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Image Aerial view
by Nishant Shah last modified Sep 17, 2009 11:59 AM
An aerial shot of shanghai in the night
Located in Home images
Image Shanghai Bund
by Nishant Shah last modified Sep 17, 2009 12:02 PM
A night view of the Bund in Shanghai
Located in Home images
Image Billboard in Shanghai
by Nishant Shah last modified Sep 21, 2009 01:37 PM
A large LCD screen display as a part of architecture, at the East Nanjing Road, Shanghai
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Image Cute mouse
by Nishant Shah last modified Sep 21, 2009 01:44 PM
China's IT markets show an increasing trend towards 'cute' gadgets aimed at younger users of technology.
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Image Sleepover cyber cafes in Shanghai
by Nishant Shah last modified 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.
Located in Home images
Blog Entry Digital native: The Voices in Our Heads
by Nishant Shah published Nov 22, 2016 — filed under: ,
What if our phones were to go silent? Would you be able to deal with the silence?
Located in RAW
Blog Entry Digital native: The View from My Bubble
by Nishant Shah published Dec 05, 2016 — filed under: , , ,
In the digital world, the privileged have the power to deny a devastating crisis for the poor.
Located in RAW
Blog Entry Digital Native: People Like Us
by Nishant Shah published Dec 18, 2016 — filed under: , ,
How the algorithm decides what you see on your timeline. If you have been hanging out on social media, there is one thing you can’t have escaped — a filter bubble. Be it demonetisation and its discontents, the fake news stories that seem to have ruined the US election, or the eternal conflict about the nature of Indian politics, your timeline must have been filled largely by people who think like you.
Located in RAW
Histories of the Internet
by Nishant Shah published Sep 17, 2008 last modified Mar 30, 2015 02:15 PM — filed under: , , , , , , , , , , ,
For the first two years, the CIS-RAW Programme shall focus on producing diverse multidisciplinary histories of the internet in India.
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Blog Entry The Gay Pride Charade
by Nishant Shah published Jul 25, 2016 — filed under: ,
For most of the milllenials, news is formed by trends, what goes viral, and often open to speculation, projection, manipulation and deceit.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog