When we work or play through digital technologies we also live in them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in the past and still do we have never before actually synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes and networks in quite the way we do now. Digital Diasporas engages conversations across a selection of contemporary (gendered) Indian identified networks online: Desis creating place through labour and affective network formation in secondlife, Indian (diasporic) women engaged in digital domesticity, to Indian digital feminists engaged in debate and dialogue through Twitter. Through particular conversations and ethnographic journeys and linking back to personal and South Asian histories of Internet mediation, Gajjala and her co-authors reveal how affect and gendered digital labour combine in the formation of global socio-economic environment.
Acknowledgements Introduction: Labor and Affect in Gendered Digital Diasporas Part I: 1. Placing South Asian Digital Diasporas in Second Life by Radhika Gajjala 2. Whatsappified Diasporas of Indian Women: Persistent Communication, Circuits of Affect, and Relationality through Appified Interaction by Radhika Gajjala and Tarishi Verma 3. Dialogue Interlude on The Queer Question by Radhika Gajjala in conversation with Smita Vanniyar Part II 4. Gendered Indian Digital Publics: Digital Domesticity by Radhika Gajjala 5. Dialogue Interlude on Ghar and Bahir by Radhika Gajjala in conversation with Sriya Chattopadhyaya, Sarada Nori, Shobha S.V., and Puthiya Purayil Sneha Part III 6. Gendered Indian Digital Publics: Digital Streets by Radhika Gajjala 7. Dialogue Interludes on Indian digital [feminist] streets Conclusion: Afterthoughts: Different ways of writing together - Radhika Gajjala and Kaitlyn Wauthier Bibliography Index Author Bios
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