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Information Infrastructures in India

The Long View

Av Pradip Ninan Thomas

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This book explores the past and present of information infrastructures in India. Grounded in infrastructure theory, it explores the historical continuities between information infrastructures in colonial and post-colonial India and the compulsions of information infrastructures in contemporary India. This volume highlights the roles played by private and public sector entities in shaping information infrastructures in India, the political economy of growth in this sector and the challenges faced by the State in regulating information platforms that are also information infrastructures. It includes separate chapters on oceanic cable infrastructures that account for more than 90 per cent of data traffic between India and the rest of the world and the political economy of India's satellite program. Taking the 'long view', it argues that the provisionings of information infrastructures are by no means straight forward, that they are always expressions that are shaped by internal and external contestations, by ideological ends and business imperatives, the needs of consumers/citizens and the State, that there is a politics of infrastructure that needs to be accounted for, and that there always are winners and losers in large infrastructural projects such as Digital India.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-08-23
  • Mått: 145 x 223 x 14 mm
  • Vikt: 358 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 182
  • Förlag: OUP OXFORD
  • ISBN: 9780192857736
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Pradip Thomas is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. His previous books include Empire and Post-Empire Telecommunications in India: A History (OUP, 2019).

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Information Infrastructures in India untangles the tangled histories of infrastructure in the country, from the colonial railway and the telegraph to the post-colonial modernization projects, including satellite broadcasting and the much-hyped Digital India initiatives. Drawing from an impressive array of theoretical frameworks from critical media studies, techno-policy studies, and anthropological perspectives on the state, Pradip Thomas, one of the leading scholars of the political economy of media and communication in India, urges the reader to understand the contemporary digital approach to nation-building in India as the latest phase in the evolution of information infrastructures that are intricately tied up with neoliberal economics, the surveillance state, and exclusionary social hierarchies. Vinod Pavarala, Senior Professor of Communication & UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad, India

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