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Books & Monographs

Overload, Creep, Excess: A History of the Internet from India (2022)
Shah, N., Rajadhyaksha, A., & Hasan, N. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures / India: Leftword Books.
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Really Fake (2021)
Shah, N., Juhasz, A., & Ganaelle L. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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Also available for Open Access by Meson Press

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Complete List

  • Shah, N., & Majumdar, A. (2024). The Making of Misinformed Choice: Digital technologies in insight cycles; Insight from nine countries in Asia. Germany: Bertelsmann Stiftung.
  • Shah, N. (2023). Artificial Intelligence: Systems of Intentionality and Human-Centred Values. The Netherlands: ArtEZ Press.
  • Shah, N. (2023). Formulating Fake Futures: The Tomorrow through the Filters of a Computational Network. The Netherlands: ArtEZ Press.
  • Shah, N., Rajadhyaksha, A., & Hasan, N. (2022). Overload, Creep, Excess: A History of the Internet from India. Amsterdam: INC / India: Leftword Books.
  • Shah, N., & Juhasz, A. (2021). Really Fake. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Heeks, R., Amalia, M., Kintu, R., & Shah, N. (2013). Inclusive Innovation: Definition, Conceptualisation and Future Research Priorities. Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics.
  • Shah, N. (2013). Whose Change is it Anyway? Towards a future of digital technologies and citizen action in network societies. Den Haag: Hivos.
  • Shah, N. (2013). The Technosocial Subject: Cities, Cyborgs and Cyberspace. Bangalore: Manipal University Press.
  • Shah, N., Wright, G., Prakash, P., & Abraham, S. (2010). Open Government Data Study: India. London: Open Society Foundation.

