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Remembering Aaron Swartz, Taking Up the Fight
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Nishant Shah
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Jan 28, 2013
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Jan 28, 2013 04:51 AM
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Openness
I encountered the Aaron Swartz memorial the other day that helps ‘liberate’ a randomly selected article from JSTOR, as an act of civil disobedience, to commemorate both the legacy that Swartz leaves behind, but also the high-profile witch-hunt case which was a crucial factor in him taking his own life.
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Research Programmes
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2008
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last modified
Jan 15, 2009 12:02 PM
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filed under:
research,
cyborgs,
cybercultures,
digital pluralism,
digital subjectivities,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
e-governance
The Research Portfolio at the Centre for Internet and Society seeks to develop new pedagogic practices, plural and unique knowledges, multidisciplinary perspectives, and reflexive interventions in the field of Internet and Society.
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Researchers At Work
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2008
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last modified
Jan 04, 2012 05:27 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
internet and society,
geeks,
digital subjectives,
cyborgs,
cybercultures,
archives,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
research,
women and internet,
e-governance
CIS-RAW stands for Researchers at Work, a multidisciplinary research initiative by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. CIS firmly believes that in order to understand the contemporary concerns in the field of Internet and Society, it is necessary to produce local and contextual accounts of the interaction between the internet and socio-cultural and geo-political structures. The CIS-RAW programme hopes to produce one of the first documentations on the transactions and negotiations, relationships and correlations that the emergence of internet technologies has resulted in, specifically in the South. The CIS-RAW programme recognises ‘The Histories of the Internet and India’ as its focus for the first two years. Although many disciplines, organisations and interventions in various areas deal with internet technologies, there has been very little work in documenting the polymorphous growth of internet technologies and their relationship with society in India. The existing narratives of the internet are often riddled with absences or only focus on the mainstream interests of major stakeholders, like the state and the corporate. We find it imperative to excavate the three-decade histories of the internet to understand the contemporary concerns and questions in the field.
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Rethinking the last mile Problem: A cultural argument
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 02, 2009
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 10:54 AM
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filed under:
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories,
Digital Governance
This research project, by Ashish Rajadhyaksha from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, is mainly a conceptual-archival investigation into India’s history for what has in recent years come to be known as the ‘last mile’ problem. The term itself comes from communication theory, with in turn an ancestry in social anthropology, and concerns itself with (1) identifying the eventual recipient/beneficiary of any communication message, (2) discovering new ways by which messages can be delivered intact, i.e. without either distortion of decay. Exploring the intersection of government policy, technology intervention and the users' expectations, with a specific focus on Internet Technologies and their space in the good governance protocols in India, the project aims at revisiting the last mile problem as one of cultural practices and political contexts in India.
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The Last Cultural Mile
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Revisiting Techno-euphoria
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Nishant Shah
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Jul 11, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:53 AM
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Digital subjectivities,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
In my last post, I talked about techno-euphoria as a condition that seems to mark much of our discourse around digital technologies and the promise of the future. The euphoria, as I had suggested, manifests itself either as a utopian view of how digital technologies are going to change the future that we inhabit, or woes of despair about how the overdetermination of the digital is killing the very fibre of our social fabric.
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Digital Natives
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Rewiring Bodies - Dr. Asha Achuthan
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by
Nishant Shah
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Dec 17, 2009 05:19 AM
First draft of the monograph in PDF
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Say 'Password' in Hindi
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jun 08, 2011
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 09:18 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
English might be the language of the online world, but it’s time other languages had their say, writes Nishant Shah. The article was published in the Indian Express on June 5, 2011.
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Blog
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Shanghai Bund
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by
Nishant Shah
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Sep 17, 2009 12:02 PM
A night view of the Bund in Shanghai
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Sharing in the time of Facebook, or Why I’m not a Pirate
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 10, 2012
It is now over a month that my favourite network has been dead. Library.nu the rare space for sharing of academic resources to a free and open community has succumbed to the pressures of publishing industry stalwarts who, in their quest for promoting the knowledge industry, are killing sources through which knowledge survives.
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Internet Governance
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Sleepover cyber cafes in Shanghai
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 21, 2009 01:58 PM
Shanghai has introduced the popular slee-over cafes, which give space to young users of the internet from midnight till dawn, at a very cheap rate, where they can access the net and also sleep when need be. This is very reminiscent of the cardboard cities in Tokyo which offer similar safe havens of temporary internet access.
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