The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West

by Payal Arora

Book Overview

A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle East--home to most of the world's internet users--and discovers that what they are doing is not what we imagine.

New-media pundits obsess over online privacy and security, cyberbullying, and revenge porn, but do these things really matter in most of the world? The Next Billion Users reveals that many assumptions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674983785
• ISBN13: 9780674983786
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"