Digital Unsettling - 9781479819140

Digital UnsettlingDecoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media\nAuthor(s): Sahana Udupa, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479819140, 978-1479819140\nSynopsis\nHow digital networks are positioned within the enduring structures of coloniality\n The revolutionary aspirations that fueled decolonization circulated on paperas pamphlets, leaflets, handbills, and brochures. Nowas evidenced by movements from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matterrevolutions, protests, and political dissidence are profoundly shaped by information circulating through digital networks. \n Digital Unsettling is a critical exploration of digitalization that puts contemporary \""decolonizing\"" movements into conversation with theorizations of digital communication. Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan interrogate the forms, forces, and processes that have reinforced neocolonial rel.