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'Originality,' 'Authenticity,' and 'Experimentation': Understanding Tagore’s Music on YouTube
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by
Ipsita Sengupta
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published
Jul 27, 2015
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last modified
Jul 07, 2016 02:18 AM
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Digital Media,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
This post by Ipsita Sengupta is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. In this essay, she explores the responses to various renditions of songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore available on YouTube and the questions they raise regarding online listening cultures and ideas of authorship of music.
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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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Are India’s much-lauded startups failing their women workers?
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by
Abhishek Sekharan and Ambika Tandon
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published
Dec 06, 2021
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CISRAW,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Future of Work
Recent protests outside Urban Company’s head office highlight the gendered nature of work in the country’s digital economy.
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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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Call for Essays — #List
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jul 12, 2019
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last modified
Oct 11, 2019 05:07 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
List,
RAW Blog,
Research,
Featured,
Call for Essays,
Internet Studies
The researchers@work programme at CIS invites abstracts for essays that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the ‘list’. We have selected 4 abstracts among those received before August 31, 2019, and are now accepting and evaluating further submissions on a rolling basis.
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Call for Essays: Offline
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Aug 09, 2018
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last modified
Aug 20, 2018 06:58 AM
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Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Call for Essays,
Offline,
Researchers at Work
Who is offline, and is it a choice? The global project of bringing people online has spurred several commendable initiatives in expanding access to digital devices, networks, and content, and often contentious ones such as Free Basics / internet.org, which illustrate the intersectionalities of scale, privilege, and rights that we need to be mindful of when we imagine the offline. Further, the experience of the internet, for a large section of people is often mediated through prior and ongoing experiences of traditional media, and through cultural metaphors and cognitive frames that transcend more practical registers such as consumption and facilitation. How do we approach, study, and represent this disembodied internet – devoid of its hypertext, platforms, devices, it's nuts and bolts, but still tangible through engagement in myriad, personal and often indiscernible ways. The researchers@work programme invites abstracts for essays that explore dimensions of offline lives.
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Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 06, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 07:09 AM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Featured,
Notices,
Researchers at Work
As Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges – and even in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society invites abstracts for essays that explore what it means to study Internet(s) in India today.
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Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 20, 2016
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last modified
Jul 04, 2016 12:48 PM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Featured,
Notices,
Researchers at Work
As Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges – though no longer in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society invites abstracts for essays that explore how do we study internet in India today.
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Datafication of the Public Distribution System in India
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by
Sameet Panda
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published
Jul 08, 2022
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last modified
Feb 12, 2024 12:07 PM
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filed under:
RAW Research,
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
In this study, we look into the datafication of social protection schemes with a special focus on the Public Distribution System in India. Proponents of datafication claim that the benefits will reach the right person and curb leakages through the automation and digitisation of all PDS processes. Aadhaar is the most important link in the datafication; supporters claim that it makes technology people-centric. This study looks at the status of PDS datafication and its impact on the delivery of the scheme in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. We also try to understand to what extent the stated objective of portability has been met and how far the challenges faced by the rights holders of the PDS have been resolved.
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Designing Domestic Work Platforms
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by
Divyansha Sehgal and Yathrath
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published
Aug 13, 2022
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Domestic Work
This research was conducted by The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) with funding from Association for Progressive Communication (APC) through the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN), supported by International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The authors are deeply grateful to the platform workers who talked to us and shared their experiences of finding work through Urban Company. Their responses shaped our research and their insights guided the creation of this final report.
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