ISBN:
9789811599347
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (139 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48340954
Keywords:
Media sociology
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Literature, general
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Cyber-Critiques: Of Exclusion, Surveillance, and Co-optation -- Cyber-Politics: The New Media and Alternative Modes of Resistance -- Cyber-Aesthetics and Narratives of Leisure -- Cyber-Narratives: Roleplaying, Interactivity, and Authority -- References -- Part ICyber-Critiques: Of Exclusion, Surveillance and Co-optation -- 2 Finless Fishes in the Cyberian Sea: Internet and Exclusion in India -- Introduction -- References -- 3 Surveillance as Norm -- A Short History of Surveillance -- Tools of Surveillance -- Surveillance for Commercial and Political Interests -- Surveillance for 'common good' -- Surveillance and Media -- References -- 4 Cyberspace and the Illusions of Ultra-Democracy -- Born into Neoliberalism -- The Political Possibilities -- References -- Part IICyber-Politics: The New Media and Alternative Modes of Resistance -- 5 Digital Feminist Interventions: A Critical Assessment of the Pink Chaddi Campaign and #MeToo in India -- References -- 6 New Media, Identity and Minorities: The Role of Internet in Mainstreaming of Muslims in India -- State of Muslims in India -- New Media as Harbinger of Change? -- Scope for an Alternative Media -- TwoCircles.Net as an Alternative News Portal -- Muslim Youths' Forum Against Communalism, Terrorism, and Sedition -- Twitter Trends -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IIICyber-Aesthetics and Narratives of Leisure -- 7 Cyberspace and the Aesthetics of Contemporary Perception -- References -- 8 A Cyberian Turn in Pornography: Understanding Internet as a Sexual Medium -- References -- 9 'Yeh Bik Gai Hai Gormint' Understanding Meme Culture in India -- Introduction -- References.
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