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Sexuality, Queerness and Internet technologies in Indian context
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Nithin Manayath
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Sep 13, 2010
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last modified
Sep 18, 2019 02:08 PM
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Cybercultures
This blog post lays out the discursive construction of sexuality and queerness as intelligible domains in the Indian context while engaging with ideas of visibility, representation, exclusion, publicness, criminality, difference, tradition, experience, and community that have come into use with the critical responses to queer identities and practices in India.
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Queer Histories of the Internet
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The Binary: City and Nature
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Sep 20, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 06:05 AM
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Cybercultures
A continuation of the last post wherein I am looking at various other representation of the city in both classical and popular medium, today I am writing my views on the analysis of certain Miniature paintings.
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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The Future of the Moving Image
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Nishant Shah
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Nov 10, 2008
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last modified
Nov 11, 2008 09:06 AM
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internet and society,
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
YouTube,
internet art,
Cybercultures,
New Pedagogies
All dissimilar technologies are the same in their own way, but all similar technologies are uniquely different. This was probably at the core of the zeitgeist at the international seminar on “The Future of Celluloid” hosted by the Media Lab at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, at which Nishant Shah, Director - Research CIS, presented a research paper. Practitioners, film makers, artists, theoreticians and academics, blurring the boundaries of both their roles and their disciplines and areas of interest, came together to move beyond convergence theories – to explore the continuities, conflations, contestations and confusions that Internet Technologies have led to for earlier technologies, but specifically for the technology of the moving image.
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The Making of an Asian City
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Nishant Shah
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Jul 21, 2010
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last modified
Aug 10, 2012 08:33 AM
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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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The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
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The power of the next click...
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by
Nishant Shah
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Jun 17, 2010
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Gaming,
Digital Natives,
Cybercultures
P2P cameras and microphones hooked up to form a network of people who don't know each other, and probably don't care; a series of people in different states of undress, peering at the each other, hands poised on the 'Next' button to search for something more. Chatroulette, the next big fad on the internet, is here in a grand way, making vouyers out of us all. This post examines the aesthetics, politics and potentials of this wonderful platform beyond the surface hype of penises and pornography that surrounds this platform.
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Watson knows the Question
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Mar 11, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:24 PM
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Cybercultures,
Researchers at Work
Now that an algorithm has given humans a run for their money on a quiz show, it’s time to rethink the idea of a machine. A fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from 19 September 2010 onwards. This article was published on March 6, 2011.
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Whose Change Is It Anyway? | DML2013
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by
Nishant Shah
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Nov 08, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:47 AM
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Video,
Cybercultures,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
As a preparation for the DML conference, Nishant Shah had an interview with Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs. Nishant Shah is chair of 'Whose Change Is It Anyway? Futures, Youth, Technology And Citizen Action In The Global South (And The Rest Of The World)' track at DML2013. Here, he talks about shifts in citizen engagement in Indian politics and civics, and the underlying significance of these changes.
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WikiWars - A report
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Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 23, 2010
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last modified
Oct 06, 2010 11:21 AM
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Digital Governance,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
Workshop,
CPOV
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, hosted WikiWars – an international event that brought together scholars, researchers, academics, artists and practitioners from various disciplines, to discuss the emergence and growth of Wikipedia and what it means for the information societies we inhabit. With participants from 15 countries making presentations about Wikipedia and the knowledge ecology within which it exists, the event saw a vigorous set of debates and discussions as questions about education, pedagogy, language, access, geography, resistance, art and subversion were raised by the presenters. The 2 day event marked the beginning of the process that hopes to produce the first critical reader – Critical Point of View (CPOV) - that collects key resources for research and inquiry around Wikipedia.
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