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Biography
Biography
I am Professor of Media and Communication in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Surrey. My research examines how people understand, experience and navigate digital technologies, and what possibilities they have for exercising agency in societies increasingly shaped by platforms, algorithms, AI and datafication. Working at the intersections of sociology and media and communication studies, I have a longstanding commitment to understanding media and technologies from the perspectives of the people who live with them.
Over more than 15 years, my research has contributed to the study of audiences, users and their agency in changing technological environments. An important strand of this work has involved developing conceptual frameworks for understanding people's relationships with digital technologies, including communicative agency (with Brita Ytre-Arne), data reflexivity, and, more recently, agency pathways. My work increasingly asks not only how people negotiate technological power in everyday life, but what becomes of their actions over time, and how social inequalities and changing life circumstances shape their significance.
I have authored or co-authored five research books and 45 journal articles. My books include Parents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies (Bristol University Press, 2024), Early Motherhood in Digital Societies (Routledge, 2019), New Fathers, Mental Health and Digital Communication (with Paul Hodkinson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), The Future of Audiences (with Brita Ytre-Arne, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Provocative Screens (with Anne Graefer, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
My research has attracted funding from the Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Wellcome Trust. I have led research on audiences and emerging technologies, parents' encounters with algorithms and datafication, news use and mediated risks in family life, and the relationships between digital communication, care and wellbeing. My research also extends to public engagement with algorithmic technologies, including citizens' expectations of data-driven media personalisation.
I have an established record of international research leadership. I directed the AHRC-funded Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research (CEDAR), bringing together 29 researchers across 14 European countries to develop new directions for audience research in changing technological environments. I am Secretary of the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association (2025–2027), and previously chaired the Audience and Reception Studies section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). I have also served as an Co-Editor of Sociology and as an international advisor to research projects across Europe. At Surrey, I have led the Digital Societies Research Group and serve as Lead of Research Clusters in the Sociology discipline.
I completed my PhD in Media and Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2011, supervised by Professor Sonia Livingstone. I subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, and a Lectureship at the University of Leicester before joining Surrey in 2017. I was appointed Professor in 2021.
I welcome enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers working on user agency, platform societies, audiences, algorithms and everyday life, datafication, digital inequalities, families and digital technologies, and qualitative approaches to the study of contemporary digital societies.
Areas of specialism
University roles and responsibilities
- Academic Member of Senate
- Member of University Research and Innovation Committee
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ResearchResearch interests
Research interests
My research sits at the intersections of sociology and media and communication studies, focusing on audiences, users and their relationships with digital technologies. Across more than 15 years, I have investigated how people interpret, experience and navigate media and technologies, and how their agency is shaped by social relationships, institutions and inequalities.
A central concern running through my work is the relationship between technological power and people's everyday lives. I am interested in the practices, meanings, emotions, expectations and negotiations through which people engage with digital technologies, including platforms, algorithms, AI and data-driven systems. My research combines empirical, user-centred enquiry with conceptual contributions to debates about audiences, communicative agency, algorithm literacies and data reflexivity.
Audiences, users and agency in platform societies
My longstanding research on audiences and users examines how people make sense of media and technologies, negotiate their possibilities for action, and respond to changing technological environments. I have contributed to debates on audience agency, including the concept of communicative agency (with Brita Ytre-Arne), and have helped develop international research agendas for audience studies in increasingly datafied societies.
This work includes the AHRC-funded Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research (CEDAR), which I directed, and the resulting book The Future of Audiences (2018, with Brita Ytre-Arne).
Algorithms, datafication and everyday life
My research examines how people encounter, understand and respond to algorithms and data-driven technologies in their everyday lives. I am particularly interested in the situated knowledge, hopes, anxieties and strategies through which users navigate technologies whose operations are often opaque.
My book Parents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies (Bristol University Press, 2024) explores how parents understand and negotiate algorithms in their children's lives. Related work develops conceptual approaches to algorithm literacies and data reflexivity. I have also conducted interdisciplinary research on citizens' expectations of data-driven media personalisation, trust, transparency and accountability.
Families, news, risk and digital technologies
A substantial strand of my research explores the intersections of digital technologies, families, care and inequalities. My Leverhulme Trust-funded research (2023–2025) investigated parents' engagement with news, risks and crises, examining how news use becomes embedded in care, anxiety and everyday parental responsibilities.
