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Production Sprint — A Public Exhibition at CIS: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 03, 2014 — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:23 PM — filed under: RAW Events, Making Change, Net Cultures, Researchers at Work, Event
The Making Change project invites you for a public exhibition of stories of change from all over Asia, where the first of its Production Sprints will take place. The exhibition will be held at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) office in Bangalore on June 7, 2014 between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
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January 2017 Newsletter: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 01, 2017 — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Researchers at Work
Welcome to the January 2017 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
Located in About Us / Newsletters
Digital native: Back at it Again: by Nishant Shah — published Jan 22, 2017 — last modified Feb 02, 2017 03:04 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
The Indian digital landscape has put us in a loop of hashtags and outrage, a space where we have mastered the art of shame.
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Porn: Law, Video, Technology: by Namita A Malhotra — published Sep 28, 2011 — last modified Apr 14, 2015 12:43 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Histories of Internet, RAW Publications, Publications
Namita Malhotra’s monograph on Pornography and Pleasure is possibly the first Indian reflection and review of its kind. It draws aside the purdah that pornography has become – the forbidden object as well as the thing that prevents you from looking at it – and fingers its constituent threads and textures.
Located in RAW / Histories of the Internet
The Bots That Got Some Votes Home: by Nilofar Ansher — published Jun 20, 2012 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:56 AM — filed under: Featured, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
Nilofar Ansher gives us some startling updates on the "Digital Natives Video Contest" voting results declared in May 2012, in this blog post.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22) - Selected Sessions: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Apr 25, 2022 — last modified Apr 26, 2022 07:00 AM — filed under: IRC22, Internet Studies, Internet Researcher's Conference, Researchers at Work
Here is the list of selected sessions and individual presentations for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC22) - #Home. IRC22 will be held online from May 25-27, 2022. The conference announcement, along with details on registration will be published in the first week of May.
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Digital Native: Delete Facebook?: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 08, 2018 — last modified May 06, 2018 03:08 AM — filed under: Social Media, Privacy, Internet Governance, Facebook, Researchers at Work
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
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Revealing Protesters on the Fringe: Crucifixion Protest in Paraguay: by Denisse Albornoz — published Sep 20, 2013 — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:51 AM — filed under: Video, Web Politics, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
An analysis of the crucifix protest in Paraguay in the light of Nishant Shah’s piece: Whose Change is it Anyway? The blog post looks at the physical and symbolic spaces in which narratives of change were conceived and the extent to which information circulating within activates citizen action.
Located in Digital Natives / Blog
Not a Goodbye; More a ‘Come Again’: Thoughts on being Research Director at a moment of transition: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 15, 2014 — filed under: Researchers at Work, Featured, Internet Studies, Research
As I slowly make the news of my transition from being the Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, to taking up a professorship at the Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany, there is a question that I am often asked: “Are you going to start a new research centre?” And the answer, for the most part, is “No.”
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Living in the Archival Moment: by Sneha PP — published Jun 19, 2014 — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:27 AM — filed under: Digital Knowledge, Mapping Digital Humanities in India, Research, Digital Humanities, Researchers at Work
The archive has been and continues to be a key concept in Digital Humanities discourse, particularly in India. The importance of the archive to knowledge production in the Humanities, the implication of changes in archival practice with the advent of electronic publishing and digitisation, and the focus on curation as a critical and creative process are some aspects of the debate that this blog post looks at.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities

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