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Watson knows the Question
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 11, 2011
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Cybercultures,
Researchers at Work
Now that an algorithm has given humans a run for their money on a quiz show, it’s time to rethink the idea of a machine. A fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from 19 September 2010 onwards. This article was published on March 6, 2011.
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A History of Transparency, Politics and Information Technologies in India
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Mar 28, 2011
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Aug 03, 2011 09:59 AM
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Research
In this blog post, Zainab Bawa reviews the different spectrums of information, transparency and politics.
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Narrative and Gameplay in Role Playing Games
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Prasad Krishna
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Feb 25, 2010
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Gaming
Not all games tell stories but narratives, gameplay, and their relational attributes are a relevant shift observed in the gaming scene, Arun Menon finds out.
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Gaming and Gold
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The Attention Economy - A Brief Introduction
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Jul 22, 2010
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Apr 03, 2015 10:48 AM
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Gaming,
Gaming Economy,
Internet Histories,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work
This post examines attention economy as a brief prelude to a paper and monograph to be published on it. It examines the current theses on attention economy and a few approaches to reading attention economy in gaming besides foregrounding the attention economy and its functions and influence in MMORPGs.
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Attentional Capital in Online Gaming : The Currency of Survival
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Aug 25, 2010
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Apr 03, 2015 10:46 AM
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Gaming,
Gaming Economy,
Internet Histories,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work
This blog post by Arun Menon discusses the concepts of production, labour and race in virtual worlds and their influence on the production of attention as a currency. An attempt is made to locate attentional capital, attentional repositories and attention currencies within gaming to examine 'attention currencies and its trade and transactions in virtual worlds. A minimal collection of attention currencies are placed as central and as a pre-requisite for survival in MMOs in much the same way that real currency become a necessity for survival. The approach is to locate attentional capital through different perspectives as well as examine a few concepts around virtual worlds.
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CEPT to Set up Centre to Research Role of Internet in Social Development
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Jun 20, 2011
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Aug 02, 2011 06:06 AM
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Research
Nishant Shah, Director (Research) at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore who will assist the centre, said: "No one predicted the outcome of the Arab Spring, because everyone was looking at the way Internet was being used globally, not at the local level. We had the pink chaddi campaign, the anti-corruption calls of the Hazare camp, and those against sexual violence in New Delhi, but they were largely ad-hoc and temporary, and disappeared."
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian City: First Report
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Prasad Krishna
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Jul 21, 2010
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Aug 02, 2011 06:06 AM
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internet and society,
cybercultures
This is the first report on the progress of the research on Internet, Society and Space in Indian City. The post is a collection of some of the initial focus of these studies. I have started simultaneously exploring and testing various arguments and have listed some key observations from the ones that are nearing completion.
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The Binary: City and Nature
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Sep 20, 2010
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Aug 02, 2011 06:05 AM
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Cybercultures
A continuation of the last post wherein I am looking at various other representation of the city in both classical and popular medium, today I am writing my views on the analysis of certain Miniature paintings.
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City in the Internet 1: Geography Imagined (Part 1)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Oct 19, 2010
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Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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internet and society,
cybercultures
“The estuaries that flirt with the land mass before they finally perish in the vast deep blue ocean beyond were perfect in their shape and grace. And you know what; from top it appears like a surreal landscape that is so restive and peaceful, almost heaven. The countryside is actually very beautiful”, says Pratyush Shankar in his latest blog post. A random conversation between two person discovering the joys of seeing our existence through Google Earth!
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City in the Internet 1: Geography Imagined (Part 2)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Nov 29, 2010
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Aug 02, 2011 06:06 AM
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internet and society
In the last post, I have articulated the nature of understanding and imagination of our urban and rural geography. As mentioned, the understanding of the land, its water and people is an essentially one, that comes through living and experiencing. In this post I will be posing issues around the historical legacy of maps in the Indian context. The issues of imagination of our cities is very much related to this legacy along with the shift that we are witnessing in geographical representation of maps on the Internet.
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