Tereza Menšíková is now a PhD
On June 9, Tereza Menšíková has successfully defended her thesis Digital Mobilization: Ambedkarite Buddhism and Discourses of Change in Contemporary Anti-Caste Online Activism summa cum laude.
The project explores the social and discursive patterns of Indian Dalit activism and its cultural and political strategies of dealing with caste discrimination through online production on blog and news platforms.
Tereza's project "Challenging Marginalisation Online: The Case of Dalit Movement Network Through Blog and News Platforms" follows the increased use of online media by marginalized communities in recent years. By adopting the methods of computational text analysis and social network analysis, the research aims to understand the role of religious and secular motives in socio-political mobilisation.
On June 9, Tereza Menšíková has successfully defended her thesis Digital Mobilization: Ambedkarite Buddhism and Discourses of Change in Contemporary Anti-Caste Online Activism summa cum laude.
In this short text, Tereza looks back at the experience of attending summer schools focusing on quantitative methods and evaluates how beneficial it was for her research and self-development in the Study of religions.