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Typology of Web 2.0 spheres: Understanding the cultural dimensions of social media spaces
- Payal Arora
- Geography, Sociology
- 1 September 2012
It has taken the past decade to commonly acknowledge that online space is tethered to real place. From euphoric conceptualizations of social media spaces as a novel, unprecedented and revolutionary… Expand
Bottom of the Data Pyramid: Big Data and the Global South
- Payal Arora
- Sociology
- 14 March 2016
To date, little attention has been given to the impact of big data in the Global South, about 60% of whose residents are below the poverty line. Big data manifests in novel and unprecedented ways in… Expand
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The mobile internet in the wild and every day: Digital leisure in the slums of urban India
- N. Rangaswamy, Payal Arora
- Geography, Sociology
- 1 November 2016
The wild and the everyday point at once to twinned aspects of life and, in this article, to a technological imaginary drawing upon the use of the mobile internet in urban slums of India. The article… Expand
Hope-in-the-Wall? A digital promise for free learning
- Payal Arora
- Sociology, Computer Science
- Br. J. Educ. Technol.
- 1 September 2010
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Digital leisure for development: reframing new media practice in the global South
- Payal Arora, N. Rangaswamy
- Sociology, Geography
- 1 July 2013
textabstractPhotoshopping of newlyweds, downloading the latest movies, teens flirting on social network sites and virtual gaming may seem like typical behavior in the West; yet in the context of a… Expand
The leisure divide: can the ‘Third World’ come out to play?
- Payal Arora
- Sociology, Engineering
- 1 May 2012
As billions of dollars are invested in mitigating the digital divide, stakes are raised to gain validity for these cost-intensive endeavors, focusing more on online activities that have clear… Expand
Decolonizing Privacy Studies
- Payal Arora
- Sociology
- 1 May 2019
This paper calls for an epistemic disobedience in privacy studies by decolonizing the approach to privacy. As technology companies expand their reach worldwide, the notion of privacy continues to be… Expand
Top ranking fashion blogs and their role in the current fashion industry
- Kristina Sedeke, Payal Arora
- Computer Science, Engineering
- First Monday
- 1 July 2013
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THE END OF THE ART CONNOISSEUR? EXPERTS AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE VISUAL ARTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
- Payal Arora, Filip Vermeylen
- Art, Sociology
- 28 February 2013
In this digital age, declarations surface of the death of the expert and the democratization of information. Crowd wisdom is seen as the new guide in constructing and evaluating knowledge. In the… Expand
Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins
- Payal Arora, Laura Scheiber
- Political Science, Medicine
- Media, culture, and society
- 3 February 2017
Facebook has consolidated its position as the one-stop-shop for social activity among the poor in the global South. Sex, romance, and love are key motivations for mobile and Internet technology usage… Expand