Research Topic 

Sudeep's research interests lie in the widespread and increasing deployment of data networks in cities and their impact on perceptions and interactions with urban space and symbolism.

Biography 

Sudeep is a researcher and writer currently working towards his PhD at the LSE Department of Media and Communications. He also conducts research with LSE Cities' European City Leadership Initiative.

He has previously worked on the Towards a Hybrid Cities Programme project at LSE Cities. With a research background in new media archives and a new materialist approach to data, he brought a rigorous and imaginative lens to the project, co-authoring working papers and series of briefing papers. A graduate from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), he conducted research for his MSc on personal data networks and the impact of network visualisation on social structures. While at the OII, he worked for the Fairwork Project, where he aided a global network of researchers to set fair labour standards for platform-based gig work.

Outside of his research, Sudeep is a writer and organiser. During his fellowship at the Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC), he employed ethnographic methods at various Asian American-focused community centres in service of his article ‘Media and Networks in the Queer API Archive,’ published by CARGC Press.

Sudeep currently holds an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the OII and a BA in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania. His writing and image-based work has also been published in a number of independent magazines.

Supervisors 

Professor Myria Georgiou and Dr Jean-Christophe Plantin