- Payal Arora & K Sedeke (2013) - Top ranking fashion blogs and their role in the current fashion industry - First Monday - Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet, 18 (8)
- Payal Arora & J (Jessica) Verboom (2013) - Museum 2.0: A study into the culture of expertise within the museum blogosphere - First Monday - Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet, 18 (8) - doi: 10.5210/fm.v18i8.4538 - [link]
- Payal Arora & Filip Vermeylen (2013) - The end of the art connoisseur? Experts and knowledge production in the visual arts in the digital age. - Information, Communication and Society (online), 1 (21), 1-33 - doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.687392 - [link]
- Filip Vermeylen & Payal Arora (2012) - The end of the connoisseur? Experts and knowledge production in the visual arts in the digital age - Information, Communication and Society (print), 16 (2), 194-216
- Payal Arora & S Itu (2012) - Arm chair activism: Serious games usage by INGOs for educational change - International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2 (4), 1-17 - doi: 10.4018/ijgbl.2012100101 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2012) - Leisure divide: Can the Third World come out to play - Information Development, 28 (2), 93-101 - doi: 10.1177/0266666911433607 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2012) - Typology of Web 2.0 spheres: Understanding the cultural dimensions of social media spaces - Current Sociology, 60 (5), 599-618 - doi: 10.1177/0011392112440439 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2012) - Your kool-aid is not my kool-aid: Ideologies on Microfinance within an INGO Culture - Development in Practice, 22 (7), 1006-1018 - doi: 10.1080/09614524.2012.696583 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2012) - Is the doctor on? In Search for Users of Rural Medical Diagnostic Software in Central Himalayas - Development in Practice, 22 (2), 180-189 - doi: 10.1080/09614524.2012.642340 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2011) - Online social sites as virtual parks: An investigation into leisure online and offline - The Information Society, 27 (2), 113-120 - doi: 10.1080/01972243.2011.548702 - [link]
- Payal Arora (2010) - Digital gods: The making of a medical fact for rural diagnostic software - The Information Society, 26 (1), 70-79 - doi: 10.1080/01972240903423378 - [link]
- Payal Arora & S Mitra (2010) - Afterthoughts: Dialogue between Sugata Mitra and Payal Arora - British Journal of Educational Technology, 41 (5), 703-705 - doi: 10.01079.x
- Payal Arora (2010) - Hope in the Wall? A digital promise for free learning - British Journal of Educational Technology, 41 (5), 689-702 - doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01078.x - [link]
- Payal Arora (2011) - The Dot Com Mantra book - Unknown
- Payal Arora (2019) - The next billion users: Digital life beyond the west - [link] - Harvard University Press
- Payal Arora (2014) - Leisure Commons: Spatial History of Web 2.0 - [link] - Routledge
- Payal Arora & K Sedeke (2013) - Contemporary Fashion Blogosphere - LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
- Payal Arora (2010) - Dot com mantra: Social computing in Central Himalayas - Ashgate Publishing
- Wouter Been, Payal Arora & M Hildebrandt (2015) - Crossroads in New media, Identity & Law: The Shape of Diversity to Come - doi: 10.1057/9781137491268 - [link] - Palgrave Macmillan
- Payal Arora (2019) - The Oromo Movement and Ethiopian Border-making using Social Media - In K. Smets, K. Leurs, M. Georgiou, S. Witteborn and R. Gajjala, The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration - [link] - Sage
- Payal Arora (2019) - Urban metaphors as architects of the internet - In M. Doueihi, Digital Cultures - [link] - Hermann
- Payal Arora (2019) - Politics of algorithms, Indian citizenship and the colonial legacy - In A. Punathambekar & S. Mohan, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia - [link] - University of Michigan Press
- Payal Arora (2015) - Web 2.0 and beyond - In R. Mansell, International Encyclopedia of digital communication and society - doi: 10.1002/9781118767771.wbiedcs020 - [link] - Wiley-Blackwell
- Filip Vermeylen & Payal Arora (2013) - Art markets - In R. Towse & C. Handke, Handbook on the digital creative economy (pp. 322-329) - Edward Elgar Publishing
- Payal Arora (2010) - Copycats of the Central Himalayas. Learning in the age of information - In W. Kinuthia & S. Marshall, Cases 'n' places: Global cases in educational technology (pp. 21-30) - Information Age Publishing
