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Title

The Academic Digital Divide and Uneven Global Development

Authors

Arjun Appadurai

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Date of this Version

Spring 2016

Description

CARGC Paper 4 reprinted Appadurai’s October 2015 Distinguished Lecture at PARGC. In it, he warned against the dangers of “knowledge-based imperialism and scholarly apartheid” and offered possible ways to avoid them. Appadurai identified a growing rift between media studies and communication studies, with scholars concerned with institutions, power, resources, and large-scale data on one side, and scholars concerned with interpretation, texts, languages, and images on the other. Yet, despite the history of this divide, in CARGC Paper 4, Appadurai outlined what we can do to close the growing distance between media and communication studies.

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CARGC Paper 4

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Appadurai, Arjun, "The Academic Digital Divide and Uneven Global Development" (2016). CARGC Papers. 4.
https://repository.upenn.edu/cargc_papers/4

Disciplines

Communication