Digital Politics and Culture in Contemporary India: The Making of an Info-Nation

by Biswarup Sen

Book Overview

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 of modernity and globalization. It is the central argument of this book that the contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138575763
• ISBN13: 9781138575769
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"