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                                      Attentional Capital in Online Gaming : The Currency of Survival
                                     
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This blog post by Arun Menon discusses the concepts of production, labour and race in virtual worlds and their influence on the production of attention as a currency. An attempt is made to locate attentional capital, attentional repositories and attention currencies within gaming to examine 'attention currencies and its trade and transactions in virtual worlds. A minimal collection of attention currencies are placed as central and as a pre-requisite for survival in MMOs in much the same way that real currency become a necessity for survival. The approach is to locate attentional capital through different perspectives as well as examine a few concepts around virtual worlds.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities - A Call for Peer Review  
                                     
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Pratyush Shankar's research project on "Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. His monograph explores the trajectories of transformation and perception of cities in India in context with the rise of Information Technologies for communication and presence of an active digital space.
                                      
                                          
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                                      You auto-complete me: romancing the bot
                                     
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                                              Sumandro Chattapadhyay
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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This is an excerpt from an essay by Maya Indira Ganesh, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Call for Essays — #List
                                     
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The researchers@work programme at CIS invites abstracts for essays that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the ‘list’. We have selected 4 abstracts among those received before August 31, 2019, and are now accepting and evaluating further submissions on a rolling basis.
                                      
                                          
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                                      July 2019 Newsletter
                                    
 
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Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for July 2019.
                                      
                                          
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                                      The worrying survival of moon landing conspiracy theorists
                                     
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The moon landing deniers were the original fake news propagandists. Only, they didn’t have the internet.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Why I’m not going to tell you about the dangers of apps like FaceApp
                                     
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Concerns about privacy, aimed solely at users, are better directed at owners of digital infrastructure.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Digital Native: How an information overload affects what you forward
                                     
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The information overload of social media sharing can make us act against our better judgement.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Digital Native: Lessons from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp going down
                                     
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The day when three social-media apps refused to load.
                                      
                                          
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The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for the month of March 2019.
                                      
                                          
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