The state of the internets: Notes for a new historiography of technosociality
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The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories. ed. / Gerard Goggin; Mark McLelland. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. p. 49-60.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The state of the internets
T2 - Notes for a new historiography of technosociality
AU - Shah, Nishant
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - This chapter looks at the three different entry points that introduce new locations, objects, and frameworks by which the history of the Internets in India can be told. These are histories which are not about names and numbers, dates and events, gadgets and usage. Different attempts at historicizing the Internet in India have pointed at the electrification of the country, the telecommunication revolutions, and the mass adoption of the personal computer and the mobile phone as landmarks where it can all be supposed to have begun. Achuthan argues that the history of the Internet will have to begin with the history of the body, not in its use of technologies, but as it is written by the technological apparatus and the scientific industry of the nation state. With the Internet and networked technologies, though, the Indian state seems to be able to escape this paradox for the first time.
AB - This chapter looks at the three different entry points that introduce new locations, objects, and frameworks by which the history of the Internets in India can be told. These are histories which are not about names and numbers, dates and events, gadgets and usage. Different attempts at historicizing the Internet in India have pointed at the electrification of the country, the telecommunication revolutions, and the mass adoption of the personal computer and the mobile phone as landmarks where it can all be supposed to have begun. Achuthan argues that the history of the Internet will have to begin with the history of the body, not in its use of technologies, but as it is written by the technological apparatus and the scientific industry of the nation state. With the Internet and networked technologies, though, the Indian state seems to be able to escape this paradox for the first time.
KW - Digital media
KW - Media and communication studies
KW - Sociology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85025643918&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315748962
DO - 10.4324/9781315748962
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
AN - SCOPUS:85025643918
SN - 978-1-138-81216-1
SP - 49
EP - 60
BT - The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories
A2 - Goggin, Gerard
A2 - McLelland, Mark
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - New York
ER -