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7 Ways to Con/fuse the Internet with Analogy (Intergalactic Mix) - Talk by Surfatial
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Sep 16, 2016
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last modified
Jul 02, 2018 06:33 PM
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filed under:
Practice,
Researchers at Work,
Event
Surfatial, a trans-local collective that works with text and sound will talk about their essay which was recently published. The talk will also address concerns on how the internet can be used in alternate contexts including presenting work in alternative formats and using the internet for synchronous collaborative cultural production.
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A Comparative Study of Article Creation Campaigns on Wikipedia - Part II
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jun 11, 2021
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filed under:
A2K Research,
Access to Knowledge
This is a short report on a comparative analysis of two prominent Wikimedia initiatives, Wikipedia Asian Month and Project Tiger, to understand prevailing challenges and opportunities, and strategies to address the same. The report has been authored by Nitesh Gill with inputs from Suswetha Kolluru, and editorial oversight and support by Puthiya Purayil Sneha. This is part of a series of short-term studies undertaken by the CIS-A2K team in 2019–2020.
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Blogs
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A Question of Digital Humanities
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Nov 16, 2015
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last modified
Jun 30, 2016 05:06 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Featured,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
An extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' itself, as a 'found' name for which one needs to excavate some meaning, context, and location in India at the present moment. Instead of importing this term to describe practices taking place in this country - especially when the term itself is relatively unstable and undefined even in the Anglo-American context - what I chose to do was to take a few steps back, and outline a few questions/conflicts that the digital practitioners in arts and humanities disciplines are grappling with. The final report of this study will be published serially. This is the second among seven sections.
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Call for Contributions and Reflections: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages!
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Aug 07, 2019
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last modified
Aug 07, 2019 12:29 PM
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filed under:
Language,
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Decolonizing the Internet's Languages,
Featured,
State of the Internet's Languages,
Digital Humanities,
Homepage
Whose Knowledge?, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Centre for Internet and Society are creating a State of the Internet’s Languages report, as baseline research with both numbers and stories, to demonstrate how far we are from making the internet multilingual. We also hope to offer some possibilities for doing more to create the multilingual internet we want. This research needs the experiences and expertise of people who think about these issues of language online from different perspectives. Read the Call here and share your submission by September 2, 2019.
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Call for Essays — #List
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jul 12, 2019
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last modified
Oct 11, 2019 05:07 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
List,
RAW Blog,
Research,
Featured,
Call for Essays,
Internet Studies
The researchers@work programme at CIS invites abstracts for essays that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the ‘list’. We have selected 4 abstracts among those received before August 31, 2019, and are now accepting and evaluating further submissions on a rolling basis.
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Call for Essays: Offline
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Aug 09, 2018
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last modified
Aug 20, 2018 06:58 AM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Call for Essays,
Offline,
Researchers at Work
Who is offline, and is it a choice? The global project of bringing people online has spurred several commendable initiatives in expanding access to digital devices, networks, and content, and often contentious ones such as Free Basics / internet.org, which illustrate the intersectionalities of scale, privilege, and rights that we need to be mindful of when we imagine the offline. Further, the experience of the internet, for a large section of people is often mediated through prior and ongoing experiences of traditional media, and through cultural metaphors and cognitive frames that transcend more practical registers such as consumption and facilitation. How do we approach, study, and represent this disembodied internet – devoid of its hypertext, platforms, devices, it's nuts and bolts, but still tangible through engagement in myriad, personal and often indiscernible ways. The researchers@work programme invites abstracts for essays that explore dimensions of offline lives.
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Call for Papers: #CultureForAll Conference
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 22, 2020
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last modified
Dec 23, 2020 01:34 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Event
We are collaborating with Sahapedia, Azim Premji University, and University of Cape Town to invite papers on cultural mapping for the #CultureForAll conference scheduled to be held in March 2021. Cultural mapping is a set of activities and processes for exploring, discovering, documenting, examining, analysing, interpreting, presenting, and sharing information related to people, communities, societies, places, and the material products and practices associated with those people and places. All interested academicians, researchers, PhD students, and practitioners are invited to submit papers. The conference is supported by Tata Technologies and MapMyIndia.
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CIS Featured in 'Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective' Report
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Oct 16, 2015
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last modified
Oct 16, 2015 07:43 AM
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filed under:
Digital Scholarship,
Researchers at Work,
Learning,
Digital Humanities
This report, authored by Vivian Lewis, Lisa Spiro, Xuemao Wang, and Jon E. Cawthorne, sheds light on the expertise required to support a robust and sustainable digital scholarship (DS) program. It focuses first on defining and describing the key domain knowledge, skills, competencies, and mindsets at some of the world’s most prominent digital scholarship programs. It then identifies the main strategies used to build this expertise, both formally and informally. The work is set in a global context, examining leading digital scholarship organizations in China, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The report team visited and spoke to us last year, as part of the study. Here are the Executive Summary and link to the final report.
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Creativity, Politics, and Internet Censorship
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jun 16, 2016
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last modified
Jun 17, 2016 07:07 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Practice,
Art,
Censorship
In collaboration with Karnataka for Kashmir, we organised a discussion on 'Creativity, Politics and Internet Censorship' on May 25, 2016. Mahum Shabir, a legal activist and artist, Mir Suhail, political cartoonist with Kashmir Reader and Rising Kashmir, and Habeel Iqbal, a lawyer who has worked with several justice groups in Kashmir, shared some of their work and experiences. This discussion was organised as part of Port of Kashmir 2016, a series of events bringing together a small collective of people using different modes of art and activism to address crucial challenges to free speech and democracy in the state.
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Data Lives of Humanities Text
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 23, 2020
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last modified
Dec 23, 2020 01:07 PM
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filed under:
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Publications,
Digital Humanities
The ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object of enquiry. The prevalence of data-driven scholarship in the humanities offers several challenges to traditional forms of work and practice, with regard to theory, tools, and methods. In the context of the digital, ‘text’ acquires new forms and meanings, especially with practices such as distant reading. Drawing upon excerpts from an earlier study on digital humanities in India, this essay discusses how data in the humanities is not a new phenomenon; concerns about the ‘datafication’ of humanities, now seen prominently in digital humanities and related fields is actually reflective of a longer conflict about the inherited separation between humanities and technology. It looks at how ‘data’ in the humanities has become a new object of enquiry as a result of several changes in the media landscape in the past few decades. These include large-scale digitalization and availability of corpora of materials (digitized and born-digital) in an array of formats and across varied platforms, thus leading to also a steady prevalence of the use of computational methods in working with and studying cultural artifacts today. This essay also explores how reading ‘text as data’ helps understand the role of data in the making of humanities texts and redefines traditional ideas of textuality, reading, and the reader.
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