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Paromita Pain

Associate Professor of Global Media, Journalism

Open to new collaborations

Research interests

Alternative media and global journalism practice from feminist and LGBTQ perspectives: digital activism, online incivility and the harassment of journalists, and cybersecurity, privacy and surveillance. She works with qualitative and quantitative methods and has turned increasingly to computational methods of data collection and analysis. A former journalist with The Hindu, she has also written for The Guardian and Al Jazeera, and led a State Department project training emerging journalists to stop the spread of disinformation.

Recent publications

The ten most recent from their Google Scholar profile, newest first.

  1. License to rape: examining digital activism around marital rape in India

    P Pain. Feminist Media Studies 26 (3), 811-826 , 2026. 2026

    6 citations

  2. The rhetoric of outrage: Why social media is making us angry: by Jeff Rice, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2023, 220 pp., $114.99, ISBN 978-1-64336-398-1 …

    P Pain. Critical Studies in Media Communication 43 (1), 118-120 , 2026. 2026

  3. ASSERTING A REGIONAL APPROACH TO THE GLOBAL SOUTH

    V García-Perdomo, P Pain. The Routledge Companion to Global Journalism and Media at the Borders , 2026. 2026

  4. Queer Digital Lives: LGBTQ Realities and Resistance Under Platform Capitalism

    P Pain. Taylor & Francis , 2026. 2026

  5. 19 Gender Sensitive Journalism Education in Kashmir

    P Pain, A Ahmed, ZM Khaled. Evolving Journalism Research Methods: Applications, Trends, Analyses , 2025. 2025

  6. Gender Sensitive Journalism Education in Kashmir: An Exploratory Study

    P Pain, A Ahmed, ZM Khaled. Evolving Journalism Research Methods, 227-238 , 2025. 2025

  7. Online and abused: Girls of color facing racialized sexual harassment

    P Guha, P Pain. Social Media+ Society 10 (4), 20563051241302153 , 2024. 2024

    7 citations

  8. “I know my work has effect.”–the rise of the woman citizen journalist in India

    P Pain. Communication Research and Practice 10 (1), 92-107 , 2024. 2024

    4 citations

  9. “Will the law not protect survivors who don’t weep”: Twitter as a platform of feminist deliberation and democracy in India

    P Pain. new media & society 26 (7), 4143-4162 , 2024. 2024

    4 citations

  10. Global LGBTQ Activism

    P Pain. Routledge. https://doi. org/10.4324/9781003395805 , 2023. 2023

    15 citations

All publications on Google Scholar