ग़ज़ल श ख वत
Gazal Shekhawat



Researching gender, media and ​social change.



+ designer, communicator, ​photographer et. al

گزل شیخاوت

About Me

Hello I am a PhD researcher at LSE studying how media and communications shape the everyday lives of women in India s Hindi heartland Capturing their experiences at different stages of life and vocation I seek to understand how women navigate the push and shove of culture in the age of social media platforms Currently I work for the Digital Futures for Children centre as a Research Associate Before starting my PhD I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research Lab and published with my team in top STS conferences As a researcher I hope to understand our world and its people sustainably an ethic I learned from journalism a field in which I have trained worked and now teach I graduated with distinction from LSE s Department of Government for my MSc Admittedly as I am on my fifth degree I like learning and hold a diploma in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding from Lady Shri Ram College for Women DU and a bachelor s in Mass Communication from the SCMC I am also learning to sew embroider and not buy too many grocery items from all parts of the world In London I teach seminars for the LSE Summer School course International Journalism Society led by Professor Charlie Beckett and was a Graduate Teaching Assistant GTA for LSE Sociology s undergraduate course Power Inequality and Difference led by Professor Fran Tonkiss My PhD research is supported by a studentship from the AHRC through the London Arts and Humanities Partnership I can be contacted on my university email and welcome any queries about navigating higher education especially from candidates who come from underrepresented backgrounds

Research &​ Writing

Shekhawat, G. (Upcoming). Entertaining against odds: Borders, platformisation and practices of going on in the crossfire of nationalisms. Media, Communications and Cultural

Studies Association Annual Conference 2024. Sheffield


Livingstone, S., Cantwell, N., Özkul, D., Shekhawat, G., & Kidron, B. (Upcoming). Critical reflections on how digital providers respect “the best interests of the child.” Panel presented

at AoIR 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Sheffield, UK: AoIR. http://spir.aoir.org


Banaji, S., & Shekhawat, G. (2024). On killing children. Media@ LSE. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/05/30/on-killing-children/


Livingstone, S., Cantwell, N., Özkul, D., Shekhawat, G., & Kidron, B. (2024). The best interests of the child in the digital environment. Digital Futures for

Children centre. https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/122492/3/Best_Interests_of_the_Child_FINAL.pdf


Shekhawat, G., & Livingstone, S. (2023). AI and children’s rights: a guide to the transnational guidance. Media@LSE Blog. .


Arya, A., De, S., Mishra, D., Shekhawat, G., Sharma, A., Panda, A., Lalani, F., Singh, P., Mothilal, R. K., & Grover, R. (2022). DISMISS: Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter. ​Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media,


Mishra, D., Akbar, S., Shekhawat, G., & Pal, J. (2022). Virality and the Virus: COVID-19 Cures on Twitter in India. 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022,


Dash, S., Grover, R., Shekhawat, G., Kaur, S., Mishra, D., & Pal, J. (2022). Insights into incitement: A computational perspective on dangerous speech on Twitter in India. Proceedings of the 5th ​ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies,


Dash, S., Mishra, D., Shekhawat, G., & Pal, J. (2022). Divided we rule: Influencer polarization on Twitter during political crises in India. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web ​and Social Media,


Dash, S., Shekhawat, G., Akbar, S. Z., & Pal, J. (2021). Extremism & whataboutism: A case study on bangalore riots. arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.10526.


Grover, R., Shekhawat, G., & Pal, J. (2021). Twitter superstars don’t win elections: A Poster on Twitter Campaigning and Electoral Realities in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Elections. ​Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies,



Research Associate

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Places of work

Video Producer

Seminar Teacher

Cloud Illustration

Research Fellow

Mentor

Teaching Assistant

Cloud Illustration

Editorial Intern

Research Consultant

Production Intern

Teaching

LSE IR245: International Journalism & Society

LSE MC422: Critical Studies in Media and Journalism

LSE SO110: Power Inequality and Difference

LSE MC528: Workshop on Sensitive Interviewing


et. al

coming soon...


the maker of this website is rummaging through her memory ​cards to recreate a shrine to her other-passions, photographs,​ videos, dusty film scripts. ​

Stay in touch



Email: g.shekhawat@lse.ac.uk


LinkedIn here.


Google Scholar here.


LSE profile here.

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Salman Toor ‘Bar Boy’. 2019. Oil on canvas.