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Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline - Call for Sessions
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Sep 20, 2017
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last modified
Nov 29, 2017 12:30 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
IRC18,
RAW Events
Does being offline necessarily mean being disconnected? Beyond anxieties such as FOMO, being offline is also seen as disengagement from a certain milieu of the digital (read: capital), an impediment to the way life is organised by and around technologies in general. However, being offline is not the exception, as examples of internet shutdown and acts on online censorship illustrate the persistence and often alarming regularity of the offline even for the ‘connected’ sections of the population. The *offline* is the theme of the third Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC18). We invite teams of two or more members to submit sessions proposals by Sunday, November 19 (final deadline). The session selection process is described below. The Conference will be hosted by the Sambhaavnaa Institute of Public Policy and Politics (Kandbari, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh) on February 22-24, 2018.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List - Call for Papers
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 06, 2018
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
IRC19
Who makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invite papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list*.
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RAW
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List - Selected Sessions and Papers
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jan 02, 2019
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last modified
Jan 21, 2019 12:11 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
IRC19
Here is the list of selected sessions and papers for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19) - #List. IRC19 will be held in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, from Jan 30 to Feb 1, 2019. The conference announcement, along with the final agenda, will be published on Monday, January 7.
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RAW
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List, Jan 30 - Feb 1, Lamakaan
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jan 09, 2019
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last modified
Jan 31, 2019 06:41 AM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
IRC19,
Researchers at Work,
Event
Who makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invited sessions and papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list* - to present or propose academic, applied, or creative works that explore its social, economic, cultural, material, political, affective, or aesthetic dimensions. IRC19 will be organised in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, during January 30 - February 1, 2019.
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RAW
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): List - Call for Sessions
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Oct 01, 2018
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last modified
Nov 05, 2018 09:15 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies,
Internet Researcher's Conference
Who makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invite sessions that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list*.
Located in
RAW
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Living in the Archival Moment
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 14, 2015
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last modified
Jun 30, 2016 05:08 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
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 fifth among seven sections.
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RAW
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Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.ma
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Mar 31, 2018
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last modified
Jun 25, 2018 12:50 PM
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filed under:
Research,
Featured,
Publications,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
The growth of the internet and digital technologies in the last couple of decades, and the emergence of new ‘digital objects’ of enquiry has led to a rethinking of research methods across disciplines as well as innovative modes of creative practice. This chapter authored by Puthiya Purayil Sneha (published in 'Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities' edited by Jentery Sayers) discusses some of the questions that arise around the processes by which digital objects are ‘made’ and made available for arts and humanities research and practice, by drawing on recent work in text and film archival initiatives in India.
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RAW
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Making in the Humanities – Some Questions and Conflicts
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
May 22, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:46 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Featured,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
The following is an abstract for a proposed chapter on 'making' in the humanities, which has been accepted for publication in a volume titled 'Making Humanities Matter'. This is part of a new book series titled 'Debates in the Digital Humanities 2015' to be published by University of Minnesota Press (http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/cfps/cfp_2015_mhm). The first draft of the chapter will be shared by mid-August 2015.
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RAW
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Mapping Digital Humanities in India - Concluding Thoughts
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Nov 30, 2014
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:36 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Featured,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
This final blog post on the mapping exercise undertaken by CIS-RAW summarises some of the key concepts and terms that have emerged as significant in the discourse around Digital Humanities in India.
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RAW
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New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital (Paper)
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jun 25, 2018
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last modified
Dec 06, 2019 05:03 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Research,
Featured,
Publications,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
The ubiquitous presence of the ‘digital’ over the couple of decades has brought with it several important changes in interdisciplinary forms of research and knowledge production. Particularly in the arts and humanities, the role of digital technologies and internet has always been a rather contentious one, with more debate spurred now due to the growth of fields like humanities computing, digital humanities (henceforth DH) and cultural analytics. Even as these fields signal several shifts in scholarship, pedagogy and practice, portending a futuristic imagination of the role of technology in academia and practice on the one hand, they also reflect continuing challenges related to the digital divide, and more specifically politics around the growth and sustenance of the humanities disciplines. A specific criticism within more recent debates around the origin story of DH in fact, has been its Anglo-American framing, drawing upon a history in humanities computing and textual studies, and located within a larger neoliberal imagination of the university and academia. While this has been met with resistance from across different spaces, thus calling for more diversity and representation in the discourse, it is also reflective of the need to trace and contextualize more local forms of practice and pedagogy in the digital as efforts to address these global concerns. This essay by Puthiya Purayil Sneha draws upon excerpts from a study on the field of DH and related practices in India, to outline the diverse contexts of humanities practice with the advent of the digital and explore the developing discourse around DH in the Indian context.
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