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Debarun Sarkar

Position

Postdoctoral fellow, Algofolk

Affiliation

  • Center for Digital Narrative

Short info

Debarun Sarkar is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Culture with the ALGOFOLK project at the University of Bergen. His work has been interested in interrogating contemporary socio-technical systems and material-semiotic configurations.
Research

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Digital Culture with the ALGOFOLK project, associated with the , at the . I am also a member of the AC鈥M research group.

I hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of Mumbai. Before joining 黑料吃瓜资源, I was a co-PI on the project funded by the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab. My work has traversed the disciplinary boundaries of anthropology/geography/sociology.

In my doctoral work as a UGC Junior and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai my dissertation intervened in the scalar debate while being empirically concerned with New Town, West Bengal. As research associate on the Learning Analytics in Higher Education in India project, I explored sociotechnical entanglements of data-intensive technologies and audit culture in higher education institutions. As an independent researcher, I was a co-PI on an auditing AI project, Audit4SG, funded by Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab, University of Notre Dame, wherein we intervened in the discourse and practice of auditing AI, building on relational AI ethics. I also have a long-standing interest in cultural studies and debates on knowledge production and academic labour.

Publications

You can find all my publications listed on , or . 

I have recently published on in India and , on , and on changing nature of skill and knowledge in higher education ( and ).

Projects

I was previously a co-PI on , a project funded by the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab (2023). I also worked as a Research Associate on a project on Learning Analytics in Higher Education in India (2022-24).