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From Pessimism to Promise
A radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world. When it comes to tech, the mainstream headlines are bleak: Algorithms control and oppress. AI will destroy democracy and our social fabric, and possibly even drive us to extinction. While legitimate concerns drive these fears, we need to equally account for the fact that tech affords young people something incredibly valuable—a rare space for self-actualization. In From Pessimism to Promise, award-winning author Payal Arora explains that, outside the West, where most of the world’s youth reside, there is a significant different outl...
Visual Cultures in India
This book unpacks the complex relationship between media and visual culture in India, offering a critical lens for navigating our image-saturated world. This edited collection explores how we experience visuals beyond just seeing, while examining their creation, display, and interpretation across media.
Indian Transnationalism Online
Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left. This book investigates the online organization of, and exchanges within, the global Indian diaspora. Bringing together research from around the world and presenting studies drawn from the US, Europe and India, it engages with theoretical and methodological debates concerning the shaping and transformation of migrant culture in emerging sites of sociality, and explores issues such as religion, citizens...
Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society
The influence of austerity measures and neoliberal ideologies has sparked discussions about the relevance and value of academic institutions, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Universities are redirecting academic focus towards greater societal engagement. This book argues that academia has much to gain by moving beyond its institutional walls, in our case, by doing data work with stakeholders and civil society. This collaborative work benefits citizens in our democratic, open societies and advances our knowledge economies., Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society offers a combination of theoretical insights, practical methodologies, and case studies, showcasing the ...
Children, Media, and Technology
An accessible introduction to children, media, and technology that centers questions of access, diversity, equity, and inclusion to provide a timely and much-needed text for communication and media studies students and scholars. This book covers several long-standing as well as contemporary issues and controversies pertaining to media and youth, such as violence, cyberbullying and online harassment; body image disturbances and beauty norms; and responses to increasingly sophisticated marketing strategies. It also fully explores the ways in which media and technology use enriches the lives of children and teens and empowers them, with positive implications for their sense of self; learning an...
Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies
This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the essays in the volume engage with the subject in imaginative ways, each one going beyond documenting the persistence of gender inequality, instead raising new questions and dilemmas while unravelling the complexities of the terrain. They also interrogate extant knowledge that has ‘constructed’ women as ‘agentless’ over the years, incapable of contesting or transforming social orders – by taking a close look at gendered decision-making pro...
The Buffalo Thief
Jhotta the buffalo lives in the small Ganges town of Madpur. She is looked after by little Deepa and her blind grandmother Amma. This is a tale of a unique buffalo, magical yogurt, mythical lychees, and unquenchable ambition.
