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CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 13) - Pranesh Prakash
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by
Purba Sarkar
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published
Dec 31, 2013
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last modified
Jan 20, 2014 06:20 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Cybersecurity,
Internet Governance,
Cyber Security Film,
Cybercultures,
Cyber Security,
Cyber Security Interview
CIS interviews Pranesh Prakash, lawyer and policy director with Centre for Internet and Society, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
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Internet Governance
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It’s Common Practice
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
May 22, 2013
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:41 AM
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filed under:
Digital subjectivities,
Cybercultures,
Researchers at Work
Technologies are no longer abstract. They're habits. What constitutes a habit? The gestures that you make as you read this, the way your eyes flick when you encounter somebody you like, the way you stroke your chin in a moment of reflection, or the split second decisions that you make in times of crises — these are all habits. They are pre-thought, visceral, depending upon biological, social and collective memories that do not need rational thinking. Habits are the customised programming of human life.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 1) - Christopher Soghoian
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by
Purba Sarkar
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published
May 28, 2013
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last modified
Jul 12, 2013 10:26 AM
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filed under:
Cybersecurity,
Cyberspace,
Cybercultures,
Cyber Security Interview
CIS interviews Christopher Soghoian, cybersecurity researcher and activist, as part of the Cybersecurity Series
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Pleasure and Pornography: Pornography and the Blindfolded Gaze of the Law
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by
Namita A. Malhotra
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published
Apr 02, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
Obscenity,
internet and society,
Art,
cybercultures,
women and internet,
YouTube,
Cybercultures,
cyberspaces,
Digital subjectivities,
History
In the legal discourse, pornography as a category is absent, except as an aggravated form of obscenity. Does this missing descriptive category assist in the rampant circulation of pornography, either online or offline? Rather than ask that question, Namita Malhotra, in this second post documenting her CIS-RAW project, explores certain judgments that indeed deal with pornographic texts and uncovers the squeamishness that ensures that pornography as an object keeps disappearing before the law.
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RAW
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Blogs
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned Objects
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by
Namita A. Malhotra
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published
May 11, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
Cyberspace,
internet and society,
Obscenity,
women and internet,
YouTube,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities
In this post, a third in the series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Pleasure and Pornography, Namita Malhotra explores the idea of fetish as examined by Anne McClintock (i) . This detour is an exploration of the notion of fetish, its histories and meanings, and how it might relate to the story of Indian porn.
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RAW
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Blogs
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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The Future of the Moving Image
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 10, 2008
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last modified
Nov 11, 2008 09:06 AM
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filed under:
internet and society,
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
YouTube,
internet art,
Cybercultures,
New Pedagogies
All dissimilar technologies are the same in their own way, but all similar technologies are uniquely different. This was probably at the core of the zeitgeist at the international seminar on “The Future of Celluloid” hosted by the Media Lab at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, at which Nishant Shah, Director - Research CIS, presented a research paper. Practitioners, film makers, artists, theoreticians and academics, blurring the boundaries of both their roles and their disciplines and areas of interest, came together to move beyond convergence theories – to explore the continuities, conflations, contestations and confusions that Internet Technologies have led to for earlier technologies, but specifically for the technology of the moving image.
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Research
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Conferences & Workshops
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Conference Blogs
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Chutnefying English - Report
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 27, 2009
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last modified
Aug 27, 2009 06:03 AM
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filed under:
Conference,
Art,
Cybercultures,
Communities,
Digital subjectivities,
Digital Pluralism
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, was an institutional partner to India's first Global Conference on Hinglish - Chutnefying English, organised by Dr. Rita Kothari at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad. A photographic report for the event is now available here.
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Research
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Conferences & Workshops
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Conference Blogs
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WikiWars - A report
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 23, 2010
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last modified
Oct 06, 2010 11:21 AM
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filed under:
Digital Governance,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
Workshop,
CPOV
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, hosted WikiWars – an international event that brought together scholars, researchers, academics, artists and practitioners from various disciplines, to discuss the emergence and growth of Wikipedia and what it means for the information societies we inhabit. With participants from 15 countries making presentations about Wikipedia and the knowledge ecology within which it exists, the event saw a vigorous set of debates and discussions as questions about education, pedagogy, language, access, geography, resistance, art and subversion were raised by the presenters. The 2 day event marked the beginning of the process that hopes to produce the first critical reader – Critical Point of View (CPOV) - that collects key resources for research and inquiry around Wikipedia.
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Research
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Conferences & Workshops
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Conference Blogs
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Critical Point of View: Videos
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 20, 2010
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filed under:
Conference,
Art,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
Communities,
CPOV
The Second event for the Critical Point of View reader on Wikipedia was held in Amsterdam, by the Institute of Network Cultures and the Centre for Internet and Society. A wide range of scholars, academics, researchers, practitioners, artists and users came together to discuss questions on design, analytics, access, education, theory, art, history and processes of knowledge production. The videos for the full event are now available for free viewing and dissemination.
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Research
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Conferences & Workshops
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Conference Blogs
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Locating Internets: Histories of the Internet(s) in India — Research Training and Curriculum Workshop: Call for Participation
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 11, 2011
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last modified
Jul 21, 2011 06:00 AM
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filed under:
Development,
Gaming,
Digital Activism,
Digital Governance,
Research,
CISRAW,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
archives,
New Pedagogies,
Workshop,
IT Cities
Deadline for submission: 26th July 2011-06-08;
When: 19th - 22nd August, 2011;
Where: Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad;
Organised by: Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
Please Note: Travel support is only available for domestic travel within India.
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Research
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Conferences & Workshops
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Conference Blogs