Dr. Fathima Nizaruddin

Fathima Nizaruddin is an academic and documentary filmmaker from India. She finished her practice-based PhD in Media, Arts and Design from University of Westminster, London in 2017. She was a post-doctoral fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC), Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung from 2020- 2023. During her fellowship period with IRGAC, she was an affiliated fellow with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi and a visiting research fellow with the Department of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She was an Assistant Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi from 2007-2020. Currently she is a post-doctoral research fellow at University of Passau, Germany in the Gerda Henkel Stiftung funded project Platformization, Forms of Authoritarianism, and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from the Global South.

Her research interests include platformization of political communication, authoritarianism and social media, practice-based artistic research as a methodology and South Asian digital cultures.

Selected Publications

● Nizaruddin, F. (2022). Hindu Majoritarianism and Authoritarian Shifts in the Age of Informational Capitalism in India. In IRGAC (Ed.), Global Authoritarianism. Perspectives and Contestations from the South. Transcript.

● Mukherjee, R., & Nizaruddin, F. (2022). Digital Platforms in Contemporary India: The Transformation of Quotidian Life Worlds. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 9(1-2), 5-18

● Nizaruddin, F. (2022). Institutionalized Riot Networks in India and Mobile Instant Messaging Platforms. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 9(1-2), 71-94.

● Nizaruddin, F. (2021). Role of Public WhatsApp Groups Within the Hindutva Ecosystem of Hate and Narratives of “CoronaJihad”. International Journal OfCommunication, 15, 18.

● Nizaruddin, F. (2020). Resisting the configurations for a Hindu nation. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 10(3), 726–733.