Pradip Ninan Thomas

Information Infrastructures in India

The Long View

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Produktbeschreibung

This book makes a case for acknowledging the importance of information infrastructures in our lives, the factors that have contributed to India's development as an Information Infrastructure hub and why we should not take access to information infrastructures for granted.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 146mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780192857736
• ISBN-10: 0192857738
• Artikelnr.: 66123626

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter One
* 1: When Infrastructure Studies meets Digital India (DI)
* Chapter Two
* 2: Empire Infrastructure
* Chapter Three
* 3: The East India Company, the Victorian Internet and Information
Anxieties in India
* Chapter Four
* 4: Broadcasting, and Infrastructure Politics in post-Independent
India
* Chapter Five
* 5: The Satellite Infrastructure
* Chapter Six
* 6: The Infrastructure of Oceanic Cable
* Chapter Seven
* 7: 1. The Platformised Information State: Infrastructure, Anxieties
and Contestations
* Chapter Eight
* 8: Interpreting Information Infrastructures