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Meet the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 08, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, Digital Natives, Agency, Cyborgs, Cybercultures
Digital Natives live their lives differently. But sometimes, they also die their lives differently! What happens when we die online? Can the digital avatar die? What is digital life? The Web 2.0 Suicide machine that has now popularly been called the 'anti-social-networking' application brings some of these questions to the fore. As a part of the Hivos-CIS "Digital Natives with a Cause?" research programme, Nishant Shah writes about how Life on the Screen is much more than just a series of games.
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My First Wikipedia Training Workshop – Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad: by T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Jun 19, 2013 — last modified Aug 19, 2013 06:51 AM — filed under: Digital Activism, Art, Access to Knowledge, Digital Access, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Cybercultures, Telugu Wikipedia, Open Content, Communities, Openness, Meeting, Event
On March 8, 2013, a day-long Telugu Wikipedia training workshop was organized by the Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team at the Golden Threshold, Nampally, Hyderabad in collaboration with Theatre Outreach Unit, University of Hyderabad. This blog post gives a concise account of the event.
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One for the avatar: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 03, 2011 — last modified May 14, 2015 12:19 PM — filed under: Digital subjectivities, Cybercultures, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
With increasing instances of online avatars being victimised, users who are part of these identities need to be protected against vicious attacks. 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 April 3, 2011.
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned Objects: by Namita A. Malhotra — published May 11, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM — 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.
Located in RAW / … / Blogs / Porn: Law, Video & Technology
Pleasure and Pornography: Pornography and the Blindfolded Gaze of the Law: by Namita A. Malhotra — published Apr 02, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM — 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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Political is as Political does: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 20, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:30 AM — filed under: Digital Activism, Digital Natives, Political, Youth, Featured, Cybercultures, Digital subjectivities, Workshop
The Talking Back workshop has been an extraordinary experience for me. The questions that I posed for others attending the workshop have hounded me as they went through the course of discussion, analysis and dissection. Strange nuances have emerged, certain presumptions have been questioned, new legacies have been discovered, novel ideas are still playing ping-pong in my mind, and a strange restless excitement – the kind that keeps me awake till dawning morn – has taken over me, as I try and figure out the wherefore and howfore of things. I began the research project on Digital Natives in a condition of not knowing, almost two years ago. Since then, I have taken many detours, rambled on strange paths, discovered unknown territories and reached a mile-stone where I still don’t know, but don’t know what I don’t know, and that is a good beginning.
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Re:wiring Bodies - Dr. Asha Achuthan: by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 21, 2011 07:23 AM — filed under: Cyborgs, Cybercultures, Archives, Digital subjectivities, Resources, History
First draft of the monograph on "Rewiring Bodies" by Dr. Asha Achutan; format for Microsoft Office users
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Reconceptualizing Privacy on Social Network(s) Sites: by Rebecca Schild — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM — filed under: Cybercultures
While “privacy” on social network sites remains a highly ambiguous notion, much debate surrounding the issue to date has focused on privacy as the nonpublic-ness of personal information. However, as these social platforms become sites for diverse forms of “networking”, privacy must also be popularly conceptualized as control over personal data flows.
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Reflecting from the Beyond: by Maesy Angelina — published Mar 23, 2011 — last modified May 14, 2015 12:21 PM — filed under: Cyberspace, Digital Activism, Digital Natives, Street sexual harassment, Blank Noise Project, Cybercultures, Beyond the Digital, Youth, Researchers at Work
After going ‘beyond the digital’ with Blank Noise through the last nine posts, the final post in the series reflects on the understanding gained so far about youth digital activism and questions one needs to carry in moving forward on researching, working with, and understanding digital natives.
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Separating the 'Symbiotic Twins': by Nitya V — published Jun 17, 2010 — last modified Sep 18, 2019 02:10 PM — filed under: histories of internet in India, Cybercultures
This post tries to undo the comfortable linking that has come to exist in the ‘radical’ figure of the cyber-queer. And this is so not because of a nostalgic sense of the older ways of performing queerness, or the world of the Internet is fake or unreal in comparison to bodily experience, and ‘real’ politics lies elsewhere. This is so as it is a necessary step towards studying the relationship between technology and sexuality.
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