The Networked Media Economy and the Indian Gilded Age
This chapter examines how the rapid growth of the networked media economy has become aligned with the broader development of digital platforms in India. Given debates over new forms of economic dependency arising from the power of digital platforms, the chapter critically explores a Braudelian model...
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| description | This chapter examines how the rapid growth of the networked media economy has become aligned with the broader development of digital platforms in India. Given debates over new forms of economic dependency arising from the power of digital platforms, the chapter critically explores a Braudelian model of global capitalism in the context of the specific state-capital relationships that have fostered an ‘Indian Gilded Age’. It analyses the development of Jio Platforms, India’s largest telecommunications firm and a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), which is owned and controlled by the country’s wealthiest individual, Mukesh Ambani. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-876492022-10-07T00:48:16Z The Networked Media Economy and the Indian Gilded Age Fitzgerald, Scott This chapter examines how the rapid growth of the networked media economy has become aligned with the broader development of digital platforms in India. Given debates over new forms of economic dependency arising from the power of digital platforms, the chapter critically explores a Braudelian model of global capitalism in the context of the specific state-capital relationships that have fostered an ‘Indian Gilded Age’. It analyses the development of Jio Platforms, India’s largest telecommunications firm and a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), which is owned and controlled by the country’s wealthiest individual, Mukesh Ambani. 2020 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87649 10.1007/978-3-030-44563-8_3 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Fitzgerald, Scott The Networked Media Economy and the Indian Gilded Age |
| title | The Networked Media Economy and the Indian Gilded Age |
| title_full | The Networked Media Economy and the Indian Gilded Age |
| title_fullStr | The Networked Media Economy and the Indian Gilded Age |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Networked Media Economy and the Indian Gilded Age |
| title_short | The Networked Media Economy and the Indian Gilded Age |
| title_sort | networked media economy and the indian gilded age |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87649 |