Unlimited - Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution

How telecom companies in India have added a whole new group of mobile phone users--and the tremendous impact of this new reach. Around 2016, buoyed by affordable data plans of telecom companies This book traces the supply chains of content delivery networks enabling streaming video-on-demand services, such as Hotstar and SonyLiv, and informal ways of circulating vernacular Bhojpuri music videos through memory cards. It assesses the possibilities and limits of the platform economy with the rise of mobile payment and lending services, as well as the accompanying online scams.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Rahul Mukherjee
• Edition: The MIT Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.03.2026
• EAN: 9780262552714
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55271-4
• Pages: 304
• Thème: Distribution Matters
• Catégories: COMPUTERS / Internet / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, India, History of engineering and technology, Asian History, Internet: general works, History of engineering & technology, HISTORY / Asia / South / India