Acknowledgements Introduction: Labor and Affect in Gendered Digital Diasporas Part I: 1. Placing South Asian Digital Diasporas in Second Life by Radhika Gajjala 2. “Whatsappified” Diasporas of Indian Women: Persistent Communication, Circuits of Affect, and Relationality through Appified Interaction by Radhika Gajjala and Tarishi Verma 3. Dialogue Interlude on The Queer Question by Radhika Gajjala in conversation with Smita Vanniyar Part II 4. Gendered Indian Digital Publics: Digital Domesticity by Radhika Gajjala 5. Dialogue Interlude on Ghar and Bahir by Radhika Gajjala in conversation with Sriya Chattopadhyaya, Sarada Nori, Shobha S.V., and Puthiya Purayil Sneha Part III 6. Gendered Indian Digital Publics: Digital Streets by Radhika Gajjala 7. Dialogue Interludes on Indian digital [feminist] streets Conclusion: Afterthoughts: Different ways of writing together – Radhika Gajjala and Kaitlyn Wauthier Bibliography Index Author Bios

Radhika Gajjala has been an important expert on digital culture in India and the United States for decades, as well as an innovator in ethnographic research. This book exemplifies her deep commitments to feminist scholarship and to collaborative methodologies. For those wishing to understand phenomena such as hashtag feminism or digital domesticity, Gajjala’s insights about online behavior among members of the vast South Asian digital diaspora are powerful, complex, and deeply engaged with the lives of her subjects and fellow researchers.

Makes a case for the idea of a south Asian ‘digital’ diaspora Examines models of empowerment through digital globalization and investment in South Asia Explores embodiment, affect, identity and race in South Asian technomediated spaces Case studies explore examples from IT outsourcing, microfinance, microlabour and health care tourism.