Rangaswamy, N and Arora, P
(2016)
The mobile internet in the wild and every day: Digital leisure in the slums of urban India.
International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19 (6).
pp. 611-626.
ISSN 1367-8779
Abstract
The wild and the everyday point at once to twinned aspects of life and, in this article, to a technological imaginary drawing upon the use of the mobile internet in urban slums of India. The article responds to the rather untethered way, from the point of view of state regulation, in which the telecom market in India has devolved to include poor populations, stoking a repertoire of unconventional daily use of the internet by youth living in slums. This article serves to locate the ‘wild and everyday’ as a specific sociocultural space in relation to use of mobile Facebook among young populations invisible to mainstream research on internet and culture. While development, as conventionally understood, is not focused on purposive outcomes of digital leisure practice (romance, play, entertainment), we argue that online engagements such as these are powerful precursors to ecologies of learning, reconstituting our understandings of global and mobile internet practice.
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| Item Type: |
Article
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
culture, entertainment, imaginaries, India, leisure, mobile internet, play, poor, slums, youth |
| Subjects: |
Social sciences > Asian Studies |
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Department of Liberal Arts |
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Team Library
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| Date Deposited: |
28 Oct 2016 05:41 |
| Last Modified: |
28 Oct 2016 05:41 |
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http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/2842 |
| Publisher URL: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877915576538 |
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http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1367-8779/ |
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