Biswarup Sen Boeken

This book focuses on India - an emerging country that has recently witnessed a "software miracle" - to highlight the critical role informatics has historically played in the national imagination and to demonstrate how the state, private capital and civic society have drawn upon and engaged the precepts and protocols of the information age to fashion an "info-nation." Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Computer in Postcolonial History 2. The Rise of the Informational State 3. Info-Activism and Civil Society 4. Reality Television and Informational Culture 5. Conclusion