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Digitally Enhanced Civil Resistance
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Nov 20, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:46 AM
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filed under:
Web Politics,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
This reflection looks at how civil disobedience unfolds in network societies. It explores the origins of nonviolence, describes digital and non-digital tactics of non-violent protest and participation and finally comments on the possibilities of this form of civil resistance to foster individual and collective civic engagement.
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Blog
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline - Call for Sessions
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Sep 20, 2017
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last modified
Nov 29, 2017 12:30 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
IRC18,
RAW Events
Does being offline necessarily mean being disconnected? Beyond anxieties such as FOMO, being offline is also seen as disengagement from a certain milieu of the digital (read: capital), an impediment to the way life is organised by and around technologies in general. However, being offline is not the exception, as examples of internet shutdown and acts on online censorship illustrate the persistence and often alarming regularity of the offline even for the ‘connected’ sections of the population. The *offline* is the theme of the third Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC18). We invite teams of two or more members to submit sessions proposals by Sunday, November 19 (final deadline). The session selection process is described below. The Conference will be hosted by the Sambhaavnaa Institute of Public Policy and Politics (Kandbari, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh) on February 22-24, 2018.
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RAW
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Technology, Social Justice and Higher Education
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 07, 2011
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 02:54 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Higher Education,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge
Since the last two years, we at the Centre for Internet and Society, have been working with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, on a project called Pathways to Higher Education, supported by the Ford Foundation.
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Digital Natives
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Pathways to Higher Education
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Blog
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Reading from a Distance — Data as Text
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Jul 23, 2014
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:29 AM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
The advent of new digital technologies and the internet has redefined practices of reading and writing, and the notion of textuality which is a fundamental aspect of humanities research and scholarship. This blog post looks at some of the debates around the notion of text as object, method and practice, to understand how it has changed in the digital context.
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RAW
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Digital Humanities
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Asia in the Edges: A Narrative Account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 25, 2014
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last modified
Apr 14, 2015 12:47 PM
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filed under:
Digital Knowledge,
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies,
Peer Reviewed Article,
Publications,
Researchers at Work
The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School is a Biennial event that invites Masters and PhD students from around Asia to participate in conversations around developing and building an Inter-Asia Cultural Studies thought process. Hosted by the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society along with the Consortium of universities and research centres that constitute it, the Summer School is committed to bringing together a wide discourse that spans geography, disciplines, political affiliations and cultural practices for and from researchers who are interested in developing Inter-Asia as a mode of developing local, contextual and relevant knowledge practices.
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RAW
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Digital Humanities
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Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities
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by
Pratyush Shankar
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published
Sep 28, 2011
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last modified
Jun 29, 2016 09:41 AM
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filed under:
The Spaces of Digital,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Publications
The monograph on Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar, is an entry into debates around making of IT Cities and public planning policies that regulate and restructure the city spaces in India with the emergence of Internet technologies. Going beyond the regular debates on the modern urban, the monograph deploys a team of students from the field of architecture and urban design to investigate how city spaces – the material as well as the experiential – are changing under the rubric of digital globalisation. Placing his inquiry in the built form, Shankar manoeuvres discourse from architecture, design, cultural studies and urban geography to look at the notions of cyber-publics, digital spaces, and planning policy in India. The findings show that the relationship between cities and cyberspaces need to be seen as located in a dynamic set of negotiations and not as a mere infrastructure question. It dismantles the presumptions that have informed public and city planning in the country by producing alternative futures of users’ interaction and mapping of the emerging city spaces.
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RAW
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Histories of the Internet
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Digital Native: Do not go Gently into the Good Night
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Mar 03, 2017
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
If there’s a lesson to be learned from the resistance to the Trump administration, it is this — patriotism is not a feeling, it is an action.
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RAW
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Digital native: Who will watch the watchman?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Mar 03, 2017
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
The state mining its citizens as data and suspending rights to privacy under the rhetoric of national security is alarming.
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RAW
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Figures of Learning: The Conditional Artist
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by
Tara Kelton
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published
May 05, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:42 AM
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filed under:
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Figures of Learning
As part of its Making Methods for Digital Humanities project, CIS-RAW organized two consultations on new figures of learning in the digital context. For a proposed journal issue on the theme of ‘bodies of knowledge’ which draws upon these conversations, participants were invited to write short sketches on these figures of learning. This abstract by Tara Kelton explores the conditional artist, and the outcomes of inserting chance in the realization of art work through the use of new multimedia and digital technologies.
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RAW
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Studying Internet in India: Selected Abstracts
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 10, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 06:53 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
We received thirty five engaging abstracts in response to the call for essays on 'Studying Internet in India.' Here are the ten selected abstracts. The final essays will be published from June onwards.
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