Nalini Rajan is Associate Professor at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. She has held post-doctoral and Visiting fellowships at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, and at the Hastings Center, New York. She has published two academia books: Secularism, Democracy, Justice- Implications of Rawlsian principles in India, 1998, and Democracy and the Limits of Minority rights, 2002, apart from numerous articles in academic journals and collected volumes. Her novel, The Pangolin’s Tale, will be published later this year.

• Introduction Nalini Rajan 1. Exaggerated Obituaries: The Tamil Book in the Age of Electronic Reproduction A R Venkatachalapathy 2. Religion and Theology in the Information Society Felix Wilfred 3. Alterity, Technology, and Human Nature R Radhakrishnan 4. What Mobile Phones Make of Us A Srivathsan 5. The Unplugged City and the Global Nomad Andre Lemos and Julio Valentim 6. Internet, Mobiles, and the New Digital Lifestyle A Vishnu 7. Digitising the Sociological Imagination Rahul Srivastava 8. The 'Real' Story of Children's Publishing Sandhya Rao 9. The Digital Phenomenon: Panacea or Faustian Bargain Ashok Panikkar 10. Blog In, Blog Out Dilip D'Souza 11. The New Technologies and the Constitution of 'Theft' Nalini Rajan 12. Acting among the Shadows of the Screen Charlene Rajendran 13. Digital Cinema in India: Apparent Horizons K Hariharan 14. Radio Daze: A Medium in Churning Bindu Bhaskar 15. The Internet and the Bully Valerie Kaye. Notes on Editors and Contributors. Index

Nalini Rajan is Associate Professor at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. She has held post-doctoral and Visiting fellowships at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, and at the Hastings Center, New York. She has published two academia books: Secularism, Democracy, Justice- Implications of Rawlsian principles in India, 1998, and Democracy and the Limits of Minority rights, 2002, apart from numerous articles in academic journals and collected volumes. Her novel, The Pangolin’s Tale, will be published later this year.

• Introduction Nalini Rajan 1. Exaggerated Obituaries: The Tamil Book in the Age of Electronic Reproduction A R Venkatachalapathy 2. Religion and Theology in the Information Society Felix Wilfred 3. Alterity, Technology, and Human Nature R Radhakrishnan 4. What Mobile Phones Make of Us A Srivathsan 5. The Unplugged City and the Global Nomad Andre Lemos and Julio Valentim 6. Internet, Mobiles, and the New Digital Lifestyle A Vishnu 7. Digitising the Sociological Imagination Rahul Srivastava 8. The 'Real' Story of Children's Publishing Sandhya Rao 9. The Digital Phenomenon: Panacea or Faustian Bargain Ashok Panikkar 10. Blog In, Blog Out Dilip D'Souza 11. The New Technologies and the Constitution of 'Theft' Nalini Rajan 12. Acting among the Shadows of the Screen Charlene Rajendran 13. Digital Cinema in India: Apparent Horizons K Hariharan 14. Radio Daze: A Medium in Churning Bindu Bhaskar 15. The Internet and the Bully Valerie Kaye. Notes on Editors and Contributors. Index