Zeenath Hasan

Zeenath is currently a research associate at the Information + Innovation Policy Research Centre, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Her research work interfaces technological materiality with sociological existence in the context of media design for social change. Zeenath is a doctoral candidate in Media and Communication Studies, School of Arts, Culture and Communication (K3), Malmö University, Sweden where her doctoral tenure is funded by a five year scholarship from the Wahlgren Foundation. She has a masters degree in Communications from the Manipal Institute of Communication in Manipal, India and a masters of arts degree in New Media Studies from the Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. As a media designer and researcher, she initiates collaborative new media interventions, more recently with diaspora in Sweden and with urban street communities in India. She is also a practicing corporate ethnographer for multinational technology manufacturers of telecom products and digital consumables.