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    Big issues around a small-scale phenomenon: vernacular pulp fiction in English translation for Indian readers

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    This paper explores the implications of the recent appearance of some Indian vernacular pulp fiction texts in English translation for Indian readers. As background, the first of three main sections here outlines the current scope of Indian Translation Studies, and also briefly examines recent thinking about the position of English in India. The second section examines the habitual Indian English-readers’ perspective of such pulp fiction in translation, and the third that of Hindi commentators insofar as relevant here. These two sections do not offer a linear argument, or undertake a close reading of specific texts. Rather, they draw a picture of vernacular and English popular print culture in India, wherein various slippages and cross-connections are apparent

    Transitioning Toward an Internet Culture: An Interorganizational Analysis of Identity Construction from Online Services to Intranets

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    A great deal of attention has been given to the Internet’s capacity to enable new and multiple presentations of the self – even to become a site for new identity construction. While we do not deny the potential of Internet technologies to transform contemporary social practices and the way we see the world and ourselves, a closer look at the transition from “older ” media and technologies to the Internet gives us a better understanding of how electronic discourses are being shaped. In this paper, we examine a few sites of identity, paying particular attention to the practices and technologies that shape presentations and interpellations of individuals, as well as the construction, deconstruction and reassemblage of collective identities. Using data from two empirical studies, we examine what has shaped the presentations and interpretations of online identities over the past decade. Interestingly, we see that creative uses of “older ” media, like online profiling, have set the stage for common uses of the Internet; and that constrained uses of Internet technologies, like intranets and extranets, allow corporations and governments to extend control over selfpresentations and to more effectively interpellate identities
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