Overload, Creep, Excess: An Internet from India [electronic resource].

Institute of Network Cultures 2022

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This book locates India’s flourishing internet within a complex 24-year history that has seen an unprecedented re-organization of social and political life. Three essays provide independent perspectives on a common area of inquiry, an era that witnessed a fundamental mutation of the State, its mechanisms of planning and governance, the public domain and the everyday, all mediated by digital technology, all impacting its internet. Bringing the essays together is a common timeline, which begins in the late 1970s, includes such landmarks as the Information Technology Act, the much-discussed Aadhaar biometric identification programme, the chequered career of social media, and the widespread use of internet shutdowns.
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Biometric identification
Digital media
Information Commons
Computer networks
Sociology

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Nishant Shah
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Nafis Hasan
Chinmayi Arun
Sunaina Dalaya
Katja van Stiphout
Tommaso Campagna
Jasmin Leech