Dr. Aasim Khan is Head and Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Science and Humanities, IIIT-Delhi. He completed his PhD in Politics and Public Policy (Contemporary India) from the India Institute, King’s College London in 2018 and has an MA from the AJK Mass Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He also completed an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a Bachelor of Science from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. His research and commentaries have appeared in academic publications and popular media , including the India Review, Communication, Culture and Critique, the Economic and Political Weekly, Culture Unbound, Global Policy and Television and New Media. He has also published several book chapters including in a book volume on digital transformations in urban India called DigiNaka (Orient Blackswan, 2020). Prior to joining academia, Dr. Khan was a journalist for several years in the CNN- affiliated national news network CNN-IBN, and also worked in international development as the South Asia officer for Oxfam GB. In 2015, as a Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin , he co-authored a five-country collaborative study on the future of the internet. Since September 2021, he has also been affiliated as an Associate Researcher at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi).