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A Compilation of Research on the Gig Economy
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Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 19, 2020
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filed under:
Gender,
Digital Labour,
Covid19,
Research,
Platform-Work,
RAW Research,
research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Domestic Work
Over the past year, researchers at CIS have been studying gig economies and gig workers in India. Their work has involved consultative discussions with domestic workers, food delivery workers, taxi drivers, trade union leaders, and government representatives to document the state of gig work in India, and highlight the concerns of gig workers.
The imposition of a severe lockdown in India in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 has left gig workers in precarious positions. Without the privilege of social distancing, these workers are having to contend with a drastic reduction in income, while also placing themselves at heightened health risks.
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A lifetime of five years on the internet
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 20, 2013
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
Centre for Internet and Society observes its fifth anniversary on Sunday.
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A Question of Digital Humanities
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Mar 20, 2014
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 12:47 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Digital Humanities
The emergence of digital humanities as a new field of interdisciplinary research enquiry has also seen growth in literature around the problem of its definition. This blog-post lays out some of the conceptual frameworks for the mapping exercise taken up by CIS to look at digital humanities in India.
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Digital Humanities
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A Question of Digital Humanities
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Nov 16, 2015
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last modified
Jun 30, 2016 05:06 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Featured,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
An extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' itself, as a 'found' name for which one needs to excavate some meaning, context, and location in India at the present moment. Instead of importing this term to describe practices taking place in this country - especially when the term itself is relatively unstable and undefined even in the Anglo-American context - what I chose to do was to take a few steps back, and outline a few questions/conflicts that the digital practitioners in arts and humanities disciplines are grappling with. The final report of this study will be published serially. This is the second among seven sections.
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RAW
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A.I. Hype Cycles and Artistic Subversions
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by
Sharath Chandra Ram
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published
Dec 24, 2015
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last modified
Jan 01, 2016 07:52 AM
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filed under:
Generative Art,
Art,
Practice,
Machine Learning,
Researchers at Work,
Event,
Artificial Intelligence
Gene Kogan will give a talk on "A.I. hype cycles and artistic subversions" on Friday, January 22, 2016 at the Centre for Internet and Society office, 6 pm - 8 pm.
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Across Borders
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 11, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:55 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
A friend and I were at a cafe in Bangalore the other day, when an acquaintance walked in. After the initial niceties, and invitation to join us for coffee, the new person looked at us and asked a question that sounded so archaic and so unexpected that we had no answers for it: How do you two know each other? This innocuous question threw us both off the loop because we didn’t have an immediate answer.
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Digital Natives
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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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AI in the Future of Work
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by
Ambika Tandon
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published
Dec 07, 2021
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filed under:
CISRAW,
Researchers at Work,
Artificial Intelligence,
Future of Work
Artificial Intelligence and allied technologies form part of what is being called the fourth Industrial Revolution.
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RAW
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Alt needs to Shift
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 18, 2012
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:03 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Humanities
People maybe talking more online, but they all seem to be talking about the same kind of thing.
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Digital Humanities
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An Artist's Hunt for Lost Stepwells
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 04, 2010
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last modified
Oct 05, 2015 03:05 PM
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filed under:
Practice,
Researchers at Work,
Maps for Making Change
As part of the Maps for Making Change project, Kakoli Sen has brought to light some facts which she stumbled upon while mapping the stepwells in Vadodara. She mapped these and also discovered 14 such architectural heritage structures. The news was covered in the Times of India.
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