Dr. Shivangi Narayan

Assistant Professor

MA, MPhil and PhD in Sociology - Centre for Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

PG Diploma in Journalism from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai

B.Tech in Electronics and Communications from Galgotia’s College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida

Hi! I am Dr Shivangi Narayan, Assistant Profesor, Sociology at TSLAS. I am primarily a tech anthropologist/sociologist but due to the interdisciplinary nature of my work, I also align myself with the area of ‘science and technology studies’. I am the author of the book “Predictive Policing and the Construction of the Criminal: An Ethnographic Study of Delhi Police” published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023. I recently finished a three year project titled ‘Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing - A Comparative Study of Brazil, India, Norway, Russia and South Africa’ where I undertook research into the use of video surveillance in North East Delhi and the role of tech private sector in governance. I have been published in both academic and popular forums and routinely take part in conferences, roundtables and workshops on technology/tech policy related topics. I am a recipient of both international and domestic grants. I have been awarded the ‘Early Career Researcher Award” by Surveillance Studies Network for my paper “CCTV and the Criminal City” published in 2023 in the Surveillance Studies Journal. I hold an MA, MPhil and PhD from Centre for Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Publications

Peer Reviewed Papers

• Marda, Vidushi, and Shivangi Narayan. 2020. ‘Data in New Delhi’s Predictive Policing System’. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 317–24. FAT* ’20. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3372865.
• Marda, Vidushi, and Shivangi Narayan. 2021. ‘On the Importance of Ethnographic Methods in AI Research’. Nature Machine Intelligence 3 (3): 187–89. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00323-0.
• Narayan, Shivangi. 2021. ‘Guilty Until Proven Guilty: Policing Caste Through Preventive Policing Registers in India’. Journal of Extreme Anthropology 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.8797.
• *Narayan, Shivangi. 2023. ‘CCTVs and the Criminal City’. Surveillance & Society 21 (4): 363–74. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v21i4.15779.

*Awarded the Early Career Researcher Award by Surveillance Society Network for this paper

Book Chapters

• ‘You are un-welcome: caste based hate speech online’ in Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance by Roderick S. Graham, Stephan G. Humer, Claire S. Lee, Veronika Nagy. London: Routledge
• ‘For your own safety: The Soft Push of Surveillance by the Private Sector in India’ in Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era (vol. I) by Tereza Kuldova, Christin Thea Watane and Helene Gundhus. London: Palgrave Macmillan
• ‘Mapping and the Construction of Criminal Spaces in Delhi’. 2024. In States of Surveillance: Ethnographies of New Technologies in Policing and Justice, by Maya Avis, Daniel Marciniak, and Maria Sapignoli. London: Routledge.

Books

• Narayan, Shivangi. 2021. Surveillance as Governance - Aadhaar | Big Data in Governance. Mumbai: Peoples Literature Publication.
• Narayan, Shivangi. 2023. Predictive Policing and The Construction of The ‘Criminal’: An Ethnographic Study of Delhi Police. Palgrave’s Critical Policing Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40102-2.

Report

• Kain, Damni, Shivangi Narayan, Torsha Sarkar, and Gurshabad Grover. 2021. ‘Online Caste Based Hate Speech: Pervasive Discrimination and Humiliation on Social Media’. Centre for Internet and Society. https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/online_caste-hate_speech.pdf.

Magazine

• Narayan, Shivangi. 2020. ‘Past, Present, and Past as Present in India’s Predictive Policing’. XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 27 (2): 36–41. https://doi.org/10.1145/3433144.
• Narayan, Shivangi. 2020. ‘Air Pollution Monitoring in India Needs to Buck Up, Scale Up and Interact with Communities to Make a Difference’. GISWatch.

Blog

• Narayan, Shivangi. 2020. ‘Predictive Policing and the Construction of the Criminal – The Polis Project’. 2020. https://www.thepolisproject.com/read/predictive-policing-and-the-construction-of-the-criminal/.
• Narayan, Shivangi. 2021. ‘Making of a Criminal, One Register at a Time | Shivangi Narayan’. Detention Solidarity Network (blog). 25 April 2021. https://detentionsolidarity.net/making-of-a-criminal-one-register-at-a-time-shivangi-narayan/

Pre-print

• Narayan, Shivangi, and Ramya Chandrasekhar. 2022. ‘Niti Aayog Discussion Paper, November 2022- Adopting the Responsible AI Principles: A Use Case Approach on Facial Recognition Technology’. SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4476124.

