2016-11-01
The mobile internet in the wild and every day: Digital leisure in the slums of urban India
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International Journal of Cultural Studies , Volume 2015 - Issue Online before print p. 1- 16
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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| doi.org/10.1177/1367877915576538, hdl.handle.net/1765/78082 | |
| ERMeCC - Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture | |
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| Organisation | Department of Media and Communication |
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Rangaswamy, N., & 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, 2015(Online before print), 1–16. doi:10.1177/1367877915576538 |
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