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The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
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Why do citizens of states with strict surveillance care so little about their digital privacy? Why do Brazilians eschew geo-tagging on social media? What drives young Indians to friend “foreign” strangers on Facebook and give “missed calls” to people? Payal Arora answers these questions and many more about the internet’s next billion users.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Arora, P.
- Corresponding author
- Arora, Payal
- ORCID
- Arora, Payal
- Venue
- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2019-04-22
- OpenAlex
- W3216577334
- Cited by
- 181
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 54 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 12.17
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › ICT Impact and Policies
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Keywords
- internet users, digital privacy, surveillance, geotagging, social media, Facebook, mobile phone use
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