Cheshta Arora

About

Cheshta Arora is a researcher, writer and ethnographer studying socio-technical systems in the contemporary. Cheshta holds a PhD from the National Institute of Advanced Studies/Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. She has recently joined Technology and Society group at the Vestlandforsking/Western Norway Research Institute as a senior researcher. She is also a co-PI on an independent project called 'Audit AI4SG' funded by the Tech Ethics Lab/University of Notre Dame.

Research interests and specializations: Critical New Media Studies, Social approaches to ML/AI, Content Moderation and mis-, dis-, mal- information, CSCW, Critical Internet/Data/Information/Algorithm Studies, Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Urban Studies, Work/Labour, Feminist Techno-Science Studies, 20th Century French Philosophy, New Materialism, Object-Oriented Ontology.

Employment

• Western Norway Research Institute Senior Researcher
  2023 - Present
• Centre for Internet and Society Researcher
  2021 - 2022

Education

• National Institute of Advanced Studies Doctorate
  2017 - 2022
• Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta MPhil Social Sciences
  2015 - 2017
• Ambedkar University Delhi MA Gender Studies
  2013 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (22)

• The Uli Dataset: An Exercise in Experience Led Annotation of oGBV
  Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024) 2024 DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.woah-1.16
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• WHEN YOU SAY DISCRIMINATION, DO YOU MEAN…?: COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TRANSLATION RISKS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  Proceedings of the International Conferences on Digital Transformation and Innovation Management 2024, DTIM 2024; and ICT, Society and Human Beings 2024, ICT 2024 2024
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• Web3 and the state: The Indian state’s re-description of blockchain
  First Monday 2024 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i10.13780
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• No Publication, No Degree
  Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology 2023 DOI: 10.36950/sjsca.2022.28.8003
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• Tech hype as a mnemonic process: Misremembering the land problem in India,Tech-Hype als Erinnerungsprozess: Falsche Erinnerung an das Landproblem in Indien
  Zeitschrift fur Technikfolgenabschatzung in Theorie und Praxis / Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice 2023 DOI: 10.14512/tatup.32.3.28
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• Interfacing Artificial Intelligence for Social Good (AI4SG) and Relational AI Ethics: A Systematic Literature Review
  CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2023
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• Destabilizing Auditing: Auditing artificial intelligence as care-ful socio-analogue/digital relation
  Conference Proceedings of the STS Conference Graz 2023 2023 DOI: 10.3217/978-3-85125-976-6
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• Designing for Disagreements
  Feminist Perspectives on Social Media Governance 2023
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• Sexual harassment and its vicissitudes: Jadavpur University, 2014-17
  Feminist Media Studies 2023 DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2022.2027493
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• Auditing Artificial Intelligence as a New Layer of Mediation: Introduction of a new black box to address another black box
  Hipertext.net 2023 DOI: 10.31009/hipertext.net.2023.i26.10
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