Unlimited
Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution
$134.50
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
21 April 2026
Summary
Around 2016, buoyed by affordable data plans of telecom companies, an aspirational neo-middle class of users in India accessed internet for the first time on their mobile phones. What kinds of digital infrastructures are emerging for content and money to move and reach such users? And how does their design impact access, exclusion, and surveillance as well as the horizon of social behaviors and expectations in “Digital India”?
In Unlimited, Rahul Mukherjee explores how aspira…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262552714 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026255271X |
| Author: | Rahul Mukherjee |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 21 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Distribution Matters |
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ENDORSEMENTS
“Unlimited is an extraordinarily path-breaking study of the electric, unstable infrastructures of aspiration in a decade where everything changed. Each chapter in this book crackles with original insights.”
—Ravi Sundaram, author of Pirate Modernity: Delhi’s Media Urbanism
“Unlimited reveals how the infrastructures that circulate money also circulate aspirations, anxieties, and risk. Mukherjee vividly and insightfully maps the real human stakes of India’s mobile transformations.”
—Lana Swartz, author of New Money: How Payment Became Social Media
“This is a landmark study of mobile media—essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the profound role the mobile phone plays in the foundations of digital societies globally.”
—Gerard Goggin, coauthor of Mobile Media Methods
Rahul Mukherjee
Rahul Mukherjee is Associate Professor of TV and New Media in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Radiant Infrastructures.
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