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Digital Activism in Asia Reader
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Aug 08, 2015
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Oct 24, 2015 02:36 PM
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The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of change to becoming an agent of change. In co-shaping these changes, what the digital shall be used for, and what its consequences will be, are both up for speculation and negotiation. Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West’s attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia. It is our great pleasure to present the Digital Activism in Asia Reader.
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Mock-Calling – Ironies of Outsourcing and the Aspirations of an Individual
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Sreedeep
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Aug 06, 2015
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Aug 06, 2015 05:00 AM
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This post by Sreedeep is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. He is an independent photographer and a Fellow at the Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi. In this essay, Sreedeep explores the anxieties and ironies of the unprecedented IT/BPO boom in India through the perspective and experiences of a new entrant in the industry, a decade ago. The narrative tries to capture some of the radical
hedonistic consequences of the IT-burst on our lifestyles, imagination and aspirations delineated and fraught with layers of conscious deception and prolonged probation.
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Studying the Emerging Database State in India: Notes for Critical Data Studies (Accepted Abstract)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Aug 02, 2015
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Nov 13, 2015 05:54 AM
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Big Data,
Data Systems,
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"Critical Data Studies (CDS) is a growing field of research that focuses on the unique theoretical, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by 'Big Data.' Rather than treat Big Data as a scientifically empirical, and therefore largely neutral phenomena, CDS advocates the view that data should be seen as always-already constituted within wider data assemblages." The Big Data and Society journal has provisionally accepted a paper abstract of mine for its upcoming special issue on Critical Data Studies.
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July 2015 Bulletin
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 31, 2015
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Nov 21, 2015 04:23 PM
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Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of July is below:
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'Originality,' 'Authenticity,' and 'Experimentation': Understanding Tagore’s Music on YouTube
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Ipsita Sengupta
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Jul 27, 2015
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Jul 07, 2016 02:18 AM
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This post by Ipsita Sengupta is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. In this essay, she explores the responses to various renditions of songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore available on YouTube and the questions they raise regarding online listening cultures and ideas of authorship of music.
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Studying the Internet Discourse in India through the Prism of Human Rights
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Deva Prasad M
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Jul 22, 2015
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Human Rights,
Internet Studies,
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This post by Deva Prasad M is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Deva Prasad is Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore. In this essay, he analyses key public discussions around Internet related issues from the human rights angle, and explores how this angle may contribute to understanding the features of the Internet discourse in India.
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Effective Activism: The Internet, Social Media, and Hierarchical Activism in New Delhi
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Sarah McKeever
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Jul 16, 2015
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Jul 16, 2015 08:22 AM
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Social Media,
Digital Activism,
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This post by Sarah McKeever is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Sarah is a PhD candidate at the India Institute, King’s College London, and her work focuses on the impact of social media on contemporary political
movements. In this essay, she explores the increasingly hierarchical system of activism on the Internet, based on Western corporate desire for data, and how it is shaping who is seen and heard on the Internet in India.
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Users and the Internet
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Purbasha Auddy
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Jul 10, 2015
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Jul 10, 2015 04:20 AM
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This post by Purbasha Auddy is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Purbasha is a SYLFF PhD fellow at the School of Cultural Texts and Records (SCTR), Jadavpur University, with more than eight years of work experience in digital archiving. She has also been teaching for the last two years in the newly-started post-graduate diploma course in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics offered by the SCTR. In this essay, Purbasha explores the constructions of the ideas of the Indian Internet users through the advertisements that talk about data packages, mobile phones or apps.
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WhatsApp and the Creation of a Transnational Sociality
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Maitrayee Deka
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Jul 01, 2015
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Jul 10, 2015 04:22 AM
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This post by Maitrayee Deka is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Maitrayee is a postdoctoral research fellow with the EU FP7 project, P2P value in the Department of Sociology, University of Milan, Italy. Her broader research interests are New Media, Economic Sociology and Gender and Sexuality. This is the second of Maitrayee's two posts on WhatsApp and networks of commerce and sociality among lower-end traders in Delhi.
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WhatsApp and Transnational Lower-End Trading Networks
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Maitrayee Deka
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Jun 30, 2015
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Sep 13, 2015 10:44 AM
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Social Media,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
This post by Maitrayee Deka is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Maitrayee is a postdoctoral research fellow with the EU FP7 project, P2P value in the Department of Sociology, University of Milan, Italy. Her
broader research interests are New Media, Economic Sociology and Gender and Sexuality. This is the first of Maitrayee's two posts on WhatsApp and networks of commerce and sociality among lower-end traders in Delhi.
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