“Twitter Terrorists,” “Cellphone Jihadists,” and citizen Bloggers:

The global Matrix of War and the Biopolitics of Technoculture in Mumbai

The 2008 attacks in Mumbai demonstrate the different vested interests in digital information technologies in the globalized context of the so-called 'war on terror': from the actual use of mobile technologies by various groups and individuals to the discursive politics and culture of technology reporting. The 'new' threat of mobile technologies in security culture serves as a good example of the way biopolitics can be situated in discursive frameworks of knowledge.