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I am a feminist, humanist, and technologist. 

As Professor of Global Media & Culture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Director of the Digital Narratives Studio, I connect research, teaching, and public engagement to foster radical hope for collective action. My research is in emerging technologies, and looking at the historical creation as well as future implications of their emergence, and their disproportionate impact on vulnerable and marginalized communities. I actively translate critical research into structures of pedagogy, training, workshops, lectures, and teaching, for multi-stakeholder partners committed to building futures of repair and inclusion. I have experience and expertise in working with and advising philanthropy organisations and multi-lateral institutions to convene, create, and catalyse, communities and networks across the Global South, to build movements and spaces of knowledge production.

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The Indian Express

Message from Claude Mythos

Regulation and oversight are of little use if they are always playing a chasing game. AI companies have turned regulation into the last line of redress when it should have been the first line of defence.

Large language models have destabilized a three-tiered view of the digital commons.

May 1, 2026
Communication and the Public

What is a digital author?

Generative AI, concealment, and notes for the emergent moment

Nishant Shah argues that generative AI changes the author function to one defined by concealment.

Feb 13, 2026
The Indian Express

In the new year, let us imagine new ways to approach AI

Let us understand that the AI we are offered is not the ‘natural’ state of the technology, but merely one expression of it shaped by extractive, profit-driven oligarchies

In The Indian Express, Nishant Shah offers a challenge in lieu of digital hope.

Jan 5, 2026
The Indian Express

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble and the risks of privatising digital public spaces

Meta’s recent move of doing away with fact-checking and relying on a Community Notes model undermines the very nature of oversight and shows the need to have more accountability and governance structures for these big corporations.

Nishant Shah warns that Meta's doing away with content moderation represents a dangerous lack of oversight.

Jan 16, 2025
European Journal of Cultural Studies

The unbearable oldness of generative artificial intelligence: Or the re-making of digital narratives in times of ChatGPT

BKC Faculty Associate Nishant Shah offers accounts of two moments in computational history to reframe conversations around generative AI.

Jan 17, 2024