Chasing Innovation: Entrepreneurship and its Limits in Modern India

Recorded:
2 Jun 2021

Speakers:
With Professor Lilly Irani, and Professor Philip Howard

Filming venue:

Online webinar

The ethos of innovation and entrepreneurship, honed in high-technology firms, has colonized philanthropy, development projects, government policies, and even thinking about international diplomacy. But can passionate entrepreneurs really serve social needs? Irani talks about a decade of research that reveals innovation practices can reproduce gender, caste, and class hierarchies and limits of innovating our way to a better world.

Speakers

Professor Lilly Irani

Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

Professor Philip Howard

Professor of Internet Studies

Philip N. Howard is a professor of sociology, information and international affairs, and the author of Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives.

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