- Payal Arora & A Panikkar (2010) - The Ramadan controversy: Dilemmas in negotiating between cultures through the study of Dutch and Iranian media discourses post Iranian uprising - In Y. R. Kamalipour, Media, power, and politics in the digital age: The 2009 presidential election (pp. 191-202) - Rowman & Littlefield
- K Kaun & Payal Arora (2010) - Global education greenhouse: Constructing and organizing online global knowledge - In S. Mukerij & P. Tripathi, Cases in technological adaptability and transnational learning: Issues and challenges (pp. 208-222) - doi: 10.4018/978-1-61520-751-0.ch012 - IGI Publication
- Payal Arora & N Rangaswamy (2015) - Digital romance in the Indian city - In The City & South Asia (pp. 73-74) - [link] - Harvard South Asia Institute
- Payal Arora (2019) - Speaker on Decolonizing Privacy Studies, Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research (APPR), Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Digital Fortress Europe, Organized by Vrije Universiteit Brussel and ECREA Diaspora, Migration & Media network.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Book talk on ‘The next billion users,’ Studium Generale, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote on ‘The next billion users,’ for NEXT19, Hamburg
- Payal Arora (2019) - “Ten novel ways to understand the next billion user market.” KPMG launch event, Mumbai India.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote on diversity and inclusion, Organized by ECHO and hosted by the Municipality of Amsterdam.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Speaker on 'The next billion users,' School of disobedience, Sponsored by the Volksbühne Foundation and the Ethical Tech Society.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote for the annual BRESTOLON workshop in Bremen, Sponsored by ZEMKI University of Bremen.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote on Empowered Women, International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA)
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote on ‘The next billion users: digital life beyond the West,’ Digital and Humanist Culture forum, 10th Anniversary, University of Nantes.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote on ‘Privacy amid the global data order,’ Fairness, Accountability, Transparency (FAT)/Asia – Hong Kong, Digital Asia Hub. Sponsored by The Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
- Payal Arora, L Taylor, A Martin & S Jameson (2018) - Panel 'Data and the Global South' (Panel organizer) - Amsterdam Privacy Conference
- Payal Arora, M Kraidy, M Jiang, S Udupa & W Willems (2018) - Roudtable on Colonial Imaginations, Techno-Oligarchs and Digital Technology (roundtable organizer) - International Communication Association (ICA) Conference
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote at the annual public Techfestival with Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) and Chris Messina (founder of the hashtag), Sponsored by Copenhagen Municipality.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Speaker on ‘Impact of the Next Billion on Spotify Lite,’ Sponsored by Spotify.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Autonomous Vehicles and Smart Futures, WISEACT COST Action - [link]
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote on ‘The Next Billion Users,’ EMERCE Next, Future of Digital & Tech, Beurs van Berlage
- Payal Arora (2019) - Speaker (with Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands as the keynote speaker) on the Value of Data Panel, Future of Health Coverage: Revolutionizing health financing using mobile technology. Sponsored by the Financial Times.
- Payal Arora (2013) - Digital glocalization or misinformation? Relating rural knowledge with global knowledge - In -
- Payal Arora (2013) - The Leisure Divide: Can the 'Third World come out to play - In - (pp. 93-11)
- Payal Arora (2012) - Walled gardens: Privacy within public leisure space online and offline - In -
- Payal Arora (2019) - Podcast with Jayadevan from Turnaround on designing for the NBU market
- Payal Arora (2019) - Podcast with Danish broadcaster Henrik Foehns on Techtopia
- Payal Arora (2019) - Podcast with Chris Messina (inventor of the hashtag) and Clive Thompson (Author of Coders) on ‘Love the Problem’ with Alex Feldman
- Payal Arora (2019) - Podcast with Innovation Hub on Who Are the Web’s Newest Users?
- Payal Arora (2019) - Creative Next podcast on How AI and Automation will change the world
- Payal Arora (2019) - We the People NDTV Indian Television Talk Show: How is technology impacting Culture?
