Description: Using the 2012 Delhi Nirbhaya rape case as a case study and keeping gender discourses at its core, this book explores the use of digital media for gender activism in India demonstrating how it has formed an alternate platform for dissent.
Review Quotes: Dey investigates how civil society actors, activists, and organizations in India use information and communication technology and social media for gender activism. She begins with the cyberconflict framework, but because it was not build with a gender focus, she had to broadened its theoretical foundation in order to study the relation between social movements, gender, and information and communication technology. The protests after the 16 December 2012 Delhi Nirbhaya rape case serve as her case study.--Annotation (c)2018 "(protoview.com)"