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Habits of Living: Being Human in a Networked Society: by Nishant Shah — published Oct 23, 2012 — filed under: Habits of Living, Digital Humanities
Recently, in Bangalore, a cluster of academics, researchers, artists, and practitioners, were supported by Brown University, to assemble in a Thinkathon (a thinking marathon, if you will) and explore how our new habits of everyday life need to be re-thought and refigured to produce new accounts of what it means to be human, to be friends, and to be connected in our networked societies.
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Digital native: You can check out, you can never leave: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 02, 2017 — last modified May 05, 2017 01:31 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Aadhaar, Digital Natives
Aadhaar is not something you define and opt into, it is something that defines you.
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Digital native: Snap out of outrage mode: by Nishant Shah — published May 05, 2017 — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
Rage at the inequality of the digital world is good. But why stop at the Snapchat CEO?
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Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!: by Nishant Shah — published May 14, 2017 — last modified Jun 08, 2017 01:16 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Researchers at Work, Digital India
India’s digital landscape is dotted with vigilante voices that drown out people’s right to free speech.
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Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leap: by Nishant Shah — published May 28, 2017 — last modified Jun 08, 2017 01:22 AM — filed under: Biometrics, Researchers at Work, Aadhaar
Creating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
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Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 25, 2012 — last modified Aug 28, 2012 10:48 AM — filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
I woke up one morning to find that I was living in a city of crisis. Bangalore, where the largest public preoccupations to date have been about bad roads, stray dogs, and occasionally, the lack of night-life, the city was suddenly a space that people wanted to flee and occupy simultaneously.
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One. Zero.: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 17, 2012 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:50 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Information Technology, Digital Natives
The digital world is the world of twos. All our complex interactions, emotional negotiations, business transactions, social communication and political subscriptions online can be reduced to a string of 1s and 0s, as machines create the networks for the human beings to speak. So sophisticated is this network of digital infrastructure that we forget how our languages of connection are constantly being transcribed in binary code, allowing for the information to be transmitted across the web.
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The Internet Way: by Nishant Shah — published Feb 14, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance
Dr. Nishant Shah's review of the book “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” by Bantam Press/Random House Group, London was published in Biblio Vol. 19 No.8 (1&2), January – February 2014.
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Digital Native: The e-wasteland of our times: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 22, 2018 — last modified May 06, 2018 03:21 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
How digitising isn’t necessarily a fast-track to a sustainable future.
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Digital Native: Cause an Effect: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 26, 2018 — filed under: Researchers at Work, Aadhaar, Digital Natives
Aadhaar is a self-contained safe system, its interaction with other data and information systems is also equally safe and benign.
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