Aparajita Bhandari
Graduate Student, Department of Communication
Education
- B.S. with Honours, Psychology, University of Toronto
Interests
Social media and social movements, algorithms and governance of online platforms, online community, critical data studies, place and space, digital cultural studies, urban studies
Awards & Honors
- Cornell Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute Small Grant, 2022
- Social Studies and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 2022 Recipient
- Mellon Collaborative Studies Urbanism Seminar Fellow, Spring 2021
- Cornell Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities, Summer 2020
Contact Information
ab2725 [at] cornell.edu
- Bhandari, A. Freed, D., Pilato, T. Taki, F., Kaur, G., Yale-Loehr, S, Powers, J., Long, T., Bazarova, N. (2022). “Multi-stakeholder Perspectives on Digital Tools for U.S. Asylum Applicants Seeking Healthcare and Legal Information”. PACM Human Computer Interaction.
- Ozanne, M., Bhandari, A., Bazarova, N., DiFranzo, D. (2022.) Shall AI moderators be made visible? Perception of Bias and Trust in Moderation Systems on Social Media Platforms. Big Data & Society.
- Bhandari, A. (2022). Time and Temporality. Canadian Journal of Communication, 47(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022-0058
- Bhandari, A., Bimo, S. (2022). Why’s Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Sociality on Social Media. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221086241
- Bhandari, A., Ozanne, M., Bazarova, N., DiFranzo, D. (2021). Do You Care Who Flagged This Post? Effects of Moderator Visibility on Bystander Behavior. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. 26(5), 284-300. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmab007
- Bhandari, A., Sun, B. (2021). An Online “Home” for the Homeless: Analysing the Subreddit R/homeless. New Media and Society. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211048615
- Kruzan, K., Whitlock, J., Bazarova, N., Bhandari, A., Chapman, J. (2021). Promoting recovery from nonsuicidal self-injury: A small-scale randomized controlled trial of a mobile peer support application. JMIR Formative Research.
Aparajita in the news
News
A Cornell research team identified barriers to immigrants’ use of online resources that could help them access health and legal benefits, and recommended solutions they incorporated into a new website, Rights for Health.
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