Sociology and Anthropology

• Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Cambridge, 2008
• MSc in Philosophy, London School of Economics, 2003
• MSc in Sociology, University of Bristol, 2001
• B.A. in Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 1997

Social media, new media technologies, digital ethnography, critical theory, and transnational diasporas.

National Science Foundation, ' RUI: VOSS: The Potential for Social Networking Cyberinfrastructure to Facilitate Virtual Organization Breeding Grounds', Award #1025428 ($399,553)

Book

Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age. Under contract for 2012 with Polity Press.

 Journal articles

'Towards a Sociological Understanding of Social Media: Theorizing Twitter', Sociology, forthcoming, 2011.
 
'New Media and Natural Disasters: Blogs and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami', Information, Communication and Society, forthcoming, 2011.

‘Twitter: Microphone for the Masses’. Media Culture Society 33(5):779-789, 2011. (unformatted pre-print PDF)

“Nationalism Remixed? The Politics of Cultural Flows between the South Asian Diaspora and 'Homeland'”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33:8, 2010 (via iFirst)

Muslim punks online: a diasporic Pakistani music subculture on the Internet, South Asian Popular Culture, Volume 8, Issue 2 July 2010, pages 181 - 194.  (unformatted pre-print PDF)

“Digital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research”, Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp. 837-855. 2008.

“A South-Asian American diasporic aesthetic community? Ethnicity and New York City’s ‘Asian electronic music’ scene”, Ethnicities, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 225-247. 2007.

“Communicative flows between the diaspora and 'homeland': The case of Asian Electronic Music in Delhi”, Journal of Creative Communication, Vol. 2. Nos.1&2, pp. 143-161. 2007. (unformatted pre-print PDF)

“Representing South Asian alterity? East London’s Asian electronic music scene and the articulation of globally mediated identities.”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 327-346. 2009. (unformatted pre-print PDF)

Chapters in Books

'Muslim Punks Online: A diasporic Pakistani music subculture' in Dudrah, R. et. al (ed.) Intermedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen. Abingdon: Routledge, Forthcoming 2011.

‘Emergent Digital Ethnographic Methods for Social Research’ in Hesse-Biber, S.N. (ed.) Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 158-179. 2011.
 
 ‘“Muslim Punk” Music Online: Piety and Protest in the Digital Age' (PDF) in K. Salhi (Ed.), Music, Culture and Identity in the Muslim World: Performance, Politics and Piety. Abingdon: Routledge, Forthcoming 2011.

Murthy, D., Gross, A. & Longwell, S.* (2011) ‘Visualizing Health Networks in Social Media’ in United Kingdom Social Networks Association (ed.), 7th UK Social Networks Conference Proceedings. London, UK

Murthy, D., Gross, A. & Longwell, S.* (2011) ‘Twitter and e-health: a case study of visualizing cancer networks on Twitter’ in Shoniregun, C. A. (ed.) International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011) Proceedings. London, UK

(* indicates student co-author)

New York Times: In Recruiting, Facebook and Twitter Are Coaches’ Friends

MPBN: Bowdoin Professor Puts Social Media Expertise Into Book

SmartMoney: 10 Things Facebook Won't Say

The Huffington Post: Allure of the Hive: Experts on Connectivity, Social Networking and Social Change (discusses a panel Dhiraj participated in, which included Sean Parker, founding president of Facebook)

Bowdoin Orient: First year seminar explores living in the 'Facebook Age'

Campus News: In the Facebook Age on WCSH

The Forecaster: Bowdoin students' Facebook 'detox' brings clarity

Academic Spotlight: Sociology Students Face Off With Facebook