Right to Know - India's Internet Avant-Garde

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Right to Know is an ethnographic (and anecdotal) podcast series about people coming to terms with the internet in some of India’s poorest rural and tribal districts, where many have not seen a television, or as in the ancient city of Chanderi, locals are still coming to terms with cars and scooters.…

Andrew Garton

  • Jun 3, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 20m AVG DURATION
  • 4 EPISODES


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Right to Know - Episode 4 - Digital literacy and the perils of social activism in India

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2019 25:28


We discover the perils of social activism in India and whether learning how to use Microsoft Notepad and Paint is digital literacy. Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to know is adapted from the book Right to Know - India's Internet Avantgarde [PDF].

Right to Know - Episode 3 - The unheard will not remain unseen

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2019 20:56


We visit the ancient city of Chanderi home to four and a half-thousand weavers, we are inundated with terrifically bad smells and we find a pirate radio broadcaster living a few hours drive from where the Buddha had first meditated. Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to know is adapted from the book Right to Know - India's Internet Avantgarde [PDF].

Right to Know - Episode 2 - Reaching the unreachable

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2019 17:42


We travel to the Indo-Nepalese border and listen in on two public meetings where some people discover, for the first time, just what a pension is and a building we are filming in is struck by lightning. Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to know is adapted from the book Right to Know - India's Internet Avantgarde [PDF].

Right to Know - Episode 1 - Into the Media Dark

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2019 18:45


We discover what the United Nations Development Program means by India's media dark, we find a broadband wireless tower made entirely from junk and children from different castes sing together on a video conferencing platform in Rajasthan. Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to know is adapted from the book Right to Know - India's Internet Avantgarde [PDF].

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