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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
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Asha Achuthan
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Mar 22, 2012
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Oct 24, 2015 01:42 PM
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Cyborgs,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work,
Research
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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Welcome to [email protected] blog!
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jan 02, 2019
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last modified
Jan 02, 2019 11:48 AM
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Homepage,
RAW Blog,
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies
We from the
[email protected] programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog, hosted on Medium. It will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and elsewhere at the intersections of internet, digital media, and society; and highlights and materials from ongoing research and events at the
[email protected] programme.
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What I learned from going offline for 48 hours
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Nishant Shah
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Feb 24, 2019
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Mar 14, 2019 04:21 PM
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Researchers at Work
A weekend without the internet shows just how much control we surrender to online chatter.
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What scares a Digital Native? Blogathon
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Samuel Tettner
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published
May 02, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:16 PM
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Web Politics,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
What Scares technologized young people around the world? In an effort to present a view often not heard in traditional discourses, on Monday the 18th of April 2011, young people from across the world blogged about their fears in relation to the digitalisation of society.
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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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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 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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published
Jun 30, 2015
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last modified
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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Where's My Data? Submission for Knight News Challenge 2015
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Oct 01, 2015
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last modified
Oct 05, 2015 03:00 PM
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City,
Open Data,
Practice,
Crowdsourcing,
Researchers at Work
We are very excited to be contribute to a join submission with DataMeet and Oorvani for the Knight News Challenge 2015. We are proposing "an application for users to search for locally-relevant data, discuss missing data, demand data, explore and respond to data demands by others, and start data crowd-sourcing exercises." Please go to the submission page and support our project. The text of the proposal is available below. It was prepared by Nisha Thompson of DataMeet, Meera K of Oorvani, and I. The 'Where's My Data' banner is created by Nisha using icons from the Noun Project.
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Who Owns Your Phone?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 18, 2016
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filed under:
Digital Governance,
Research,
Digital Media,
RAW Research,
Researchers at Work
The capacity of companies to defy standards that work tells an alarming story of what we lose when we lose control of our devices.
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Who the Hack?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 25, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:16 PM
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Web Politics,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
A hacker is not an evil spirit, instead he can outwit digital systems to bring about social change, writes Nishant Shah in this column published in the Indian Express on April 24, 2011.
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Whose Change Is It Anyway? | DML2013
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 08, 2012
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Apr 24, 2015 11:47 AM
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Video,
Cybercultures,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
As a preparation for the DML conference, Nishant Shah had an interview with Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs. Nishant Shah is chair of 'Whose Change Is It Anyway? Futures, Youth, Technology And Citizen Action In The Global South (And The Rest Of The World)' track at DML2013. Here, he talks about shifts in citizen engagement in Indian politics and civics, and the underlying significance of these changes.
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