Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and founder of the Center for Digital Dignity. She has published widely on online extreme speech, disinformation, AI and content moderation, decoloniality, digital cultures, and platform governance. During her fellowship, she will explore the growing role of small social media platforms in shaping contentious speech, launching a new cross-national study, and will advance comparative research on encrypted messaging and extreme speech.
