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Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019 Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019. University of Michigan Press Downloaded on behalf of 134.76.229.183 Revised Pages Global Digital Cultures Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019. University of Michigan Press Downloaded on behalf of 134.76.229.183 Revised Pages Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019. University of Michigan Press Downloaded on behalf of 134.76.229.183 Revised Pages Global Digital Cultures Perspectives from South Asia ASWIN PUNATHAMBEKAR AND SRIRAM MOHAN, EDITORS UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS • ANN ARBOR Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019. University of Michigan Press Downloaded on behalf of 134.76.229.183 Revised Pages Copyright © 2019 by Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan All rights reserved This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publisher. Published in the United States of America by the University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid- free paper First published June 2019 A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication data has been applied for. ISBN: 978- 0- 472- 13140- 2 (Hardcover : alk paper) ISBN: 978- 0- 472- 12531- 9 (ebook) Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019. University of Michigan Press Downloaded on behalf of 134.76.229.183 Revised Pages Acknowledgments The idea for this book emerged from conversations that took place among some of the authors at a conference on “Digital South Asia” at the Univer- sity of Michigan’s Center for South Asian Studies. At the conference, there was a collective recognition of the unfolding impact of digitalization on various aspects of social, cultural, and political life in South Asia. We had a keen sense of how much things had changed in the South Asian mediascape since the introduction of cable and satellite television in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We were also aware of the growing interest in media studies within South Asian studies, and hoped that the conference would resonate with scholars from various disciplines across the humanities and social sci- ences. As it turned out, the conference exceeded our expectations and it became clear to us that a volume of essays on digital media and culture in South Asia could, in fact, contribute to a broader academic and public conversation about digital cultures worldwide. This would not have happened without the encouragement and sup- port of Farina Mir. As the Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at Michigan, Farina has created a brilliant and generous community of schol- ars and students. We have learned a great deal from our interactions with a wide- ranging group of South Asianists at Michigan, and while we cannot name everyone here, we are particularly grateful to Will Glover, Matthew Hull, Ram Mahalingam, Madhumita Lahiri, and Mrinalini Sinha for their advice and encouragement. This book is also part of a larger project on ‘Global Digital Cultures’ that we are coordinating through the Global Media Studies Initiative housed in the Department of Communication Studies at Michigan. We are grate- Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019. University of Michigan Press Downloaded on behalf of 134.76.229.183 Revised Pages vi • Acknowledgments ful to the International Institute for supporting our efforts through an Enterprise Grant, and current and former chairs of the Department of Communication Studies—Susan Douglas, Robin Means Coleman, and Nojin Kwak— for their enthusiastic support. The conference itself would not have been a success without stellar panel chairs, respondents, and note- takers. We would like to thank Madhumita Lahiri, Ram Mahalingam, Ken- taro Toyama, Joyojeet Pal, Lia Wolock, and Vishnupriya Das in particular. This project benefited greatly from the sharp insights and advice of colleagues including Katherine Sender, Megan Ankerson, Dan Herbert, Sarah Murray, Pavitra Sundar, Amanda Lotz, and Jean Christophe Plantin. Draft versions of the book’s introductory chapter were also discussed at the Media Studies Research Workshop, and we are thankful to Amanda Lotz and Annemarie Navar-Gill for launching and sustaining this crucial forum. Finally, we would like to thank Mary Francis and her colleagues at the University of Michigan Press for their enthusiastic support, engagement, and editorial care. Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019. University of Michigan Press Downloaded on behalf of 134.76.229.183 Revised Pages Contents Introduction: Mapping Global Digital Cultures 1 Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan Part One: Infrastructures one: Politics of Algorithms, Indian Citizenship, and the Colonial Legacy 37 Payal Arora two: Digital Television in Digital India 53 Shanti Kumar three: Imagining Cellular India: The Popular, the Infrastructural, and the National 76 Rahul Mukherjee four: Bridging the Deepest Digital Divides: A History and Survey of Digital Media in Myanmar 96 Daniel Arnaudo Part Two: Platforms five: Dating Applications, Intimacy, and Cosmopolitan Desire in India 125 Vishnupriya Das six: Anomalously Digital in South Asia: A Peri- Technological Project for Deaf Youth in Mumbai 142 Shruti Vaidya and Kentaro Toyama Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019. University of Michigan Press Downloaded on behalf of 134.76.229.183 Revised Pages viii • Contents seven: The Making of a Technocrat: Social Media and Narendra Modi 163 Joyojeet Pal eight: Twitter as Liveness: #ShamedInSydney and the Paradox of Participatory Live Television 184 Sangeet Kumar Part Three: Publics nine: The Remediation of Nationalism: Viscerality, Virality, and Digital Affect 203 Purnima Mankekar and Hannah Carlan ten: Clash of Actors: Nation- Talk and Middle- Class Politics on Online Media 223 Sahana Udupa eleven: Private Publics: New Media and Performances of Pakistani Identity from Party Videos to Cable News 245 Mobina Hashmi twelve: The Man on the Moon: A Semiotic Analysis of Scopic Regimes in Bangladesh 261 Muhammad Nabil Zuberi thirteen: Media and Imperialism in the Global Village: A Case Study of Four Malalais 280 Wazhmah Osman Contributors 297 Index 301 Digital materials related to this title can be found on the Fulcrum platform via the following citable URL: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9561751 Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019. University of Michigan Press Downloaded on behalf of 134.76.229.183 Revised Pages Introduction Mapping Global Digital Cultures Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan July Boys (Sonti 2006), a documentary film about a software company in Bangalore that develops content for mobile phones (e.g., games and movie clips), opens on a gleaming, high- tech office space in which five young men discuss strategy for their latest software project. We learn that the headquarters of this company, July Systems, is in Santa Clara, California, and that many of the engineers and executives leading the product devel- opment office in Bangalore have lived and worked in Silicon Valley before moving back to India. In exploring the cultural and business logics at work in this software company, the film focuses largely on the office interiors and situates the team’s work routines within a transnational network involving tech capitals in India, the United States, and Western Europe. Glimpses of the world outside the office— shots of a noisy streetscape crowded with vehicles and pedestrians— cut quickly to an air- conditioned interior with a tastefully designed break room, neatly ordered cubicles, and a gleaming restroom with a waiting area that has a comfortable couch and a television set. In this swanky interior space, one that seems completely disembedded from the rest of the city, the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Rajesh Reddy declares that people like him are “geography agnostic.” Other men working in the company also wax eloquent about entrepreneurial ener- gies being unleashed and, on the whole, offer explanations of India’s digital Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan, Editors, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia 2019. University of Michigan Press Downloaded on behalf of 134.76.229.183 Revised Pages 2 • global digital cultures revolution that rest on stories of individual talents and merit. Of course, Reddy- like figures are hardly unique to SouthAsia and emerge in accounts of digital culture in China, Ghana, and other parts of the world as well.1 If this kind of narrative of global mobility, seemingly unburdened by any economic, political, or sociocultural factors reveals one imaginary of the digital, another comes into view in the American television comedy Sil- icon Valley. In an episode titled “Daily Active Users,” we get a rare glimpse into the world of click-farms located in, as one article bluntly put it, “some third world country (think
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