Right to Know — Episode 4 — Digital literacy and the perils of social activism
In this, our final episode, we discover the perils of social activism in India and whether learning how to use Microsoft Notepad and Paint is digital literacy.
Please be aware, this episode contains references to violence.
Right to Know is an ethnographic (and anecdotal) podcast series about people coming to terms with the internet in some of India’s poorest rural and tribal districts, where many have not seen a television, or as in the ancient city of Chanderi, in early 2015 locals were still coming to terms with cars and scooters.
Research for this series was conducted on the ground from January to May 2015. Production was completed in 2018.
Presented and produced by Andrew Garton Right to Know was commissioned by the Association for Progressive Communications with support from the Digital Empowerment Foundation.
Adapted from the book Right to Know: India’s Internet Avant-garde (Garton, A 2017) and the film Ocean in a Drop (2017).
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