Nishant Shah is an Associate Professor of Global Media and the Director of the Digital Narratives Studio, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Since co-founding the Centre for Internet & Society, in India, he has served in different capacities as Professor and Director of the Digital School at Leuphana University in Germany, Vice-President at ArtEZ University of the Arts and Endowed Professor at Radboud University in The Netherlands. He is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, Harvard University in USA, and a Knowledge Partner for Point of View in Mumbai, and Digital Asia Hub in Hong Kong/ Singapore. His recent books - Really Fake (University of Minnesota Press 2021) and Overload, Excess, Creep: An Internet From India (Institute of Network Cultures/ Leftword Books 2022/2023) are available for open access. His current work is around questions of digital authorship, authenticity, and authority, and creating narrative change practices for hopeful futures and collective action.
