Ananda Mitra

Ananda MitraProfessor Ananda Mitra teaches courses in research methodology, the impact of new technologies on society, entrepreneurship and mass communication. He is the author of several books including "Digital DNA" which explores the ways in which digital networks are creating opportunities for producing individual digital identities through the use of narrative bits - narbs - a concept invented by Mitra.

Publications

Modern Day Surveillance Ecosystem and Impacts on Privacy
Modern Day Surveillance Ecosystem and Impacts on Privacy
Ananda Mitra. © 2022. 242 pages.
The notion of surveillance has become increasingly more crucial in public conversation as new tools of observation are obtained by many different players. The traditional notion...
The 2018 Facebook Data Controversy and Technological Alienation
The 2018 Facebook Data Controversy and Technological Alienation
Ananda Mitra, Yasmine Khosrowshahi. © 2021. 13 pages.
The controversy surrounding the way in which data was obtained and used by a private corporation, Cambridge Analytica, in connection with the US Presidential election of 2016...
Managing and Visualizing Unstructured Big Data
Managing and Visualizing Unstructured Big Data
Ananda Mitra. © 2019. 13 pages.
One of the most common terms that is used in a significant amount of popular and scholarly discussion is big data. As pointed out earlier, the term has a dubious history and...
Managing and Visualizing Unstructured Big Data
Managing and Visualizing Unstructured Big Data
Ananda Mitra. © 2018. 12 pages.
One of the most common terms that is used in a significant amount of popular and scholarly discussion is “Big Data.” As pointed out earlier, the term has a dubious history and...
Collective Narrative Expertise and the Narbs of Social Media
Collective Narrative Expertise and the Narbs of Social Media
Ananda Mitra. © 2013. 12 pages.
A fundamental epistemological question that has been the focus of much deliberation over time is: how do we know what we know? One of the answers to this question has been found...
Narbs as a Measure and Indicator of Identity Narratives
Narbs as a Measure and Indicator of Identity Narratives
Ananda Mitra. © 2012. 15 pages.
enumeration of these attributes of the narbs produce a narb weight and a narb matrix which can be examined numerically to provide a preliminary understanding of how granulated an...