India Connected (Record no. 56796)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20200826130228.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780190937089 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME | |
| Distributor Name | :International Book Distributors |
| Distributor address | :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi |
| Bill Number | :115473 |
| Bill Date | :13/07/2020 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 303.483 AGR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Agrawal, Ravi |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | India Connected |
| Remainder of title | : how the smartphone is transforming the world's largest democracy |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / Ravi Agrawal |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | : Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | viii, 230 pages |
| Dimensions | ; 25 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 550 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Contents note | Opportunity --<br/>Fearless in Rajasthan : women and the smartphone --<br/>Hello Macaulay : fixing education --<br/>Missed call : the phone and job creation --<br/>Society --<br/>Lord Kamadeva's digital bow : dating and marriage in the new India --<br/>Cyber sutra : the rise of pornography --<br/>India's iGen : the dark side of the internet --<br/>The state --<br/>Big brothers : internet shutdowns, and Facebook vs. India --<br/>The great Indian currency scramble : the rise of digital money. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The rise of smartphones, and with them access to the internet, has caused nothing short of a revolution in India. In the West, technological advances have progressed step-by-step - from landline phones, to dial-up connections on PCs, to broadband access, wireless, and now 4G data on phones. But the vast majority of Indians, particularly low-income and rural citizens, have leapfrogged straight to the smartphone era, disrupting centuries of tradition and barriers of wealth, language, literacy, caste, and gender. As always with India, the numbers are staggering: in 2000, 20 million Indians had access to the internet; by 2017, 465 million were online, with three Indians discovering the internet every second - mostly on smartphones. India Connected shows how widespread internet use is poised to transform everyday life in India: the status of women, education, jobs, dating, marriage, family life, commerce, and governance. Just as the car shaped 20th century America - with the creation of the Interstate Highway System, suburbia, and malls - the smartphone is set to shape 21st century India. The rise of low-cost smartphones and cheap data plans has meant the country leapfrogged the baby steps their Western counterparts took toward digital fluency. The results can be felt in every sphere of life, upending traditions and customs and challenging conventions. Nothing is untouched, from arranged marriages to social status to business start-ups, as smartphones move the entire economy from cash-based to credit-based. Access to the internet is affecting the progress of progress itself. As Agrawal shows, while they offer immediate and sometimes mind-altering access to so much for so many, smartphones create no immediate utopia in a culture still driven by poverty, a caste system, gender inequality, illiteracy, and income disparity. Internet access has provided greater opportunities to women and changed the way in which India's many illiterate poor can interact with the world, but it has also meant that pornography has become more readily available, and fake news more widespread. Under a government keen to control content, it has created tensions. And in a climate of nationalism, it has fomented violence and even terrorism. The influence of smartphones on "the world's largest democracy" is nonetheless pervasive and irreversible, and India Connected reveals both its dimensions and its implications." -- Amazon.com |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social Sciences |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social Processes |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Information society -- India. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Internet -- Social aspects -- India. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Internet -- Social aspects. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History / Social History. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social change -- India. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Sozialer Wandel |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Agrawal, Ravi |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
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