The 'Indian Techie' has become a global icon, taking its place alongside McDonalds and MTV as one of the key symbols of contemporary globalization. India and the IT Revolution explores the contemporary emergence of cosmopolitan, high-tech India as marking the arrival of a truly global cyberculture. It argues against the notion that globalization is a process of 'Westernization', which radiates out unilaterally from the core, imposing itself upon a passive, backward periphery. Instead, it conceives of global culture as a dynamic, innovative network, which proceeds primarily from its edges.

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ANNA GREENSPAN is an independent scholar working in the areas of digital culture and globalization, focusing particularly on Asia's giants, India and China. Anna currently spends her time teaching and writing in both Canada and Shanghai. She is a founding member of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit.

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Book Title: India and the IT Revolution
Book Subtitle: Networks of Global Culture
Authors: Anna Greenspan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510371
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3943-2Published: 08 October 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51994-1Published: 01 January 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51037-1Published: 08 October 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 202
Topics: Asian Economics, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Studies, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Media Studies, Sociology, general

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