Research interests

Video Game Studies

Digital Cultures

The Digital Divide

Research supervision

I look forward to engaging in conversations that seek to understand gaming cultures and practices from a variety of contexts. I also examine specific trends in Digital Cultures and the idea of the Digital Divide is one such strand that I always focus on. 

Media

• Mainstream/Popular Writing (March 2017-): Author of the weekly column “Game On” (every Sunday) that focuses on video games and developments in the gaming industry.  Published by Telangana Today (an English Daily based out of Hyderabad, India) over 250 articles written since March 2017-.

Modules taught

• CMM2002 - Communications in the Workplace
• CMM2003 - Professional Writing
• CMM2008 - Communications Research Methods
• CMMM003 - Gaming in Everday Life: A Global Perspective

Biography

Aditya Deshbandhu is Lecturer of Communications, Digital Media Sociology at the University of Exeter. A researcher of video game studies, new media, and the digital divide, Aditya examines how people engage with digital artefacts and seeks to understand how these interactions shape everyday lives. Aditya joined the Communications programme at Exeter from the Indian Institute of Management - Indore, India where he was an Assistant Professor in the Communication Area. Aditya holds Doctoral and Masters' degrees in Communication from the University of Hyderabad, India.

As someone who actively examines digital acts of leisure, Aditya's research in the last decade has examined social media and OTT platforms alongside video games and digital cultures. Aditya is also the author of Gaming Culture(s) in India: Digital Play in Everyday Life and the forthcoming The 21^st Century in a Hundred games.