Digital Culture Unplugged: Probing the Native Cyborg's Multiple Locations / Edition 1

by Nalini Rajan

Overview

This edited volume is an exploration of the many different ways in which contemporary society negotiates digital technologies and media in South Asia. It especially focuses on cyber-religion, the notion of self-formation and digital technology, urban cybercultural phenomenon, digital era in cinema and photography that represent an eclectic mix of theoretical positions and practical domains.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415445450
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nalini Rajan is Associate Professor at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. She has held post-doctoral and Visiting fellowships at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, and at the Hastings Center, New York. She has published two academia books: Secularism, Democracy, Justice- Implications of Rawlsian principles in India, 1998, and Democracy and the Limits of Minority rights, 2002, apart from numerous articles in academic journals and collected volumes. Her novel, The Pangolin’s Tale, will be published later this year.

Table of Contents

Introduction Nalini Rajan 1. Exaggerated Obituaries: The Tamil Book in the Age of Electronic Reproduction A R Venkatachalapathy 2. Religion and Theology in the Information Society Felix Wilfred 3. Alterity, Technology, and Human Nature R Radhakrishnan 4. What Mobile Phones Make of Us A Srivathsan 5. The Unplugged City and the Global Nomad Andre Lemos and Julio Valentim 6. Internet, Mobiles, and the New Digital Lifestyle A Vishnu 7. Digitising the Sociological Imagination Rahul Srivastava 8. The 'Real' Story of Children's Publishing Sandhya Rao 9. The Digital Phenomenon: Panacea or Faustian Bargain Ashok Panikkar 10. Blog In, Blog Out Dilip D'Souza 11. The New Technologies and the Constitution of 'Theft' Nalini Rajan 12. Acting among the Shadows of the Screen Charlene Rajendran 13. Digital Cinema in India: Apparent Horizons K Hariharan 14. Radio Daze: A Medium in Churning Bindu Bhaskar 15. The Internet and the Bully Valerie Kaye. Notes on Editors and Contributors. Index