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Change has come to all of us: by Nishant Shah — published Oct 24, 2010 — last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM — filed under: Google, Digital Natives, Cybercultures, Facebook, Digital subjectivities
The general focus on a digital generational divide makes us believe that generations are separated by the digital axis, and that the gap is widening. There is a growing anxiety voiced by an older generation that the digital natives they encounter — in their homes, schools and universities and at workplaces — are a new breed with an entirely different set of vocabularies and lifestyles which are unintelligible and inaccessible. It is time we started pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a digital native.
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China's Generation Y : Youth and Technology in Shanghai: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 21, 2009 — last modified Sep 21, 2009 02:09 PM — filed under: Cyberspace, Social media, Shanghai, Cyborgs, Cybercultures, Digital Natives
Within the context of internet technologies in China, Nishant Shah, drawing from his seven month research in Shanghai, looks at the first embodiment of these technologies in the urbanising city. In this post, he gives a brief overview of the public and academic discourse around youth-technology usage of China's Generation Y digital natives. He draws the techno-narratives of euphoria and despair to show how technology studies has reduced technology to tools and usage and hence even the proponents of internet technologies, often do a disservice to the technology itself. He poses questions about the politics, mechanics and aesthetics of technology and offers the premise upon which structures of reading resistance can be built. The post ends with a preview of the three stories that are to appear next in the series, to see how youth engagement and cultural production can be read as having the potentials for social transformation and political participation for the Digital Natives in China.
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Chutnefying English - Report: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 27, 2009 — last modified Aug 27, 2009 06:03 AM — filed under: Conference, Art, Cybercultures, Communities, Digital subjectivities, Digital Pluralism
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, was an institutional partner to India's first Global Conference on Hinglish - Chutnefying English, organised by Dr. Rita Kothari at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad. A photographic report for the event is now available here.
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CIS Publications: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 22, 2008 — last modified Jul 28, 2010 04:50 AM
Recent Publications in the field by the staff and members of the Centre for Internet and Society including coverage in the press.
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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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Clicktivism & a brave new world order: by Nishant Shah — published Jan 06, 2011 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:02 AM — filed under: Internet Governance
THE FIRST decade of this century has been one of accelerated change. The proliferation of the Internet has ushered in ubiquitous transformations in the way we live. And yet, the more things change, the more they remain the same.
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Collaborative Projects Programme: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 18, 2008 — last modified Aug 23, 2011 03:04 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, Family, Digital Natives, Public Accountability, Obscenity, e-governance, Cyborgs, Cybercultures, Projects, New Pedagogies, Communities, Digital subjectivities, Digital Pluralism
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Colour Me Political: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 09, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, Digital Activism, Digital Natives, Youth, Social Networking
What are the tools that Digital Natives use to mobilise groups towards a particular cause? How do they engage with crises in their immediate environments? Are they using their popular social networking sites and web 2.0 applications for merely entertainment? Or are these tools actually helping them to re-articulate the realm of the political? Nishant Shah looks at the recent Facebook Colour Meme to see how new forms of political participation and engagement are being initiated by young people across the world.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
Conference Blogs: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 20, 2011
The conferences that CIS participates in, individually or institutionally, and the ideas that emerge from them.
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Conference Blogs: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 20, 2011 — last modified Aug 20, 2011 11:19 PM
The conferences that CIS participates in, individually or institutionally, and the ideas that emerge from them.
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