Spring 2021 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, communication
Aparajita Bhandari is a third-year Ph.D. student in the department of communication. Her research is broadly focused on the intersections of communication technology, urban space and place, and social identity. Her work seeks to understand how the material, spatial, and infrastructural can be used to understand urban digital communication. She also is interested in questions around community and place-making and the ways that public space is transformed by private companies, especially technology companies.