Populism, Ideology and Discourse in the Global South
Vihang Jumle
Contact: vihang.jumle(at)unibe.ch
Doctoral researcher, Institute of Communication and Media Studies, University of Bern
I’m a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies, University of Bern. I work within a critical realist paradigm to understand what technology does to our societies. I’m currently researching how digital technologies and media alter national socio-cultural knowledge hierarchies using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
I graduated with a master’s in public policy from the Hertie School, Germany (2023) and a bachelor’s in information technology from Mumbai University, India (2019).
Research project
On the Role of Internet Platforms in Constructing National Ideas
What do internet platforms do to nations and nationalism? On the one hand, scholarships points at how internet platforms – through their ability to curate content – are tacitly instrumentalised by various socio-political actors to make interventions on national lines. In doing so, internet platforms emerge as banal reminders of nationhood informing users of particular national values. But can internet platforms sometimes perform likewise, however, without their explicit instrumentalisation, unwittingly and inevitably? The research attempts to examine this angle by studying internet platforms‘ socially ‚glitched‘ behaviour, documenting potential content biases, and contextualising their relevance, particularly on the construction national ideas in the digital age.
