Rahul Mukherjee

Thanks, Marc! Your scholarship is very important for this book!

FUNERAL FOR A TREE YouTube video by Steve Parker

"When a 65-year-old tree in Parker’s front yard died of oak wilt, he cut the trunk into “wood cookies” + transformed them into playable records, each encoded with migratory birdsong... The project emerged from Parker’s recognition that his grief for the tree echoed the loss of his father to cancer"

Few pre-book copies of "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" arrived in package, and some kind endorsements from scholars whom I deeply respect. The book is going to be published in late March through MIT Press.

The Media, Science and Technology (MST) SIG is in Spotlight, thanks to an insightful piece by Gary Kafer and Patrick Brian Smith, explaining the relationship between the three constitutive terms, each of which as we all know can mean a lot of different things: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...

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Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social

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A latergram about a wonderful visit to Concordia University to deliver a talk related to my forthcoming book. Many thanks to Marc, Josh, and Ishita for the invitation and their hospitality. It was amazing to engage in conversations with Montreal's vibrant media and communication studies community.

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I wrote a fresh paper on financial intermediaries in the loan app ecosystem based on interviews with data analysts, lending platform professionals, consumer rights groups, and financial journalists for Platforms & Society journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

AI power demand is generating hallucinations Chatbot-running data centers are expected to guzzle 12% of US electricity by 2030. Yet tech giants and utilities are best served by over-estimating demand. Disconnects between, say, Microsoft’s project cancellations and its astonishing growth may worsen, shaking the supply chain.

“Whatever the cause, the energy industry’s crystal balls often produce overcooked figures.”

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How is the fungibility of money<->data in #credit relations intermediated? Writing about #India, in a recent paper Rahul Mukherjee traces the #platform #intermediation processes in the loan app ecosystem. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...