The workshop on ‘Digital Cultures Transforming South Asia’ organized by the Sarai programme of CSDS explored the transformation that mediated lives in South Asia are undergoing in this contemporary digital moment. The emergence of the digital disrupts every sphere of our present-day lives in myriad ways. This can also be an opportunity to discuss the binaries that inhabit our current critical consensus in South Asia politically, economically, socially, and culturally. The binaries are in the form of conformism/antagonism, private/public, memory/oblivion, among others. A lot has been said about the affect of the overwhelmingness of the information economy. It is important to analyse these transformation taking place through a range of media objects, and platforms as it sublimates from global to local digital cultures.
It brings together researchers to deliberate on these varied mediated lives that we see being lived in South Asia in the present by discussing the following questions:
• How do digital objects affect broader social and political shifts in South Asia?
• What shapes the new experiences of various new media forms and subcultural politics?
• What purpose do these media infrastructures and indigenous subjectivities serve in the larger understanding of the region?
• What’s driving South Asia’s politics of digital transformation whether it means labour, memory or gender?
Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 10 am-5 pm, Zoom http://bit.ly/3E9tm8n