- Payal Arora (2019) - Podcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation –Spark Despite limited access, online habits in the developing world aren't that different from ours
- Payal Arora (2018) - When exotic digital cultures become mainstream - Democracy and (Dis)Information Society: On the Function and Dissemination of Big Data, Fake News and Conspiracy Theories, Universität Salzburg, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie and Universität Münster
- Payal Arora (2017) - Digital cultures for social activism and change in the global South - Oromo Studies Association
- Payal Arora (2019) - Re-imagining Digital Leisure Networks through Global Cities: A Metaphorical Journey
- Payal Arora (2018) - Decolonizing privacy studies: Privacy literacy frameworks in the Global South - Fifth Annual ACGS Conference: Global Critical Pedagogies
- R Koenig & Payal Arora (2018) - Imagining the diversity algorithm: Alternatives in ideological governance and their challenges - Amsterdam Privacy Conference
- Payal Arora (2018) - Hacking poverty through technology innovations - International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society
- Sadrag Shihomeka & Payal Arora (2018) - Old and New Media Popularity, Affordances and Preferences as Sources for Rural Youth Politics in Namibia - International Communication Association (ICA) Conference
- Payal Arora, N Rangaswamy & L (Laura) Scheiber (2015) - Slumdog romance, politics and digital privacy among marginalized Brazilian and Indian youth - Amsterdam Privacy Conference
- Payal Arora (2015) - Keynote on 'Digital Media, Digital Transition and Internet of Things - 13th Annual Session Dialogue of Civilizations
- Payal Arora (2015) - Big data Commons and the global South - IS4IS Summit Vienna 2015, ‘The Information Society at the Crossroads
- Payal Arora (2015) - Keynote on 'Big data Commons and the global South - The ISIS Summit Vienna 2015, the Information Society at the Crossroad
- Payal Arora (2015) - Bottom of the Data Pyramid,’ Big Data and the Politics of Participation in a Digital Age - International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society
- Payal Arora (2015) - Keynote - The International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society on Big Data and the Politics of Participation in a Digital Age
- Payal Arora (2012) - Temporality in the Sociomaterial Mangle - Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
- Filip Vermeylen & Payal Arora (2012) - The valorization of art and experts in the contemporary market - 17th International Conference Association of Cultural Economists international
- Payal Arora (2012) - Keynote on Capitalizing on contested identities for business innovation - West-Asia-North African Forum
- Payal Arora (2012) - Reconfiguring village studies - "Rural Poverty = Information Poverty? Computers as new knowledge brokers in rural India
- Payal Arora (2012) - Learning, leisure and new technology adoption and usage
- Payal Arora & Filip Vermeylen (2011) - Shaping the culture of art markets through new digital learning and evaluation - ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Workshop
- Filip Vermeylen & Payal Arora (2011) - The rise of new experts: consumers and the art world in the digital age - ECREA Workshop on Digital Culture and Communication
- Payal Arora (2011) - Digital gods: the makings of a medical fact in rural diagnostic software - American society for information science and technology (ASIS&T) conference
- Filip Vermeylen & Payal Arora (2011) - Battling uncertainty: old and new experts in the market for visual arts - Conference Exploring risk and uncertainty. Metaphores from the art market
- Payal Arora (2011) - Can the poor come out to play? Reassessing the role of online leisure in ICTD research - International association for media & communication research (IAMCR) conference
- Payal Arora (2011) - Cultures of cyberspace: A pedagogic framework - International association for media & communication research (IAMCR) conference
- Payal Arora (2011) - Walled gardens: An analysis of the public-private nature of online leisure spaces - International association for media and communication research (IAMCR) conference
- Payal Arora (2011) - The folksong jukebox: Singing along for social change in rural India - International Communication Association (ICA) conference
- Payal Arora & Filip Vermeylen (2011) - Learning to evaluate art in the digital age - International Research Conference Artistic Work and Creativity in the digital era: images and sounds
- Payal Arora (2011) - Digital labor and the new corporate workspace: A real-virtual spatial investigation - Post/Autonomia conference
- Filip Vermeylen & Payal Arora (2011) - The end of the art connoisseur? Experts in the visual arts market in past and present - Conference Artistic work and creativity in the digital era: Images and Sounds
- Payal Arora (2011) - Busyness in cybercafes: An Indian context - Symposium 'Slow down, you move too fast: Rethinking the culture of Busyness and IT
- Payal Arora (2011) - Cyberleisure as the new corporate work space: a real-virtual spatial investigation - British Sociological Association (BSA) conference
- Filip Vermeylen & Payal Arora (2011) - The rise of new experts: consumers and the art world in the digital age - Workshop Participatory knowledge production 2.0. Critical views and experiences
- Payal Arora & Filip Vermeylen (2011) - The rise of the new experts: Digital learning in the art world - Participatory knowledge production 2.0: Critical views & experiences workshop
- Payal Arora (2010) - Media & Social responsibility in the Age of the Financial Crisis - Globalization for the Common Good Conference
- Payal Arora (2010) - Usage of new media in higher education in the Middle East - Jordan Ministry of Higher Education in partnership with The Columbia University Middle East Research Center (CUMERC)
- Payal Arora (2010) - Metaphorizing online social sites as virtual parks: A historical investigation into leisure online and offline - The Technology, Knowledge & Society Conference
- Payal Arora (2009) - Siliconizing youth in Indian education policy: Rearticulating "Technological Youth" as Common Sense - Presentation at the Global Communication Association (GWA) Conference
- Payal Arora (2019) - Beware of social media! Publication in Esakal (the most popular Marathi magazine) on the impact of the ‘Next Billion Users’ in rethinking social media.
