TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas, Pradip,
TI  - The politics of digital India : : between local compulsions and transnational pressures / 
SN  - 9780199494620
U1  - 303.48330954 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - Digital media--India
KW  - Digital communication--Political aspects--India
KW  - Digital communication--Economic aspects--India
N2  - "Transforming India into a digital state has been an objective of successive governments in India. However, the digital, by its very nature, is a capricious, multi-dimensional entity. Its operationalization across multiple sectors in India has highlighted the fact that the digital compact with publics in India is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, devices such as mobile phones have enabled access and efficiencies, and on the other, they have increased the scope for surveillance capitalism and the expansion of governmentality. The digital is at the same time a resource, commodity, and process that is absolutely fundamental to most if not all productive forces across multiple sectors.As a part of the Media Dynamics in South Asia series, this volume explores the making of digital India and specifically deals with the contradictions of an imperfect democracy, internal compulsions, and external pressures that continue to play crucial roles in the shaping of the same. Mindful of the key roles played by political economy and context and based on conversations with theory and practice, it makes a case for critical understanding of the digital embrace in India."--
ER  -