South Asian TechnospacesRadhika Gajjala, Venkataramana Gajjala This book provides perspectives on how South Asian - often, more specifically, Indian - diasporas inhabit techno-mediated environments through their economic and socio-cultural activities. The themes examined include religion, caste, language, and gender in online communities and call centers, and the roles of these factors in the global economy, Bollywood online and offline, digital music, websites for arranging marriages, and so on. The book attempts to map «South Asia» in relation to global technospaces produced through and as a consequence of economic globalization efforts. |
Contents
Offline Geographies | 7 |
The Role of U S based Indian Diasporas in | 25 |
South Asian Technospaces and Indian Digital Diasporas? | 37 |
Sampling South Asian Music | 49 |
Digitally Assembling Bollywood | 71 |
Reformulating the Dalit Question | 97 |
Bringing the Basti Center | 123 |
Presence and Absence | 135 |
Making Sense | 179 |
Diasporic Indian Call Center | 205 |
Gaps Cracks and Ironies | 225 |
Peripheral Centers in the Global Office | 249 |
Moving On Remixing It Up Web 2 | 265 |
References | 275 |
Contributors | 297 |
Online Hindu Nationalism | 153 |
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