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Workshop on Big Data in India: Benefits, Harms, and Human Rights (Delhi, October 01)
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by
Vanya Rakesh
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published
Sep 20, 2016
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last modified
Sep 28, 2016 05:53 AM
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filed under:
Development,
Big Data,
Internet Governance,
Digital Security,
Digital India,
Digitisation,
Digital subjectivities,
Biometrics,
Big Data for Development,
E-Governance,
Digital Rights
CIS welcomes you to participate in the workshop we are organising on Saturday, October 01 at India Habitat Centre, Delhi, to discuss benefits, harms, and human rights implications of big data technologies, and explore potential research questions. A quick RSVP will be much appreciated.
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Internet Governance
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Events
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It’s Common Practice
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
May 22, 2013
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:41 AM
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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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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Revisiting Techno-euphoria
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 11, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:53 AM
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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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Digital Natives
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The Digital Other
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 15, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:07 PM
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filed under:
Digital subjectivities,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
Based on my research on young people in the Global South, I want to explore new ways of thinking about the Digital Native. One of the binaries posited as the Digital ‘Other’ -- ie, a non-Digital Native -- is that of a Digital Immigrant or Settler.
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Digital Natives
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In Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 01, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:12 PM
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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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Digital Natives
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Re:wiring Bodies - Dr. Asha Achuthan
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by
Nishant Shah
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last modified
Sep 21, 2011 07:23 AM
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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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RAW
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Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 15, 2011
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last modified
Apr 10, 2015 09:22 AM
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Social media,
Digital Activism,
RAW Publications,
Campaign,
Digital Natives,
Agency,
Blank Noise Project,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
Facebook,
Publications,
Beyond the Digital,
Digital subjectivities,
Books,
Researchers at Work
Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”. This collaboratively produced collective, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, asks critical and pertinent questions about theory and practice around 'digital revolutions' in a post MENA (Middle East - North Africa) world. It works with multiple vocabularies and frameworks and produces dialogues and conversations between digital natives, academic and research scholars, practitioners, development agencies and corporate structures to examine the nature and practice of digital natives in emerging contexts from the Global South.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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One for the avatar
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 03, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:19 PM
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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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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Change has come to all of us
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 24, 2010
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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filed under:
Google,
Digital Natives,
Cybercultures,
Facebook,
Digital subjectivities
The general focus on a digital generational divide makes us believe that generations are separated by the digital axis, and that the gap is widening. There is a growing anxiety voiced by an older generation that the digital natives they encounter — in their homes, schools and universities and at workplaces — are a new breed with an entirely different set of vocabularies and lifestyles which are unintelligible and inaccessible. It is time we started pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a digital native.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Political is as Political does
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 20, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:30 AM
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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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Digital Natives
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Blog
