Publications
Single Authored Books:
Gajjala, R. (in-progress). Technocultural Identity in/at the interface Massachusets: Lexington.
Gajjala, R. (2004). Cyber Selves: Feminist ethnographies of South Asian Women. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.
Edited Collections:
Blair, K., Gajjala, R., & Tulley, C. (Eds.). (2008). Webbing cyberfeminist practice: Communities, pedagogies, and social action. New Jersey: Hampton Press.
Gajjala, R., & Gajjala, V. (Eds.). (2008). South-Asian technospaces. New York: Peter Lang, Digital Formation Series.
Refereed Journal Publications:
Gajjala R, Zhang, Y and Dako-Gyeke, P. (accepted, forthcoming) “Lexicons of Women’s Empowerment Online” Feminist Media Studies (email of acceptance from Editor available upon request).
Mitra, R and Gajjala, R (2008) Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas: A Dialogic Encounter in special issue of Journal of Communication Inquiry
Gajjala, R and Rybas, N. (2008), "Racing and Queering the Interface: Producing global/local cyberselves" Qualitative Inquiry, Special Issue on Technology
Mamidipudi, A., & Gajjala, R. (2008). Juxtaposing handloom weaving and modernity: Making the case for building theory situated in praxis. Development in Practice, 18(2): 235 - 244
Rybas, N., & Gajjala, R. (2007). Developing cyberethnographic research methods for understanding digitally mediated identities. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 7(3).
Gajjala, R, Rybas, N., & Altman M. (2007). Epistemologies of doing: E-merging selves online. Feminist Media Studies, 7(2), 209-213. [commentary and criticism section]
Gajjala, R. (2006). Editorial: Consuming/producing/inhabiting South-Asian digital diasporas. New Media & Society, 8(2), 179-185.
Gajjala, R (2003). South Asian digital diasporas and cyberfeminist webs: negotiating globalization, nation, gender and information technology design. Contemporary South Asia, 12 (1), 41-56.
Gajjala, R. (2002). Interrogating identities: Composing other cyber-spaces. International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 25.
Gajjala, R. (2002). An interrupted postcolonial/feminist cyberethnography: Complicity and resistance in the “Cyberfield.” Feminist Media Studies, 2(2), 177-193.
Enteen, J., & Gajjala, R. (2002). Globalization and Intercultural Communication: A virtual exchange project. Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments, 7 (2). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/7.2/binder.html?sectiontwo/enteen
Gajjala, R. (2002). Introduction/Editorial: But really is it transgressive? Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 4. http://www.rhizomes.net
Gajjala, R., & Mamidipudi, A (2002). Gendering processes within technological environments: A cyberfeminist issue. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 4. http://www.rhizomes.net
Gajjala, R. (2000). Internet constructs of identity and ignorance: “Third-world” contexts and cyberfeminism. In G. Pagnucci & N. Mauriello (Eds.), (1999-2000). The future of narrative discourse: Internet constructs of literacy and identity: Vol. 17/18. Works and Days (pp. 33-36).
Gajjala, R. (1999). Third-world critiques of cyberfeminism. Development in Practice, 9 (5), 616-619.
Gajjala, R., & Mamidipudi, A. (1999). Cyberfeminism, technology and international “development.” Gender and Development, l7 (2), 8-16.
Steinkamp, F., Eldred, M., Gajjala, R., Rodan, D., &Thompson, E. (1997). Gender and postmodern communication. The Monist, 80, 448-470.
Special Issues of Journals Edited:
Gajjala, R. (Ed.). (2006). New Media and Society [Special section]. South Asian Digital Diasporas, Vol. 8, No. 2, 179-185.
Gajjala, R. (Ed.). (2002). Cyberfeminisms [Special Issue]. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 4. http://www.rhizomes.net/issue4/index.html
Book Chapters:
Gajjala, R. (2008) Response to Shani Orgad. In A. Markham and N. Baym (eds) Internet Inquiry: Conversations on Method Sage Publications
Blair, K., Gajjala, R., Tulley, C. (2008) Introduction: The Webs We Weave: Locating the Feminism in Cyberfeminism. In K. Blair, R. Gajjala and C. Tulley (Eds) Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice. New Jersey: Hampton Press.
Gajjala, R. and Gajjala V. (2008) Introduction: South Asian Digital Networks and Global Techno-Spaces in R. Gajjala and V. Gajjala (Eds) South Asian Technospaces pp. 1 – 6, New York: Peter Lang, Digital Formation Series.
Gajjala, R. (2008) South Asian Technospaces and “Indian” Digital Diasporas? In R. Gajjala and V. Gajjala (Eds) South Asian Technospaces pp. 37- 48, New York: Peter Lang, Digital Formation Series.
Gajjala, R. (2008) Conclusion: Moving On, Re-mixing It Up: Web 2.0, Offline/Online Intersections, Globalization through NGOs, Machinima, Mash-ups. In R. Gajjala and V. Gajjala (Eds) South Asian Technospaces pp. 265- 274, New York: Peter Lang, Digital Formation Series.