A British Academy-funded project (2023–2025) examined how linguistic minority families negotiate emerging technologies when raising bilingual and multilingual children.
My earlier research explored digital communication, perinatal wellbeing and the transition to parenthood, resulting in Early Motherhood in Digital Societies (Routledge, 2019) and New Fathers, Mental Health and Digital Communication (with Paul Hodkinson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Research approaches
My work is principally qualitative, interpretative and user-centred. I use in-depth and longitudinal interviews, focus groups, participatory approaches, think-aloud methods, vignettes and scenario-building to understand people's lived experiences of technological change. Across my research, I seek to connect the complexities of everyday experience with wider sociological and communication-theoretical questions about power, inequality and human agency.
Research projects
Overview
The Leverhulme News Use Project looks at parents’ news use and their diverse practices of news consumption in datafied, digital societies, with a specific focus on parents’ perceptions of risks and crises.
Navigating parenthood has always involved encounters with risks, crises and uncertainties. These might relate to health, safety, global affairs, the environment, or more. Some crises and risks are perceived by parents as more personally significant – or ‘riskier’ to their child - than others, and some of these might even alter parenting choices and decisions.
But, now, more than ever, news about crises and risks are mediated into parents’ palms and pockets - through always-on media and technology, as we live in high-choice and chaotic news environments, amidst overlapping global crises.
In this project, we are asking:
- In what ways do parents – from a diversity of socio-demographic backgrounds - engage with the news?
- (How) does parental news engagement shape parenting decisions and choices?
- What kinds of role-modelling - of reacting to and engaging with news - is available to children?
- And ultimately, how do parents conceptualise truth, trust, risk and responsibility, as they engage with the news?
Aims and objectives
We will produce a rigorous, in-depth examination of parents’ engagement with risk and crises in the news - in an information-saturated, high-choice society.
We will generate a blue-print for local, national, and global investigations of how parenting responds to news, at critical moments of crisis.
We are guided by four objectives:
Objective one
To investigate parental negotiation of news based on empirical data on the news habits of parents from diverse socio-demographic backgrounds.
Objective two
To generate robust, interdisciplinary and systematic case studies of parental new engagement modes – from news-avoidance through degrees of monitoring and active participation.
Objective three
To gather in-depth evidence on and theorise parental role-modelling of news engagement in relation to children’s environments.
Objective four
To break new theoretical ground by interrogating parental perceptions of truth, trust, responsibility and risk in contemporary media-saturated societies.
British Academy project: Bilingual families and digital technologiesOverview
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Amidst globalisation and migration, parents investing time and labour into raising bi – or multi – lingual children isn’t new. Yet, the growing domestication of both higher end and more affordable technologies - to support music, vocabulary, grammar or conversation in the minority language - signals a socio-material shift.
This pilot project investigates parents’ and children’s experiences of emerging digital technologies in developing children’s bilingualism, in linguistic minority households.
We combine a survey of parents with three waves of observations and retrospective interviews with households in England, and ask:
- What role do these technologies play in linguistic minority families?
- (How) do they facilitate bilingual language development?
- How do they interface with parental anxieties and aspirations?
- (How) do children’s and parents’ experiences with these technologies align with or deviate from each other?
- What new inequalities arise or are reinforced as a consequence of the rapid adoption of these socio-material resources?
Aims and objectives
We will generate a clear, conceptual understanding of whether technology has a mediating role to play in children’s bilingual language development (e.g. at the level of vocabulary, syntax, pronunciation, pragmatics) in a tripartite dialogue between parent, child and the device / app.
We will intersect linguistics, communications and sociology to capture both parents’ and children’s perspectives in conceptualising the role of this ecosystem of technologies in raising bilingual children.
Taking forward communications and sociological scholarship on the societal uses of technologies, we will advance an understanding of exclusions, access issues and disparities in children’s bilingualism – both in terms of alleviation and exacerbation - that the adoption of these technologies might lead to.
Parents talking AlgorithmsParents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies (2024)
This project investigates how parents understand, experience and negotiate algorithms in their everyday lives, particularly as they raise children in increasingly datafied societies. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research with 30 parents in England, it explores how algorithms become entangled with routine parenting practices, including searching for information, social media use, sharing information about children, entertainment and news consumption.
The research examines parents' awareness and understanding of algorithms, their hopes and anxieties about children's digital futures, and the everyday strategies through which they navigate algorithmic environments. It develops insights into parents' algorithm literacies and their capacities to exercise agency amidst pervasive datafication, while recognising the limitations of individual action and the responsibilities of powerful technological institutions.
