Darsana Vijay is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information, with a collaborative specialization in South Asian Studies from the Munk School, UofT. Her research explores what alternative journalists, fact-checkers and civil society actors do to counter misinformation and how these practices are informed and impacted by the Indian state and platforms like Meta, Google and Reliance Jio.
In addition to her research on Indian alternative journalism, she has written on playful political participation on TikTok and migrant labor in the platform economy. Her work has appeared in American Behavioral Scientist, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space and Sur Le Journalisme.
