The Next Billion Users - Digital Life Beyond the West

Why do citizens of states with strict surveillance care so little about their digital privacy? Why do Brazilians eschew geo-tagging on social media? What drives young Indians to friend "foreign¿ strangers on Facebook and give "missed calls¿ to people? Payal Arora answers these questions and many more about the internet's next billion users.

About the author

Payal Arora is the author of the award-winning Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0 and Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas and is Associate Professor in the School of History, Culture, and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has research and consulting experience in both the private and public sectors, including with Kellogg, the World Bank, Christie’s, Shell, HP, GE, the Ministry of Education in Jordan, Siemens, and UNESCO.

Product details

• Authors: Payal Arora, Arora Payal
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780674983786
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98378-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 213 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Developing Countries, Behavioural economics, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Social & Behavioral, Global South / Developing countries