The project resulted in my sole-authored monograph, Parents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies, published by Bristol University Press in December 2024, alongside journal articles examining parents' understandings of social media algorithms, algorithm literacies and data reflexivity.
Research interests
Research interests
My research sits at the intersections of sociology and media and communication studies, focusing on audiences, users and their relationships with digital technologies. Across more than 15 years, I have investigated how people interpret, experience and navigate media and technologies, and how their agency is shaped by social relationships, institutions and inequalities.
A central concern running through my work is the relationship between technological power and people's everyday lives. I am interested in the practices, meanings, emotions, expectations and negotiations through which people engage with digital technologies, including platforms, algorithms, AI and data-driven systems. My research combines empirical, user-centred enquiry with conceptual contributions to debates about audiences, communicative agency, algorithm literacies and data reflexivity.
Audiences, users and agency in platform societies
My longstanding research on audiences and users examines how people make sense of media and technologies, negotiate their possibilities for action, and respond to changing technological environments. I have contributed to debates on audience agency, including the concept of communicative agency (with Brita Ytre-Arne), and have helped develop international research agendas for audience studies in increasingly datafied societies.
This work includes the AHRC-funded Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research (CEDAR), which I directed, and the resulting book The Future of Audiences (2018, with Brita Ytre-Arne).
Algorithms, datafication and everyday life
My research examines how people encounter, understand and respond to algorithms and data-driven technologies in their everyday lives. I am particularly interested in the situated knowledge, hopes, anxieties and strategies through which users navigate technologies whose operations are often opaque.
My book Parents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies (Bristol University Press, 2024) explores how parents understand and negotiate algorithms in their children's lives. Related work develops conceptual approaches to algorithm literacies and data reflexivity. I have also conducted interdisciplinary research on citizens' expectations of data-driven media personalisation, trust, transparency and accountability.
Families, news, risk and digital technologies
A substantial strand of my research explores the intersections of digital technologies, families, care and inequalities. My Leverhulme Trust-funded research (2023–2025) investigated parents' engagement with news, risks and crises, examining how news use becomes embedded in care, anxiety and everyday parental responsibilities.
A British Academy-funded project (2023–2025) examined how linguistic minority families negotiate emerging technologies when raising bilingual and multilingual children.
My earlier research explored digital communication, perinatal wellbeing and the transition to parenthood, resulting in Early Motherhood in Digital Societies (Routledge, 2019) and New Fathers, Mental Health and Digital Communication (with Paul Hodkinson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Research approaches
My work is principally qualitative, interpretative and user-centred. I use in-depth and longitudinal interviews, focus groups, participatory approaches, think-aloud methods, vignettes and scenario-building to understand people's lived experiences of technological change. Across my research, I seek to connect the complexities of everyday experience with wider sociological and communication-theoretical questions about power, inequality and human agency.
Research projects
Overview
The Leverhulme News Use Project looks at parents’ news use and their diverse practices of news consumption in datafied, digital societies, with a specific focus on parents’ perceptions of risks and crises.
Navigating parenthood has always involved encounters with risks, crises and uncertainties. These might relate to health, safety, global affairs, the environment, or more. Some crises and risks are perceived by parents as more personally significant – or ‘riskier’ to their child - than others, and some of these might even alter parenting choices and decisions.
But, now, more than ever, news about crises and risks are mediated into parents’ palms and pockets - through always-on media and technology, as we live in high-choice and chaotic news environments, amidst overlapping global crises.
In this project, we are asking:
- In what ways do parents – from a diversity of socio-demographic backgrounds - engage with the news?
- (How) does parental news engagement shape parenting decisions and choices?
- What kinds of role-modelling - of reacting to and engaging with news - is available to children?
- And ultimately, how do parents conceptualise truth, trust, risk and responsibility, as they engage with the news?
Aims and objectives
We will produce a rigorous, in-depth examination of parents’ engagement with risk and crises in the news - in an information-saturated, high-choice society.
We will generate a blue-print for local, national, and global investigations of how parenting responds to news, at critical moments of crisis.
We are guided by four objectives:
Objective one
To investigate parental negotiation of news based on empirical data on the news habits of parents from diverse socio-demographic backgrounds.
