India and the IT Revolution: Networks of Global Culture

By Anna Greenspan

Book Overview

The 'Indian Techie' has become a global icon, taking its place alongside McDonalds and MTV as one of the key symbols of contemporary globalization. India and the IT Revolution explores the contemporary emergence of cosmopolitan, high-tech India as marking the arrival of a truly global cyberculture. It argues against the notion that globalization is a process of 'Westernization', which radiates out unilaterally from the core, imposing itself upon a passive, backward periphery. Instead, it conceives of global culture as a dynamic, innovative network, which proceeds primarily from its edges.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403939438
• ISBN13: 9781403939432
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.1"