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Porn: Law, Video, Technology: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 27, 2011 11:25 AM
Namita’s legal inquiry into the relationship between technologies and the law finds a new point of entry into existing debates by looking at the legal construction of pleasure through different technologies of mass consumption in order to revisit the arguments around pornography and obscenity effect in recent times. She produces a comprehensive overview of different debates, both in the West and in India, to concentrate on how the visual aesthetics of pornography, the new circuits of pornographic consumption and the privilege of affect over regulation lead to possibilities of interaction and negotiation with heteronormative power structures in the country.
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Suvarna Times of Karnataka Coverage: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 05, 2013 05:55 AM
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Krishnarajapet Wikipedia Workshop (Coverage in Suvarna Times of Karnataka): by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 12, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 06:10 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Openness
Suvarna Times of Karnataka covered the Kannada Wikipedia workshop organised by the CIS-A2K team and the Kannada Sahitya Parishat of KR Pet., on August 12, 2013. A scanned version of the report is produced below.
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Dear Milind Deora, Prakash Javadekar Deserved The Truth: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 22, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 10:38 AM — filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, Privacy
Milind Deora, the Minister of State for Communications, Information Technology and Shipping, isn’t your typical politician.
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India's Internet Privacy Woes: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 27, 2013 — last modified Sep 05, 2013 11:09 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
“For the sake of national security and to protect the privacy of its citizens, India should develop its own social media platforms,” says Dr Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO of Data Security Council of India (DSCI), a Nasscom-promoted ‘self-regulatory’ organisation on data protection and privacy in India, in a blog post dated August 13.
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The Law and Economics of Copyright Users Rights: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 06, 2013 — filed under: Copyright, Access to Knowledge
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law is organizing a conference on law and economics of copyright users at Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC, on September 26, 2013. Sunil Abraham will present an update on the Pervasive Technologies project as keynote at this meeting.
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MJ: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 08, 2013 01:13 AM
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mj: by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 08, 2013 01:17 AM
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Privacy and Surveillance in India: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 13, 2013 — filed under: Surveillance, Internet Governance, Privacy
Sunil Abraham, Executive Director from the Centre for Internet and Society will give a talk on privacy and surveillance in India at this event organised by the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia on September 18, 2013. The talk will be held at Network Governance Lab, CCMG, Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi at 11.30 a.m.
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Publications: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 23, 2013
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