Description |
1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Technicities
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Technicities.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
This pioneering interdisciplinary collection works across mainstream and alternative spaces such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Grindr and gay men's health websites. These digital platforms are then situated within the socio-political situation in India, offering a new way of understanding queerness and Indian-ness. |
Contents |
1. Introduction. Queering digital India / Rohit K. Dasgupta and Debanuj DasGupta -- 2. Queering digital cultures : a roundtable conversation / Niharika Banerjea, Debanuj DasGupta, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Aniruddha Dutta, Radhika Gajjala, Amit S. Rai and Jack Harrison-Quintana -- 3. Digital closets : post-millennial representations of queerness in Kapoor & Sons and Aligarh / Rahul K. Gairola -- 4. Cruising the ephemeral archives of Bangalore's gay nightlife / Kareem Khubchandani -- 5. Digitally untouched : Janana (in) visibility and the digital divide / Ila Nagar -- 6. Digital outreach and sexual health advocacy : SAATHII as a response / Rohit K. Dasgupta -- 7. The TV9 sting operation on PlanetRomeo : absent subjects, digital privacy and LGBTQ activism / Pawan Singh -- 8. 'Bitch, don't be a lesbian' : selfies and same-sex desire / Sneha Krishnan -- 9. Disciplining the 'delinquent' : situating virtual intimacies, bodies and pleasures among friendship networks of young men in Kolkata, India / Debanuj DasGupta -- 10. Kashmiri desire and digital space : queering national identity and the Indian citizen / Inshah Malik. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Digital media -- Social aspects -- India.
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Digital media -- Social aspects. |
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India. |
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Gay men -- India -- Social life and customs.
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Gay men. |
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Manners and customs. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Subject |
Gay men. |
Added Author |
Dasgupta, Rohit K., editor.
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DasGupta, Debanuj, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Queering digital India. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 9781474421171 (OCoLC)1012713658 |
ISBN |
9781474421188 (electronic book) |
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1474421180 (electronic book) |
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9781474421195 (epub) |
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1474421199 (epub) |
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9781474421171 |
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1474421172 |
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1474421172 |
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9781474421171 |
Standard No. |
9781474421171 |
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