Objective two
To generate robust, interdisciplinary and systematic case studies of parental new engagement modes – from news-avoidance through degrees of monitoring and active participation.
Objective three
To gather in-depth evidence on and theorise parental role-modelling of news engagement in relation to children’s environments.
Objective four
To break new theoretical ground by interrogating parental perceptions of truth, trust, responsibility and risk in contemporary media-saturated societies.
Overview
Meet Yoto, Tony, Duo, Ling, and more!
Amidst globalisation and migration, parents investing time and labour into raising bi – or multi – lingual children isn’t new. Yet, the growing domestication of both higher end and more affordable technologies - to support music, vocabulary, grammar or conversation in the minority language - signals a socio-material shift.
This pilot project investigates parents’ and children’s experiences of emerging digital technologies in developing children’s bilingualism, in linguistic minority households.
We combine a survey of parents with three waves of observations and retrospective interviews with households in England, and ask:
- What role do these technologies play in linguistic minority families?
- (How) do they facilitate bilingual language development?
- How do they interface with parental anxieties and aspirations?
- (How) do children’s and parents’ experiences with these technologies align with or deviate from each other?
- What new inequalities arise or are reinforced as a consequence of the rapid adoption of these socio-material resources?
Aims and objectives
We will generate a clear, conceptual understanding of whether technology has a mediating role to play in children’s bilingual language development (e.g. at the level of vocabulary, syntax, pronunciation, pragmatics) in a tripartite dialogue between parent, child and the device / app.
We will intersect linguistics, communications and sociology to capture both parents’ and children’s perspectives in conceptualising the role of this ecosystem of technologies in raising bilingual children.
Taking forward communications and sociological scholarship on the societal uses of technologies, we will advance an understanding of exclusions, access issues and disparities in children’s bilingualism – both in terms of alleviation and exacerbation - that the adoption of these technologies might lead to.
Parents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies (2024)
This project investigates how parents understand, experience and negotiate algorithms in their everyday lives, particularly as they raise children in increasingly datafied societies. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research with 30 parents in England, it explores how algorithms become entangled with routine parenting practices, including searching for information, social media use, sharing information about children, entertainment and news consumption.
The research examines parents' awareness and understanding of algorithms, their hopes and anxieties about children's digital futures, and the everyday strategies through which they navigate algorithmic environments. It develops insights into parents' algorithm literacies and their capacities to exercise agency amidst pervasive datafication, while recognising the limitations of individual action and the responsibilities of powerful technological institutions.
The project resulted in my sole-authored monograph, Parents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies, published by Bristol University Press in December 2024, alongside journal articles examining parents' understandings of social media algorithms, algorithm literacies and data reflexivity.
Supervision
Postgraduate research supervision
Potential PhD students: I am happy to consider PhD proposals in various areas within sociology and media and communications. Within topics based in sociology - my interests lie in parents, motherhood/maternity, fatherhood, migrant parents, families, relationships, childhood, youth, mental health, vulnerabilities and inequalities in parenthood, and digital sociology. In terms of topics relating to media and communications, I am interested in both media audiences as well as users and use of media and digital technologies including emerging and new technologies including but not restricted to AI, the Internet of Things, VR and other related areas.
My past/current supervision topics include:
- Uses of datings apps by LGBTQ+ users
- Digital activism in the global south against sexual violence
- Young audiences, Eastern Europe and Disney princesses
- Telenovela reception
- Distant suffering and television audiences.
Teaching
I directed our BSc in Media and Communication degree from 2017 to 2021, where I led the degree through a significant revamp in 2018-2019. This degree enables students to delve into theories of media power, regulation and audiences, critical studies of data and datafication, platform societies and global media and communication.
My teaching in the Department consists of compulsory modules, where I teach on topics directly related to my research interests and expertise. For the forthcoming future, subject to any last minute changes my teaching portfolio includes:
- Global Media and Communication (Year 2)
- Data and the Digital in Platform Societies (Year 3).
I also supervise Undergraduate as well as Postgraduate dissertations each year.
I am currently supervising PhD projects on:
- Indonesian audiences and Disney
- Indian women's digital activism against sexual violence
- Dating app user experiences.
Publications
Highlights
Books
Das, R. (2024). Parents talking algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies.
