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.
(Accepted for Special Issue) Mehta, C., Fox, S. E., & Vaghela, P. (2025). Solving for "Bad Workers": How Socio-Technical Imaginaries of Caste, Labor, and Datafication Normalize Unjust Tracking of Sanitation Workers. Computational Culture.
Akridge, H., Fan, B., Tang, A. X., Mehta, C., Martelaro, N., & Fox, S. E. (2024). "The bus is nothing without us": Making Visible the Labor of Bus Operators amid the Ongoing Push Towards Transit Automation. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–16. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642714
Mehta, C., & Gupta, A. (2024). The Pundits of Technology: The Construction of Masculine Authority in Socio-technical Projects. Subversions: A Journal of Emerging Research in Media & Cultural Studies, 8. http://subversions.tiss.edu/vol-8/anushree-gupta-and-chinar-mehta/
Mehta, C., Raman, U., & Arora, P. (2024). A Feminist Human–Machine Communication Framework: Collectivizing by design for inclusive work futures. In A. Guzman, R. McEwen, & S. Jones (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication. SAGE Publications. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-handbook-of-human%E2%80%93machine-communication/book273648
Mehta, C. (2023). What Lies in the Shadows of a Stakeholder Analysis? A Methodological Analysis to Contextualize the Lives of Women Workers in the Global South. In P. Arora, U. Raman, & R. König, Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy. Amsterdam University Press. https://aup.figshare.com/articles/preprint/Feminist_Futures_of_Work_Reimagining_Labour_in_the_Digital_Economy/22147289/1
Research Grant, MOSIP. Developing a Culture-Technology Framework for DPI Deployment. January 2026 – present.
Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellowship, United States-India Educational Fund, US Department of State. January 2023 – September 2023.
Junior & Senior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission of India. August 2019 – July 2024.
Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, Sheffield, UK. 29 October – 3 November 2024.
International Communication Association Annual Conference: One World, One Network?, Paris, France. 26–30 May 2022.
Imagine a Feminist Internet: Research, Practice, and Policy in South Asia Conference, Negombo, Sri Lanka. 21–23 February 2019.
Mehta, C. (2026, October). Rock as Solid-Fluid: Exploring Urbanities Through Rocks in Hyderabad, India. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. (forthcoming)
Kapou, E., & Mehta, C. (2026, October). Constructing the Citizen-Resident: Analysing the Infrastructuring of the Togolese e-ID. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. (forthcoming)
Kapou, E., & Mehta, C. (2026, October). Constructing Identity: Analyzing Legal and Policy Discourse of the Togolese e-ID. Society for Social Studies of Science. (forthcoming)
Kapou, E., & Mehta, C. (2026, March 5). Beaches Brew: Entanglements of Coastal Economies and Urban Life in Lomé, Togo. An International Conference (Hybrid) on Urban/Media Infrastructures.
Kaur, K., Mehta, C., & Prakash, A. (2026, February 15). In and Beyond the Newsroom: How Journalism and Fact-Checking Practices Stabilise Facts in India. Making and Unmaking Facts Conference 2026.
Mehta, C. (2024). Solving for "Bad Workers": How Imaginaries Normalize Surveillance of Workers. Panel: "Constructing the Digital: Working from the Global South," Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, Sheffield, UK, 29 October – 3 November 2024.
Mehta, C. (2022). "Collectives." Panel: "Interfacing With Informality: A Decolonial Feminist Labour Lexicon," International Communication Association Annual Conference: One World, One Network?, Paris, France, 26–30 May 2022.
Mehta, C. (2021, October 7). Web Standards and Protocols: Identifying Transnational Actors & Networks. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting 2021.
Mehta, C. (2019, February 21–23). Hardcore Habit: Lessons in Participatory Design from Women Watching Porn Online. Imagine a Feminist Internet: Research, Practice, and Policy in South Asia Conference, Negombo, Sri Lanka.
Mehta, C. (2018, November 30 – December 1). The Pundits of Technology: The Construction of Masculine Authority in Socio-technical Projects in India. Does the Nation want to know?: The Politics of Post-truth. Frames of Reference, National Students' Seminar, School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai.
Kasturi, S., Mehta, C., & Raman, U. (2025). RIGHTS.AI: Children's experiences of generative artificial intelligence in India [Report]. Digital Futures for Children centre, 5Rights Foundation. Link.
Mehta, C., Raman, U., & Arora, P. (2023). Digitalisation and Transformations of Women's Labour in Sanitation Work (Empowerment or Exploitation? Global Perspectives on Women's Work in the Platform Economy) [Edition 5]. Just Jobs Network. Link.
Mehta, C., Bansal, P., & Koenig, R. (2021). Connecting the Informal: Stakeholder mapping of women's informal work in India and Bangladesh. FemLabCo. Link.