Gajjala, R. (2007). Shifting frames: Race, ethnicity and Intercultural Communication in online social networking and virtual work. In M. Hinner (Ed.), The Role of Communication in Business Transactions and Relationships. Peter Lang.
Gajjala, R. (2006). Cyberethnography: Reading South Asian diasporas. In K. M. Landzelius (Ed.), Going native on the net: Indigenous cyberactivism and virtual diasporas over the World Wide Web pp. 272-291, London: Routledge.
Gajjala, R., & Altman, M. (2006). Producing cyberselves through technospatial praxis: Studying through doing. In P. Liamputtong (Ed.), Health Research in Cyberspace New York: Nova Publishers
Altman, M., & Gajjala, R. (2006). Exploring the production of race through virtual learning environments. In J. Weiss, J. Nolan, & P. Trifonas (Eds.), International handbook of virtual learning environments 1089-1106 USA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Gajjala, R. (2005). Cyborg-diaspora: Observations from the cyber-field. In K. Knauer & T. Rachwal (Eds.), On the Move: Mobility and Identity. Bielsko-Biala: Akademii Techniczno-Humanistycznej
Gajjala, R., & Mamidipudi, A. (2003). Collaborating across contexts: Rethinking the local and the global, theory and practice. In J. A. Inman, C. Reed, & P. Sands (Eds.), Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities 65-88. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates
Gajjala, R., & Mamidipudi, A. (2002). “Analoging” the digital, digitizing the analogue: Contemplations on communities of poduction and virtuality. In M. Fernandez & F. Wilding (Eds.), Domain Error! Cyberfeminist Practices. Place: Autonomedia.
Gajjala, R. (2001). Studying feminist e-spaces: Introducing transnational/postcolonial Concerns. In S. Munt (Ed.), Technospaces. London: Continuum International.
Gajjala, R. (2000). Negotiating cyberspace/ negotiating RL. In A. Gonzalez, M. Houston, & V. Chen (Eds.), Our Voices: Essays in culture, ethnicity, and communication. California: Roxbury Press.
Refereed Working Paper:
Gajjala, R. (2002). Cyberfeminist technological practices: Exploring possibilities for a women-centered design of technological environments. Working Paper for GAINS/UN-INSTRAW.
Shorter Essays, Creative Works, Reprints, Interviews and Translations
Gajjala, R. (2008) ‘Digital diasporas are products of economic globalization’ – Interview in Interjunction: Media Meets Academia
Gajjala, R. and Mamidipudi, A. (2005) Cyberfeminism, Technology, and International "Development" reprinted in Gender Through the Prism of Differenceedited by Zinn, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Messne. Canada: Oxford University Press.
Gajjala, R. (2003). Travelling along data’s highway: Who gets mapped out? LEA: Technology and Difference.
Gajjala, R. (2003). Fluid architectures running wild: How wild are they really? American Communication Journal, 6 (3). http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol6/iss3/index.htm
Gajjala, R. (2000). Cyborg writing and mestiza ecriture: Visible absences and audible silences. M/C Reviews Features http://reviews.mediaculture.org.au/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1788
Gajjala, R. (1998) Cyborg diaspora and virtual imagined community: Studying SAWNET. COSAW Bulletin, 10.
Gajjala, R. (2001). Cyborg diaspora E Comunita Virtuale: SAWNET in AVATAR. rivista di antropologia e comunicazione, n.2, roma, 2001 (C. Nicotera, Trans.).
Gajjala, R. (1999). Cyberdiva. New Observations, 120 (14).
Gajjala, R. (1995). Indian women and national identity, Manavi Newsletter, 7 (12), 13-8.
Conference Proceedings:
Blair, K., & Gajjala, R. (2002). Aligning criteria for online courseware selection with multimodal teaching and learning. The Ohio Learning Network. http://www.oln.org
Gajjala, R. (1998). Communities in crisis: Online interaction and defining virtual community. The International Conference on the Social Impact of Information Technology, St. Louis, MO. Published on CD-ROM.
Book Reviews:
Gajjala, R (2008) Review of Nayar, Pramod, Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology. New Delhi: Sage, 2004 in Contemporary South Asia
Gajjala, R. (2005). Review of Wacjman, Judith, Technofeminism in Journal of Gender Studies.
Gajjala, R. (2003). Review of Kember, Sarah, Cyberfeminism and artificial Life in Culture Machine, http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk
Gajjala, R. (1999). The (im)possibility of a “new era of cyberfeminisms”: WoN negotiates the “glocal.” Review in New Media and Society, 1(2).
Gajjala, R. (1998). Review of the chapter “Fantasy or ethnography? Irony and collusion in Subaltern representation” in the book The Middle East and South Asia folklore bulletin. http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/comp/bulletin/fantasy.html
Gajjala, R. (1993). Review of the book Maid in the U.S.A. in Sistersong: Women across Cultures, 1(2), 72-75.
Editorial Board Member and Repeat Reviewer:
Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
Kaleidoscope: a graduate journal of qualitative communication research
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies
Critical Studies in Media Communication
MediaCommons
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
New Media and Society
International Journal of Internet Research Ethics