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Blog Entry So Much to Lose
by Nishant Shah published Dec 02, 2012 last modified Dec 07, 2012 04:39 PM — filed under: , , , ,
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have been a witness to the maelstrom of events that accompanied the death of the political leader Bal Thackeray.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
Blog Entry Social media, SMS are not why NE students left Bangalore
by Nishant Shah published Aug 25, 2012 last modified Aug 28, 2012 10:48 AM — filed under: , , ,
I woke up one morning to find that I was living in a city of crisis. Bangalore, where the largest public preoccupations to date have been about bad roads, stray dogs, and occasionally, the lack of night-life, the city was suddenly a space that people wanted to flee and occupy simultaneously.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Spy in the Web
by Nishant Shah published Dec 22, 2011 last modified Mar 26, 2012 06:38 AM — filed under: , ,
The government’s proposed pre-censorship rules undermine the intelligence of an online user and endanger democracy.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Staying silent about cyberbullying is no longer an option
by Nishant Shah published Jun 16, 2019 last modified Jul 02, 2019 03:52 AM — filed under:
Cyberbullying is the dangerous new normal.
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File Subject To Technology
by Nishant Shah last modified Jul 06, 2009 12:06 PM
This paper is an attempt to examine the production of illegalities with reference to cyberspace, to make a symptomatic reading of new conditions within which citizenships are enacted, in the specific context of contemporary India. Looking at one incident each, of cyber-pornography and cyber-terrorism, the paper sets out to look at the State’s imagination of the digital domain, the positing of the ‘good’ cyber citizen, and the production of new relationships between the state and the subject. This essay explores the ambiguities, the dilemmas and the questions that arise when Citizens become Subjects, not only to the State but also to the technologies of the State. The paper first appeared in the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Journal.
Located in Publications (Automated) / CIS Publications / Nishant Shah
Image telephones
by Nishant Shah last modified Oct 06, 2008 01:33 PM
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Blog Entry The Age of Shame
by Nishant Shah published Mar 30, 2014 last modified Apr 04, 2014 04:05 AM — filed under: ,
The ability to capture private images is breeding a dangerous form of digital shaming. Within the online space, where wonderments often run rife, and conspiracy theories travel at the speed of light, there are many dark recesses where netizens half-jokingly, self-referentially, in a spirit of part-truth, part-exaggeration, often wonder on what the real reason is for the internet to exist.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
The Anxiety of the Future and Internet Technologies
by Nishant Shah published Nov 03, 2008 last modified Nov 06, 2008 05:18 AM
Nishant Shah and Sunil Abraham attended the "Writing the Future" conference organised by the Humanities Department at the IIT Delhi, and supported by the CIS and the Kusuma Trust. Nishant made a presentation at the conference entitled "Some Knowledge in Search of Authority: Cyberspace, Collaborations and Confusions".
Located in Research / Conferences & Workshops / Conference Blogs
The Body in Cyberspace
by Nishant Shah published May 13, 2014 — filed under: ,
Perhaps one of the most interesting histories of the cyberspace has been its relationship with the body. Beginning with the meatspace-cyberspace divide that Gibson introduces, the question of our bodies’ relationship with the internet has been hugely contested. There have been some very polarized debates around this question.
Located in Telecom / Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
File The Curious Incident of the People at the Mall
by Nishant Shah last modified Dec 14, 2008 12:13 PM
The first flash mob in India, in 2003, though short-lived and quickly declared illegal, brought to fore the idea that technology is constructing new sites of defining public participation and citizenship rights, forcing the State to recognise them as political collectives. As India emerges as an ICT enabled emerging economy, new questions of citizenship, participatory politics, social networking, citizenship, and governance are being posed. In the telling of the story of the flash-mob, doing a historical review of technology and access, and doing a symptomatic reading of the subsequent events that followed the ban, this paper evaluates the different ways in which the techno-narratives of an ‘India Shining’ campaign of prosperity and economic growth, are accompanied by various spaces of political contestation, mobilisation and engagement that determine the new public spheres of exclusion, marked by the aesthetics of cyberspatial matrices and technology enabled conditions of governance.
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