The Digitized Imagination: Encounters with the Virtual World by Nalini Rajan (Ed.) - 2009

Routledge/Star Educational Books Distributor Pvt. Ltd, 2009. Hardcover. New. This work explores key dimensions of digitized imagination, ranging from Science and Cinema to citizenship and bazaars. Examining Complex and profound implications of digital Technology in the contemporary milieu, the book Maps the multiple Ways in which the `new` media rewrites the `old`, and the dilemmas and issues that they pitch, questioning, in turn, received notions of knowledge, legality, ethics, privacy, identity and community. It argues that the old and the new media are neither radically different nor the same. Tracing the Transition from the `broadly knowledgeable` 16 century scholar of literature to today`s specialist in linguistics, the book highlights the paradox that the fantastic speed of Knowledge growth also entails that we know less and less of the whole, with each succeeding era. Many of a the contributions in this volume address these issues in the context of India and other developing Nations of the south, focusing on how users negotiate and adapt technology in a digital culture that appropriates a cohesive body of knowledge across disciplines, and how this creates new configurations of power and resistance in the process. Contents Introduction/Nalini Rajan 1. A Brief History of the Internet from the 15 to the 18 Century/Lawrence Liang 2. The Cut and Thrust of Eisenstein`s Montage/Sashi Kumar 3. Academics v. the Rest : Some Questions Around the Issue of Plagiarism/Arvind Sivaramakrishnan 4. Inventive Science : The Question of Ethics/Vijaya Swaminath 5. Whose Dna is it, Anyway? Expanding DNA Databanks Raise Human Rights Concerns/Sujatha Byravan 6. Thank you for Saving Hindus` : Reflections on Hindu Hatred in the Digital Age/Subarno Chattarji 7. The New Politics of the New Media/Yuk Hui 8. Bebo-ing the South Seas : from tin Cans to the Internet in the Pacific/Michael Field 9. Weaving an India with Mailing Lists/Frederick Noronha 10. Digital Dreams/Baradwaj Rangan 11. Architecture in the Era of Digital Imagination/A Srivathsan 12. Technological Ruins : A Short Essay/Ravi Sundaram 13. Nehru Place, or why the Whole is More Than the Sum of its Parts/Aman Sethi 14. End of Technological Innocence/Subramanya Sastry 15. `Domasticating` Technology/Subashree Krishnaswamy Printed Pages: 184.