Join us for our first lunch seminar this spring semester with Dr Anirban Baishya, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Arts
Abstract:
Through its Digital India initiative, the Indian government has initiated and facilitated a host of infrastructural and policy changes. These changes have also transformed the way citizenship is imagined by the state, and how citizens themselves “communicate” with the state through platforms, apps and other services. Tracking such transformations in the digital public, this talk examines emergent forms of infrastructural citizenship that demands, more and more, the embedding of private data within the “public” (and potentially surveillant) machinery of the platform state.