Ravi Sundaram Read Bio Collapse
Ravi Sundaram is a Professor at CSDS, Delhi, where he founded the Sarai program along with Ravi Vasudevan and Raqs Media Collective. Sundaram is the author of Pirate Modernity: Media Urbanism in Delhi (2010) and edited No Limits: Media Studies from India (2015). He is finishing his next book project on post-public media circulations and the question of the political.
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The techno-social is the form of the social that comes after its end. It is neither a virtual nor a global digital community, but a component of the milieu generated by a new technical being—the digital computational network. It was triggered not so much by social media, as first assumed, but by the turn whereby social computing no longer simply supported social interaction but started “to process the content generated by social interaction,” making its results “usable not just by users but by the digital systems that supported their activities” (Thomas Erickson).
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