Online Gods Ep 10: Critiques of the Public Sphere and Fake News Busting

In this episode, we talk with Francis Cody about the public sphere and Govindraj Ethiraj about fake news busting.

Francis Cody is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on language and politics in southern India. He first brought these interests to bear on a study of citizenship, literacy, and social movement politics in rural Tamil Nadu.

Govindraj Ethiraj is a television and print journalist, and founder IndiaSpend.com and Factchecker.in, two public-interest journalism websites.

The podcast is a key initiative of the five-year research study on digital politics www.fordigitaldignity.com funded by the European Research Council (grant agreement number 714285) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. To know more about the project, contact principal investigator Sahana Udupa onlinerpol@ethnologie.lmu.de and for podcast-related interactions, contact the co-host Ian M Cook onlinegodspodcast@gmail.com.

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