Biju Gayu

Writer, teacher and academic blogger. Writes a social media trilogy. Forthcoming books: Myth of the Social Media Politics (Primus Books), Intimate Speakers (Fingerprint).Specializes on celebrity culture, political class, culture studies, business politics and technology.

My Publications

Publications
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Edited Book
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2012

• “Politics of Clicktivism” (Ed)
Proceedings of the Three Day National Seminar on Politics and Social Media: Commons in the Space Online, October 12-14, 2011,Sponsored by UGC.
Articles and Book Chapters
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2014
• The social politics 2014
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815, Vol. 12, No.13, September 2014, pp.38-40

• Article
Expatriates move on to social media for bonding capital
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815, Vol. 12, No.12, April 2014, pp.28-30

• Article
Social media and social capital
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815, Vol. 12, No.11, March 2014, pp.33-35

• Article
Pedagogy of the oppressed
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815, Vol. 12, No. 10, February 2014, pp. 16-19

• Article
Growing gossip culture in social media
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815, Vol. 12, No. 9 January 2014, pp. 18-21

2013

• Article

Social media under gunpoint
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815, Vol. 12, No. 8, December 2013

• Article

Atoms to bits: Politics and protest in Internet India
Polit Book, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Russia, ISSN 2227-1538, eISSN 2307-4590, 2013- NO. 2, pp. 8-23 (http://j.politbook.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=118%3Apolitbook-2013-2-200-p&catid=42%3A2012-12-17-19-12-28&Itemid=186&lang=en)

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Digitalising Political Identity
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815,Vol.12, No.4 pp.39-41

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Social Media Regulation
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815,Vol.12, July 2013, pp. 39-42

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The Wired Politics: Shrinking Internet Public in India
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815,Vol.11, No.9, January 2013.pp17-20

2012

• Article
Democratizing Democracy: Women Reservation in India and beyond?
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815,Vol.11, No.8, Dec 2012.pp38-41

• Article
The Mediated Public: Social Media and hate Space
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815,Vol.11, No.6, Oct 2012.pp24-28

• Article
Rise of “Mouse Click” Politics.
South Asia Politics, R.N.I. No.: DELENG/2002/6815,Vol.11, No.1, May 2012.pp 33-38

2011
• Article
Towards Online Activism and Public Sphere in India
Indian Journal of Political Science, ISSN NO 0019-5510,Volume LXXII,No.2,April-June 2011,pp 477-488
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Public Sphere Online: Online Social Networking in India. A Methodological Enquiry for Space and Commons.
Brennen Journal of Multi-disciplinary Studies, ISSN NO 2231 -5489 Series VI, 2011, pp 65 -80, (www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebrennencollege%2Eorg%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F01%2Fbrennen-journal-of-multidisciplinary-studies2011pdf-combined%2Epdf&urlhash=sRSY&trk=prof-publication-title-link)
• Article
Delocating the Space of Women’s Movement in Kerala’s Public Sehere.
Brennen Journal of Multi-disciplinary Studies, ISSN NO 2231 -5489 Series VI, 2011, pp 81-89, (www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebrennencollege%2Eorg%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F01%2Fbrennen-journal-of-multidisciplinary-studies2011pdf-combined%2Epdf&urlhash=sRSY&trk=prof-publication-title-link)
• Book Chapters
Collective Action in Internet: A glimpse of Greenpeace’ Online Activism in India.
Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Beyongd Margins and New Social Movements ,organized by Department of History ,Sir Syed College,Taliparamba on 16 March 2011.

2010

• Article
Emission Trading and India’s Foreign Policy
Brennen Journal of Multi-disciplinary Studies, ISSN NO 2231 -5489 Series V, 2010, pp 56 -67, (www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebrennencollege%2Eorg%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F01%2Fbrennen-2010-cpdfpdfcombined-2%2Epdf&urlhash=4cOm&trk=prof-publication-title-link)
Popular Magazines, Newspapers, Web Journals ________________________________________
2014

• Is Modi government an old wine packed in a new bottle?
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/is-modi-government-an-old-wine-packed-in-a-new-bottle/15898109.shtml), 02 June 2014

• Marketing politics: rise of political consultancies
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/marketing-politics-rise-of-political-consultancies/15897742.shtml) 18 May 2014

• Social media fragments electoral politics
Opinion article published on Millennium Post, on 29 March 2014, In Focus: P. 9 (http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=55456)

