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Digital native: The View from My Bubble
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 05, 2016
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Demonetisation,
Digital India,
RAW Blog
In the digital world, the privileged have the power to deny a devastating crisis for the poor.
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Digital Native: People Like Us
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 18, 2016
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filed under:
RAW Research,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
How the algorithm decides what you see on your timeline. If you have been hanging out on social media, there is one thing you can’t have escaped — a filter bubble. Be it demonetisation and its discontents, the fake news stories that seem to have ruined the US election, or the eternal conflict about the nature of Indian politics, your timeline must have been filled largely by people who think like you.
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The Digital Humanities from Father Busa to Edward Snowden
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Sep 04, 2017
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last modified
Oct 04, 2017 11:02 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Digital Humanities
What do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit, who worked for almost his entire life on Saint Thomas Aquinas, have in common? The simple answer would be: the computer. Things however are a bit more complex than that, and the reason for choosing these two people to explain what the Digital Humanities are, is that in some sense they represent the origins and the present consequences of a certain way of thinking about computers. This essay by Dr. Domenico Fiormonte, lecturer in the Sociology of Communication and Culture in the Department of Political Sciences at University Roma Tre, was originally published in the Media Development journal.
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Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this year
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 09, 2016
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last modified
Sep 16, 2016 01:25 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
With the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens.
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Digital Native: The Future is Now
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 17, 2016
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Digital Natives
The digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good. There used to be a popular joke among technology geeks when Bluetooth arrived on our mobile devices — everything becomes better with Bluetooth.
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Governing Speech on the Internet: From the Free Marketplace Policy to a Controlled 'Public Sphere'
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by
Smarika Kumar
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published
Aug 28, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 05:57 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Judiciary,
RAW Blog,
69A,
Censorship,
Section 66A,
Researchers at Work
This post by Smarika Kumar is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Smarika is a consultant with Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. She is interested in issues concerning law and technology. In this essay, Smarika explores how through the use of policy and regulation, the private marketplace of the internet is sought to be reined in and reconciled to the public sphere, which is mostly represented through legislations governing the internet.
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Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig Economy
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by
Kaarika Das and Srravya C
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published
Dec 06, 2021
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filed under:
Future of Work,
RAW Blog,
Research,
CISRAW,
RAW Research,
Researchers at Work
In response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the central government announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020.
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Locating Migrants in India’s Gig Economy: A Scoping Report
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by
Kaarika Das and Srravya C
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published
Jan 04, 2022
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filed under:
RAW Research,
Gig Work,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
Gig workers working for on-demand platform services have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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101 Ways of Starting an ISP:* No. 53 - Conversation, Content and Weird Fiction
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by
Surfatial
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published
Aug 03, 2016
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filed under:
Anonymity,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Researchers at Work
This essay by Surfatial is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. It argues that the internet has created a space for philosophical questioning among contemporary Indian participants which can develop further, despite common assertions that online spaces are largely uncivil and abusive. It actively explores how anonymous and pseudonymous content production may offer a method for exploring and expressing the internet in India, with a certain degree of freedom, and how spam-like methods may prove effective in puncturing filter bubbles.
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Do I Want to Say Happy B’day?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 07, 2016
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last modified
Aug 22, 2016 09:53 AM
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filed under:
Digital Media,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Social Media
When it comes to greeting friends on their birthdays, social media prompts are a great reminder. So why does an online message leave us cold?
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