Contents
Introduction: Mapping Global Digital Cultures / Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan
Part One: Infrastructures
One: Politics of Algorithms, Indian Citizenship, and the Colonial Legacy / Payal Arora
Two: Digital Television in Digital India / Shanti Kumar
Three: Imagining Cellular India: The Popular, the Infrastructural, and the National / Rahul Mukherjee
Four: Bridging the Deepest Digital Divides: A History and Survey of Digital Media in Myanmar / Daniel Arnaudo
Part Two: Platforms
Five: Dating Applications, Intimacy, and Cosmopolitan Desire in India / Vishnupriya Das
Six: Anomalously Digital in South Asia: A Peri-Technological Project for Deaf Youth in Mumbai / Shruti Vaidya and Kentaro Toyama
Seven: The Making of a Technocrat: Social Media and Narendra Modi / Joyojeet Pal
Eight: Twitter as Liveness: #ShamedInSydney and the Paradox of Participatory Live Television / Sangeet Kumar
Part Three: Publics
Nine: The Remediation of Nationalism: Viscerality, Virality, and Digital Affect / Purnima Mankekar and Hannah Carlan
Ten: Clash of Actors: Nation-Talk and Middle-Class Politics on Online Media / Sahana Udupa
Eleven: Private Publics: New Media and Performances of Pakistani Identity from Party Videos to Cable News / Mobina Hashmi
Twelve: The Man on the Moon: A Semiotic Analysis of Scopic Regimes in Bangladesh / Muhammad Nabil Zuberi
Thirteen: Media and Imperialism in the Global Village: A Case Study of Four Malalais / Wazhmah Osman
Contributors
Index