Digital Politics and Culture in Contemporary India: The Making of an Info-Nation

ISBN-13: 9781138575769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str.

Biswarup Sen

Opis

This book focuses on India – an emerging country that has recently witnessed a "software miracle" – to highlight the critical role informatics has historically played in the national imagination and to demonstrate how the state, private capital and civic society have drawn upon and engaged the precepts and protocols of the information age to fashion an "info-nation."

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Computer in Postcolonial History  2. The Rise of the Informational State  3. Info-Activism and Civil Society  4. Reality Television and Informational Culture  5. Conclusion

O autorze

Biswarup Sen is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, USA