India digitalized: surveillance, platformization, and digital labour in India.
This article critically engages with the rationale of Digital India, a flagship programme of the Government of India, launched in 2015. It argues that this programme has been instrumental for the state and the corporate sector in order to steadily create a system of surveillance capitalism which col...
| Published in: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 297 - 311 |
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