Visual Public in South Asia

Abstract

This chapter captures the practices and preferences of visuals in the digital domain from across the region of South Asia, with a specific focus on the nations namely Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. It intends to understand the visual public in South Asia from a ‘public visibility’ perspective. While taking ‘visibility’ as a point of intervention, this chapter shall scrutinize—what are the dominant visual material or what material dominate the digital domains, in this case, in the domain of internet-based public forums. It examines the abundance of visuals in the digital domain that stimulates the cultural politics of contemporary South Asia. What are the dominant visuals appearing in the digital domain? How the visuals in the digital sphere help to comprehend visual publicness? What are the broader socio-political implications of visuals in the age of digital media? How does visually prompted digital culture contribute to shaping the contemporary public in South Asia?