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CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 6) - Lhadon Tethong
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by
Purba Sarkar
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published
Jul 15, 2013
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last modified
Aug 01, 2013 09:54 AM
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filed under:
Cybersecurity,
Internet Governance,
Cybercultures,
Cyber Security,
Cyber Security Interview
CIS interviews Lhadon Tethong, Tibetan human rights activist, as part of the Cybersecurity Series
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Internet Governance
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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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Research
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Collaborative Projects Programme
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The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
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China's Generation Y : Youth and Technology in Shanghai
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 21, 2009
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last modified
Sep 21, 2009 02:09 PM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Social media,
Shanghai,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures,
Digital Natives
Within the context of internet technologies in China, Nishant Shah, drawing from his seven month research in Shanghai, looks at the first embodiment of these technologies in the urbanising city. In this post, he gives a brief overview of the public and academic discourse around youth-technology usage of China's Generation Y digital natives. He draws the techno-narratives of euphoria and despair to show how technology studies has reduced technology to tools and usage and hence even the proponents of internet technologies, often do a disservice to the technology itself. He poses questions about the politics, mechanics and aesthetics of technology and offers the premise upon which structures of reading resistance can be built. The post ends with a preview of the three stories that are to appear next in the series, to see how youth engagement and cultural production can be read as having the potentials for social transformation and political participation for the Digital Natives in China.
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Research
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Collaborative Projects Programme
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The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
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The Making of an Asian City
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 21, 2010
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last modified
Aug 10, 2012 08:33 AM
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filed under:
Shanghai,
Cybercultures,
Architecture,
Censorship,
Communities
Nishant Shah attended the conference on 'Pluralism in Asia: Asserting Transnational Identities, Politics, and Perspectives' organised by the Asia Scholarship Foundation, in Bangkok, where he presented the final paper based on his work in Shanghai. The paper, titled 'The Making of an Asian City', consolidates the different case studies and stories collected in this blog, in order to make a larger analyses about questions of cultural production, political interventions and the invisible processes that are a part of the IT Cities.
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Research
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Collaborative Projects Programme
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The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
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Fill The Gap: Global Discussion on Digital Natives
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 15, 2010
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last modified
Jan 22, 2010 10:54 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Digital Activism,
Digital Governance,
Digital Natives,
Agency,
Youth,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
New Pedagogies,
Digital subjectivities,
ICT
More often than not people don't understand the new practices inspired by Internet and digital technologies. As such a series of accusations have been leveled against the Digital Natives. Educators, policy makers, scholars, and parents have all raised their worries without hearing out from the people they are concerned about. Hivos has initiated an online global discussion about Digital Natives. So, to voice your opinion, start tweeting with us now #DigitalNatives.
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Collaborative Projects Programme
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Digital Natives With a Cause?
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CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 11) - Anja Kovacs
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by
Purba Sarkar
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published
Oct 15, 2013
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filed under:
Cybersecurity,
Internet Governance,
Cybercultures,
Cyber Security,
Cyber Security Interview
CIS interviews Anja Kovacs, researcher and activist, and director of the Internet Democracy, Project as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 12) - Namita Malhotra
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by
Purba Sarkar
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published
Nov 15, 2013
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last modified
Nov 18, 2013 10:03 AM
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filed under:
Cybersecurity,
Internet Governance,
Cybercultures,
Cyber Security,
Cyber Security Interview
CIS interviews Namita Malhotra, researcher and lawyer at Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
Located in
Internet Governance
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Blog
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First Look: CIS Cybersecurity documentary film
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by
Purba Sarkar
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published
Nov 18, 2013
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last modified
Dec 17, 2013 08:16 AM
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filed under:
Cybersecurity,
Internet Governance Forum,
Internet Governance,
Cyber Security Film,
Cybercultures,
Cyber Security
CIS presents the trailer of its documentary film DesiSec: Cybersecurity & Civil Society in India
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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A provisional definition for the Cultural Last Mile
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 10, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 08:57 AM
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filed under:
ICT4D,
Digital Governance,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities
In the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he re-purposes the 'last mile' which is a communications problem, to make a cultural argument about the role and imagination of technology in India, and the specific ways in which this problem features in talking about Internet Technologies in contemporary India.
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RAW
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Blogs
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The Last Cultural Mile
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CIS Cybersecurity Series (Part 9) - Saikat Datta
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by
Purba Sarkar
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published
Aug 05, 2013
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filed under:
Cybersecurity,
Cyberspace,
Cybercultures,
Cyber Security Interview
CIS interviews Saikat Datta, Resident Editor of DNA, Delhi, as part of the Cybersecurity Series.
Located in
Internet Governance
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Blog
