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In Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 01, 2011 — last modified May 14, 2015 12:12 PM — filed under: Digital subjectivities, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital Native’. Drawing from three years of research and current engagements in the field, the post begins a critique of how we need to look at the outliers, the people on the fringes in order to unravel the otherwise celebratory nature of discourse about how the digital is changing the world.
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IT and the cITy: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 17, 2009 — last modified Sep 18, 2009 10:45 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, internet and society, Shanghai, ICT4D, Digital Natives, Cybercultures, Digital subjectivities, IT Cities
Nishant Shah tells ten stories of relationship between Internet Technologies and the City, drawing from his experiences of seven months in Shanghai. In this introduction to the city, he charts out first experiences of the physical spaces of Shanghai and how they reflect the IT ambitions and imaginations of the city. He takes us through the dizzying spaces of Shanghai to see how the architecture and the buildings of the city do not only house the ICT infrastructure but also embody it in their unfolding. In drawing the seductive nature of embodied technology in the physical experience of Shanghai, he also points out why certain questions about the rise of internet technologies and the reconfiguration of the Shanghai-Pudong area have never been asked. In this first post, he explains his methdologies that inform the framework which will produce the ten stories of technology and Shanghai, and how this new IT City, delivers its promise of invisibility.
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It’s Common Practice: by Nishant Shah — published May 22, 2013 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:41 AM — filed under: Digital subjectivities, Cybercultures, Researchers at Work
Technologies are no longer abstract. They're habits. What constitutes a habit? The gestures that you make as you read this, the way your eyes flick when you encounter somebody you like, the way you stroke your chin in a moment of reflection, or the split second decisions that you make in times of crises — these are all habits. They are pre-thought, visceral, depending upon biological, social and collective memories that do not need rational thinking. Habits are the customised programming of human life.
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One for the avatar: by Prasad Krishna — published Apr 03, 2011 — last modified May 14, 2015 12:19 PM — filed under: Digital subjectivities, Cybercultures, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
With increasing instances of online avatars being victimised, users who are part of these identities need to be protected against vicious attacks. A fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from 19 September 2010 onwards. This article was published on April 3, 2011.
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned Objects: by Namita A. Malhotra — published May 11, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM — filed under: histories of internet in India, Cyberspace, internet and society, Obscenity, women and internet, YouTube, Cyborgs, Cybercultures, Digital subjectivities
In this post, a third in the series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Pleasure and Pornography, Namita Malhotra explores the idea of fetish as examined by Anne McClintock (i) . This detour is an exploration of the notion of fetish, its histories and meanings, and how it might relate to the story of Indian porn.
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Pleasure and Pornography: Pornography and the Blindfolded Gaze of the Law: by Namita A. Malhotra — published Apr 02, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM — filed under: histories of internet in India, Obscenity, internet and society, Art, cybercultures, women and internet, YouTube, Cybercultures, cyberspaces, Digital subjectivities, History
In the legal discourse, pornography as a category is absent, except as an aggravated form of obscenity. Does this missing descriptive category assist in the rampant circulation of pornography, either online or offline? Rather than ask that question, Namita Malhotra, in this second post documenting her CIS-RAW project, explores certain judgments that indeed deal with pornographic texts and uncovers the squeamishness that ensures that pornography as an object keeps disappearing before the law.
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Political is as Political does: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 20, 2010 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:30 AM — filed under: Digital Activism, Digital Natives, Political, Youth, Featured, Cybercultures, Digital subjectivities, Workshop
The Talking Back workshop has been an extraordinary experience for me. The questions that I posed for others attending the workshop have hounded me as they went through the course of discussion, analysis and dissection. Strange nuances have emerged, certain presumptions have been questioned, new legacies have been discovered, novel ideas are still playing ping-pong in my mind, and a strange restless excitement – the kind that keeps me awake till dawning morn – has taken over me, as I try and figure out the wherefore and howfore of things. I began the research project on Digital Natives in a condition of not knowing, almost two years ago. Since then, I have taken many detours, rambled on strange paths, discovered unknown territories and reached a mile-stone where I still don’t know, but don’t know what I don’t know, and that is a good beginning.
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Privacy, pornography, sexuality (a video): by Namita A. Malhotra — published Dec 10, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM — filed under: Digital subjectivities, women and internet, Censorship, Obscenity
The video is an attempt to use the material collected for purposes of provoking a discussion around privacy, pornography, sexuality and technology. It focuses largely on an Indian context, which most viewers would be familiar with. The video is pegged around the ban of Savita Bhabhi – a pornographic comic toon – but uses that to open up a discussion on various incidents and concepts in relation to pornography and privacy across Asia.
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Re:wiring Bodies - Dr. Asha Achuthan: by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 21, 2011 07:23 AM — filed under: Cyborgs, Cybercultures, Archives, Digital subjectivities, Resources, History
First draft of the monograph on "Rewiring Bodies" by Dr. Asha Achutan; format for Microsoft Office users
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Revisiting Techno-euphoria: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 11, 2012 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:53 AM — filed under: Digital subjectivities, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
In my last post, I talked about techno-euphoria as a condition that seems to mark much of our discourse around digital technologies and the promise of the future. The euphoria, as I had suggested, manifests itself either as a utopian view of how digital technologies are going to change the future that we inhabit, or woes of despair about how the overdetermination of the digital is killing the very fibre of our social fabric.
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