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Author Thomas, Pradip, author.

Title The politics of digital India : between local compulsions and transnational pressures / Pradip Ninan Thomas
Edition First edition
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Media dynamics in South Asia
Media dynamics in South Asia.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Section I The Control State -- 1.The Expansion of Politics as Control: Surveillance in India -- 2.Leisure, Surveillance, and the Private Sector in India -- 3.Software Patent Manoeuvres -- Section II The Sovereign/Ambivalent State? -- 4.Digital (Transgenic) Seed and Its Copy -- 5.The Politics and Geopolitics of Internet Governance -- 6.The WIPO Treaty for the Visually Impaired as a Double Movement
Summary This volume 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
Notes This edition also issued in print: 2019
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2019)
Subject Digital media -- India
Information technology -- Political aspects -- India
Information technology -- Economic aspects -- India
Digital communications -- Political aspects -- India
Digital communications -- Economic aspects -- India
Digital media.
Information technology -- Economic aspects.
Information technology -- Political aspects.
India.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199097869
0199097860