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Ashwin Mathew

Dr Ashwin Mathew

Lecturer in Global Digital Cultures

Research interests

  • Digital

Biography

Ashwin is an ethnographer of Internet infrastructure, studying the technologies and technical communities involved in the operation of the global Internet. He is interested in how the Internet is built and maintained in everyday practice; and how the cultures of the Internet’s technical communities circulate and are re-articulated across Global South and Global North in the process of operating the Internet.

He joined the Department of Digital Humanities in September 2019. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Management and Systems from the UC Berkeley School of Information. Prior to his doctoral work, he spent a decade as a programmer and technical architect in companies such as Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems.

You can find more information about him at sanmathi.org/ashwin.

Research interests and PhD supervision

  • Everyday practices of Internet governance
  • Cybersecurity cultures
  • Critical perspectives on networked technologies
  • Comparative and relational studies of technical cultures across Global South and Global North

Ashwin welcomes applications from potential PhD students interested in studying these topics.

For more details, please see his full research profile

Teaching

Ashwin teaches on the technological and political-economic conditions for the production of global digital infrastructures, with a focus on social practice and ethnographic methods.

    Research

    it-security-cyber
    Cyber Security Research Group

    CSRG promotes research into cyber security bringing together experts from diverse disciplines.

    cyberculture
    King's Cybersecurity Centre

    King's Cybersecurity Centre is an EPSRC-NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). It provides expertise on most areas of cyber security, it has a critical mass of researchers working on three main research themes and their interrelationship.

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    Centre for Digital Culture

    The Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London is an interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and debate on digital culture

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    Global Digital Cultures Research Group

    do local practices of engagement with the digital circulate regionally and around the world, and how do they change during their travels? These are some of the questions that we ask in the Global Digital Cultures Research Group, approaching them from different disciplinary and methodological traditions, and focusing on different countries and regions, but also on global phenomena and their local articulations.

    Events

    17JanMusic Generations

    Music Generations in the Digital Age: Book Launch

    Please join us for the launch of the book "Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan" by Rafal Zaborowski.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    19OctGlobe

    #GoingGlobal: Studying Global Digital Cultures in non-Western contexts

    By drawing connections and comparisons between our different topics and geographies of study, the participants will offer insights into politics and...

    Please note: this event has passed.

      Research

      it-security-cyber
      Cyber Security Research Group

      CSRG promotes research into cyber security bringing together experts from diverse disciplines.

      cyberculture
      King's Cybersecurity Centre

      King's Cybersecurity Centre is an EPSRC-NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). It provides expertise on most areas of cyber security, it has a critical mass of researchers working on three main research themes and their interrelationship.

      CDC header
      Centre for Digital Culture

      The Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London is an interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and debate on digital culture

      2022-23_kindpng_4588393-color
      Global Digital Cultures Research Group

      do local practices of engagement with the digital circulate regionally and around the world, and how do they change during their travels? These are some of the questions that we ask in the Global Digital Cultures Research Group, approaching them from different disciplinary and methodological traditions, and focusing on different countries and regions, but also on global phenomena and their local articulations.

      Events

      17JanMusic Generations

      Music Generations in the Digital Age: Book Launch

      Please join us for the launch of the book "Music Generations in the Digital Age: Social Practices of Listening and Idols in Japan" by Rafal Zaborowski.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      19OctGlobe

      #GoingGlobal: Studying Global Digital Cultures in non-Western contexts

      By drawing connections and comparisons between our different topics and geographies of study, the participants will offer insights into politics and...

      Please note: this event has passed.