Sananda Sahoo

Sananda Sahoo is a Postdoctoral Research Associate working on a trans-Atlantic project ‘Democracy, AI and Big Tech: Assessing corporate activities in the advancement of Artificial Intelligence in the UK, US and Canada.’ Since 2021, she has been a research assistant working on a research project titled ‘Mapping Canadian Government Uses of AI for Social Services’ (funded by FIMS, Western University). She successfully defended her PhD in Media Studies at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University, Canada, in 2024. She looks at the intersections of public, public space and digital infrastructures. Her previous research includes political posters and platforms, questions of collective responsibility, sites of violence in the digital sphere, and colonial narratives in photographs and memoirs by women. She holds an MPhil in English Literature and master’s degrees in journalism and English Literature.