Subject to technology: internet pornography, cyber-terrorism and the Indian state.
The Indian state, when it announced the opening of its borders - physical and imaginary - to globalisation, also embraced new digital technologies of telecommunication and transportation in its attempt to reconfigure itself as a global player in the world market. The neo-liberal economic policies an...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 349 - 367 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2007
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