Sreedhar Nemmani
Assistant Professor
sreedhar.nemmani@mahindrauniversity.edu.in
Dr. Sreedhar Nemmani is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the School of Digital Media and Communication, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India.
He has a Ph.D. from the Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University. Sreedhar’s work focuses on the role of communication and media technologies (traditional and digital) in communities situated in multiple marginalities.
His research interests are in the intersections of the philosophy of communication, communication studies, media studies, science and technology studies, and religion. His work analyses the concept of communication through Buddhist onto-epistemic frameworks. Sreedhar is an ethnographer with extensive experience of conducting fieldwork and research projects in South Asia, Europe, and North America.
His Ph.D. dissertation involved nine months of ethnographic fieldwork among Buddhist communities in the Greater Himalayan regions.
Education
- Ph.D. in Media and Communication Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University (Dec 2025)
- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Jan 2017)
- PG Diploma in Journalism Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, India (May 2011)
Experience
- Assistant Professor of Communication, School of Digital Media and Communication, Mahindra University (2025- Present)
- Graduate Fellow and Extern, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University (2019-2025).
- Researcher Fellow, The Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (2017-2019).
- Co-Founder, Charcha Media (2016-2022).
- Senior Reporter, The Hindu (2011-2014).
Publications
Publications
- Nemmani, S. (2025) Can the other be heard? Crosscurrent, Media, Culture & Society, 47(04), 824-834. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437251336148
- Nemmani, S. and Rodriguez, C. (2023) Between Incursions and Appropriations: Digital Technologies and Pluriversal Modernities in the Global South, Communication, Culture and Critique, 16(04), pp. 258-265. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcad028
Sreedhar’s research is focused on understanding how traditional as well as modern-day technological communication affects community formation.
Sreedhar is currently involved in four research projects spread across India, the US, and Australia, including a collaborative research project titled, Mediated Lifeworlds: Digital Cultures in a Context of Technological Scarcity, which is funded by Dean (R&D) Mahindra University.
