1st Edition
Political Internet State and Politics in the Age of Social Media
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Indian infotopia
2 Social media vigilantism
3 Engaged public
4 Social togetherness
5 ‘Friend power’ in resistance
6 Pocket public: mobile phone and the mechanics of social change
7 Internet diplomacy
8 Expats on social media
9 Open government in social media age
10 Social learning: pedagogy of the oppressed
11 Cultural vocabularies in political Internet
Biography
Biju P. R. is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Government Brennen College, Thalassery, Kerala, India. He is a writer, blogger and teacher with research interests in the Internet, politics and social change. He has written extensively on the interfaces of social media and politics in popular web journals, academic outlets and online news portals. He is a peer-reviewer for reputed journals such as the Asian Journal of Communication and contributor to South Asia Politics, and online outlets such as Merinews, India Opines and Countercurrents.org. He is the author of the books Myth of Social Media Politics (2016); Intimate Speakers (2016) and Intimate Revolution: Cyber Sexuality in the Antiporn Nation (forthcoming) and is presently working on a novel.
