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The Many Languages of Digital Infrastructures: by PP Sneha and Anasuya Sengupta — published Jun 02, 2021 — filed under: Researchers at Work
This essay by Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Anasuya Sengupta outlines some of the key challenges in digitalisation and representation of non-dominant/marginalised languages on the internet today, through reflections on two recent projects related to languages and the internet. The essay has been published in Seminar Magazine, as part of its thematic focus this month on 'Navigating Language in a Digital Age.'
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The Many Lives and Sites of Internet in Bhubaneswar: by Sailen Routray — published Sep 21, 2015 — filed under: City, Internet Studies, RAW Blog, Researchers at Work
This post by Sailen Routray is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Sailen is a researcher, writer, editor and translator who lives and works in Bhubaneswar. In this essay, he takes a preliminary step towards capturing some of the experiences of running and using internet cafes, experiences that lie at the interstices of (digital) objects and spaces, that are at the same time a history of the internet as well as a personal history of the city.
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The Mother and Child Tracking System - understanding data trail in the Indian healthcare systems: by Ambika Tandon — published Oct 18, 2019 — last modified Dec 30, 2019 05:18 PM — filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Privacy, Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Research, BD4D, Healthcare, Big Data for Development
Reproductive health programmes in India have been digitising extensive data about pregnant women for over a decade, as part of multiple health information systems. These can be seen as precursors to current conceptions of big data systems within health informatics. In this article, published by Privacy International, Ambika Tandon presents some findings from a recently concluded case study of the MCTS as an example of public data-driven initiatives in reproductive health in India.
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The Platform Economy’s Gatekeeping of Class and Caste Dominance in Urban India: by Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi — published Apr 18, 2024 — last modified Apr 19, 2024 03:11 AM — filed under: Labour Futures, Digital Economy, Homepage, Digital Labour, Featured, Researchers at Work
Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi contributed an essay on how gated society management apps like MyGate and NoBrokerHood feed on caste and income inequalities in new datafied forms. The essay features in The Formalization of Social Precarities, an anthology edited by Murali Shanmugavelan and Aiha Nguyen and published with Data & Society.
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The Right Words for Love: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 23, 2018 — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:23 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
Queer love is legal. Which means that all of us are finally free to find a language that can match our desires.
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The Rules of Engagement: by Nishant Shah — published Oct 29, 2012 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:48 AM — filed under: Digital Activism, Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Digital Natives
Why the have-nots of the digital world can sometimes be mistaken as trolls. I am not sure if you have noticed, but lately, the people populating our social networks have started to be more diverse than before.
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The Spaces of Digital: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Dec 30, 2014 — last modified Oct 24, 2015 01:41 PM — filed under: The Spaces of Digital, Net Cultures, Researchers at Work, Research
'The Spaces of Digital’ continues from the work done on the CIS-RAW monograph on the Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar at Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad. The premise of this monograph was the debates around making of IT Cities and public planning policies that regulate and restructure the city spaces in India with the emergence of internet technologies.
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The State of the Internet's Languages Report: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Mar 07, 2022 — last modified Mar 07, 2022 03:01 PM — filed under: RAW Research, Featured, Researchers at Work, RAW Blog
The first-ever State of the Internet’s Languages Report was launched by Whose Knowledge? on February 23, 2022 (just after the International Mother Language day), along with research partners Oxford Internet Institute and the Centre for Internet and Society. This extraordinarily community-sourced effort, with over 100 people involved is now available online, with translations in multiple languages.
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The Stranger with Candy: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 16, 2013 — last modified Apr 17, 2015 11:00 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
Beware of online threats, as the distinction between friends and foes is false on the internet.
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The worrying survival of moon landing conspiracy theorists: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 31, 2019 — filed under: Researchers at Work
The moon landing deniers were the original fake news propagandists. Only, they didn’t have the internet.
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