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Figures of Learning: The Reader
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Mar 24, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:48 AM
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filed under:
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Figures of Learning
As part of its Making Methods for Digital Humanities project, CIS-RAW organized two consultations on new figures of learning in the digital context. For a proposed journal issue on the theme of ‘bodies of knowledge’ which draws upon these conversations, participants were invited to write short sketches on these figures of learning. This abstract by P.P Sneha examines the figure of the reader, and the manner in which it is redefined in as text and practices of reading are reconstituted in the digital context.
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RAW
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Figures of Learning: The Visual Designer
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Feb 12, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:33 AM
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filed under:
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Figures of Learning
As part of its Making Methods for Digital Humanities project, CIS-RAW organized two consultations on new figures of learning in the digital context. For a proposed journal issue on the theme of ‘bodies of knowledge’ which draws upon these conversations, participants were invited to write short sketches on these figures of learning. This abstract by Tejas Pande examines the figure of the visual designer, and emerging practices of mapmaking.
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RAW
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FOV Podcast - Data, People, and Smart Cities
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Dec 02, 2015
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last modified
Dec 02, 2015 07:54 AM
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filed under:
Smart Cities,
Researchers at Work,
Data Systems
For the second part of the Smart City podcast series, Sruthi Krishnan and Harsha K from Fields of View spoke with Sumandro Chattapadhyay on data, people, and smart cities. Here is the podcast. We are grateful to Fields of View for producing and sharing this recording.
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RAW
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Framing the Digital AlterNatives
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by
Nilofar Ansher
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published
Apr 04, 2012
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last modified
May 08, 2015 12:28 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Web Politics,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
They effect social change through social media, place their communities on the global map, and share spiritual connections with the digital world - meet the everyday digital native.
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Digital Natives
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From Health and Harassment to Income Security and Loans, India's Gig Workers Need Support
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by
Zothan Mawii (Tandem Research), Aayush Rathi (CIS), and Ambika Tandon (CIS)
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published
Apr 30, 2020
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last modified
May 19, 2020 06:57 AM
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filed under:
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Research,
Platform-Work,
Network Economies,
Publications,
Researchers at Work
Deemed an 'essential service' by most state governments, and thereby exempt from temporary suspension during the COVID-19 lockdown, food, groceries and other essential commodities have continued to be delivered by e-commerce companies and on-demand services. Actions to protect workers, who are taking on significant risks, have been far less forthcoming than those for customers. Zothan Mawii (Tandem Research), Aayush Rathi (CIS) and Ambika Tandon (CIS) spoke with the leaders of four workers' unions and labour researchers to identify recommended actions that public agencies and private companies may undertake to better support the urgent needs of gig workers in India.
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RAW
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From Taboo to Beautiful - Menstrupedia
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Apr 30, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:25 PM
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filed under:
Making Change,
Net Cultures,
Research,
Featured,
Researchers at Work
On this post, we take a look at 'menstrual activism' -a movement that despite its trajectory in feminism, remains unnoticed in most accounts of traditional and digital activism. We interview Tuhin Paul, the artist and storyteller behind Menstrupedia, an India-based social venture creating comics to shatter the myths and misunderstandings surrounding menstruation around the world.
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Digital Natives
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Making Change
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Gender and collective bargaining in the platform economy: Experiences of on-demand beauty workers in India
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by
Abhishek Sekharan, Chiara Furtado and Ambika Tandon
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published
Jul 03, 2023
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filed under:
Labour Futures,
Researchers at Work
Abhishek Sekharan, Chiara Furtado, and Ambika Tandon contributed an essay on gender and collective bargaining in the platform economy in India, reflecting on the experiences of women beauty workers who organised India’s first women-led movement of platform workers. The essay has been published as part of an online collection of essays from contributors across the world and has been curated by the Digital Future Society Think Tank (Barcelona, Spain).
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RAW
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Gender and gig work: Perspectives from domestic work in India
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by
Ambika Tandon
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published
Dec 07, 2021
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filed under:
Gender,
Gig Work,
Researchers at Work
Platforms have the potential to be instrumental in protecting workers rights, but the current platform design is not optimised to protect workers’ interests especially those of women in the gig economy, argues Ambika Tandon, a senior researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society in India and an author of the report on ‘Platforms, Power and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India’.
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RAW
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Gender, Health, & Surveillance in India - A Panel Discussion
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by
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon
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published
Dec 23, 2020
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last modified
Dec 23, 2020 02:03 PM
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filed under:
Data Systems,
RAW Events,
Gender,
Reproductive and Child Health,
Surveillance,
Researchers at Work,
Event
Women and LGBTHIAQ-identifying persons face intensive and varied forms of surveillance as they access reproductive health systems. Increasingly, these systems are also undergoing rapid digitisation. The panel was set-up to discuss the discursive, experiential and policy implications of these data-intensive developments on access to public health and welfare systems by women and LGBTHIAQ-identifying persons in India. The panelists presented studies undertaken as part of two projects at CIS, one of which is supported by Privacy International, UK, and the other by Big Data for Development network established by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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RAW
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Gig Workers Are Being Stabbed, Beaten, and Abused in India
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by
Varsha Bansal
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published
Jul 04, 2023
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filed under:
Labour Futures,
Researchers at Work
An Uber driver was mugged. An Ola driver was beaten and left in a coma. Platform workers say tech companies are doing little to protect them.
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RAW