The mobile internet in the wild and every day: Digital leisure in the slums of urban India

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 611-626

  Rangaswamy, Nimmi ^a,b   Arora, Payal ^c  

^a Xerox Research Centre India   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD   (India)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

culture; entertainment; imaginaries; India; leisure; mobile internet; play; poor; slums; youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991336318     PISSN: 13678779     EISSN: 1460356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367877915576538     Document Type: Article

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