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January 2019 Newsletter
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Prasad Krishna
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Jan 31, 2019
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Mar 03, 2019 04:34 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Internet Governance,
Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its e-Newsletter for 2019.
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Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Apr 01, 2019
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Apr 01, 2019 08:00 AM
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Practice,
Art,
RAW Events,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Event
Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD), their current project at IoHO, explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance.
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Presentation at Global Digital Humanities Symposium
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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Mar 22, 2019
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May 03, 2019 09:41 AM
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Researchers at Work
P.P. Sneha gave a virtual presentation of her work on digital cultural archives at the Global Digital Humanities Symposium organised by Michigan State University on March 21-22, 2019.
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Locating the Mobile: An Ethnographic Investigation into Locative Media in Melbourne, Bangalore and Shanghai
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Larissa Hjorth and Genevieve Bell
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Mar 23, 2012
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Oct 24, 2015 01:41 PM
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Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work,
Research
From Google maps, geoweb, GPS (Global Positioning System), geotagging, Foursquare and Jie Pang, locative media is becoming an integral part of the smartphone (and shanzhai or copy) phenomenon. For a growing generation of users, locative media is already an everyday practice.
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Mrutyunjay Mishra - India Online: Measuring, Understanding, and Making Decisions about Internet in India (Delhi, September 01, 6 pm)
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Aug 29, 2017
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Aug 29, 2017 10:18 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies,
#FirstFridayAtCIS,
RAW Events
With great pleasure we announce that Mrutyunjay Mishra, co-founder of Juxt-SmartMandate and India Open Data Association, will be the speaker for the September #FirstFriday event at the CIS office in Delhi. Mrutyunjay is a recognised expert in data-driven decision-making and a leading commentator on Indian consumer behaviour. His talk will focus on the evolution of measurement of users and activities in the Indian telecommunication and online market sectors, and will highlight the critical challenges and opportunities faced by public and private entities in reliably and timely measuring, understanding, and making commercial and policy decisions about 'India Online'. If you are joining us, please RSVP at the soonest as we have only limited space in our office.
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Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital Activism
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Nishant Shah
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Aug 23, 2011
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May 14, 2015 12:14 PM
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Digital Activism,
Web Politics,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
In this peer reviewed research paper, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen draws on a research project that focuses on understanding new technology, mediated identities, and their relationship with processes of change in their immediate and extended environments in emerging information societies in the global south. It suggests that endemic to understanding digital activism is the need to look at the recalibrated relationships between the state and the citizens through the prism of technology and agency. The paper was published in Democracy & Society, a publication of the Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2011.
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The Rules of Engagement
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Nishant Shah
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Oct 29, 2012
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Apr 24, 2015 11:48 AM
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Digital Activism,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Governance,
Digital Natives
Why the have-nots of the digital world can sometimes be mistaken as trolls. I am not sure if you have noticed, but lately, the people populating our social networks have started to be more diverse than before.
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Korean Trans Cine-Media in Global Contexts: Asia and the World
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 21, 2013
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Mar 21, 2013 10:32 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Digital Humanities
This conference to be held from March 27 to 29, 2013 is being organized by Trans - Asia Screen Culture Institute, Cinema Studies, Korean National university of Arts, Korean Film Archive and Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University.
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Rethinking the last mile Problem: A cultural argument
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 02, 2009
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Apr 03, 2015 10:54 AM
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Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories,
Digital Governance
This research project, by Ashish Rajadhyaksha from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, is mainly a conceptual-archival investigation into India’s history for what has in recent years come to be known as the ‘last mile’ problem. The term itself comes from communication theory, with in turn an ancestry in social anthropology, and concerns itself with (1) identifying the eventual recipient/beneficiary of any communication message, (2) discovering new ways by which messages can be delivered intact, i.e. without either distortion of decay. Exploring the intersection of government policy, technology intervention and the users' expectations, with a specific focus on Internet Technologies and their space in the good governance protocols in India, the project aims at revisiting the last mile problem as one of cultural practices and political contexts in India.
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The Last Cultural Mile
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The Leap of Rhodes or, How India Dealt with the Last Mile Problem - An Inquiry into Technology and Governance: Call for Review
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Prasad Krishna
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Dec 14, 2010
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Apr 03, 2015 10:55 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Histories of Internet,
Internet Studies
Re-thinking the Last Mile Problem research project by Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. The ‘last mile’ is a communications term which has a specific Indian variant, where technology has been mapped onto developmentalist–democratic priorities which have propelled communications technologies since at least the invention of radio in the 1940s. For at least 50 years now, the ‘last mile’ has become a mode of a techno-democracy, where connectivity has been directly translated into democratic citizenship. It has provided rationale for successive technological developments, and produced an assumption that the final frontier was just around the corner and that Internet technologies now carry the same burden of breaching that last major barrier to produce a techno-nation. The project has fed into many different activities in teaching, in examining processes of governance and in looking at user behaviour.
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