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27 Cards in this Set
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Smitha (2008) |
Beauty pagent + hindu nationalism tied up in globalisaiton and globalising values |
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Baviskar and RAy (2001) / Fernandes and Heller (2006) |
Work done by the notion of middle class and IT professional success |
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Nisbett (2007) |
Cybercafe in BAngalore 'young sucessful males' sharing cigarettes etc. |
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Charkaborty (2010) |
Cybercafe in Kalkota slums - girls search better partners and empowered through space. |
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Fuller and Narasimham (2007) |
Social confidence of middle class IT workers in Chennai - derives from middle class status. Exceptions made for women |
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Parkinson (2014) |
internet and apps + twitter playing role in the social and policital sphere and have been seen in recent national elections |
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Jeffrey and Doron (2013) |
Mobile phone adoption in India is growing signficaintly - far outstripping landline or internet subscritpiosn.
2010 - India had 688 million phone conenctions for pop of 1.2
=> 1 in 6 indians but this is more access than to toilets or good santitation |
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Kathuria and Rajat (2009) |
This is lagging behind similar countries e.g. Sri Lanka, China and Pakistan.
Some less developed states - Bihar, Orrisa, Jharkhand less than 20% penetration.
Some help women - e.g. SEWA (self employed womans association)
Delivery of e-services by state in Kerala in 8 departments |
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Donner (2009) |
Growing and enthusiastic discourse around role of phone in facilitating economic development of disenfranchised groups.
- but changes in degree rather than in strucutre - Jensen (2007)+ follow up studies
May help 'demand side' of governance equation. |
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Jensen (2007) |
positive otucomes - increased productivity - reduced waste - higher income for fishermen - better security |
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Stats |
India penetration rate - 19% US 97% EU 75% BRICS - Brazil (53%), Russia (59%), China (46%) INDIA LAGS |
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Antique (2012) |
Complex picture. - take seriously the fact that media has entrenched two or three tier system of meid aproduction.
- critical of the notion that media accelerates development |
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Rangaswamy et al (2013) |
ethnographic study in slums in Hyderabad and Chennai.
Facebook for relationships => but different from use in the West)
Heterosexual norms, friending aspirationally beyond contextual affordances.
Powerfully combine several elements of personhood into a single repository.
mobile phone is central access point for multi-media affordances |
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Ronald Robertson |
Challenged the americanisation thesis - example japneese engagement with american popular culture - reworked it from an idigenous perspective producing a hybrid product that interlaced global with local lending to 'glocalisation'
=> acceleration in cultural mixing, giving rise to a global 'melange' of interrelated cultures. |
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Schittway (2009) |
PArticular feature in INdia is the confluence of commercial exploitation and for development purposes + tension surroudnign new media technologies as a meeting place of the old and new India. |
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Anna Hazare |
Middle class activism around Jan Lokpal bill (2011) |
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Delhi Public School scandal |
Ravindran (2007) 'moral panic agents' police proliferation of mobile pohones.
Banned at Anna University in Chennai.
IN 2006 indian parliament introduced legislation that sought to reuglate use of mobile phones. |
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Terrorist attacks in Mumbai (2008) |
Captures on blogs and citizen journalims activist. Also centre of rumours. |
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Marshall et al (2008) |
Indians less strident privacy choices than their American counter parts. |
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www.shaadi.com |
Dating sites have extended and (in some cases) made easier the practices associated with arranged marriages.
But also subvertion and love marraiges.
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Sharma (2008) |
By allowing young peopel to place their own adds socail networking sites are enabling them to navigate the tension between arranged and love marraiges, providing a sense of choice for Indian you operating withitn the constraints of values surrounding education, status, caste and complexion. |
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Chopra (2008) |
BJP using the interet to spread its message. |
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Iqbal (2007) |
Men decide how women spend time / money on a phone |
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Tenhunen (2008) |
Study in West Bengal women gain greater mobility but the stigma associated with mobility remains |
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Chanda (2005) |
mobile phones are masculine cultural technologies |
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Ravindran (2008) |
2006 (following Delhi Public School Scandal) India gov. introduced legilsation to regulate use of mobile phones. |
