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Dr. B. (Bidisha) Chaudhuri

Faculty of Humanities
Departement Mediastudies
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  • Turfdraagsterpad 9
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  • Postbus 94550
    1090 GN Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    Dr. Bidisha Chaudhuri is an Assistant Professor of Government, Information Cultures and Digital Citizenship at Department of Media Studies (Archival and Information Studies) at the University of Amsterdam. She received her PhD from the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University, Germany. Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, she taught at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB). Her current research interests include digital governance and infrastructures, politics of data and algorithms, political economy of digital technologies and work practices and AI ethics.

    Latest Publications

    Ganeshan, S and B. Chaudhuri. (2023). Navigating crisis, navigating ICTs: A study of Indian migrant workers during the pandemic. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 21, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3572334.3572393 

    Chandhiramowuli. S and B. Chaudhuri. (2023). Match Made by Humans: A Critical Enquiry into Human-Machine Configurations in Data Labelling. In Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Scholar Space, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2007–2008. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/102882 

    Chaudhuri, B. (2022). Programmed welfare: An ethnographic account of algorithmic practices in the public distribution system in India. New Media & Society, 24(4), 887-902. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221079034

  • Publications

    2024

    • Subbanarasimha, R. P., Venumuddala, V. R., Prakash, A., & Chaudhuri, B. (2024). Complexity of Last Mile Networks and Ethics of Smart City Interventions: A Case of Solid Waste Management Intervention in Karnataka. In S. K. Sharma, B. Metri, Y. K. Dwivedi, B. Lal, & A. Elbanna (Eds.), Transfer, Diffusion and Adoption of Next-Generation Digital Technologies - IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2023, Proceedings (pp. 341-353). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 697 AICT). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50188-3_30

    2023

    • Chandhiramowuli, S., & Chaudhuri, B. (2023). Match Made by Humans: A Critical Enquiry into Human-Machine Configurations in Data Labelling. In T. X. Bui (Ed.), Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2023 (pp. 2007-2016). (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; Vol. 2023-January). IEEE Computer Society Press.

    2022

    • Chaudhuri, B. (2022). Programmed welfare: An ethnographic account of algorithmic practices in the public distribution system in India. New Media and Society, 24(4), 887-902. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221079034
    • Chaudhuri, B., D'Souza, M., & Srinivasan, J. (2022). Bringing the Missing Women Back: CS Education for Women in India's Engineering Institutions. Communications of the ACM, 65(11), 65-67. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550490
    • Ganeshan, S., & Chaudhuri, B. (2022). Navigating crisis, navigating ICTs: A study of Indian migrant workers during the pandemic. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2022 Article 21 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3572334.3572393

    2021

    • Chandhiramowuli, S., & Chaudhuri, B. (2021). Politics of data in & as news: A data justice perspective. In 27th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2021 (27th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2021). Association for Information Systems.
    • Chaudhuri, B., & Kendall, L. (2021). Collaboration without consensus: Building resilience in sustainable agriculture through ICTs. Information Society, 37(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2020.1844828
    • Chaudhuri, B., & Srinivasa, S. (2021). Web Science for Digital Empowerment: WSDC 2021. In WebSci 2021 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM Web Science Conference (Companion Volume) (pp. 85). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462741.3466648

    2020

    • Chaudhuri, B. (2020). Distant, opaque and seamful: seeing the state through the workings of Aadhaar in India. Information Technology for Development, 37-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2020.1789037
    • Chaudhuri, B., Kendall, L., & Bhalla, A. (2020). Beyond IVR: Exploring voice user interfaces for digital inclusion among urban smartphone users in india. In International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2020 - Making Digital Inclusive: Blending the Local and the Global (International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2020 - Making Digital Inclusive: Blending the Local and the Global). Association for Information Systems.
    • Das, S., & Chaudhuri, B. (2020). In Technology We Trust? Human Skills & Intermediaries in Digital Retail Banking. In R. K. Bandi, R. C. R., S. Klein, S. Madon, & E. Monteiro (Eds.), The Future of Digital Work: The Challenge of Inequality - IFIP WG 8.2, 9.1, 9.4 Joint Working Conference, IFIPJWC 2020, Proceedings (pp. 281-294). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 601). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64697-4_21
    • Hundal, H. S., & Chaudhuri, B. (2020). Digital identity and exclusion in welfare: Notes from the public distribution system in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2020 Article 3397583 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3392561.3397583
    • Hundal, H. S., Janani, A. P., & Chaudhuri, B. (2020). A conundrum of efficiency and inclusion: Aadhaar and fair price shops. Economic and Political Weekly, 55(14), Article 156712.
    • Kendall, L., Chaudhuri, B., & Bhalla, A. (2020). Understanding Technology as Situated Practice: Everyday use of Voice User Interfaces Among Diverse Groups of Users in Urban India. Information Systems Frontiers, 22(3), 585-605. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-020-10015-6

    2019

    • Chaudhuri, B. (2019). Paradoxes of intermediation in Aadhaar: Human making of a digital infrastructure. South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 42(3), 572-587. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1598671
    • Chaudhuri, B., & Kendall, L. (2019). The ins and outs of participation in a weather information system. In P. Nielsen, & H. C. Kimaro (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D - 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Proceedings (pp. 3-14). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 551). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18400-1_1
    • Prakash, A., Mohan, A. K., & Chaudhuri, B. (2019). What do citizens value in e-governance? Reflections from a property registration computerisation project. Economic and Political Weekly, 54(10), 41-49.

    2018

    2017

    • Chaudhuri, B., Dasgupta, P., Hoysala, O., Kendall, L., & Srinivasan, J. (2017). Actor-networks and “practices” of development: Impact of a weather information system in West Bengal. In M. S. Islam, J. M. Bass, F. Wahid, J. E. Priyatma, & J. Choudrie (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies for Development - 14th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2017, Proceedings (pp. 809-815). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 504). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_66
    • Chaudhuri, B., Kendall, L., Srinivasan, J., Hoysala, O., & Dasgupta, P. (2017). Understanding capabilities through everyday practice: The case of a weather information system for farmers in West Bengal. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2017 Article 3136578 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F132087). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3136560.3136578

    2016

    • Chaudhuri, B. (2016). Politics of 'good governance': 'Otherising' governance in India. In L. König, & B. Chaudhuri (Eds.), Politics of the 'Other' in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts (pp. 85-98). (Routledge Contemporary Asia series; Vol. 55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724300

    2014

    • Chaudhuri, B. (2014). E-Governance in India: Interlocking politics, technology and culture. Taylor and Francis Inc.

    2016

    • König, L., & Chaudhuri, B. (2016). Introduction: Politics of the 'Other' in India and China - Western concepts in non-Western contexts. In L. König, & B. Chaudhuri (Eds.), Politics of the 'Other' in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts (pp. 1-13). (Routledge Contemporary Asia series; Vol. 55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724300
    • König, L., & Chaudhuri, B. (2016). Preface. In L. König, & B. Chaudhuri (Eds.), Politics of the 'Other' in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts (pp. xxiv-xxv). (Routledge Contemporary Asia series; Vol. 55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724300
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