Parents engage with algorithms daily in contemporary digital societies. These algorithms are entwined with the most routine of everyday parenting tasks. Algorithms interface with parents’ interactions with search engines, their sharing and sharenting practices on social media, their children's entertainment, their engagement with the news, and more. This book explores parents’ awareness of the pervasive role of algorithms in shaping parenting practices and everyday life. It critically examines how parents navigate algorithmic environments and how they prepare for their children's futures in a world increasingly dominated by data, algorithms, automation, and artificial intelligence. Drawing on an in-depth study of 30 English parents, this work illuminates the hopes and fears parents speak of, in relation to algorithms and datafication. The book delves into their agency, their experiences of and interactions with algorithms in various contexts, including searching for information, sharing content, consuming news, and more. It looks into parents’ algorithmic literacies, whilst remembering the critical importance of holding powerful institutions accountable for their actions. This book should be of interest to social scientists, policymakers, and general readers interested in the intersection of families, platforms, parenting and digital technologies. It offers a nuanced understanding of parents’ agency, struggles, hopes and fears around algorithms shaping contemporary parenting in datafied societies.
Hodkinson, P. & Das, R. (2021). New Fathers, Mental Health and Digital Communication. London: Palgrave.
This book analyses in-depth, qualitative material on new fathers’ experiences of mental health difficulties after having a baby and, in particular, their use of online communications as part of their coping practices. Arising out of a project funded by the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at the University of Surrey that centred on in depth interviews with 15 fathers, at the heart of the book are the ways discourses of masculinity and fatherhood can exacerbate fathers’ difficulties and prevent them from communicating with others, and the extent to which social media may provide opportunities to negotiate, escape from or contest such discourses through engaging with information and others, disclosing struggles and seeking support. We examine the digital mediation of emotions around paternal mental health, the emergence of new, networked paternal intimacies, and new forms of connection and disconnection which shape, resource, and potentially empower fathers communicating about mental health.
Das, R. (2019). Early Motherhood in Digital Societies: Ideals, anxieties and ties of the perinatal. London: Routledge.
Early Motherhood in Digital Societies offers a nuanced understanding of what the digital turn has meant for new mothers in an intense and critical period before and after they have a baby, often called the ‘perinatal’ period. The book looks at an array of digital communication and content by drawing on an extensive research project involving in-depth interviews with new mothers in the United Kingdom and online case studies. The book asks: what does the use of technology mean in the perinatal context and what implications might it have for maternal wellbeing? The book argues for a balanced and context-sensitive approach to the digital in the context of perinatality and maternal wellbeing in the critical perinatal period.
Das, R. & Ytre-Arne, B. (2018). The future of audiences: A foresight analysis of interfaces and engagement. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
This book brings together contributions from scholars across Europe to present findings from a foresight analysis exercise on audiences and audience analysis, looking towards an increasingly datafied world. The book uses knowledge emerging out of three foresight exercises, produced in cooperation with more than 50 stake-holding organisations and building on systematic reviews of audience research, to arrive at a renewed agenda for audience studies.
Das, R. & Graefer, A. (2017). Provocative Screens. Offended Audiences in Britain and Germany. Palgrave Macmillan (Pivot).
This book offers a nuanced understanding of ‘offensive’ television content by drawing on an extensive research project, involving in-depth interviews and focus groups with audiences in Britain and Germany. Provocative Screens asks: what makes something really offensive and to whom in what context? Why it offence felt so differently? And how does offensive content matter in public life, regulation, and institutional understandings?
Journal articles
- Das, R. (2026). From ephemeral acts to agency pathways: A life-course approach to user agency in platform societies. Media Culture and Society Online First
- Das, R. Wicaksono, G. (2026). The individualised audiences of everything and nothing: In search of the collective in teaching and researching audiences. European Journal of Cultural Studies.
- Setty, E; Boursinou, N; Roberts, T; Das, R. (2026): Parental mediation of news media discourses on children’s wellbeing and safety A longitudinal qualitative study of risk, anxiety and relational sense-making. Families Relationships and Societies
- Setty, E., Boursinou, M.-N., Roberts, T., & Das, R. (2026). Online vs offline; near vs far: How parents navigate risk, news media, and safety in children’s post-digital lives. Sociological Research Online. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804261466846
- Setty, E; Boursinou, N; Roberts, T; Das, R. (2026): Parents’ news mediation in a risk society: Navigating trust, anxiety and digital literacy. Communication Review. Online First.
