This book investigates the Internet as a site of political contestation in the Indian context. It widens the scope of the public sphere to social media and explores its role in shaping the resistance and protest movements on the ground. The volume also explores the role of the Internet a global technology in framing debates on the idea of the nation state especially India as well as diplomacy and international relations. It also discusses the possibility of whether Internet can be used as a tool for social justice and change particularly by the underprivileged to go beyond caste class gender and other oppressive social structures. A tract for our times this book will interest scholars and researchers of politics media studies popular culture sociology international relations as well as the general reader. |Political Internet State and Politics in the Age of Social Media | Asian Studies
