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Reading the Fine Script: Service Providers, Terms and Conditions and Consumer Rights
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by
Jyoti Panday
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published
Jul 02, 2014
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last modified
Jul 04, 2014 06:31 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Consumer Rights,
Google,
internet and society,
Privacy,
Transparency and Accountability,
Intermediary Liability,
Accountability,
Facebook,
Data Protection,
Policies,
Safety
This year, an increasing number of incidents, related to consumer rights and service providers, have come to light. This blog illustrates the facts of the cases, and discusses the main issues at stake, namely, the role and responsibilities of providers of platforms for user-created content with regard to consumer rights.
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Transforming urbanscapes: ATM in cities
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 17, 2010
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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filed under:
internet and society,
IT Cities
This is the first in series of posts where I will try and articulate the transformation in the urban landscape that one can attribute either directly or in-directly to information and communication technologies. I am keen in discussing changes that are more fundamental in terms of architectural typology and spatial constructs and all this while looking for things that are specific to an Indian city. And that is where the story becomes rather interesting; Indian cities are unique and so when a shift occurs in its material constructs it must be analyzed with reference to its peculiar context.
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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From the Stock Market to Neighbourhood Mohalla
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 17, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 06:05 AM
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filed under:
internet and society,
IT Cities
The stock markets have been the symbol of trade and commerce of the city and the region. In this post I will analyze the stock market; an important commercial institution and try and articulate its changing architectural configuration and its impact on neighborhoods and other public domain of the city. The change in information technology has had a profound effect on the business methodologies of the stock brokers and traders in the last few years with possibilities for buying and selling during the market hours from any internet enabled device. The pundits have announced that the “market is in your pocket or at the comfort of your home”. Is it really so or is the change more subtle? Moreover how will our cities and their public place transform from such shift?
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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City in the Internet 1: Geography Imagined (Part 2)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 29, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 06:06 AM
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filed under:
internet and society
In the last post, I have articulated the nature of understanding and imagination of our urban and rural geography. As mentioned, the understanding of the land, its water and people is an essentially one, that comes through living and experiencing. In this post I will be posing issues around the historical legacy of maps in the Indian context. The issues of imagination of our cities is very much related to this legacy along with the shift that we are witnessing in geographical representation of maps on the Internet.
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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City in the Internet 1: Geography Imagined (Part 1)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 19, 2010
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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filed under:
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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Internet, Society and Space in Indian City: First Report
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 21, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 06:06 AM
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filed under:
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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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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Inquilab 2.0? Reflections on Online Activism in India*
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 13, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 09:25 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
Social media,
Digital Activism,
Cyberspace,
Access to Medicine,
internet and society,
Research,
Cybercultures
Research and activism on the Internet in India remain fledgling in spite the media hype, says Anja Kovacs in her blog post that charts online activism in India as it has emerged.
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Revolution 2.0?
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At the end of the niche optical pirate
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by
Siddharth Chadha
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published
Oct 29, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:44 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Consumer Rights,
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
internet and society
In this blog post, Siddharth Chaddha goes enquiring into the modus operandi of a video pirate / film lover / businessman in Bangalore's famed National Market.
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IT and the cITy
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2009
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last modified
Sep 18, 2009 10:45 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
internet and society,
Shanghai,
ICT4D,
Digital Natives,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities,
IT Cities
Nishant Shah tells ten stories of relationship between Internet Technologies and the City, drawing from his experiences of seven months in Shanghai. In this introduction to the city, he charts out first experiences of the physical spaces of Shanghai and how they reflect the IT ambitions and imaginations of the city. He takes us through the dizzying spaces of Shanghai to see how the architecture and the buildings of the city do not only house the ICT infrastructure but also embody it in their unfolding. In drawing the seductive nature of embodied technology in the physical experience of Shanghai, he also points out why certain questions about the rise of internet technologies and the reconfiguration of the Shanghai-Pudong area have never been asked. In this first post, he explains his methdologies that inform the framework which will produce the ten stories of technology and Shanghai, and how this new IT City, delivers its promise of invisibility.
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Collaborative Projects Programme
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The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
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Emerging Bit Torrent Trends in India
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by
Siddharth Chadha
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published
Jun 15, 2009
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 04:44 AM
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filed under:
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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