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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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The Rules of Engagement
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 29, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:48 AM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Governance,
Digital Natives
Why the have-nots of the digital world can sometimes be mistaken as trolls. I am not sure if you have noticed, but lately, the people populating our social networks have started to be more diverse than before.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Korean Trans Cine-Media in Global Contexts: Asia and the World
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 21, 2013
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last modified
Mar 21, 2013 10:32 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Humanities
This conference to be held from March 27 to 29, 2013 is being organized by Trans - Asia Screen Culture Institute, Cinema Studies, Korean National university of Arts, Korean Film Archive and Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University.
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News & Media
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Rethinking the last mile Problem: A cultural argument
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 02, 2009
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 10:54 AM
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filed under:
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories,
Digital Governance
This research project, by Ashish Rajadhyaksha from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, is mainly a conceptual-archival investigation into India’s history for what has in recent years come to be known as the ‘last mile’ problem. The term itself comes from communication theory, with in turn an ancestry in social anthropology, and concerns itself with (1) identifying the eventual recipient/beneficiary of any communication message, (2) discovering new ways by which messages can be delivered intact, i.e. without either distortion of decay. Exploring the intersection of government policy, technology intervention and the users' expectations, with a specific focus on Internet Technologies and their space in the good governance protocols in India, the project aims at revisiting the last mile problem as one of cultural practices and political contexts in India.
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Blogs
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The Last Cultural Mile
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The Leap of Rhodes or, How India Dealt with the Last Mile Problem - An Inquiry into Technology and Governance: Call for Review
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 14, 2010
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 10:55 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Histories of Internet,
Internet Studies
Re-thinking the Last Mile Problem research project by Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. The ‘last mile’ is a communications term which has a specific Indian variant, where technology has been mapped onto developmentalist–democratic priorities which have propelled communications technologies since at least the invention of radio in the 1940s. For at least 50 years now, the ‘last mile’ has become a mode of a techno-democracy, where connectivity has been directly translated into democratic citizenship. It has provided rationale for successive technological developments, and produced an assumption that the final frontier was just around the corner and that Internet technologies now carry the same burden of breaching that last major barrier to produce a techno-nation. The project has fed into many different activities in teaching, in examining processes of governance and in looking at user behaviour.
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The Last Cultural Mile
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Production Sprint — A Public Exhibition at CIS
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 03, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:23 PM
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filed under:
RAW Events,
Making Change,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work,
Event
The Making Change project invites you for a public exhibition of stories of change from all over Asia, where the first of its Production Sprints will take place. The exhibition will be held at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) office in Bangalore on June 7, 2014 between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
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Digital Natives
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Events
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January 2017 Newsletter
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 01, 2017
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Welcome to the January 2017 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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About Us
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Newsletters
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Digital native: Back at it Again
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 22, 2017
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last modified
Feb 02, 2017 03:04 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
The Indian digital landscape has put us in a loop of hashtags and outrage, a space where we have mastered the art of shame.
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RAW
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Combinations and Competition: Why the draft DCB must account for digital mergers and acquisitions
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by
Abhineet Nayyar and Isha Suri
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published
Aug 05, 2024
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last modified
Aug 08, 2024 07:47 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Markets,
Competition,
Antitrust
Mergers and Acquisitions (collectively, M&As or Combinations) have been a common practice in industry consolidation for many years now. In fact, as Zuckerberg’s infamous quote suggests, it might be one of the central pillars of today’s internet economy.
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RAW
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Gig and platform workers’ perspectives on worker collectives
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by
Shaik Salauddin
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published
Aug 13, 2024
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy
This report highlights findings from a survey conducted by the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers’ Union on platform workers’ perspectives around various worker collectives, particularly platform worker unions and cooperative societies. The survey was conducted with workers working for app-based platform companies like Ola, Uber, InDriver, Swiggy, Zomato, and Flipkart.
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RAW
