ABSTRACT
Contemporary events have highlighted important connections between technology, globalization and cultural production. Information technologies in particular have impacted the global commodification of information and have led to the significant erosion of national boundaries – for example, through Internet forums and self-broadcasting. Access to these technologies has influenced local and global identities, especially youth cultures through digital platforms as subcultural expression, creating virtual subjectivities and transnational communities. These technologies have also facilitated a wider global network and interconnection of narrative forms and genres that have led to explorations of alternative modernities in a globalizing postcolonial context. This introduction highlights the need to enrich the intellectual resources being brought to bear upon the development of contemporary information technologies through postcolonial theoretical frameworks. By addressing the rise of new media technologies in postcolonial spaces, it focuses on how the use of such modern technologies has enabled transnational networks of cultural, social and political exchange.
