Books by Payal Arora
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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 questi...ons and many more about the internet's next billion users.
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An ethnographic study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India that investigates alternative social practices with fresh technologies and media amongst a population that is for the most part undocumented.
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This book investigates Web 2.0 cyberleisure space by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It bridges the urban with the digital commons, revealing fresh insights on corporatization, privat...ization and democratization of new media spaces.
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Positing social networking sites as virtual leisure spaces, this book argues that the properties of these sites are by no means novel, but are rooted in historical, economic, social, and cultural spaces, tied to offline practices, and marked by similar political struggles.
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