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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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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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Essays on 'Offline' - Selected Abstracts
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Sep 06, 2018
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last modified
Sep 06, 2018 02:14 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Offline,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
In response to a recent call for essays that explore various dimensions of offline lives, we received 22 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 10 pieces to be published as part of a series titled 'Offline' on the upcoming r@w blog. Please find below the details of the selected abstracts.
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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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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*.
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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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Silicon Plateau: Volume Two
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 19, 2018
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last modified
Mar 13, 2019 01:01 AM
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filed under:
Silicon Plateau,
RAW Publications,
Web Cultures,
Featured,
Publications,
Researchers at Work
Silicon Plateau is an art project and publishing series that explores the intersection of technology, culture and society in the Indian city of Bangalore. Each volume of the series is a themed repository for research, artworks, essays and interviews that observe the ways technology permeates the urban environment and the lives of its inhabitants. This project is an attempt at creating collaborative research into art and technology, beginning by inviting an interdisciplinary group of contributors (from artists, designers and writers, to researchers, anthropologists and entrepreneurs) to participate in the making of each volume.
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Welcome to r@w blog!
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jan 02, 2019
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last modified
Jan 02, 2019 11:48 AM
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filed under:
Homepage,
RAW Blog,
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies
We from the researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog, hosted on Medium. It will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and elsewhere at the intersections of internet, digital media, and society; and highlights and materials from ongoing research and events at the researchers@work programme.
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RAW Lectures #01: Nishant Shah on 'Stories and Histories of Internet in India' - Video
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 01, 2015
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last modified
Feb 09, 2016 08:45 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories,
Learning,
RAW Lectures
Dr. Nishant Shah spoke on the 'Stories and Histories of Internet in India' at the first event of the RAW Lectures series in Bangalore on March 6, 2015. Here is the video recording of the talk and the discussion that followed.
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Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages 2019 - From Conversations to Actions
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Oct 21, 2019
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last modified
Nov 01, 2019 05:53 PM
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filed under:
Language,
Decolonizing the Internet's Languages,
Research,
Digital Knowledge,
Researchers at Work
Whose Knowledge? is organising the Decolonizing the Internet's Languages 2019 gathering in London on October 23-24 — with a specific focus on building an agenda for action to decolonize the internet’s languages. Puthiya Purayil Sneha is participating in this meeting with scholars, linguists, archivists, technologists and community activists, to share the initial findings towards the State of the Internet’s Language Report (to be published in 2020) being developed by Whose Knowledge?, Oxford Internet Institute, and the CIS.
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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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State of the Internet's Languages 2020: Announcing selected contributions!
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Nov 01, 2019
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last modified
Nov 01, 2019 06:12 PM
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filed under:
Language,
Digital Knowledge,
Research,
Featured,
State of the Internet's Languages,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work,
Decolonizing the Internet's Languages
In response to our call for contributions and reflections on ‘Decolonising the Internet’s Languages’ in August, we are delighted to announce that we received 50 submissions, in over 38 languages! We are so overwhelmed and grateful for the interest and support of our many communities around the world; it demonstrates how critical this effort is for all of us. From all these extraordinary offerings, we have selected nine that we will invite and support the contributors to expand further.
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