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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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filed under:
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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Digital Natives
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Making Change
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In Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 01, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:12 PM
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filed under:
Digital subjectivities,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital Native’. Drawing from three years of research and current engagements in the field, the post begins a critique of how we need to look at the outliers, the people on the fringes in order to unravel the otherwise celebratory nature of discourse about how the digital is changing the world.
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Digital Natives
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Inputs to the public consultation on the draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020 - Joint submission by an alliance of trade unions and civil society organisations
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by
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon
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published
Dec 22, 2020
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last modified
Dec 22, 2020 09:52 AM
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filed under:
Submissions,
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) contributed to a joint submission by IT for Change and various trade union and civil society organisations in response to the public consultation of the Ministry of Labour and Employment on the draft Code on Social Security Rules, 2020. Here are the overview, full text of the submitted inputs, and names of organisations and individuals who endorsed them.
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RAW
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Data Lives of Humanities Text
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 23, 2020
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last modified
Dec 23, 2020 01:07 PM
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filed under:
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Publications,
Digital Humanities
The ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object of enquiry. The prevalence of data-driven scholarship in the humanities offers several challenges to traditional forms of work and practice, with regard to theory, tools, and methods. In the context of the digital, ‘text’ acquires new forms and meanings, especially with practices such as distant reading. Drawing upon excerpts from an earlier study on digital humanities in India, this essay discusses how data in the humanities is not a new phenomenon; concerns about the ‘datafication’ of humanities, now seen prominently in digital humanities and related fields is actually reflective of a longer conflict about the inherited separation between humanities and technology. It looks at how ‘data’ in the humanities has become a new object of enquiry as a result of several changes in the media landscape in the past few decades. These include large-scale digitalization and availability of corpora of materials (digitized and born-digital) in an array of formats and across varied platforms, thus leading to also a steady prevalence of the use of computational methods in working with and studying cultural artifacts today. This essay also explores how reading ‘text as data’ helps understand the role of data in the making of humanities texts and redefines traditional ideas of textuality, reading, and the reader.
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RAW
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Inputs to the Report on the Non-Personal Data Governance Framework
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Dec 30, 2020
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last modified
Dec 30, 2020 09:40 AM
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filed under:
Data Systems,
Privacy,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Economy,
Data Governance,
Submissions
This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS) to the draft Report on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework prepared by the Committee of Experts under the Chairmanship of Shri Kris Gopalakrishnan. The inputs are authored by Aayush Rathi, Aman Nair, Ambika Tandon, Pallavi Bedi, Sapni Krishna, and Shweta Mohandas (in alphabetical order), and reviewed by Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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RAW
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Reclaiming the right to privacy: Researching the intersection of privacy and gender
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by
Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi
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Jan 25, 2021 10:42 AM
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filed under:
Data Systems,
Reproductive and Child Health,
Research,
Gender, Welfare, and Privacy,
Researchers at Work
It was our privilege to be supported by Privacy International, UK, during 2019-2020, to undertake a research project focusing on reproductive health and data surveillance, and to engage on related topics with national civil society groups. Our partner organisations who led some of the research as part of this project are grassroots actors - Domestic Workers Rights Union, Migrant Workers Solidarity Network, Parichiti, Samabhabona, Rainbow Manipur, and Right to Food Campaign. Here we are compiling the various works supported by this project co-led by Ambika Tandon, Aayush Rathi, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay at the Centre for Internet and Society, India.
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RAW
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The Digital Classroom in the Time of Wikipedia
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Mar 22, 2012
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last modified
Oct 05, 2015 02:53 PM
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Wikipedia,
Researchers at Work,
Learning,
Digital Classroom in the Time of Wikipedia
The digital turn in education comes across a wide range of initiatives and processes. The Wikipedia which is the largest user generated content website stands as a figurehead of such a digital turn, writes Nishant Shah.
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RAW
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Blogs
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Digital Classroom
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CIS Featured in 'Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective' Report
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Oct 16, 2015
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last modified
Oct 16, 2015 07:43 AM
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filed under:
Digital Scholarship,
Researchers at Work,
Learning,
Digital Humanities
This report, authored by Vivian Lewis, Lisa Spiro, Xuemao Wang, and Jon E. Cawthorne, sheds light on the expertise required to support a robust and sustainable digital scholarship (DS) program. It focuses first on defining and describing the key domain knowledge, skills, competencies, and mindsets at some of the world’s most prominent digital scholarship programs. It then identifies the main strategies used to build this expertise, both formally and informally. The work is set in a global context, examining leading digital scholarship organizations in China, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The report team visited and spoke to us last year, as part of the study. Here are the Executive Summary and link to the final report.
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RAW
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The Digital Humanities from Father Busa to Edward Snowden
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Sep 04, 2017
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last modified
Oct 04, 2017 11:02 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Digital Humanities
What do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit, who worked for almost his entire life on Saint Thomas Aquinas, have in common? The simple answer would be: the computer. Things however are a bit more complex than that, and the reason for choosing these two people to explain what the Digital Humanities are, is that in some sense they represent the origins and the present consequences of a certain way of thinking about computers. This essay by Dr. Domenico Fiormonte, lecturer in the Sociology of Communication and Culture in the Department of Political Sciences at University Roma Tre, was originally published in the Media Development journal.
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RAW
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Pathways to Higher Education
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2008
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 02:52 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge
The Pathways Project to Higher Education is a collaboration between the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA) at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). The project is supported by the Ford Foundation and works with disadvantaged students in nine undergraduate colleges in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala, to explore relationships between Technologies, Higher Education and the new forms of social justice in India.
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Digital Natives
