The Politics of Digital India Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures
by Thomas, Pradip Ninan; Athique, Adrian; Parthasarathi, Vibodh; Srinivas, S. V.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2020-01-21
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Pradip Thomas, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland,Athique Adrian, Associate Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, The University of Queensland,Vibodh Parthasarthi, Associate Professor, Centre for Culture, Media, and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi,S. V. Srinivas, Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Azim Premji University
About the Author:
Pradip Ninan Thomas is at the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland. He has written widely on the media in India, the political economy of communications, communications for social change and the media and religion in globally renowned journals inclusive of the Journal of Communication, Media, Culture & Society., the European Journal of Communications and the Economic & Political Weekly. His most recent books include 'Communications for Social Change: Context, Social Movement and the Digital (2018), Empire & Post-Empire Telecommunications in India: A History (2019). He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Preetha, and Golden Retriever, Moss. His hobbies include bush walking, natural history, and listening to the Blues and he does have a weakness for Real Ale.
About the Series Editors:
Adrian Athique is associate professor in cultural studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Vibodh Parthasarathi is associate professor at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
S.V. Srinivas is professor at the School of Liberal Studies, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Section I: Introduction
1) The Politics of Digital India: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures
Section II: The Control State
2) The Expansion of Politics as Control: Surveillance in India
3) Leisure, Surveillance and the Private Sector in India
4) Software Patent Manoeuvres
Section III: The Sovereign/Ambivalent State?
5) Digital (Transgenic) Seed and its Copy
6) The Contested Nature of Internet Governance
7) The WIPO Treaty for the Visually Impaired as a Double Movement
Section IV: Concluding Chapter
8) Digital India and the Politics and Geopolitics of Information
References
Index
About the Author
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