Book Chapters & Journal Articles

  • Shah, N. (forthcoming, Dec 2025). “What is a Digital Author?: Generative AI, Concealment, and notes for the Emergent Moment”, Journal of Communication and the Public.
  • Shah, N. (forthcoming, 2025). “My best friend is an algorithm: Digital Intimacy and the promise of Friendship”, Narrative Anthology on Digital Friendships, Shilpa Phadke & Nithila Kanagasabai (eds.), Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press.
  • Shah, N. (2024). The Making of Misinformed Choice: Digital Technologies in Election Cycles in Asia, Bertelsmann Stiftung/Digital Asia Hub.
  • Shah, N. (2024). “The unbearable oldness of generative artificial intelligence: Or the re-making of digital narratives in times of ChatGPT”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494231223572
  • Shah, N. (2023). “Refusing Platform Promises: A gendered writing of technological imaginaries”, Open Gender Journal.
  • Shah, N., Qing, F. & Wei, L. (2023). Artificial Intelligence: Systems of Intentionality & Human-Centred Values, A Scouting Report’, ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands. Available at https://digitalnarratives.com.cuhk.edu.hk/articles/artificial-intelligence-systems-of-intentionality-human-centred-values.
  • Shah, N. (2023). “Interface”, Materials of Culture,(eds.) Liedeke Plate, Laszlo Muntean, & Airin Farahmand, USA: Columbia University Press.
  • Shah, N. (2023). “I Spy, with my Little AI: How Queer Bodies are made Dirty for digital  technologies to claim cleanness”, Queer Reflections on AI, (eds.) Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Ann-Kathrin Koster, & Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, London: Routledge.
  • Shah, N. (2022). “Meme”, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies, (eds.) Timon Beyes & Robin Halt; UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Shah, N. (2022). ‘Disarticulating Infrastructure: Towards Touchstones for Infrastructural Enquiries’, Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art, (eds.) Bassam El Baroni, Gerrie van Noord, and Edith Russ Haus, Oldenberg: Sternberg Press.
  • Shah, N. (2022). ‘Between Intensity and Scale: Finding our place in digital transformations’, Cultural Management in the Digital Age, (ed.) Marguerite Rumpf, Munich: Goethe Institute.
  • Shah, N. (2021). “(Dis)information Blackouts: Politics and practices of Internet Shutdowns”, International Journal of Communication, (eds.) Rolien Hyong & Ehmat Murat, vol, 15, pp 2693-2709.
  • Shah, N. & Ganesh, M. (2020). “Between memory and storage: Digital transitions for Art Organisations”, Forces of Art: Perspectives from a Changing World (eds.) Carin Kuoni, Jordi Balta Portoles, Nora Khan & Serubiri Moses, Amsterdam: Valiz Books.
  • Shah, N. (2020). “In-habituation as a design practice”, Designing for Precarious Citizen – Building on the Bauhaus Legacy, (eds.) Jeroen van de Eijnde & Jorn Konijn, The Netherlands: ArtEZ Press.
  • Shah, N. (2021). “Measure or Measure up: Preparing for Unpopulated Futures”, A Nourishing Network,  (eds.) Davide Bevilacqua, Alice Strete, & Manetta Berends, Linz: Art Meets Radical Openness.
  • Shah, N. (2021). “Weaponization of Care: Or how art and culture institutions refuse dismantling their structures of power”,( German), Theater and Macht: Beobachtungen am Übergang, (Tr.) Christian Römer, Berlin: Nachtkritik.
  • Shah N. (2019). “Digital humanities on the ground: post-access politics and the second wave of Digital Humanities”, South Asian Review (eds.) Roopika Risam & Rahul K. Gairola. Vol, 39 (1).
  • Shah, N. (2019). “Interface… is as Interface does”, Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies, (eds.) Timon Beyes, Claus Pias & Robin Holt, London: Oxford University Press.
  • Shah, N. (2019). “The cog that imagines the system: Data migration and Migrant bodies in the face of Aadhaar”, Handbook of Media and Migration, (eds.) Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiu, Saskia Witteborn & Radhika Gajjala, London: Sage Publications.
  • Shah, N. (2019). “The Nerve of the Algorithm: Unmaking myths to dismantle algorithmic anxiety”, Algorithmic Anxieties, (eds.) Karolien Buurma, Florian Mecklenburg, & Monika Gruzite, Amsterdam: NXS Publications.
  • Shah, N. (2018). “The Selfie is as the selfie does: Three propositions for the selfie in the digital turn”, Photography in India: From Archives to Contemporary Practice, (eds.) Chinar Shah & Aileen Blaney, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 175-191.
  • Shah, N. (2017). “The cup runneth over: The body, the public and its regulation in digital activism”, Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 13,2. Pp. 187-198.
  • Shah, N. (2017) “From GUI to No UI: Locating the Interface as a site of inquiry”, Digitisation: Theories and Concepts for Empirical Cultural Research, (ed.) Gertraud Koch, London: Routledge.
  • Shah, N. (2017). “The State of the Internets: Notes for a New Historiography of Technosociality”, The Routledge Companion of Global Internet Histories,  (eds.) Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland, London: Routledge, pp. 71-82.
  • Shah, N. (2017) “In Access:  Online video practices in Asia”, Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global, (eds.)Bhaskar Sarkar & Joshua Neves, USA: Duke University Press.
  • Shah, N. (2017). “Putting the “C” in MOOC: Of Crises, Critique, and Criticality in Higher Education.”, MOOCs and their afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education, (ed.) Elizabeth Losh, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Shah, N. (2016). “Open Politics and Education”, Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, (ed.) Peters M.,  Singapore: Springer.
  • Shah, N. (2016). “Von der Userschnittstelle zur Schnittstelle ohne User: auf der Suche nach der Schnittstelle für das Internet der Dinge”, Digitalisierung: Theiroen und Konepte für die empirische Kulturforschung, Ed. Gertraud Koch. Köln: Halem.
  • Shah, N. (2015) “Identity and Identification: The Individual in the time of Networked Governance”, The Socio Legal Review, vol. 11 (2),  pp. 22 – 40.
  • Shah, N. (2015) “Thrice Invisible in its invisibility: Queerness and user generated ‘kand’ videos “, Ada A Journal of Gender New Media and Technology, vol. 8.
  • Shah, N. (2015) “When Machines Speak to Each Other: Unpacking the “social” in “Social Media”, Social Media + Society, Vol. 1 (3).
  • Shah, N. (2015) “The Selfie & The Slut: Bodies, technology, and public shame”, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 1 (17), pp.86-93.
  • Shah, N. (2015) “Sluts ‘R’ Us: Intersections of gender, protocol and agency in the digital age”, First Monday, Vol.(4) 6. Shah, N. (2015). “Das quantifizierte Selfie: Über die Handlungsmacht unserer digitalen Selbstporträts”, Springerin, Issue 4, pp 12 – 24.
  • Shah, N. (2015) “Exposing Pornography: The body between the old and the new”, New Media/Old Media (ed.) Chun, W.H.K. et al , NY: Routledge.
  • Shah, N. (2015) “Beyond Infrastructure: Rehumanizing Digital Humanities in India”, Between Humanities and the Digital, (eds.) David Theo Goldberg and Patrik Svenson, Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Shah, N. and G. Bachmann (2015) “Hacking the Classroom: Rethinking learning through social media practice”, Routledge Companion to the Humanities and Social Sciences in Management Education, (eds.) Chris Steyaert, Timon Beyes, and Martin Parker, London: Routledge.
  • Shah, N. (2015) “Of Heathens, Perverts and Stalkers: Examining the learner in the MOOC”, World of Learning, London: Routledge.
  • Shah, N. (2015) “Networked Margins: Revisiting Inequality and Intersections”, Digitally Connected: Global Perspectives on Youth and Digital Media, (eds.) Sandra Cortessi and Urs Gasser, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard University: Cambridge.
  • Shah, N. (2014) “Asia in the Edges: A narrative account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies summer school in Bangalore”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 15 (2), pp. 306-314.
  • Shah, N. (2014) “See me Talk, Hear me Listen”, Talk To Me.(ed.) Rasa Smite, London: Mute Publications.
  • Shah, N. (2013) “Citizen Action in the Time of the Network”, Development and Change, 44: 665–681
  • Shah, N. (2012) “Resisting Revolutions: Questioning the radical potential of citizen action”, Development Vol.55(2): pp 173-180.
  • Shah, N. & F. Jansen (2011) “Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital Activism”, Democracy and Society,Vol.8 (2): pp 2-15.
  • Shah, N. and L. Hjorth. (2013) “The Neighbour before the House: Digital Surveillance and Art in a network society”, Palestinian Video Art: Constellation of the Moving Image, (ed.) Makhoul, Bashir, Jerusalem: Palestinian Art Court.
  • Shah, N. (2010) “Internet and Society in Asia: challenges and next steps”, Inter Asia Cultural Studies Journal. Vol.11(4): pp 105-115.
  • Shah, N. (2010) “The promise of Invisibility: Making of an IT City”, Asia Scholarship Foundation Journal. Routledge: London.
  • Shah, N. (2010) “Knowing the Name: Methodologies and Challenges”, Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon Position Papers, Hivos Publications : The Hague, pp. 11-34.
  • Shah, N. (2009) “Now Streaming on your nearest screen: Contextualising New Digital Cinema through Kuso”, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Vol.3(1): pp 15-31
  • Shah, N. (2009) “Material Cyborgs; Asserted Boundaries: Formulating the cyborg as a translator”, European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 12 (2): pp 211-225.
  • Shah, N. (2009) “Of Jesters, Clowns and Pranksters: YouTube and the condition of collaborative authorship“, Journal of Moving Image, Number 8.
  • Shah, N. (2008) “Of fooling around: Digital Natives and Politics in Asia”, Bangalore: Centre for Internet & Society.
  • Shah, N. (2007) “Subject to Technology: Internet Pornography, cyber-terrorism and the Indian State”, Inter Asia Cultural Studies Journal, Vol. 8 (3): pp 349-366.
  • Shah, N. (2006) “Once Upon a Flash”, Turbulence: Sarai Reader. Sarai: New Delhi, pp 131-138.
  • Shah, N. (2005) “Playblog: Pornography, Performance and Cyberspace”, The Net-Porn Reader. Institute of Network Cultures : Amsterdam: pp 31-44.sens, & M. T. Schäfer (Eds.), C’lick me: A netporn studies reader (pp. 191–202). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. Link

