Information Infrastructures in India
The Long View
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9780192857736
Publication date:
10/05/2022
Hardback
184 pages
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ISBN:
9780192857736
Publication date:
10/05/2022
Hardback
184 pages
Pradip Ninan Thomas
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.
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Pradip Ninan Thomas
Description
This book expores the past and present of information infrastructures in India. Grounded in infrastructure theory, it explores the historical continuities between information infrastructures in colonial and post-colonial India and the compulsions of information infrastructures in contemporary India. This volume highlights the roles played by private and public sector entities in shaping information infrastructures in India, the political economy of growth in this sector and the challenges faced by the State in regulating information platforms that are also information infrastructures. It includes separate chapters on oceanic cable infrastructures that account for more than 90 pecent of data traffic between India and the rest of the world and the political economy of India's satellite program. Taking the 'long view', it argues that the provisionings of information infrastructures are by no means straight forward, that they are always expressions that are shaped by internal and external contestations, by ideological ends and business imperatives, the needs of consumers/citizens and the State that there is a politics of infrastructure that needs to be accounted for and that there always are winners and losers in large infrastructural projects such as Digital India.
About the author:
Pradip Ninan Thomas teaches at the School of Communication and Arts, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Pradip Ninan Thomas
Table of contents
Chapter One
Chapter 1 When Infrastructure Studies meets Digital India (DI)
Chapter 2 Empire Infrastructure
Chapter 3 The East India Company, the Victorian Internet and Information Anxieties in India
Chapter 4 Broadcasting, and Infrastructure Politics in post-Independent India
Chapter 5 The Satellite Infrastructure
Chapter 6 The Infrastructure of Oceanic Cable
Chapter 7 1. The Platformised Information State: Infrastructure, Anxieties & Contestations
Chapter 8 Interpreting Information Infrastructures
Pradip Ninan Thomas
Pradip Ninan Thomas
Description
This book expores the past and present of information infrastructures in India. Grounded in infrastructure theory, it explores the historical continuities between information infrastructures in colonial and post-colonial India and the compulsions of information infrastructures in contemporary India. This volume highlights the roles played by private and public sector entities in shaping information infrastructures in India, the political economy of growth in this sector and the challenges faced by the State in regulating information platforms that are also information infrastructures. It includes separate chapters on oceanic cable infrastructures that account for more than 90 pecent of data traffic between India and the rest of the world and the political economy of India's satellite program. Taking the 'long view', it argues that the provisionings of information infrastructures are by no means straight forward, that they are always expressions that are shaped by internal and external contestations, by ideological ends and business imperatives, the needs of consumers/citizens and the State that there is a politics of infrastructure that needs to be accounted for and that there always are winners and losers in large infrastructural projects such as Digital India.
About the author:
Pradip Ninan Thomas teaches at the School of Communication and Arts, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Read MoreTable of contents
Chapter One
Chapter 1 When Infrastructure Studies meets Digital India (DI)
Chapter 2 Empire Infrastructure
Chapter 3 The East India Company, the Victorian Internet and Information Anxieties in India
Chapter 4 Broadcasting, and Infrastructure Politics in post-Independent India
Chapter 5 The Satellite Infrastructure
Chapter 6 The Infrastructure of Oceanic Cable
Chapter 7 1. The Platformised Information State: Infrastructure, Anxieties & Contestations
Chapter 8 Interpreting Information Infrastructures
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