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This volume provides a critical examination of the evolution of
platform economies in India. Contributions from leading media and
communications scholars present case studies that illustrate the
social and economic ambitions at the heart of Digital India. Across
interdisciplinary domains of business, labour, politics, and
culture, this book examines how digital platforms are embedding
automated systems into the social fabrics of everyday life.
Encouraging readers to explore the phenomenon of platformisation in
context, the book uncovers the distinctive features of platform
capitalism in India.
This volume provides a critical examination of the evolution of
platform economies in India. Contributions from leading media and
communications scholars present case studies that illustrate the
social and economic ambitions at the heart of Digital India. Across
interdisciplinary domains of business, labour, politics, and
culture, this book examines how digital platforms are embedding
automated systems into the social fabrics of everyday life.
Encouraging readers to explore the phenomenon of platformisation in
context, the book uncovers the distinctive features of platform
capitalism in India.
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.
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