- Roberts, R; Boursinou, N; Chatterjee, N; Setty, R; Das, R. (2026). Environmental and climate news in the eyes of parents as audiences: Disconnection, uncertainty and anxiety in evaluating news about environmental change. Environmental Sociology. Online First.
- Wicaksono, G; Dippold, D; Neill, M; Das, R. (Under Review). Screens of hope and anxiety: Ambivalences of digital media use in parenting bilingual children in migrant families
- Das, R; Boursinou, M; Roberts, T; Setty; E. (2025) What does local news use have to do with raising children? Four dimensions of local news in English parent's news use. Journalism. Online First.
- Trueltzsch-Wijnen, C; Das, R.; Chimirri, N; Jorge, A. (2024) Mediated parent networks as communicative figurations: Practical sense and communicative practices among parents in four European countries. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research
- Das, R. (2024). Data reflexivity as work in progress: A relational, life-course approach to people's encounters with datafication. Convergence. Online First.
- Das, R.; Chimirri, N; Jorge, A; Trueltzsch-Wijnen, C. (2024). Mediated parent networks: Explorations on the digital shaping of parents’ support networks in Austria, Denmark, Portugal and England. Families Relationships and Societies
- Das, R; Wong, Y; Jones, R; Jackson, P. (2024): How do we speak about algorithms and algorithmic media futures? Reflections on using Vignettes and scenarios as a data collection method in citizen councils on data-driven media personalisation
- Das, R. (2023): Parents’ understandings of social media algorithms in their children’s lives: Misunderstandings, parked understandings, transactional understandings and proactive understandings. Journal of Children and Media
- Das, R. (2023): Parents’ algorithm literacies in digital societies: Contexts, dimensions and markers of parents’ algorithm literacies amidst Datafied parenthood. The Communication Review
- Wong, Y; Das, R; Jones, R; Jackson, P. (2023): Conditional trust: Citizens’ council on data driven media personalisation and public expectations of transparency and accountability. Big Data and Society
- Das, R. (2022). Approximately in-person in the locked-down home: Approximation, digital ties and maternity amidst the COVID19 lockdown. New Media & Society
- Das, R. & Beszlag, D. (2021). Migrant mothers' experiences of perinatal mental ill health in the UK and their expectations of healthcare. Journal of Health Visiting Online First.
- Das, R. (2021). Women's experiences of maternity and perinatal mental health services during the first Covid-19 lockdown. Journal of Health Visiting.
- Ytre-Arne, B.; & Das, R. (2020). Audiences’ communicative agency in a datafied age: Interpretative, relational and increasingly prospective. Communication Theory
- Das, R. & Hodkinson, P. (2020). Affective coding: Strategies of online steganography in fathers’ mental health disclosure. New Media and Society
- Das, R., & Hodkinson, P. (2019). Tapestries of intimacy: Networked intimacies and new fathers’ emotional self-disclosure of mental health struggles. Social Media+ Society, 5(2), 2056305119846488.
- Das, R. (2018). Temporally inexpensive, affectively expensive: Digitally mediated maternal interpersonal ties in the perinatal months. Communication, Culture and Critique
- Das, R. (2018). A Field in Flux: The Intriguing Past and the Promising Future of Audience Analysis. Television and New Media
- Ytre-Arne, B. &; Das, R. (2018). An agenda in the interest of audiences: Facing the challenges of intrusive media technologies. Television and New Media
- Das, R. (2018). Populist discourse on a British social media patient-support community: The case of the Charlie Gard support campaign on Facebook. Discourse Context and Media
- Das, R. (2018). The mediated subjectivities of the maternal: A critique of childbirth videos on YouTube. Communication Review.
- Zsubori, A. & Das, R. (2018). Twenty years of Pottermania: Youthful experiences of fantasy at the intersections of the fictive and ‘real’. Journal of Children and Media 12 (4).
- Das, R. & Graefer, A. (2017). Regulatory expectations of offended audiences: The citizen interest in audience discourse. Communication, Culture and Critique. Online First.
- Das, R. (2017). Speaking about birth: Visible and silenced narratives in online discussions of childbirth. Social Media + Society.
- Das, R & Ytre-Arne, B. (2017). Critical, Agentic, Transmedia: Frameworks and Findings from a Foresight Analysis exercise on audience research. European Journal of Communication.*Gold Open Access*
- Das, R. (2017). The mediation of childbirth: Joyful birthing and strategies of silencing on a Facebook advice and support group. European Journal of Cultural Studies, Online First
- Das, R. (2017). Audiences: A decade of transformations: Reflections from the CEDAR network on emerging directions in audience analysis. Media, culture and society. Online First.
