March 11, 2024
Graduate Student Shahana Sheikh has an article on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website entitled “How Technology Is (and Isn’t) Transforming Election Campaigns in India.”
Abstract:
India epitomizes the global communication technology revolution. In the early 1990s, there were only an estimated six landline phones for every 1,000 Indians and the waiting time for a new phone connection was measured not in days or weeks, but months…
However, alongside the proliferation of smartphone usage, which allows for low-cost party-voter communication, India’s parties continue to conduct mass in-person campaign rallies during election season.