Editorial work

  • Shah, N., Beckenbauer, L., Zhong, V., & Nair, A. (eds.) (2023) Doing Things with Stories, ArtEZ Press.
  • Shah, N., Malhotra, N.A., & Hussen, T.S. (eds.) (2022) Feminist By Design, ArtEZ Press.
  • Shah, N., & Zhong, V. (eds).  (2021), Small Books for Big Platforms (vols. 1, 2), Digital Asia Hub/ Google Policy Hub.
  • Shah, N. & Rasch, M. (eds.) (2021) Urgent Publishing: Tactics and Strategies for critical times, ArtEZ Press.
  • Shah, N. (2020), (ed). Crisis Education: Critical Education, Podcast on online learning, Netherlands: ArtEZ University of the Arts.
  • Shah, N., Chattopadhyay S. & Sneha. P.P. (eds.) (2015) Digital Activism in Asia: A Reader, Lueneburg: Meson Press.
  • Shah, N. & F. Jansen (eds.) (2011) Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? Vol. 1-4, The Hague: Hivos Publications.
  • Shah, N. (ed.) (2010) Digital Natives with a Cause? Position papers. The Hague: Hivos Publications.
  • Shah, N., and Abraham, S. (2009) Digital Natives with a Cause? A knowledge survey and framework. The Hague: Hivos Publications.
  • Shah, N. (Ed). (2009 -2012), Book Series Histories of the Internets in India, Bangalore: Centre for Internet and Society.