Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She has also been a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University.
Udupa leads two European Research Council-funded projects, ONLINERPOL: ForDigitalDignity and AI4Dignity, which examine AI-assisted content moderation, online extreme speech, and digital media politics. Her research explores digital global cultures, social media, political communication, and the intersections of technology, governance, and social inequality.
She has previously held positions as Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Central European University and as Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Udupa serves on multiple editorial and advisory boards and is co-editor of the book series Anthropology of Media (Berghahn).
Her publications include Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics (2015), Media as Politics in South Asia (2017, co-edited), Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Online Extreme Speech (2021, co-edited), and Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media (2023).
