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10th International ISTR Conference
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 10, 2012
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last modified
Aug 05, 2012 08:03 AM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives
The 10th international ISTR conference was organised by ISTR at Universita Degli Studi Di Siena in Italy from July 10 to 13, 2012. Nishant Shah gave a lecture on Beyond Normative Citizenships: Exploring the ‘New’ in Digital Activism.
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News & Media
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Activism: Unraveling the Term
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Mar 10, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:25 PM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Blank Noise Project,
Beyond the Digital,
Researchers at Work
After discussing Blank Noise’s politics and ways of organizing, the current post explores whether activism is still a relevant concept to capture the involvement of people within the collective. I explore the questions from the vantage point of the youth actors, through conversations about how they relate with the very term of activism.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital Activism
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 23, 2011
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last modified
Oct 25, 2015 05:58 AM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Research,
Net Cultures,
Publications,
Researchers at Work
In this peer reviewed research paper, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen draws on a research project that focuses on understanding new technology, mediated identities, and their relationship with processes of change in their immediate and extended environments in emerging information societies in the global south. It suggests that endemic to understanding digital activism is the need to look at the recalibrated relationships between the state and the citizens through the prism of technology and agency. The paper was published in Democracy & Society, a publication of the Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2011.
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RAW
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Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital Activism
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 23, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:14 PM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Web Politics,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
In this peer reviewed research paper, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen draws on a research project that focuses on understanding new technology, mediated identities, and their relationship with processes of change in their immediate and extended environments in emerging information societies in the global south. It suggests that endemic to understanding digital activism is the need to look at the recalibrated relationships between the state and the citizens through the prism of technology and agency. The paper was published in Democracy & Society, a publication of the Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2011.
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Digital Natives
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Beyond the Digital: Understanding Digital Natives with a Cause
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Jul 30, 2010
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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filed under:
Youth,
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Blank Noise Project,
Beyond the Digital
Digital natives with a cause: the future of activism or slacktivism? Maesy Angelina argues that the debate is premature given the obscured understanding on youth digital activism and contends that an effort to understand this from the contextualized perspectives of the digital natives themselves is a crucial first step to make. This is the first out of a series of posts on her journey to explore new insights to understand youth digital activism through a research with The Blank Noise Project under the Hivos-CIS Digital Natives Knowledge Programme.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Call for Applications: 'Maps for Making Change' - Using Geographical Mapping Techniques to Support Struggles for Social Justice in India
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by
Anja Kovacs
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published
Oct 30, 2009
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last modified
Oct 05, 2015 03:04 PM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Practice,
Workshop,
Researchers at Work,
Maps for Making Change
Deadline: 20 November 2009.
Maps for Making Change is a two-month project specifically designed for activists and supporters of social movements and campaigns in India. It provides participants with an exciting opportunity to explore how a range of digital mapping techniques can be used to support struggles for social justice. It also allows you to immediately develop and implement in practice a concrete mapping project relevant to your campaign or movement, with full technical support. Interested in joining us? Send in your application by 20 November 2009.
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Advocacy
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Other Advocacy
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Celebrating the success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013
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by
Subhashish Panigrahi
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published
Jan 21, 2013
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last modified
Apr 16, 2013 12:48 PM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Access,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Youth,
Video,
Open Access,
Openness,
Event
Wikipedia Club Pune, a local community based outreach user group in Pune has recently organized Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013 to spread words about “Spoken Wikipedia”, a project to add recorded audio for Indic language Wikipedia articles which will help the disabled to access Wikipedia and “Bridging Editor Gender Gap.”
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Openness
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Blog
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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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Blog
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CPOV : Wikipedia Research Initiative
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Mar 16, 2010
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 02:52 AM
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filed under:
Conference,
Open Standards,
Digital Activism,
Digital Governance,
Digital Access,
Public Accountability,
Research,
Featured
The Second event, towards building the Critical Point of View Reader on Wikipedia, brings a range of scholars, practitioners, theorists and activists to critically reflect on the state of Wikipedia in our contemporary Information Societies. Organised in Amsterdam, Netherlands, by the Institute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, the event builds on the debates and discussions initiated at the WikiWars that launched off the knowledge network in Bangalore in January 2010. Follow the Live Tweets at #CPOV
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Research
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Conferences & Workshops
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Conference Blogs
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Digital Activism in Asia Reader
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Aug 08, 2015
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:36 PM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Digital Activism in Asia Reader,
Featured,
Research,
Net Cultures,
Publications,
Researchers at Work
The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of change to becoming an agent of change. In co-shaping these changes, what the digital shall be used for, and what its consequences will be, are both up for speculation and negotiation. Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West’s attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia. It is our great pleasure to present the Digital Activism in Asia Reader.
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RAW
