Books by Payal Arora

Why do citizens of states with strict surveillance care so little about their digital privacy? Why do Brazilians eschew geo-tagging on social media? What drives young Indians to friend "foreign" strangers on Facebook and give "missed calls" to people? Payal Arora answers these questions and many more about the internet's next billion users.

An ethnographic study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India that investigates alternative social practices with fresh technologies and media amongst a population that is for the most part undocumented.