Author Meena Kandasamy talks to News9Live on India’s digital misogyny: Deepfakes, trolling and AI| Exclusive |
Author Meena Kandasamy talks to News9Live on India’s digital misogyny: Deepfakes, trolling and AI| Exclusive
The author said that she chose to talk about online trolling and not offline, because in offline space one knows that there is someone, you know, this is the person and you can go after them. She said that offline a woman would know her perpetrators and can approach the police for help. But online there is absolute anonymity.
New Delhi: India’s digital landscape has transformed the way we communicate, but it has also created new spaces for abuse, misogyny, and political polarization. Deepfakes, revenge porn, trolling, and coordinated online attacks are increasingly becoming part of that reality.
Author Meena Kandasamy talks exclusively to News9Live over these very issues. In an interview with News9 Managing Editor, Kartikeya Sharma the author talks about rise of online misogyny, the impact of AI and deepfakes, and the growing challenges faced by women in the digital public sphere. Her latest novel, Fieldwork as a Sex Object, explores the intersection of technology, misogyny, politics, and power, drawing on the darker realities of India’s digital world.
Talking about the title of the book, ‘Fieldwork as a Sex Object’, Kandasamy said that the reason she chose this title was due to two different pull factors or reasons. One was the fact that every day in the news somewhere you read young women are taking their lives because there is a threat of a video or a selfie or........