Digital Frontier

Sangeet Kumar is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Communication Department at Denison University where he teaches and conducts research in the global dimensions of digital media platforms and culture. He also serves as the Director of the International Studies program at Denison. Prior to his academic career he briefly worked as a journalist with a leading Indian daily in New Delhi, India.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Infrastructures of Control2. Frontier3. Knowledge4. Selfhood5. SovereigntyConclusionBibliographyIndex

"Finally here is a truly global perspective on digital media technologies. Sangeet Kumar's The Digital Frontier offers a much needed comprehensive analysis of technological infrastructures that undergird the cultural architecture of the Web while making sense of the geopolitical contests played out over these technologies. Kumar's work is original and inspiring: an eye-opener for students and scholars of the internet."—José van Dijck, professor of media and digital society and author of The Culture of Connectivity and The Platform Society, Utrecht University"Sangeet Kumar takes us beyond the lazily Americanist vision of most internet studies. With a deep imagination for fresh critiques and savvy eye for compelling case studies, he reveals the vexed entanglements of freedom and control on the web from the geopolitical vantage point of the global south."—John Durham Peters, author of The Marvelous Clouds and Promiscuous Knowledge, Professor of English, Film and Media Studies at Yale University