Sahana Udupa

Sahana Udupa is professor of media anthropology at LMU Munich, Germany, and a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University (2021/22). Her work combines ethnography, policy and community collaboration in the fields of digital politics, online extreme speech, artificial intelligence and global digital media. At LMU Munich, she leads two multiyear research projects on digital politics funded by the European Research Council and a multimedia project on online nationalism funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. She is also a Senior Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. In 2021, the United Nations Department of Peace Operations published her research paper, "Digital technology and extreme speech: Approaches to counter online hate". Twitter: @4digitaldignity Websites: fordigitaldignity.com; https://www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/staff/professors/udupa/index.html