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Creative Activism - Voices of Young Change Makers in India (UDAAN)
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Jan 20, 2014
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last modified
Apr 14, 2015 01:21 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Making Change,
Web Politics
This post is a short account of what happened at UDAAN in December 2013 — a conference that gathered 100 youth from across the country to discuss pressing environmental issues and creative strategies to tackle them. We conducted a survey to map the perspectives of these young change-makers and get a glimpse of how India's youth is now framing and going about making 'change'
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Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 1
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Feb 24, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:31 PM
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filed under:
Digital Activism,
Making Change,
Research,
Blank Noise Project,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work
This post compares the production behind a performance with the process of storytelling. To illustrate this analogy, we explore the stories of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian- two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. This post looks at the stages of pre-production and the screenplay to explore methods and narratives in storytelling.
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Reaping the Benefits of Gamification
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by
Dipali Sheth
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published
Apr 30, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:24 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Net Cultures,
Making Change,
Research
As a part of the Making Change blog-post series, in this post we will identify a new technique: gamification. This technique is being used for sustainable environment conservation by modern day change-makers. We interview two out of three co-founders of Reap benefit- Kamal Raj and Gautam Prakash who believe in the adoption of more sustained environmental practices that induce social change towards conserving the environment.
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Making Change
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Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC)
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Dec 26, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:36 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Web Politics,
Making Change,
Digital Natives
This is the first of a two-part analysis of information activism for the Making Change project. This post looks at the benefits and limitations of increasing access to information to enable citizenship and political participation.
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Information Structures for Citizen Participation - Janaagraha
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Mar 12, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:28 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Net Cultures,
Making Change,
Research
In our efforts to understand how change is conceptualized in the digital era, we find a growing emphasis on the role of effective information structures to empower the citizen and the government. We interview Joylita Saldanha from Janaagraha to answer questions around information, participation and e-governance.
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Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 2
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Feb 27, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:30 PM
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filed under:
Making Change,
Research,
Blank Noise Project,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work
This post compares the method of storytelling with performances. To illustrate this, we explore the narratives of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian, two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. Part 2 looks at the role of actors and the stage in performances to explore the role of agency and the public space in storytelling.
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Making Change
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Public Art, Technology and Citizenship - Blank Noise Project
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Nov 30, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:43 AM
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Social Media,
Web Politics,
Digital Natives,
Making Change,
Blank Noise Project,
Researchers at Work
Jasmeen Patheja speaks about the active citizen in the digital age, its challenges in the public and private spheres and interdisciplinary methods to overcome them.
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Making Change
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Multimedia Storytellers: Panel Discussion
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Apr 16, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:26 PM
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filed under:
Making Change,
Net Cultures,
Research,
Featured,
Researchers at Work
This post brings three storytellers together to find points of intersection between their methods. The format will be that of a panel discussion and it features: Arjun Srivathsa from Pocket Science India, Ameen Haque from the Storywallahs, and Ajay Dasgupta from The Kahani Project. They discuss technology, interpretation and action in storytelling.
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Storytelling and Technology - Sartaj Anand
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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last modified
Mar 12, 2014 11:43 AM
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filed under:
Making Change,
Digital Natives
This post outlines the general characteristics of storytelling. The second section is an interview with Sartaj Anand, the founder of EgoMonk and BIllion Strong, who talks about storytelling as a strategy to build trust at the intersections of business and technology. This is the first of a series of installments exploring the potential of storytelling for social change.
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Bridging the Information Divide - Political Quotient
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:28 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Net Cultures,
Making Change,
Research
On this post, we will unpack 'information poverty'- a problem lying at the very foundation of the crises that inspired this project and a barrier impacting political action. We interview Surabhi HR, the founder director of the political consulting firm Political Quotient, an initiative that seeks to change how youth interacts with politics in India
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