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                                      Creativity, Politics, and Internet Censorship
                                     
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                                              Puthiya Purayil Sneha
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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In collaboration with Karnataka for Kashmir, we organised a discussion on 'Creativity, Politics and Internet Censorship' on May 25, 2016. Mahum Shabir, a legal activist and artist, Mir Suhail, political cartoonist with Kashmir Reader and Rising Kashmir, and Habeel Iqbal, a lawyer who has worked with several justice groups in Kashmir, shared some of their work and experiences. This discussion was organised as part of Port of Kashmir 2016, a series of events bringing together a small collective of people using different modes of art and activism to address crucial challenges to free speech and democracy in the state. 
                                      
                                          
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                                              Sumandro Chattapadhyay
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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The CSCS Digital Innovation Fund (CDIF) has been set up by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) to encourage, host, and provide seed funding for the development of digital tools and infrastructure for arts, humanities, and social science research in India. The Fund’s priorities have been shaped by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Lawrence Liang, Nishant Shah, Sitharamam Kakarala, S.V. Srinivas, and Tejaswini Niranjana; and it is administered by the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at CIS.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Cyber Fears: What scares Digital Natives and those around them
                                     
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                                              Samuel Tettner
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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Societies around the world are quickly digitising
...Twitter....
...Facebook...
...Wireless accessible everywhere...
“Digital Natives” are those who have figured how to use these technologies to their full potential
But even they have real fears.
If you are a Digital Native, are related to one or work with/alongside with one come share your fears with us!
Blogathon: Many people bloging together at the same time on a shared topic
Date: Monday April 18th, 2011
On http://digitalnatives.in
                                      
                                          
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                                      D:Coding Digital Natives
                                     
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Nishant Shah was invited for a public talk at the University of California, Los Angeles. He presented the work done on Digital Natives and spoke about questions of participation and resistance. The talk has been featured in the YouTube channel.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Data bleeding everywhere: a story of period trackers
                                     
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                                              Sumandro Chattapadhyay
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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This is an excerpt from an essay by Sadaf Khan, 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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                                      Data for Governance, Governance of Data, and Data Anxieties
                                     
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                                              Sumandro Chattapadhyay
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) organised a panel discussion on 'The Data Explosion – How the Internet of Things will Affect Media Freedom and Communication Systems?' at Deutsche Welle's Global Media Forum 2016, held in Bonn, Germany during June 13-15, 2016. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was invited as one of the panelists.
                                      
                                          
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                                      Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?
                                     
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In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” Casting a critical feminist lens, the historicity of surveillance practices unveils the gendered power differentials wedded into taken-for-granted “benign” monitoring processes. The unpacking of the Mother and Child Tracking System and the National Health Stack reveals the neo-liberal aspirations of the Indian state. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      Data Lives of Humanities Text
                                     
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                                              Puthiya Purayil Sneha
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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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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                                      Datafication of the Public Distribution System in India
                                     
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                                              Sameet Panda
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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In this study, we look into the datafication of social protection schemes with a special focus on the Public Distribution System in India. Proponents of datafication claim that the benefits will reach the right person and curb leakages through the automation and digitisation of all PDS processes. Aadhaar is the most important link in the datafication; supporters claim that it makes technology people-centric. This study looks at the status of PDS datafication and its impact on the delivery of the scheme in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. We also try to understand to what extent the stated objective of portability has been met and how far the challenges faced by the rights holders of the PDS have been resolved. 
                                      
                                          
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                                      December 2014 Bulletin
                                    
 
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                                              Prasad Krishna
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            
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The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wishes you a very happy new year and welcomes you to the twelfth issue of the newsletter (December 2014). 
                                      
                                          
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