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How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to
communities? Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America,
China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book
explores the relationship between the arts, culture and community
development. Academics and practitioners from six continents
discuss how diverse communities understand, re-imagine or seek to
change personal, cultural, social, economic or political conditions
while using the arts as their means and spaces of engagement.
Investigating the theory and practice of 'cultural democracy', this
book explores a range of aesthetic forms including song, music,
muralism, theatre, dance, and circus arts.
How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to
communities? Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America,
China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book
explores the relationship between the arts, culture and community
development. Academics and practitioners from six continents
discuss how diverse communities understand, re-imagine or seek to
change personal, cultural, social, economic or political conditions
while using the arts as their means and spaces of engagement.
Investigating the theory and practice of 'cultural democracy', this
book explores a range of aesthetic forms including song, music,
muralism, theatre, dance, and circus arts.
A new addition to the Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social
Change series, this book sets the stage for subsequent books by
identifying and analysing the current gaps in the field. It
critically reviews the theory, practice and strategies of
Communication for Social Change in relation to occurring
structures, policies and discourses.
A new addition to the Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social
Change series, this book sets the stage for subsequent books by
identifying and analysing the current gaps in the field. It
critically reviews the theory, practice and strategies of
Communication for Social Change in relation to occurring
structures, policies and discourses.
This book locates Digital India in context. It deals with the many
ways in which Digital India is shaped by local pressures and
political expediencies as much as by global pressures, namely from
one of India's strongest allies, the USA. However, this
relationship with the USA is by no means straightforward and this
book illustrates the highs and lows of this relationship. As
importantly, this book deals with the larger Indian reality in
which the digital is but one sector, albeit an increasingly
important one. There are other sectors including agriculture and
the informal sectors on which many million Indians depend on their
livelihoods. These sectors too are becoming exposed to the digital
and this has resulted in the presence of multiple digital spheres
in India. This book deals with the ambivalent Indian State that is
on the one hand attempting to control its citizens through some of
these digital spheres while also investing in public access
projects such as Digital India and resisting the power of Big
Brother, namely the USA. This is an important contribution to
understanding Digital India precisely because it attempts to
account for some of its complexities.
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.
Over the last decade or two, a handful of powerful, monopolist
platforms have embraced our lives worldwide. They intermediate our
socialities and relationships, what we search for on the Internet,
and our online purchases. We are living in a global economy that is
fuelled by the monetization of affect. One is now only too aware
that various platforms are very systematically using the advantages
stemming from algorithmic power and platform externalities to mine
and privatize personal data that is in turn sold to advertisers who
target not just the present but also future economic behaviours of
users. One now also hears of the complicity of some of these
platforms in data breaches that have contributed to the making and
unmaking of political fortunes of key political parties across
geographies. This unprecedented power of platforms is, however,
being challenged today. Data breaches, evidence of platform
manipulations, platform complicities with state surveillance, and
their monopolist behaviours and its consequences for competition
and data privacy have become the basis for regulatory responses
from governments throughout the world. National and regional courts
of law have collected a lot of evidence on myriad forms of platform
illegalities that discriminate against competitors and that point
to the privatization of personal data on a global scale. The
proposed volume provides an introduction to some of the issues and
challenges related to platform regulation, the conundrums and
paradoxes involved, and also to some of the well-conceived and
manageable regulatory pathways currently being explored by national
and regional governments. It highlights regulatory responses from
four jurisdictions - the European Union, USA, India, and Australia.
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