Information Infrastructures in India
The Long View
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ISBN:
9780192857736
Publication date:
03/08/2022
Hardback
192 pages
260x160mm
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ISBN:
9780192857736
Publication date:
03/08/2022
Hardback
192 pages
Pradip Ninan Thomas
Given India's ambitions to become a an information infrastrucrure hub, this volume provides an entry point for students and scholars to understand the importance of information infrastructures both from the point of view of the State and in our lives as private citizens/individuals.
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Pradip Ninan Thomas
Description
This book explores 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 per cent 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, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Arts at the University of QueenslandPradip 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).
Pradip Ninan Thomas
Table of contents
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 & Contestations
Chapter Eight
8:Interpreting Information Infrastructures
Pradip Ninan Thomas
Description
This book explores 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 per cent 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, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Arts at the University of QueenslandPradip 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).
Table of contents
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 & Contestations
Chapter Eight
8:Interpreting Information Infrastructures
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