In this chapter, I argue that formalization, not as a simple economic fact ascertained by
licensed product sale but as a force determining the performative temperament, stands at …

This article introduces the special issue of Mapping the Music and Video Streaming
Landscape and its Disruptions in Southeast Asia by identifying three ways in which the …

Examining user practices at the centre of debates on video content consumption amidst the
popularity of streaming platforms in Indonesia, this paper uses de Certeau's work (1984) to …

This article investigates the digital networks within informal settlements in Delhi through an
ethnographic and practice-based research methodology. By studying top-up and media …

This article reviews a decade of research, published in the journal Asiascape: Digital Asia
(dias), that explored the question of how digital technologies and their usage have shaped …

Almost a century after his birth and several decades after his death, the specter of Satyajit
Ray continues to haunt Bengali “new cinema.” This essay looks at the afterlives of the Ray …

In the last 50–60 odd years, Bengalis have had very few heroes… Because of this, we have
this tendency to go back to the past continuously and dig out whoever/whatever had …

* Akshaya Kumar, Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of
Technology, Indore be made at least notionally available to Telugu speakers across social …

In August 1995, Jyoti Basu, then chief minister of West Bengal, called Union Telecom
Minister Sukhram on a Nokia mobile phone,“ringing in” the cell phone revolution in India …