"Examines the commodification of knowledge and its mass production, the proliferation of knowledge workers, and the importance of information and communication technologies"--
"Examines the commodification of knowledge and its mass production, the proliferation of knowledge workers, and the importance of information and communication technologies"--
This book studies how knowledge society has created new conditions of marginalities while empowering people through new age connectivity.
"Examines the commodification of knowledge and its mass production, the proliferation of knowledge workers, and the importance of information and communication technologies"--
This book depicts the emergence of knowledge society across rural and urban spaces and among cross sections of social collectivities in India. It analyses the new economic momentum and socio-cultural milieu as set in motion with the emergence of this society. The ensuing impact …
Examines the commodification of knowledge and its mass production, the proliferation of knowledge workers, and the importance of information and communication technologies in India.
"Examines the commodification of knowledge and its mass production, the proliferation of knowledge workers, and the importance of information and communication technologies"--
An ethnography analyzing India s class of transnational information technology professionals and their influential ideas about what it means to be Indian.
An ethnography of Indian IT workers, with a focus on gender in the globalized workplace.
1. The computer in postcolonial history -- 2. The rise of the informational state -- 3. Info-activism and civil society -- 4. Reality television as informational culture.
The relationship between information and the nation-state is typically portrayed as a face-off involving repressive state power and democratic flows: Twitter and the Arab Spring, Google in China, WikiLeaks and the U.S. State Department. Less attention has been paid to those scen…
