1st Edition
Digital Politics and Culture in Contemporary India The Making of an Info-Nation
By Biswarup Sen
Copyright 2016
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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The relationship between information and the nation-state is typically portrayed as a face-off involving repressive state power and democratic flows: Twitter and the Arab Spring, Google in China, WikiLeaks and the U.S. State Department. Less attention has been paid to those scenarios where states have regarded information and its diffusion as productive of modernity and globalization. It is the... Read more
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
Biography
Biswarup Sen is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, USA