- Payal Arora (2019) - FAZ Edition: Now the next billion users are online (German)
- Payal Arora (2019) - Op-Ed in Quartz on ‘The biggest myths about the next billion internet users'
- Payal Arora (2019) - The next billion users and the future of the digital economy. Development Implications of Digital Economies (DIODE) Strategic Research Network blog
- Payal Arora (2019) - Nudging the next billion. Sight & Life Magazine.
- Payal Arora (2019) - The next billion users market: Ten novel thought habits to reach this new market. KPMG India Report.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Times Higher Education New and Noteworthy Review: Phone habits of the developing world; the cult of the cute; problems on the home front; game theories; and beggar thy neighbor.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Engineering & Technology Magazine (E&T) Book review: An uncomfortable challenge to the West’s collective superiority complex that questions the way we see technology in the connected world.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Digital Society Forum (French) Book Review: The next billion users: an immersion in the internet of the poor
- Payal Arora (2019) - Forbes named Payal Arora the “Next Billion champion” as one of the key people to change tech in their article ‘10,000 People In Copenhagen Are About To Determine A Better Future For You’
- Payal Arora (2019) - Penguin India Book review: Busted! 8 Myths about the Billion Internet Users that are you Need to Know.
- Payal Arora (2019) - The Nation Book Review: The Race for Global Internet Access Is Not a Zero-Sum Game: Payal Arora’s The Next Billion Users turns a critical eye to the humanitarian push to connect the globe.
- Payal Arora (2019) - The Economist review: How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use
- Payal Arora (2019) - NRC Handelsblad (Dutch) Op-ed piece: Facebook, be honest about your ambitions.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Imperica Op-ed piece: Can Facebook's Cryptocurrency Libra empower the unbanked billions?
- Payal Arora (2019) - Strategy + Business Book Review: A new view of the fortune at the bottom of the digital pyramid
- Payal Arora (2019) - Engaget Book review: Hitting the Books: Modern surveillance and 'the science of happiness'
- Payal Arora (2019) - “NBU markets and the future of the mobile internet” for Liberty Latin American Telecom.
- Payal Arora (2016) - Prizes for innovation: Impact analysis in the ICTs for Education sector - United Nations Education Commission
- Payal Arora & M Kam (2011) - Editorial introduction: New media, informal learning, and social change - [link] - Global Fusion Consortium
- Payal Arora (2018) - Revival of the colonial project in the datafied society - [link] - Internet beyond global network
- Payal Arora (2015) - Facebook and the digital romance economy: Courtship, scams, and internet regulation in the global South - [link]
- Payal Arora (2015) - Bottom of the data pyramid in the global South - [link] - Discover Society
- Payal Arora (2011) - Live blog for TEDx Amsterdam - [link]
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Book talk on 'Do the next billion users need more innovation? Rethinking automation for the common good,' Sponsored by United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society. - Book talk on 'Do the next billion users need more innovation? Rethinking automation for the common good,' Sponsored by United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society.
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Book talk on ‘The next billion users,’ at the ‘Nose in the Books’ bookstore, Sponsored by School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. - Book talk on ‘The next billion users,’ at the ‘Nose in the Books’ bookstore, Sponsored by School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Book talk on ‘The next billion users,’ at the ACO bookstore, Sponsored by School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. - Book talk on ‘The next billion users,’ at the ACO bookstore, Sponsored by School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Book talk on ‘The next billion users,’ Sponsored by Global Asia research center, National Taiwan University. - Book talk on ‘The next billion users,’ Sponsored by Global Asia research center, National Taiwan University.
