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Culture may be expressed in various ways through religion, language, dialects, festival, attire, cuisine, and livelihood. Culture is an essential part of life when every person follows it to some extent in different ways. Culture can be termed as being inseparable to or may be seen as a vital aspect that shapes an individual’s identity. Apart from the traditional cultural traits, digital culture is becoming inevitable in daily activities, wherein the role of gadgets is witnessed in a variety of ways. The dependency on digital gadgets has increased over a period of time.
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During 1990 when speaking Hinglish became popular across the TV shows particularly in office scene, wherein both Hindi and English used to communicate each other and considered as standard language to enhance the productive culture across public and private offices in India.
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For more see, http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/features/top-10-non-stop-running-game-apps-for-ios-and-android-341845 (last access, January 23, 2016).
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Digital culture is unlike other cultural traits when an individual supposes to consuming or using more ICTs gadgets in order to enhance or be compatible in and around the spatiality at best. For more, see, Miller (2011).
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Digital identity is constructed identity wherein both online and offline shapes where both texts and pictures represents either in anonymous or known ways. For more, see, Miller (2011).
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See more details, http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-02-03/news/58751662_1_networking-index-mobile-users-population (last access, January 25, 2016).
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Moinuddin, S. (2019). Digital Political Economy of India I. In: The Political Twittersphere in India. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11602-6_6
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