Hi, I am Chinar. I am an engineer turned communications researcher interested in all things technology - but particularly, its cultures, histories, and ways of being in society.
Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Humanities and Societal Systems at International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.
I channel my energies towards simplifying complicated research in science, tech, and the social sciences for a different kinds of audiences.
Let's discuss how I can help with your research projects. Email me at chinar [dot] mehta93 [at] gmail [dot] com.
This project explores children’s interactions with GenAI, focusing on their expectations, fears, hopes, and imaginations while assessing the impact on their rights, creativity, and development.
My work investigated the social, political, and material conditions driving the deployment of AI and automation technologies within the public transit sector, with a focus on how such decisions affect frontline staff.
FemLab is a researcher activist cooperative that seeks to envision and enact how digital platforms may be optimized to enhance self-actualization, representation, and collectivization in a changing and increasingly precarious market and society.
PhD thesis looks at web development cultures from a Feminist Science & Technology Studies perspective; through historical discourse, in-depth interviews with engineers, managers, designers, and archival & software documentation.