Grants

• 2021-2024 Algorithmic Governance and Cultures of Policing - A Comparative Study of Norway, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa. Funded by Norwegian Research Council and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. 70000 USD
• 2015-2020 UGC NET-Junior Research Fellowship
• 2025-2026 R-Insecure Project funded by Norwegian Research Council

Conferences and Paper Presentations

• 2024: Book presentation and discussion of book “Predictive Policing and The Construction of The 'Criminal': An Ethnographic Study of Delhi Police” with discussants Ursula Rao (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) and Mikkel Flyverbom (Copenhagen Business School)
• 2024: “MyGate: Convenience for residents or pervasive surveillance for data creation? A study of society management app in India” presented at workshop ‘Policing the City in the Digital Age’ at Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum, Germany March 5-8, 2024
• 2023: “MyGate: Convenience for residents or pervasive surveillance for data creation? A study of society management app in India” presented at
• 2023: “Origins of Smart Policing in India” presented at the AGOPOL conference ‘Policing in the Algorithmic Society: Consequences and Critical Perspectives hosted by Fluminense Federal University, Niterói - Brazil on March 6-8, 2023
• 2023: Co-convener of Panel “Data-led and Digital Policing: A Global Perspective” and presenter of paper ‘MyGate: Convenience for residents or pervasive surveillance for data creation? A study of society management app in India’ at the Eurocrim 2023, Florence, Italy on September 6-9, 2023
• 2022: “CCTV and the Criminal City” presented at The 9th biennial Surveillance & Society conference of the Surveillance Studies Network (SSN), hosted by Erasmus University Rotterdam on June 1-3 2022 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• 2020: ‘Data in New Delhi’s Predictive Policing System’ presented at the Fairness Accountability and Transparency (FAT, now FAccT) conference, January 27 to 30, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.

Invited Talks and Short Presentations

• 2024: Presenter and Speaker at “Reflexivity and Inter- and Trans-Disciplinary Collaboration for ‘Responsible’ AI-Based Technologies,” organised by CNRS@CREATE as part of the DesCartes programme, National University of Singapore.
• 2024: Invited to be a panel discussant for ‘Alternative Futures: Citizens or Subjects’ organised by Internet Freedom Foundation and Goethe Institute https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/en/sta/new/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=25816636
• 2024: Invited to deliver a guest lecture on ICT in Education for Two-Week Online Programme on “NEP Orientation & Sensitization Programme” organised by Madan Mohan Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre at Central University of Punjab
• 2024: Co-chair Doctor’s colloquium at FAccT 2024 (3-6 June 2024) at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (https://facctconference.org/2024/callfordc)
• 2023: Invited to judge the Responsible Computing Challenge organised by Mozilla Foundation and USAID https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-announces-judges-for-responsible-computing-challenge-in-india/
• 2023: Opening Panel titled ‘The Non-Artificial Consequences of Artificial Intelligence’ of Internet Freedom Foundation’s annual event ‘Privacy Supreme’ with Samarth Bansal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tMB1KnHf58&ab_channel=TheWire
• 2023: Associate Chair of the ACM-DIS “Designing Interactive Systems” conference, 2023 held in Pittsburg, USA
• 2023: Panel co-ordinator and presenter for panel ‘Caste and AI’ selected for RightsCon 2023, Costa Rica.
• 2022: Invited to record a video talk on Predictive policing as part of the teaching material on the course “AI and Human Rights” conducted by National Law University, Bangalore. November 2022. Course details available at https://aiandhr.nls.ac.in/
• 2022: Program Committee Member for the ACM - FAccT “Fairness Accountability Transparency” conference, 2022 held in Seoul, South Korea
• 2022: Invited to give the inaugural lecture at the Virtual Workshop on tools for Qualitative Methods in mid-January (January 14, 15) under the aegis of Indian chapter of the Association for Information Systems
• 2019: Invited to attend the Microsoft PhD Summit at Redmond, Washington, USA
• 2019: Invited for a guest lecture on ‘AI and Policing’ at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Post Graduate Program (PGP) class of 2017-2019