Overload, Creep, Excess: An Internet from India

This book locates India's flourishing internet within a complex 24-year history that has seen an unprecedented re-organization of social and political life. Three essays provide independent perspectives on a common area of inquiry, an ra that witnessed a fundamental mutation of the State, its mechanisms of planning and governance, the public domain and the everyday, all mediated by digital technology, all impacting its internet. Bringing the essays together is a common timeline, which begins in the late 1970s, includes such landmarks as the Information Technology Act, the much-discussed Aadhaar biometric identification programme, the chequered career of social media, and the widespread use of internet shutdowns.

Author: Nishant Shah, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Nafis Aziz Hasan
Publisher: Leftword Books
Published: 07/17/2023
Pages: 332
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9789392018527
ISBN10: 9392018525
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Process | Media & Internet