• The wall battalions: Facebook in 16th General Election
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/the-wall-battalions-facebook-in-16th-general-election/15896098.shtml) 25 March 2014

• Revenge porn: A way online platforms are being misused
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/revenge-porn-a-way-online-platforms-are-being-misused-for/15895398.shtml) 02 March 2014

• Political power of social media is a myth(Part I &II)
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/political-power-of-social-media-is-a-myth-i/15895273.shtml, http://www.merinews.com/article/political-power-of-social-media-is-a-myth–ii/15895332.shtml) 26 February 2014

• How democratic is the democratic potential of Internet?
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/how-democratic-is-the-democratic-potential-of-internet/15895211.shtml) 24 February 2014

• Political conspiracies in the fifth e-state
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/political-conspiracies-in-the-fifth-e-state/15895023.shtml) 17 February 2014

• Celebrity culture among the political class
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/celebrity-culture-among-the-political-class/15894090.shtml#) 18 January 2014

• The politics of education 2.0
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/the-politics-of-education-20/15893689.shtml) 07 January 2014

2013

• Same sex love and future of queer activism in India
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/same-sex-love-and-future-of-queer-activism-in-india/15893005.shtml) 18 December 2013

• Gossip and hate diffuse in social media sites
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/gossip-and-hate-diffuse-in-social-media-sites/15893002.shtml) 17 December 2013

• Can social media create social capital for India?
Article posted on (http://indiaopines.com/social-media-create-social-capital-india/#!), on 10 December 2013

• Social media and the Indian middle class
Article posted on (http://www.merinews.com/article/social-media-and-the-indian-middle-class/15892788.shtml), 10 December 2013

• Leveraging social media for digital agora
Article published on (http://indiaopines.com/leveraging-social-media-digital-agora/) 8 December 2013

• Class basis of social media politics
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/class-basis-of-social-media-politics/15892715.shtml) 8 December 2013

• Anxieties of Indian democracy
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/anxieties-of-indian-democracy/15892699.shtml#) 06 December 2013

• Expatriates build bonding capital through social media
Article published in Indiaopines.com, (http://indiaopines.com/expatriates-building-bonding-capital-social-media/#comments), 30 November 2013

• Little platoons: Intellectual loneliness in fifth e-state
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/little-platoons-intellectual-loneliness-in-fifth-e-state/15892043.shtml#commentt) 19 November 2013

• Are Cell Phones Carrying Activism in our Pockets?
Article published in Indiaopines.com, (http://indiaopines.com/cell-phones-activism-pockets/) 19 November 2013
• Shrinking fifth E-state constituencies
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/shrinking-fifth-e-state-constituencies/15892015.shtml) 17 November 2013

• Social Media: The ghettos of Indian middle class,
Article published on
(http://www.merinews.com/article/social-media-the-ghettos-of-indian-middle-class/15891466.shtml) 29 October 2013

• Social media under fire in electoral heat
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/social-media-under-fire-in-electoral-heat/15891480.shtml), 27 October 2013
• Connecting Alone: India’s life style activism in social web
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/connecting-alone-indias-life-style-activism-in-social-web/15890108.shtml), 15-09-2013
• Digital Diva: Women sexuality and Indian Internet
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/digital-diva-women-sexuality-and-indian-internet/15889833.shtml) on 06-09-2013
• Why Social media must be regulated?
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/clogArticle/why-social-media-must-be-regulated/15889029), 17 Aug 2013
• Hate or love: What we click on the social media?
Article published on, (http://www.merinews.com/clogArticle/hate-or-love-what-we-click-on-the-social-media/15889028), 17 Aug 2013
• Personalised Political Dissent in Social Web
Article published on (http://www.countercurrents.org/biju200813.htm), 20 August 2013

• Indian Politics warming up to social media
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/indian-politics-warming-up-to-social-media/15888825.shtml) on 14-08-2013

• Government 2.0 in India
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/government-20-in-india—part-1/15880008.shtml), (http://www.merinews.com/article/government-20-in-india—part-2/15880186.shtml) on 10-01-2013.

• Is our political class credible?
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/is-our-political-class-credible/15880050.shtmlon 08-01-2013).

2012
• Internet activism is a myth
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/internet-activism-is-a-myth/15879713.shtml) on 31-12-2012.

• The wired politics: Shrinking Internet public in India
Article published on (http://www.merinews.com/article/the-wired-politics-shrinking-internet-public-in-india/15879653.shtml) on 29-12-2012.

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