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DESCRIPTION:The South Asia Center presents&nbsp\;Joyojeet Pal from the Univ
 ersity of Michigan.The idea of technocracy in politics\, which presents th
 e rational management of policy and administration as a means of legitimac
 y\, has taken on a new populist logic in India’s digital age. In this talk
 \, Joyojeet Pal argues that technology—and specifically the use of digital
  technology and its accompanying language of modernity—has been presented 
 as an aspirational form of governance and as a cover for charismatic leade
 rship over the last three decades. Pal frames contemporary articulations o
 f this Indian configuration of technopopulism within aspirations related t
 o the technology industry and computing artifacts since the 1990s\, tracin
 g their progress through the branding and public outreach of Indian politi
 cians like Chandrababu Naidu and Narendra Modi. He proposes that social me
 dia has exacerbated the purchase of Indian technopopulism\, in which a pol
 itician’s performance of the language of technological modernity is used t
 o obfuscate underlying institutional capture. In conclusion\, he discusses
  the ways in which technopopulism provides social elites normative cover f
 or supporting a political system that works in their favor.This event is c
 o-sponsored by: The Newhouse School’s Public Diplomacy and Global Communic
 ation Program&nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:Joyojeet Pal: Technopopulism and the Assault on Indian Democracy
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The South Asia Center presents&nbsp\;Joyoje
 et Pal from the University of Michigan.</p><p>The idea of technocracy in p
 olitics\, which presents the rational management of policy and administrat
 ion as a means of legitimacy\, has taken on a new populist logic in India’
 s digital age. In this talk\, Joyojeet Pal argues that technology—and spec
 ifically the use of digital technology and its accompanying language of mo
 dernity—has been presented as an aspirational form of governance and as a 
 cover for charismatic leadership over the last three decades. </p><p>Pal f
 rames contemporary articulations of this Indian configuration of technopop
 ulism within aspirations related to the technology industry and computing 
 artifacts since the 1990s\, tracing their progress through the branding an
 d public outreach of Indian politicians like Chandrababu Naidu and Narendr
 a Modi. </p><p>He proposes that social media has exacerbated the purchase 
 of Indian technopopulism\, in which a politician’s performance of the lang
 uage of technological modernity is used to obfuscate underlying institutio
 nal capture. </p><p>In conclusion\, he discusses the ways in which technop
 opulism provides social elites normative cover for supporting a political 
 system that works in their favor.</p><p><strong>This event is co-sponsored
  by: The Newhouse School’s Public Diplomacy and Global Communication Progr
 am&nbsp\;</strong></p>
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