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Book talk on disruptive innovation, Sponsored by Nanjang Technological University. - Book talk on disruptive innovation, Sponsored by Nanjang Technological University.
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Interview on DW Akademie on Media Development at Bonn. - Interview on DW Akademie on Media Development at Bonn.
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Speaker (with F. Vermeylen) on Culture, automation and taste disruptions in the digital art economy, Erasmus Studio, Rotterdamse Schouwburg - Speaker (with F. Vermeylen) on Culture, automation and taste disruptions in the digital art economy, Erasmus Studio, Rotterdamse Schouwburg
- Payal Arora (12 december 2011) - Does culture matter? Business Communication in this digital and global age - Live video coverage of talk
- Payal Arora (21 oktober 2011) - New media, education and South Asia - Interview
- Payal Arora (15 april 2011) - Entrepreneurship and new media learning: - Video interview
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Interview with The Hard Copy and Obvious Design Studio on The Fabulous Next Billion - Interview with The Hard Copy and Obvious Design Studio on The Fabulous Next Billion
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Innovation Hub podcast interview with Marc Sollinger - Innovation Hub podcast interview with Marc Sollinger
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Mag.de (German) Interview on book: What if social media belonged to the user? - Mag.de (German) Interview on book: What if social media belonged to the user?
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - YourStory interview: Why digital benefits need to be balanced with data privacy - YourStory interview: Why digital benefits need to be balanced with data privacy
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - iRights interview on the Next Billion users (German) - iRights interview on the Next Billion users (German)
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Africa Development news interview on the Next Billion Users - Africa Development news interview on the Next Billion Users
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Tech Crunch interview: Who are the next billion users and what do they want? - Tech Crunch interview: Who are the next billion users and what do they want?
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Erasmus Magazine interview: People in developing countries want to do the exact same things we do on the Internet: listen to music and watch porn. - Erasmus Magazine interview: People in developing countries want to do the exact same things we do on the Internet: listen to music and watch porn.
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - De Standaard (Dutch) Interview: That the poor use the internet primarily for entertainment? So what? - De Standaard (Dutch) Interview: That the poor use the internet primarily for entertainment? So what?
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - NRC Handelsblad (Dutch) Interview: The biggest misconceptions about how the next billion internet users spend their screen time. - NRC Handelsblad (Dutch) Interview: The biggest misconceptions about how the next billion internet users spend their screen time.
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Interview with The Hindu on Traversing in an Emerging Field - Interview with The Hindu on Traversing in an Emerging Field
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - The Boston Globe Interview: The global poor go online for the same reasons you do by - The Boston Globe Interview: The global poor go online for the same reasons you do by
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - BREAKER Interview: The Next Billion Tech Users are just like the rest of us. - BREAKER Interview: The Next Billion Tech Users are just like the rest of us.
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Monocle 24 interview with Georgina Goodwin from Weekend Read (Podcast) on The Next Billion Users - Monocle 24 interview with Georgina Goodwin from Weekend Read (Podcast) on The Next Billion Users
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Vrij Nederland Interview: In poorer countries, people are not only online to improve their lives, they also want to watch porn (Dutch) - Vrij Nederland Interview: In poorer countries, people are not only online to improve their lives, they also want to watch porn (Dutch)
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - BBC interview with Ritula Shah on The Next Billion Users - BBC interview with Ritula Shah on The Next Billion Users
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Television interview on TDM - Teledifusão de Macau, Macau China talk show with host Karen Keith. - Television interview on TDM - Teledifusão de Macau, Macau China talk show with host Karen Keith.
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - Interview with The Telegraph on the Next Billion and the rise of Irrational Design - Interview with The Telegraph on the Next Billion and the rise of Irrational Design
- Payal Arora (1 januari 2019) - El Confidential (Spanish) Interview on book: Why do they use the internet in poor countries? Same reasons as we do. - El Confidential (Spanish) Interview on book: Why do they use the internet in poor countries? Same reasons as we do.
