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Back When the Past had a Future: Being Precarious in a Network Society
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Nishant Shah
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Feb 12, 2013
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Feb 12, 2013 06:16 AM
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Habits of Living,
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Digital Humanities
We live in Network Societies. This phrase has been so bastardised to refer to the new information turn mediated by digital technologies, that we have stopped paying attention to what the Network has become. Networks are everywhere. They have become the default metaphor of our times, where everything from infrastructure assemblies to collectives of people, are all described through the lens of a network.
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D:Coding Digital Natives
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 30, 2012
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last modified
May 08, 2015 12:30 PM
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Video,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
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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Digital Natives
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
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by
kaeru
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Aug 02, 2011
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last modified
Apr 06, 2015 03:48 PM
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Cyborgs,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories
The Cyborg - a cybernetique organism which is a combination of the biological and the technological – has been at the centre of discourse around digital technologies. Especially with wearable computing and ubiquitous access to the digital world, there has been an increased concern that very ways in which we understand questions of life, human body and the presence and role of technologies in our worlds, are changing. In just the last few years, we have seen extraordinary measures – the successful production of synthetic bacteria, artificial intelligence that can be programmed to simulate human conditions like empathy and temperament, and massive mobilisation of people around the world, to fight against the injustices and inequities of their immediate environments.
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Histories of the Internet
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#MappingDigitalLabour - Panel discussion on platform-work in Mumbai and New Delhi
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Jul 11, 2019
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Jul 20, 2019 11:58 AM
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RAW Events,
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Platform-Work,
Researchers at Work,
Event,
Mapping Digital Labour in India
With the rise and popularity of app-based platforms such as Ola, Uber, Swiggy Zomato, and others, there are growing public conversation about regulation of such 'gig-work' platforms and the work conditions of people who work for them. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invites you to a panel discussion on Friday, July 19 in our Bangalore office, where the researchers associated with the project will present preliminary findings, and ethical and methodological challenges of studying app-based platform-work in India. Panelists Anushree Gupta, Rajendra Jadhav, Sarah Zia and Simiran Lalvani, who have conducted field studies of ride-hailing and food-delivery work in Mumbai and New Delhi, will share their preliminary field insights along with reflections on what it meant to do such studies, how they went about studying gig-work, and challenges that arose in their work. The discussion will be moderated by Noopur Raval who co-led the project. We invite scholars, journalists, and all interested members of the public to join us for the event. Tea and snacks will be served at 5 pm.
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Launch of Public Juris (An Online Archive of Legal Resources)
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by
Aparna Balachandran
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Nov 10, 2008
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Apr 24, 2015 12:07 PM
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Workshop,
Researchers at Work,
Archives
Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya announce the launch of Public Juris, an online archive of legal resources.
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Archives and Access: Introduction
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by
Aparna Balachandran
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Dec 11, 2008
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Apr 24, 2015 12:05 PM
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Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Archives
The members of this research project team are Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore and Abhijit Bhattacharya from the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta. This intial post tries to outline the concerns underlining this project which will attempt to critically examine archiving practices and policies in India in order to conceptualize ideas about ownership and use towards the goal of the greatest public good; reflect on issues of digitization and access; and facilitate public conversations and the articulation of a collective voice by historians and other users on possible interventions in these institutions.
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Information Structures for Citizen Participation - Janaagraha
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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Mar 12, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:28 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Net Cultures,
Making Change,
Research
In our efforts to understand how change is conceptualized in the digital era, we find a growing emphasis on the role of effective information structures to empower the citizen and the government. We interview Joylita Saldanha from Janaagraha to answer questions around information, participation and e-governance.
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Digital Natives
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Making Change
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Digital Humanities and the Problem of Definition
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by
Sneha PP
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Apr 25, 2014
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 12:47 PM
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Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Digital Humanities
The Digital Humanities as a field that still eludes definition has been the subject of much discourse and writing. This blog post looks at this issue as one of trying to approach the field from a disciplinary lens, and the challenges that this may pose to the attempts at a definition.
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Digital Humanities
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Digital Native: Double Speak
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 04, 2018
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Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
Aadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards.
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Plenary Talk at Jyothi Nivas College Research Symposium
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Oct 02, 2018
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Oct 03, 2018 04:46 PM
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Researchers at Work
I gave a plenary presentation on new reading and writing practices in the digital context, and emerging questions for digital humanities and literary studies at a research symposium organised by Jyothi Nivas College, Post Graduate Centre, on September 28, 2018.
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