Global digital cultures : perspectives from South Asia / Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, editors.

Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping how...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Punathambekar, Aswin (Editor), Mohan, Sriram (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Politics of algorithms, Indian citizenship, and the colonial legacy / Payal Arora
  • Digital television in digital India / Shanti Kumar
  • Imagining cellular India : the popular, the infrastructural, and the national / Rahul Mukherjee
  • Bridging the deepest digital divides : a history and survey of digital media in Myanmar / Daniel Arnaudo
  • Dating applications, intimacy, and cosmopolitan desire in India / Vishnupriya Das
  • Anomalously digital in South Asia : a peri-technological project for deaf youth in Mumbai / Shruti Vaidya and Kentaro Toyama
  • The making of a technocrat : social media and Narendra Modi / Joyojeet Pal
  • Twitter as liveness : #ShamedInSydney and the paradox of participatory live television / Sangeet Kumar
  • The remediation of nationalism : viscerality, virality, and digital affect / Purnima Mankekar and Hannah Carlan
  • Clash of actors : nation-talk and middle-class politics on online media / Sahana Udupa
  • Private publics : new media and performances of Pakistani identity from party videos to cable news / Mobina Hashmi
  • The man on the moon : a semiotic analysis of scopic regimes in Bangladesh / Muhammad Nabil Zuberi
  • Media and imperialism in the global village : a case study of the four Malalais / Wazhmah Osman.