Digital Politics and Culture in Contemporary India: The Making of an Info-Nation (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies) PDF
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Digital Politics and Culture in Contemporary India 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 for modernity and globalization. It is the central argument of this book that the contemporary nation-state, especially in the global South, is far from hostile to the current informational milieu and in fact makes crucial use of it in order to develop adequate modes of governance, communication, and sociality in a networked world. 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.” Biswarup Sen is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Com- munication at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States. 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Soriano This page intentionally left blank Digital Politics and Culture in Contemporary India The Making of an Info-Nation Biswarup Sen First published 2016 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 Taylor & Francis The right of Biswarup Sen to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Sen, Biswarup, author. Title: Digital politics and culture in contemporary India: the making of an info-nation / by Biswarup Sen. Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies; 16 | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2015035521 | Subjects: LCSH: Information society—India. | Information technology— Political aspects—India. | Information technology—Social aspects—India. | Technology and state—India. Classification: LCC HN690.Z9 I5665 2016 | DDC 303.48/330954—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015035521 ISBN: 978-1-138-95492-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-66667-9 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by codeMantra For my mother This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 The Computer in Postcolonial History 24 2 The Rise of the Informational State 57 3 Info-Activism and Civil Society 94 4 Reality Television as Informational Culture 132 Conclusion 165 Index 169
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