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IRC22 - Proposed Session - #TransActandWhatFollowed - Access to care for transgender persons during the COVID-19 pandemic: by Admin — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified May 19, 2022 03:12 PM — filed under: Proposed Sessions, IRC22, Internet Studies, Internet Researcher's Conference
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
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IRC22 - Proposed Session - #CovidConfessions: An internet art project: by Admin — published Dec 31, 2020 — last modified Apr 25, 2022 01:16 PM — filed under: Proposed Sessions, IRC22, Internet Studies, Internet Researcher's Conference
Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.
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The Internet in the Indian Judicial Imagination: by Divij Joshi — published Sep 09, 2015 — filed under: Internet Studies, Internet Law, Judiciary, RAW Blog, Researchers at Work
This post by Divij Joshi is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Divij is a final year student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and is a keen observer and researcher on issues of law, policy and technology. In this essay, he traces the history of the Internet in India through the lens of judicial trends, and looks at how the judiciary has defined its own role in relation to the Internet.
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Essays on #List — Selected Abstracts: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Sep 03, 2019 — last modified Sep 03, 2019 01:38 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, List, RAW Blog, Featured, Internet Studies
In response to a recent call for essays that social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the #List, we received 11 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 4 pieces to be published as part of a series titled #List on the [email protected] blog. Please find below the details of the selected abstracts. The call for essays on #List remains open, and we are accepting and assessing the incoming abstracts on a rolling basis.
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Mobilizing Online Consensus: Net Neutrality and the India Subreddit: by Sujeet George — published Sep 27, 2016 — last modified Sep 27, 2016 04:52 AM — filed under: Reddit, Internet Studies, RAW Blog, Net Neutrality, Researchers at Work
This essay by Sujeet George is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author offers a preliminary gesture towards understanding reddit’s usage and breadth in the Indian context. Through an analysis of the “India” subreddit and examining the manner and context in which information and ideas are shared, proposed, and debunked, the paper aspires to formulate a methodology for interrogating sites like reddit that offer the possibilities of social mediation, even as users maintain a limited amount of privacy. At the same time, to what extent can such news aggregator sites direct the ways in which opinions and news flows change course as a true marker of information generation responding to user inputs.
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Users and the Internet: by Purbasha Auddy — published Jul 10, 2015 — last modified Jul 10, 2015 04:20 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Studies, RAW Blog
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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Studying the Internet Discourse in India through the Prism of Human Rights: by Deva Prasad M — published Jul 22, 2015 — filed under: Human Rights, Internet Studies, RAW Blog, Human Rights Online, Researchers at Work
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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Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar: by Geert Lovink and Ramesh Srinivasan — published May 16, 2017 — last modified May 16, 2017 02:51 PM — filed under: Internet Studies, RAW Blog, Ethnography, Offline, Researchers at Work
"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an illusory binary between the two." In this interview, Geert Lovink discusses with Ramesh Srinivasan: “how can we embrace the realities of communities too-often relegated to the margins?”
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Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 06, 2015 — last modified Aug 28, 2015 07:09 AM — filed under: Internet Studies, RAW Blog, Featured, Notices, Researchers at Work
As Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges – and even in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society invites abstracts for essays that explore what it means to study Internet(s) in India today.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selected Sessions: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jan 20, 2017 — last modified Jan 20, 2017 01:28 PM — filed under: IRC17, Internet Studies, Internet Researcher's Conference, Researchers at Work
With great pleasure we announce the eleven sessions selected for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) to be held at the IIIT Bangalore campus during March 03-05. The Conference is being organised by the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP) at IIIT Bangalore and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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