- P (Payal) Arora, A (Amanda) Paz Alencar & DM (Daniela) Jaramillo Dent (28 september 2021) - Breaking the cycle of ignorance: Prioritising refugees’ digital leisure and entertainment - Breaking the cycle of ignorance: Prioritising refugees’ digital leisure and entertainment
- Payal Arora (2019) - Unknown event - Unknown event
- Payal Arora (2019) - Unknown event - Unknown event
- Payal Arora (2019) - Unknown event - Unknown event
- Payal Arora & Filip Vermeylen (2014) - The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) - The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote on ‘Decolonizing privacy studies’ - Privacy & Identity Lab Symposium, Sponsored by PiLAB.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote on “The next billion users” - Design Up conference
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote at the Rethinking media development: New actors, new technologies and new strategies FoME Symposium 2019 - FoME Symposium 2019. Sponsored by Deutsche Welle
- Payal Arora (2019) - Speaker on ‘The next billion,’ Sponsored by Department of Media & Communication Studies, Södertörn University. - Conference
- Payal Arora (2019) - Above the law and below poverty: Digital activism and online publicity in the Global South - International Communication Section, International Association for Media and Communication Research, IAMCR
- Payal Arora (2019) - Keynote - Digital Inclusion Policy and Research Conference 2019
- Payal Arora (2019) - Blue Sky Workshop: Global Perspectives: Rethinking boundaries in the Platformization era - International Communication Association
- Payal Arora (2019) - Oromo activism through Facebook and twitter - Global Communication Division, International Communication Association
- Payal Arora (2019) - Behind the Music: How labor changed for musicians through the Subscription Economy - Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association
- Payal Arora (2019) - Decolonizing Privacy Studies - Philosophy, Theory & Critique Division, International Communication Association, Washington DC.
- Payal Arora (2019) - Speaker on 'Contemporary surveillance-based democracies: A comparative analysis of emerging databased governance systems in India and China,' Justice and order in the datafied society: Connecting communications and legal theory, - Preconference ICA 2019, Washington DC.
- Payal Arora & T Willemstein (2019) - Blockchain and the art market: the end of the traditional gatekeepers?' - 6th Creative Industries seminar
- Payal Arora (2018) - Automating culture: How digital platforms are shaping the art world - Keynote speaker at the Tiamsa Conference
- Payal Arora (2018) - Ethics in algorithmic exclusionary politics - Big data: uncovering new mobility patterns and redefining planning practices, EUROScience Open Forum, COST European Cooperation in Science and Technology
- Payal Arora (2018) - Mood Tracking & the Emotive Politics of the Digital - The Tracked Society. Interdisciplinary Approaches on Online Tracking, University of Münster and ABIDA, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Payal Arora (2018) - Talent - Rector Farewell speech
- Payal Arora (2018) - Regulated data. Regulated activism? Digital activism in the GDPR era - Unknown event
- Payal Arora (2018) - Big Data from the South: Decolonization, Resistance & Creativity - DATACTIVE University of Amsterdam
- Payal Arora (2018) - The Golden Standard as a Global standard? The Politics of Global Privacy in the GDPR era - Invited speaker
- Payal Arora (2018) - Above the law and below poverty: Databased obfuscations, activism and publicity from the global South - The Future of Law: Technology, Innovation and Access to Justice
- Payal Arora (2018) - Emerging databased ‘democracies’ in China and India - ZEMKI Visiting Research Fellow talk
- Payal Arora (2018) - The global poor need less innovation: A critique of Silicon Valley’s human laboratories - Opponent talk at PhD defense ceremony
- Payal Arora (2018) - Crowdsourcing as a platform for digital labor unions,’ Development Implications of Digital Economies - Development Implications of Digital Economies (DIODE Network), UK Social and Economic Research Council
- Payal Arora (2018) - Poor@play: Mobilizing the ludic underclass in the digital age - Etudier les cultures du numérique" (Studying Digital Cultures)
- Payal Arora (2018) - Communal politics in digital India - Digital Politics in Millennial India international symposium
- Payal Arora (2018) - Digital education innovation in developing countries - Development Implications of Digital Economies (DIODE Network), UK Social and Economic Research Council
- Payal Arora (2017) - Graduation talk for MA in New Media and Digital Culture - Graduation MA students
- Payal Arora (2017) - Is there such a thing as an academic activist? Stepping outside of academia - Media and culture in everyday life
- Payal Arora (2017) - Silicon Valley’s human laboratories - Seeing the Unseen, EUCxInspire
- Payal Arora (2017) - Digital cultures, communities and the commons - Numerique & Diversité culturelle [Digital & Cultural Diversity]
