Civil Society Movements and the ‘Twittering Classes’ in the Postcolony: An Indian Case Study

Harindranath, Ramaswami; Khorana, Sukhmani

doi:10.1080/00856401.2012.744285

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“…Several studies analyze how social media played an important and strategic role in the anti-corruption Jan Lokpal movement (Neyazi, 2018;Rodrigues, 2014). Harindranath and Khorana (2014) in their study of the anti-corruption movement argue that the combination of Gandhian strategies such as hunger strike and non-violence techniques trademark of anti-colonial struggles and mixing them with the use of modern technologies reflect the specific nature of mobilization in a postcolonial society. Similarly, the role of Internet and mobile computational media in mobilization for protesting Delhi gang rape of December 2012 received much academic attention (Ahmed, Jaidka, & Cho, 2017;Belair-Gagnon, Mishra, & Agur, 2014;Losh, 2014;Poell & Rajagopalan, 2015).…”

Section: Icts and Politicsmentioning

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Communication and technology theories from the South: the cases of China and India

Zhang

Neyazi

2020

Annals of the International Communication Association

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This paper takes an alternative approach to understanding theory as description. New theoretical propositions and knowledge practices need to grow out of the comparisons between descriptions, especially comparisons between the Southern cases. Using China and India as two cases, this paper reviews the descriptions of communication technology in the two countries and compares the descriptions. Through such comparisons, the paper concludes that the communication technology studies on China and India provide three theoretical insights: firstly, the state-society relationship shapes communication technology; secondly, the increasing pluralization or hybridity of the cyberspace shapes how communication technology is used; and lastly, it is the quest for finding one's self (or selves) in a Chinese/Indian modernity that could provide references to other contexts.

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Section: Icts and Politicsmentioning

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Communication and technology theories from the South: the cases of China and India

Zhang

Neyazi

2020

Annals of the International Communication Association

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“…While these data suggest massive participation of Indians on the Internet, particularly on SNS, there was very little research on the way young Indians use their digital selves for self‐presentation or self‐expression. Specific anecdotal instances, such as social campaigns, have been the focus of research in this domain (Chattopadhyay, ; Harindranath & Khorana, ) but the self‐construction of Indian Internet users has not so far been explored. Moreover, gendered expression and construction on SNS has not been studied in the Indian context.…”

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Young adults and their digitally extended selves: Assessing the impact of gender

Nargundkar

Nafees

Kushal

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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This paper explored the concept of the extended self in the context of virtual realities and spaces, and through the prism of gender. It demonstrated the manner in which selves are constructed and presented on social media platforms. Through this enquiry, the study showed that both genders engage in self‐construction in diverse ways, with different impacts in terms of the tools used for self‐presentation. The study can be useful in terms of assessing young adults' behaviors in the virtual arena and analyzing the various ways of extending self.

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“…This understanding helps situate the present study of emergent cultural activism through social media in the empirical city context of Lucknow. Recent research has highlighted the significance of social media and new modes of communication on social movements (Harindranath and Khorana 2014; Kadoda and Hale 2015; Sakr 2013) on civic engagement and neighbourhood associations (Johnson and Halegoua 2015); digital neighbourhoods (Anselin and Williams 2015); social capital (Kingsley and Townsend 2006); election outcomes (Barclay et al 2015) and political beliefs (Wang 2014). This essay is an exploration of social media on place-making processes seen in the form of profusion of citizen-driven cultural activism currently witnessed in the city of Lucknow.…”

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Social Media, Cultural Activism and Place-making in Contemporary Lucknow

Singh

2018

Society and Culture in South Asia

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The growing presence of the virtual world has made inroads into new ways of citizen cultural activism that call for an exploration and re-imagining of the idea of place and place-making in contemporary networked societies, cities in particular. This article is based on an analysis of such activism in contemporary Lucknow around its distinct cultural forms such as cuisine, heritage architecture, dance, music and literature actively deploying social media. It argues that social media has bolstered new and existing citizen cultural activism and facilitates place-making by connecting citizens to the city’s cultural specificities. Together with the aggressive use of social media as part of local government strategies for citizen engagement made mandatory under the Heritage Arc and the Smart Cities Plan (SCP) launched in 2014 and 2015, respectively, place-making processes revolve around hosting festivals, street plays, crafts and arts exhibitions, book launches, discussions, film screenings, heritage walks, writers meets and marathons. Resultantly, the idea of place as having shared meanings and sentimental value is resurrected in the face of the homogenising tendencies of cultural globalisation.

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Civil Society Movements and the ‘Twittering Classes’ in the Postcolony: An Indian Case Study

Cited by 12 publications

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Communication and technology theories from the South: the cases of China and India

Communication and technology theories from the South: the cases of China and India

Young adults and their digitally extended selves: Assessing the impact of gender

Social Media, Cultural Activism and Place-making in Contemporary Lucknow

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