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Blog Entry How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?
by Nishant Shah published Nov 30, 2013 — filed under: , ,
I have spent the last month being unpopular. I have been in conversation with many ‘Open Everything’ activists and practitioners. At each instance, we got stuck because I insisted that we begin by defining what ‘Open’ means in the easy abuse that it is subject to.
Located in Openness / Blog
Blog Entry How Facebook is Blatantly Abusing our Trust
by Nishant Shah published Jun 28, 2012 — filed under: ,
‘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.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry I Just Pinged to Say Hello
by Nishant Shah published Nov 30, 2013 — filed under: , ,
A host of social networks find us more connected than ever before, but leave us groping for words in the digital space.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry i4D Interview: Social Networking and Internet Access
by Nishant Shah published Oct 31, 2008 last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:51 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
Nishant Shah, the Director for Research at CIS, was recently interviewed in i4D in a special section looking at Social Networking and Governance, as a lead up to the Internet Governance Forum in December, in the city of Hyderabad.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Identity, Identification and Media Representation in Video Game Play: An Audience Reception Study
by Nishant Shah published Nov 18, 2010 last modified Apr 04, 2011 07:22 AM — filed under:
Adrienne Shaw from the Annenberg School for Communication, who is a visiting fellow at MICA is giving a public talk on research on representation in video games on 27 November 2010 at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore.
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Blog Entry In Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives
by Nishant Shah published Dec 01, 2011 last modified May 14, 2015 12:12 PM — filed under: , ,
This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital Native’. Drawing from three years of research and current engagements in the field, the post begins a critique of how we need to look at the outliers, the people on the fringes in order to unravel the otherwise celebratory nature of discourse about how the digital is changing the world.
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Blog Entry India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese laws
by Nishant Shah published Feb 04, 2019 — filed under:
The proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese restrictions. The new intermediaries liability and content monitoring act that will become a law in February, unquestioningly expand the remit of the government.
Located in RAW
Inquilab 2.0? Reflections on Online Activism in India*
by Nishant Shah published Jan 13, 2010 last modified Aug 02, 2011 09:25 AM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
Research and activism on the Internet in India remain fledgling in spite the media hype, says Anja Kovacs in her blog post that charts online activism in India as it has emerged.
Located in RAW / / Blogs / Revolution 2.0?
Blog Entry Internet and Society in Asia: Challenges and Next Steps
by Nishant Shah published Dec 23, 2011 — filed under: ,
The ubiquitous presence of internet technologies, in our age of digital revolution, has demanded the attention of various disciplines of study and movements for change around the globe. As more of our environment gets connected to the circuits of the World Wide Web, we witness a significant transformation in the way we understand the politics, mechanics and aesthetics of the world we live in, says Nishant Shah in this peer reviewed essay published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 11, Number 1, March 2010.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Internet Censorship: Anonymous Can’t be Just Harmful Hackers
by Nishant Shah published Jul 13, 2012 last modified Aug 06, 2012 06:56 AM — filed under: ,
If there was ever an interesting time for people concerned with freedom of speech and expression to live in, it is now, and it is definitely in India. It has been a series of battles the last couple of years, where a slightly out-dated government machinery has been trying to control and contain the burgeoning online spaces, only to be put in their place by the new-age tech-ninjas that have risen as the new heroes in our digital times.
Located in Internet Governance