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  • Information Infrastructures in India

    The Long View

    by Pradip Ninan Thomas ...
    This book explores the past and present of information infrastructures in India. Grounded in infrastructure theory, it explores the historical continuities between information infrastructures in colonial and post-colonial India and the compulsions of information infrastructures in contemporary India. This volume highlights the roles played by private and public sector entities in shaping ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Platform Regulation

    Exemplars, Approaches, and Solutions

    by Pradip Ninan Thomas ...
    Over the last decade or two, a handful of powerful, monopolist platforms have embraced our lives worldwide. They intermediate our socialities and relationships, what we search for on the Internet, and our online purchases. We are living in a global economy that is fuelled by the monetization of affect. One is now only too aware that various platforms are very systematically using the advantages ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The Gig Economy in India

    Start-Ups, Infrastructure and Resistance

    by Pradip Ninan Thomas ...
    The Gig Economy in India explores the topic of gig work in India’s digital political economy, and the relationship between key factors such as start-ups, state governments, and platform providers.The book begins by placing the gig economy in context, defining the platform ecosystem and the Indian government’s perception of its problems and opportunities. Thomas then examines the critical ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Empire and Post-Empire Telecommunications in India

    A History

    by Pradip Ninan Thomas ...
    Telecommunications was vital to the imperial project and connecting India—the jewel in the British crown—was a key priority. However, intercolonial rivalries outside and within India as well as contestations between private and public ownership of telecommunications made that task difficult. The author explores these differences and ties the history of telegraph, cable, and wireless in British ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Politics of Digital India

    Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures

    by Pradip Ninan Thomas ...
    Series series Media Dynamics in South Asia
    Transforming India into a digital state has been an objective of successive governments in India. However, the digital, by its very nature, is a capricious, multi-dimensional entity. Its operationalization across multiple sectors in India has highlighted the fact that the digital compact with publics in India is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, devices such as mobile phones have enabled access ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Democratizing Global Media

    One World, Many Struggles

    by Majid Tehranian, Arthur-Martins Aginam, Kai Hafez, Jake Lynch, Robert W. McChesney, Annabel McGoldrick, Jan Oberg, Javier Protzel, Dov Shinar0, Seán Ó Siochrú1, Colin Sparks2, Annabelle Sreberny3, Pradip Ninan Thomas4 ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Democratizing Global Media explores the complex relationship between globalizing media and the spread of democracy around the world. An international, interdisciplinary group of journalists and scholars discusses key-and often contentious-issues such as the power of media, the benefits of media globalization, and the political role of media. More than a critique, Democratizing Global Media offers ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Arts, Culture and Community Development

    by Nilanjana Premaratna, Jennifer Beth Spiegel, Fiona Whelan, Samson Kei Shun Wong, Miikka Pyykkönen, Pradip Ninan Thomas, Ruth Pearce, Kirsty Lohman, Daniel Mutibwa, Apoena Mano, Palloma Menezes, Alexis Cortes, Sarah Shmaitilly, Célia Hassani, Arek Dakessian, Leon Rosselson, Sharon Cronin, Antonia Darder ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to communities?Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America, China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book explores the relationship between the arts, culture and community development.Academics and practitioners from six continents discuss how diverse communities understand, re-imagine or seek to change personal, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Interrogating the Theory and Practice of Communication for Social Change

    The Basis For a Renewal

    by Elske van de Fliert, Pradip Ninan Thomas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A new addition to the Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change series, this book sets the stage for subsequent books by identifying and analysing the current gaps in the field. It critically reviews the theory, practice and strategies of Communication for Social Change in relation to occurring structures, policies and discourses. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Platform Capitalism

    by Nick Srnicek ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the ... Read more

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  • Platform Socialism

    How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

    by James Muldoon ...
    'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform CapitalismWhoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom.Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these ... Read more

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  • Regulating Big Tech

    Policy Responses to Digital Dominance

    Edited by Martin Moore, Damian Tambini ...
    Selected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/. Since Digital Dominance was published in 2018, a global consensus has emerged that technology platforms should be regulated. Governments from the United States to Australia have sought to reduce the power of these platforms and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Urban Housing Manual

    Making Regulatory Frameworks Work for the Poor

    by Geoffrey Payne, Michael Majale ...
    Red tape is a significant stumbling block to the provision of affordable shelter to the urban poor and, indeed, slums are largely the result of inappropriate regulatory frameworks. This practice-oriented manual tackles the issue of regulatory frameworks for urban upgrading and new housing development, and how they impact on access to adequate, affordable shelter and other key livelihood assets, in ... Read more

    $87.99 USD