ABSTRACT
As Vincent Mosco notes in The Digital Sublime, the technological condition of convergence was one precondition for the revolution in telecommunications and for media globalization. Marxist theoretician David Harvey notes that the combined processes of digital convergence and globalization have not led to a reciprocal convergence in living standards across the world. He adds that globalization’s promise of a better world ‘has not materialized’. India’s more open society—though rigid in terms of caste and class—is fracturing under the pressure to provide more wealth for a burgeoning middle class and to deal with the massive divide between rich and poor that globalization is not really closing. In terms of geography, time and distance, the process of combined and uneven development can be seen in the articulation of what has become known as the ‘digital divide’: a series of broken promises. Indeed these ‘bottom up’ journalistic forms are seen as one possible answer to the digital divide—whether these forms are independently produced.
