Sananda Sahoo

The primary focus of my research lies at the intersection of emerging technologies, statecraft, and political communication. Participatory propaganda, designing in the context of government, and community-engaged methods for addressing emerging needs contribute to how emerging technologies inform and shape the democratic processes. My ongoing projects on environmental communication, facial recognition technology, and journalism interrogate these processes.

Sahoo, Sananda. “Campaign Deepfakes in Elections Challenge the Public Sphere,” in Critical Political Economy of AI in Global South (UK: Palgrave MacMillan), ed. Raghunath, Preeti. 2025. [In Press.]

Sahoo, Sananda. “Review of Joshua Barker’s State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City.” Surveillance & Society, 2025, 23(3), 388-390. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v23i3.19482.

Sahoo, Sananda. “Biometric Data’s Colonial Imaginaries Continue in Aadhaar’s Minimal Data.” BJHS (The British Journal for the History of Science) Themes, 2023, 1–16. doi:10.1017/bjt.2023.11.

Sahoo, Sananda. “India’s Internet Shutdowns as Biopolitics: The Formation of Political Will and Opinion Through Collective Action Under Attack.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2023, 40(5), 291-305. DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2023.2265995.

liu, michelle corinne, Brenes Reyes, J. R., Sahoo, S., & Dyer-Witheford, N. “Riot Platforms: Protest, Police, Planet.” Antipode, 2022, 54(6), 1901-1922. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12861.

Sahoo, Sananda. “Political Posters Reveal a Tension in WhatsApp Platform Design: An Analysis of Digital Images from India’s 2019 Elections.” Television & New Media, 2022, 23(8), 874-899. https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764211052997.

Sahoo, Sananda. “Interrogating the Gaze: Photographs by a British Woman Traveller in Colonial India.” Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, 2008, 34 (1&2): 151-165.