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Pleasure and Pornography: Pornography and the Blindfolded Gaze of the Law
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Namita A. Malhotra
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Apr 02, 2009
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histories of internet in India,
Obscenity,
internet and society,
Art,
cybercultures,
women and internet,
YouTube,
Cybercultures,
cyberspaces,
Digital subjectivities,
History
In the legal discourse, pornography as a category is absent, except as an aggravated form of obscenity. Does this missing descriptive category assist in the rampant circulation of pornography, either online or offline? Rather than ask that question, Namita Malhotra, in this second post documenting her CIS-RAW project, explores certain judgments that indeed deal with pornographic texts and uncovers the squeamishness that ensures that pornography as an object keeps disappearing before the law.
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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Emerging Bit Torrent Trends in India
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Siddharth Chadha
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Jun 15, 2009
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Aug 04, 2011 04:44 AM
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Cyberspace,
internet and society,
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
cybercultures,
cyberspaces
Internet has been a revelation ever since its introduction. The writer in this blog examines how the progress made by Internet based technologies could never be reversed.
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CPOV: Critical Point of View
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Nishant Shah
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Jul 10, 2009
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Jul 13, 2009 09:07 AM
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Wikipedia,
art and intervention,
cybercultures,
digital subjectives,
Vandalism,
digital art,
digital pluralism
The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) seek to bring together ideas, experiences and scholarship about Wikipedia in a reader that charts out detailed user stories as well as empirical and analytical work to produce.. The organisations will jointly host two separate conferences aimed at building a Wikipedia Knowledge Network and charting scholarship and stories about The Wikipedia from around the world.
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Histories of the Internet
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 17, 2008
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Mar 30, 2015 02:15 PM
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histories of internet in India,
internet and society,
geeks,
digital subjectives,
cyborgs,
cybercultures,
archives,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
research,
women and internet,
e-governance
For the first two years, the CIS-RAW Programme shall focus on producing diverse multidisciplinary histories of the internet in India.
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Cyberspace in its Plurality: Cybercultures Workshop at TISS, Mumbai
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 23, 2008
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Oct 31, 2008 10:38 AM
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cybercultures,
teaching,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
education,
digital pluralism
Cyberspace has become one of the most potent and persuasive metaphors of our times, enveloping and embracing a wide range and scope of areas across disciplines and perspectives. The cybercultures workshop is designed to be an introduction to the multiplicity of cyberspaces and internet technologies and the key questions which have emerged in the almost four decades of cyberculture theory. The workshop is designed across four days; each day dealing with a certain understanding of cyberspace – in its materiality, in its imagination, in its instrumentality – in order to present a comprehensive view of the vast terrain of cyberspace and its intersections with the contemporary worlds we live in.
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Research Programmes
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 17, 2008
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Jan 15, 2009 12:02 PM
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research,
cyborgs,
cybercultures,
digital pluralism,
digital subjectivities,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
e-governance
The Research Portfolio at the Centre for Internet and Society seeks to develop new pedagogic practices, plural and unique knowledges, multidisciplinary perspectives, and reflexive interventions in the field of Internet and Society.
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian City: First Report
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Prasad Krishna
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Jul 21, 2010
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Aug 02, 2011 06:06 AM
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internet and society,
cybercultures
This is the first report on the progress of the research on Internet, Society and Space in Indian City. The post is a collection of some of the initial focus of these studies. I have started simultaneously exploring and testing various arguments and have listed some key observations from the ones that are nearing completion.
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City in the Internet 1: Geography Imagined (Part 1)
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Prasad Krishna
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Oct 19, 2010
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Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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internet and society,
cybercultures
“The estuaries that flirt with the land mass before they finally perish in the vast deep blue ocean beyond were perfect in their shape and grace. And you know what; from top it appears like a surreal landscape that is so restive and peaceful, almost heaven. The countryside is actually very beautiful”, says Pratyush Shankar in his latest blog post. A random conversation between two person discovering the joys of seeing our existence through Google Earth!
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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Researchers At Work
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by
Nishant Shah
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Sep 17, 2008
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last modified
Jan 04, 2012 05:27 AM
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histories of internet in India,
internet and society,
geeks,
digital subjectives,
cyborgs,
cybercultures,
archives,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
research,
women and internet,
e-governance
CIS-RAW stands for Researchers at Work, a multidisciplinary research initiative by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. CIS firmly believes that in order to understand the contemporary concerns in the field of Internet and Society, it is necessary to produce local and contextual accounts of the interaction between the internet and socio-cultural and geo-political structures. The CIS-RAW programme hopes to produce one of the first documentations on the transactions and negotiations, relationships and correlations that the emergence of internet technologies has resulted in, specifically in the South. The CIS-RAW programme recognises ‘The Histories of the Internet and India’ as its focus for the first two years. Although many disciplines, organisations and interventions in various areas deal with internet technologies, there has been very little work in documenting the polymorphous growth of internet technologies and their relationship with society in India. The existing narratives of the internet are often riddled with absences or only focus on the mainstream interests of major stakeholders, like the state and the corporate. We find it imperative to excavate the three-decade histories of the internet to understand the contemporary concerns and questions in the field.
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