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The Digital Other: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 15, 2011 — last modified May 14, 2015 12:07 PM — filed under: Digital subjectivities, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
Based on my research on young people in the Global South, I want to explore new ways of thinking about the Digital Native. One of the binaries posited as the Digital ‘Other’ -- ie, a non-Digital Native -- is that of a Digital Immigrant or Settler.
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The Historian Wins Over the Biographer: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 31, 2011 — filed under: Internet Governance
In Walter Isaacson's eponymous biography of Steve Jobs, the multibillion dollar man who is credited with single handedly changing the face of computing and the digital media industry, we face the dilemma of a biographer: how do you make sense of a history that is so new, it is still unfolding? Nishant Shah's detailed review of Steve Jobs' biography is now out in the Biblio and is is available online (after a free registration) as a PDF.
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Click to Change: by Nishant Shah — published Jan 03, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance
From organising political protests and flash mobs to uploading their versions of Kolaveri Di, people brought about change with the help of the internet, writes Nishant Shah in this article published in the Indian Express on 1 January 2012.
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Keeping it Private: by Nishant Shah — published Jan 16, 2012 — last modified Jan 27, 2012 03:50 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
As we disclose more information online, we must ask who might access it and why. This article by Nishant Shah was published in the Indian Express on Sunday, 15 January 2012.
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How Facebook is Blatantly Abusing our Trust: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 28, 2012 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
‘Don’t fix it, if it ain’t broken’ is not an adage Facebook seems to subscribe to. Nishant Shah's column on privacy and Facebook was published in First Post on June 27, 2012.
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Book Review: Apocalypse Now Redux: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 06, 2016 — filed under: Internet Governance, Book Review
My review for Arundhati Roy and John Cusack's new book that captures their encounter with Edward Snowden, 'Things that can and cannot be said' is now out. It's an engaging, if somewhat freewheeling, political critique of the times we live in.
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Do I Want to Say Happy B’day?: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 07, 2016 — last modified Aug 22, 2016 09:53 AM — filed under: Digital Media, Researchers at Work, RAW Blog, Social Media
When it comes to greeting friends on their birthdays, social media prompts are a great reminder. So why does an online message leave us cold?
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Will You be Paid to Post a Picture?: by Nishant Shah — published Feb 18, 2014 — last modified Mar 06, 2014 11:58 AM — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
The wave of free information production on the web is on the wane.
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The Age of Shame: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 30, 2014 — last modified Apr 04, 2014 04:05 AM — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
The ability to capture private images is breeding a dangerous form of digital shaming. Within the online space, where wonderments often run rife, and conspiracy theories travel at the speed of light, there are many dark recesses where netizens half-jokingly, self-referentially, in a spirit of part-truth, part-exaggeration, often wonder on what the real reason is for the internet to exist.
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Networks: What You Don’t See is What You (for)Get: by Nishant Shah — published May 06, 2014 — last modified May 28, 2014 09:30 AM — filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
When I start thinking about DML (digital media and learning) and other such “networks” that I am plugged into, I often get a little confused about what to call them.
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