- Das, R. (2017). Stories about a queen: Viewing Bengali television drama in urban India. Critical Studies in Television 12(3).
- Graefer, A. & Das, R. (2017). Towards a contextual approach: Audiences, television, and 'offensive' humour. European Journal of Cultural Studies.
- Das, R. (2016). “I've walked this street”: Readings of reality in British children's reception of the Harry Potter series. Journal of Children and Media 10(3)
- Das, R. & Ytre-Arne. B. (2016). After the excitement: An introduction to the work of CEDAR. Participations 13(1). pp 280-288
- Das, R. and Pavlickova, T (2014). Is there as author behind this text? A literary aesthetic driven understanding of trust in interactive media. New Media and Society 16 (3)
- Das, R. (2014) An appropriate inheritance: On being and not being an audience researcher. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 10 (2)
- Das, R. (2013). Introduction. In - Audiences: A cross-generational dialogue. A special issue of The Communication Review 16 (1)
- Das, R (2013). “To be number one in someone's eyes…” Children's introspections about close relationships in reading Harry Potter.European Journal of Communication 28 (5)
- Das, R. (2012). Children reading an online genre: Heterogeneity in interpretive work. Popular Communication 10 (4)
- Das, R (2012). The task of interpretation. Participations: The international journal of audience and reception studies. 9 (1)
- Das, R (2011). Converging perspectives in audience studies and digital literacies: youthful interpretations of an online genre. European Journal of Communication, 26: 4, 343-360
- Das, R (2010). Meaning at the Interface: new genres, new modes of interpretative engagement? Communication Review13 (2), 140-159
- Das, R (2010). Digital youth, heterogeneity and diversity. Journal of Media Practice 11: 3
Book chapters
- Ong. J. & Das, R. ( 2019). The contributions of television audience studies in the networked age: Looking back to look forward. In Shimpach, S. Eds (2019). The Routledge Companion to Global Television
- Das, R. (2018) Childbirth online: The mediation of contrasting discourses. In Mascheroni, G, Ponte, C. & Jorge, A. (Eds). Digital parenting: the challenges for families in the digital age. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
- Das, R. & Ytre-Arne, B. (2018). A new crossroads for audiences and audience analysis. In Das, R. & Ytre-Arne, B. (Eds). The Future of Audiences: A foresight analysis. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Das, R. (2018). From implications to responsibilities. In Das, R. & Ytre-Arne, B. (Eds). The Future of Audiences: A foresight analysis. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Das, R., Ytre-Arne, B. Mathieu, D., & Stehling, M. (2018) Our methodological approach: The intuitive-analytical balance. In Das, R. & Ytre-Arne, B. (Eds). The Future of Audiences: A foresight analysis. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Vesnic-Alejevic, L., Seddighi, G., Mathieu, D., & Das, R. (2018). Drivers and scenarios for 2030. In Das, R. & Ytre-Arne, B. (Eds). The Future of Audiences: A foresight analysis. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Ytre-Arne, B. & Das, R.( 2018). Where next for audiences in communication? An emergent research agenda. In Das, R. & Ytre-Arne, B. (Eds). The Future of Audiences: A foresight analysis. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Das, R., Kleut, J., & Bolin, G. (2014). New Genres-New Roles for the Audience?. Audience Transformations Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity, 30-46.
- Livingstone, S & Das, R. (2012). The End of Audiences? Theoretical echoes of reception amidst the uncertainties of use. Chapter for the Blackwell Companion to New Media Dynamics, edited by John Hartley, Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns
- Das, R (2010). The task of interpretation: converging perspectives in audience research and digital literacies? In Nico Carpentier, et. Al. (Eds.)Media and Communication Studies Intersections and Interventions. Tartu: University of Tartu Press.
Guest-edited special issues
- Das, R. Eds. (2018). A field in flux: The intriguing pasts and the promising future of audience analysis. Special issue of Television and New Media.
- Das, R. & Ytre-Arne, B. Eds. (2016). Emerging directions in audience research: Lessons from the Consortium on Emerging Directions in Audience Research. Special Issue of Participations, 13(1).
- Das, R. Eds (2013). Audiences: A cross-generational dialogue. A special issue of The Communication Review 16 (1).