- Payal Arora (2016) - Keynote Databased democracies in the Global South - Development Seminar series
- Payal Arora (2016) - Digital privacy and citizenship: Comparing Facebook practices across low-income contexts in India and Brazil - Association of Internet Researchers
- Payal Arora (2016) - Invited Lecture Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy in the global south - The 2nd International conference on Communication and the Public: Body, Lived Space, and Mobile Media
- Payal Arora (2016) - The politics of algorithms in shaping citizenship in the global South - Algorithms, Automation and Politics Preconference
- Payal Arora (2016) - The everyday struggles of citizenship in the digital public sphere: Navigating digital privacy and political activism in India and Brazil - Cultural Struggle and Praxis: Negotiating Power and the Everyday, The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies
- I Segers & Payal Arora (2016) - Smashing patriarchy with cell phones? – Critique of dominant technofeminist perspectives on mobile phone-enabled women’s empowerment programmes in Bangladesh - Feminist Studies Division, International Communication Association
- Payal Arora (2016) - Invited Lecture Is there a global digital privacy culture? - Convergence and Disjuncture in Global Digital Culture
- Payal Arora (2015) - Nobody knows Snowden! Digital Privacy, Surveillance and Big data policy in Emerging Economies - Invited lecture: Global Communication Association Conference
- Payal Arora (2014) - Invited lecture - Colloquium on Cybercultures in India
- Payal Arora (2014) - Invited lecture - Memes and Protest symposium, Annenberg School for Communication, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
- Payal Arora (2014) - The Leisure Commons for the Uncommon New Publics - IMISCOE Research Initiative Information and Communication Technologies and Migration
- Payal Arora (2013) - The Leisure Factory: Production in the Digital Age - Conference Between Labour and Leisure: Towards the New Economy of Salvation, the Research Group ‘Labour, Knowledge and Leisure in Postindustrial Society’, Higher School of Economics
- Payal Arora (2013) - Invited lecture - Society of the Query conference on Search and Search Engines, Institute of Network Cultures
- Payal Arora (2013) - Invited lecture - Frontiers of New Media symposium, The Beginning and End(s) of the Internet: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Future of Cyber-Utopia
- Payal Arora (2013) - Invited lecture - Mapping Cultural ConsumersOnline Symposium, the Dept of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, Kings College London
- Payal Arora (2013) - Invited lecture - World Conference of Science Journalists, The Critical Questioning in the Public Sphere
- Payal Arora (2013) - Are we all connoisseurs now? The changing landscape of art expertise in the digital age - Expertise In Judgment of Art: History, Technology, Law and the Market, the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA).
- Payal Arora (2012) - Invited lecture - Workgroup on New Media and the Art Markets, Duke University
- Payal Arora, P Vishnu Poruthiyil, EG (Elke) Geraerts, Steven Walle, Willem Schinkel, Maureen Sie & BF Eekelen (2012) - How to become an "excellent" young academic researcher? - Erasmus Graduate School for the Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences meeting
- Payal Arora (2011) - New media and international development - Guest seminar at the International institute of social studies
- Payal Arora (2011) - Social media, knowledge management and business - Invited discussant
- Payal Arora (2011) - Guest lecture - Chamber of commerce of the Social Economic Council
- Payal Arora (2016) - Invited Lecture Who is in charge of the future of the internet? - TEDxErasmus
- Payal Arora (2015) - Invited lecture The Art Museum and Its New Publics - Museum Folkwang
- Payal Arora (2019) - fake news’ in the Asian context - Social Science One Asia Launch
- Payal Arora (2018) - data/mobile economy in Asia - Digital Asia Hub Launch
- Payal Arora (2018) - Quantifying your talented self: How metrics is killing creativity - EUR-pre-academic and interdisciplinary programme opening
- Payal Arora (2017) - Talent - Rotterdam Talent Week
- Payal Arora (2016) - Invited lecture digital marketing - Technology and the Art Market seminar, Christies
- Payal Arora (2016) - Invited Lecture A critical examination of prizes to spur innovation using ICT in education - UNESCO Mobile Learning week: Innovating for Quality
- Payal Arora & M Kam (2011) - Global Media Journal (Journal)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-3, Bachelor 2, Bachelor 3
- Course Code
- CM2092
Master Class
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Course Code
- CM4500
Master Thesis
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Course Code
- CM5000
Media and Business Transformations
- Level
- MA
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA
- Course Code
- CM4101
Globalization, Digitalization and Cult.
- Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Course Code
- CS5009