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i4D Interview: Social Networking and Internet Access
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Nishant Shah
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Oct 31, 2008
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last modified
Sep 22, 2011 12:51 PM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Natives,
Public Accountability,
Cybercultures,
Communities,
Digital subjectivities,
Digital Pluralism
Nishant Shah, the Director for Research at CIS, was recently interviewed in i4D in a special section looking at Social Networking and Governance, as a lead up to the Internet Governance Forum in December, in the city of Hyderabad.
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First Thing First
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Oct 27, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Eve teasing,
Digital Natives,
Street sexual harassment,
Youth,
Beyond the Digital,
movements
Studies often focus on how digital natives do their activism in identifying the characteristics of youth digital activism and dedicate little attention to what the activism is about. The second blog post in the Beyond the Digital series reverses this trend and explores how the Blank Noise Project articulates the issue it addresses: street sexual harassment.
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Digital Natives
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Talking Back without "Talking Back"
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Nov 07, 2010
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last modified
Sep 22, 2011 11:37 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Eve teasing,
Digital Natives,
Youth,
Research,
Blank Noise Project,
art and intervention,
Beyond the Digital,
Communities,
cyberspaces,
Street sexual harassment
The activism of digital natives is often considered different from previous generations because of the methods and tools they use. However, reflecting on my conversations with The Blank Noise Project and my experience in the ‘Digital Natives Talking Back’ workshop in Taipei, the difference goes beyond the method and can be spotted at the analytical level – how young people today are thinking about their activism.
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Digital Natives
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Reflecting from the Beyond
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Mar 23, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:21 PM
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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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Digital Natives
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Meet the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 08, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AM
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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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Digital Natives
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Colour Me Political
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 09, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Youth,
Social Networking
What are the tools that Digital Natives use to mobilise groups towards a particular cause? How do they engage with crises in their immediate environments? Are they using their popular social networking sites and web 2.0 applications for merely entertainment? Or are these tools actually helping them to re-articulate the realm of the political? Nishant Shah looks at the recent Facebook Colour Meme to see how new forms of political participation and engagement are being initiated by young people across the world.
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Digital Natives
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The power of the next click...
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jun 17, 2010
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Gaming,
Digital Natives,
Cybercultures
P2P cameras and microphones hooked up to form a network of people who don't know each other, and probably don't care; a series of people in different states of undress, peering at the each other, hands poised on the 'Next' button to search for something more. Chatroulette, the next big fad on the internet, is here in a grand way, making vouyers out of us all. This post examines the aesthetics, politics and potentials of this wonderful platform beyond the surface hype of penises and pornography that surrounds this platform.
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Digital Natives
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The Digital Tipping Point
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Jan 21, 2011
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:36 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Street sexual harassment,
Blank Noise Project,
Beyond the Digital,
Youth,
Social Networking,
movements
Is Web 2.0 really the only reason why youth digital activism is so successful in mobilizing public engagement? A look into the transformation of Blank Noise’s blog from a one-way communication medium into a site of public dialogue and collaboration reveals the crucial factors behind the success.
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Digital Natives
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Inquilab 2.0? Reflections on Online Activism in India*
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 13, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 09:25 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
Social media,
Digital Activism,
Cyberspace,
Access to Medicine,
internet and society,
Research,
Cybercultures
Research and activism on the Internet in India remain fledgling in spite the media hype, says Anja Kovacs in her blog post that charts online activism in India as it has emerged.
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Revolution 2.0?
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IT, The City and Public Space
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 22, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 06:07 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
City,
Cybercultures,
Architecture,
Communities
In the Introduction to the project, Pratyush Shankar at CEPT, Ahmedabad, lays out the theoretical and practice based frameworks that inform contemporary space-technology discourses in the fields of Architecture and Urban Design. The proposal articulates the concerns, the anxieties and the lack of space-technology debates in the country despite the overwhelming ways in which emergence of internet technologies has resulted in material and imagined practices of people in urbanised India. The project draws variously from disciplines of architecture, design, cultural studies and urban geography to start a dialogue about the new kinds of public spaces that inform the making of the IT City in India. You can also access his comic strip visual introduction to the project at http://www.isvsjournal.org/pratyush/internet/Dashboard.html
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
