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IT and the cITy
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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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IT, The City and Public Space
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 22, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 06:07 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
City,
Cybercultures,
Architecture,
Communities
In the Introduction to the project, Pratyush Shankar at CEPT, Ahmedabad, lays out the theoretical and practice based frameworks that inform contemporary space-technology discourses in the fields of Architecture and Urban Design. The proposal articulates the concerns, the anxieties and the lack of space-technology debates in the country despite the overwhelming ways in which emergence of internet technologies has resulted in material and imagined practices of people in urbanised India. The project draws variously from disciplines of architecture, design, cultural studies and urban geography to start a dialogue about the new kinds of public spaces that inform the making of the IT City in India. You can also access his comic strip visual introduction to the project at http://www.isvsjournal.org/pratyush/internet/Dashboard.html
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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Jurisdictional Issues in Cyberspace
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by
Justice S Muralidhar
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published
Jan 07, 2011
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last modified
Mar 21, 2012 10:00 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace
This article by Justice S Muralidhar was published in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology, Volume 6, 2010. It explores in detail the jurisdiction of courts when dealing with disputes arising from commercial transactions on the Internet.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Meet the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 08, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Natives,
Agency,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures
Digital Natives live their lives differently. But sometimes, they also die their lives differently! What happens when we die online? Can the digital avatar die? What is digital life? The Web 2.0 Suicide machine that has now popularly been called the 'anti-social-networking' application brings some of these questions to the fore. As a part of the Hivos-CIS "Digital Natives with a Cause?" research programme, Nishant Shah writes about how Life on the Screen is much more than just a series of games.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned Objects
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by
Namita A. Malhotra
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published
May 11, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
Cyberspace,
internet and society,
Obscenity,
women and internet,
YouTube,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities
In this post, a third in the series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Pleasure and Pornography, Namita Malhotra explores the idea of fetish as examined by Anne McClintock (i) . This detour is an exploration of the notion of fetish, its histories and meanings, and how it might relate to the story of Indian porn.
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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Reflecting from the Beyond
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Mar 23, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:21 PM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Street sexual harassment,
Blank Noise Project,
Cybercultures,
Beyond the Digital,
Youth,
Researchers at Work
After going ‘beyond the digital’ with Blank Noise through the last nine posts, the final post in the series reflects on the understanding gained so far about youth digital activism and questions one needs to carry in moving forward on researching, working with, and understanding digital natives.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Talking Back without "Talking Back"
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Nov 07, 2010
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last modified
Sep 22, 2011 11:37 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Eve teasing,
Digital Natives,
Youth,
Research,
Blank Noise Project,
art and intervention,
Beyond the Digital,
Communities,
cyberspaces,
Street sexual harassment
The activism of digital natives is often considered different from previous generations because of the methods and tools they use. However, reflecting on my conversations with The Blank Noise Project and my experience in the ‘Digital Natives Talking Back’ workshop in Taipei, the difference goes beyond the method and can be spotted at the analytical level – how young people today are thinking about their activism.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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The Body in Cyberspace
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
May 13, 2014
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filed under:
Cyborgs,
Cyberspace
Perhaps one of the most interesting histories of the cyberspace has been its relationship with the body. Beginning with the meatspace-cyberspace divide that Gibson introduces, the question of our bodies’ relationship with the internet has been hugely contested. There have been some very polarized debates around this question.
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Telecom
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Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
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The Digital Tipping Point
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by
Maesy Angelina
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published
Jan 21, 2011
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:36 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Street sexual harassment,
Blank Noise Project,
Beyond the Digital,
Youth,
Social Networking,
movements
Is Web 2.0 really the only reason why youth digital activism is so successful in mobilizing public engagement? A look into the transformation of Blank Noise’s blog from a one-way communication medium into a site of public dialogue and collaboration reveals the crucial factors behind the success.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: A Compendium of CIS Research
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by
Arindrajit Basu
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published
Dec 31, 2020
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last modified
Nov 15, 2021 02:48 PM
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filed under:
Cyber Security,
Internet Governance,
Cyberspace
Cyberspace is undoubtedly shaping and disrupting commerce, defence and human relationships all over the world. Opportunities such as improved access to knowledge, connectivity, and innovative business models have been equally met with nefarious risks including cyber-attacks, disinformation campaigns, government driven digital repression, and rabid profit-making by ‘Big Tech.’ Governments have scrambled to create and update global rules that can regulate the fair and equitable uses of technology while preserving their own strategic interests.
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