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Blog Entry Open Secrets
by Nishant Shah published Nov 01, 2013 last modified Nov 30, 2013 08:21 AM — filed under: ,
We need to think of privacy in different ways — not only as something that happens between people, but between you and corporations.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry Now Streaming on Your Nearest Screen
by Nishant Shah published Dec 24, 2011 last modified Dec 24, 2011 08:58 AM — filed under: ,
Digital cinema, especially the kinds produced using mobile devices and travelling on Internet social networking systems like YouTube and MySpace, are often dismissed as apolitical and ‘merely’ a fad. Moreover, content in the non-English language, due to incomprehensibility or lack of understanding of the cultural context of the production, is labeled as frivolous, or inconsequential, writes Nishant Shah in this peer reviewed essay published in the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Volume 3, Issue 1, June 2009.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Asia in the Edges: A Narrative Account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore
by Nishant Shah published Jul 25, 2014 last modified Apr 14, 2015 12:47 PM — filed under: , , , ,
The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School is a Biennial event that invites Masters and PhD students from around Asia to participate in conversations around developing and building an Inter-Asia Cultural Studies thought process. Hosted by the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society along with the Consortium of universities and research centres that constitute it, the Summer School is committed to bringing together a wide discourse that spans geography, disciplines, political affiliations and cultural practices for and from researchers who are interested in developing Inter-Asia as a mode of developing local, contextual and relevant knowledge practices.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities
Blog Entry Who’s that Friend?
by Nishant Shah published Oct 23, 2012 last modified Nov 04, 2012 06:46 AM — filed under: ,
If you are reading this, stand on your right foot and start hopping while waving your hands in the air and shouting, “I am crazy” at the top of your voice. If you don’t, your Facebook account will be compromised, your passwords will be automatically leaked, and somebody will use your credit card to smuggle ice across international waters.
Located in RAW / / Blogs / Habits of Living
Blog Entry Digital Habits: How and Why We Tweet, Share and Like
by Nishant Shah published Oct 23, 2012 last modified Oct 23, 2012 10:13 AM — filed under: ,
There aren’t always rational explanations for the ways in which we behave on networks. While there are trend spotting sciences and pattern recognition methods which try to make sense of how and why we behave in these strange ways on networks, they generally fail to actually help us understand why we do the things that we do when we are connected.
Located in RAW / / Blogs / Habits of Living
Blog Entry Digital Native: Do not go Gently into the Good Night
by Nishant Shah published Mar 03, 2017 — filed under: ,
If there’s a lesson to be learned from the resistance to the Trump administration, it is this — patriotism is not a feeling, it is an action.
Located in RAW
Blog Entry Digital native: Who will watch the watchman?
by Nishant Shah published Mar 03, 2017 — filed under: ,
The state mining its citizens as data and suspending rights to privacy under the rhetoric of national security is alarming.
Located in RAW
Blog Entry Digital native: You are not alone
by Nishant Shah published Aug 27, 2017 last modified Sep 12, 2017 01:22 PM — filed under: ,
Away from the guidance of adults, the internet can be a lonely place for youngsters, pushing them towards self-harm.
Located in RAW
Blog Entry Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology and Practice
by Nishant Shah published Mar 20, 2014 last modified Apr 07, 2014 04:07 AM — filed under: ,
Dr. Nishant Shah was a panelist at a workshop jointly organized by HUMlab and UCGS (Umeå Centre for Gender Studies) at Umeå University from March 12 to 14, 2014. He blogged about the conference.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities
Blog Entry Digital Native: Hashtag Along With Me
by Nishant Shah published Jul 29, 2018 last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:25 AM — filed under: , ,
A hashtag that evolved with a movement.
Located in RAW