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Preliminary research result on Wikipedia gender gap in India
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Ting-Yi Chang
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published
May 22, 2017
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last modified
May 23, 2017 11:09 AM
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filed under:
CIS-A2K,
Access to Knowledge,
Gender,
women and internet,
Sexual Harassment,
Wikipedia gender gap,
Research
Since June 2016, Ting-Yi Chang from the University of Toronto has worked with the CIS-A2K team to conduct action research on the Wikipedia gender gap in India. The research aims to improve the understanding of the gender gap (imbalance) issue in the Indian Wikipedia communities while examining local interventions.
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Privacy, pornography, sexuality (a video)
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by
Namita A. Malhotra
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published
Dec 10, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM
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filed under:
Digital subjectivities,
women and internet,
Censorship,
Obscenity
The video is an attempt to use the material collected for purposes of provoking a discussion around privacy, pornography, sexuality and technology. It focuses largely on an Indian context, which most viewers would be familiar with. The video is pegged around the ban of Savita Bhabhi – a pornographic comic toon – but uses that to open up a discussion on various incidents and concepts in relation to pornography and privacy across Asia.
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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Researchers At Work
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2008
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last modified
Jan 04, 2012 05:27 AM
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filed under:
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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Rewiring Bodies: Methodologies of Critique - Responses to technology in feminist and gender work in India
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Asha Achuthan
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published
Jul 20, 2009
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last modified
Aug 03, 2011 09:44 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
rewiring bodies,
women and internet,
mathemes and medicine
In this post, part of her CIS-RAW 'Rewiring Bodies' project, Asha Achuthan records the arguments within feminism and gender work that critique the use of technology in the Indian context, and attempts to show continuities between these arguments and postcolonial formulations. Overall, the post also records notions of the 'political' that inform the contour of these critiques.
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Re:Wiring Bodies
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [1]
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Asha Achuthan
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published
Feb 17, 2009
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last modified
Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM
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histories of internet in India,
rewiring bodies,
women and internet,
mathemes and medicine
This is the second post in a series by Asha Achuthan on her project, Rewiring Bodies. In this blog entry, Asha looks at the trajectory of responses to technology in India to understand the genesis of the assumption that the subjects of technology are separate from the tool, machine, or instrument.
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [2]
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by
Asha Achuthan
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Feb 25, 2009
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last modified
Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM
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histories of internet in India,
rewiring bodies,
women and internet,
mathemes and medicine
This is the third in a series of posts on Asha Achuthan's Rewiring Bodies project. In this post, Asha looks at the Tagore-Gandhi debates on technology to throw some light on the question of whether there was a nationalist alternative to the technology offered by the West.
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Re:Wiring Bodies
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The (Postcolonial) Marxist Shift in Response to Technology
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by
Asha Achuthan
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Mar 27, 2009
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last modified
Aug 03, 2011 09:47 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
rewiring bodies,
women and internet,
mathemes and medicine
In her previous post, Asha Achuthan discussed, through the Gandhi-Tagore debates, the responses to science and technology that did not follow the dominant Marxist-nationalist positions. Later Marxist-postcolonial approaches to science and responses to technology were conflated in anti-technology arguments, particularly in development. In this post, the fifth in a series on her project, she will briefly trace the 1980s shift in Marxist thinking in India as a way of approaching the shift in the science and technology question. This exercise will reveal the ambivalence in Marxist practice toward continuing associations between the ‘rational-scientific’ on the one hand and the ‘revolutionary’ on the other.
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Re:Wiring Bodies
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Wikiorientation at Dr.GR Damodaran College of Science
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by
Bhuvana Meenakshi
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published
Dec 23, 2019
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last modified
Dec 23, 2019 08:18 AM
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filed under:
Wikimedia Education,
CIS-A2K,
Open Source,
Wikimedia,
women and internet,
Wikipedia gender gap,
teaching
An orientation session on Wikimedia projects was held on 6-7 December 2019 at Dr. GR Damodaran College of Science. This talk was part of the “Hour of Code” event, which is an International event celebrated across the globe to encourage students to develop their knowledge on Computer Science. This event was supported by Open Knowledge movements like Wikimedia, Mozilla, etc.which would help students to share their knowledge in the form of volunteerships and contributions. The highlights of gender gap research and women based projects such as Women in Red were covered as part of a focussed group discussion.
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Wikiorientation at Dr.GR Damodaran College of Science
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by
Bhuvana Meenakshi
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published
Dec 23, 2019
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last modified
Jan 18, 2020 08:11 AM
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filed under:
Wikimedia Education,
CIS-A2K,
Open Source,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikipedia Education Program,
women and internet,
Wikipedia gender gap,
teaching
An orientation session on Wikimedia projects was held on 6-7 December 2019 at Dr. GR Damodaran College of Science. This talk was part of the “Hour of Code” event, which is an International event celebrated across the globe to encourage students to develop their knowledge on Computer Science. This event was supported by Open Knowledge movements like Wikimedia, Mozilla, etc.which would help students to share their knowledge in the form of volunteerships and contributions. The highlights of gender gap research and women based projects such as Women in Red were covered as part of a focussed group discussion.
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