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Digital Humanities and the Problem of Definition
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Apr 25, 2014
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 12:47 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Digital Humanities
The Digital Humanities as a field that still eludes definition has been the subject of much discourse and writing. This blog post looks at this issue as one of trying to approach the field from a disciplinary lens, and the challenges that this may pose to the attempts at a definition.
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RAW
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Digital Humanities
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Banking Policy Guide
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by
Kartik Chawla
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published
Apr 22, 2014
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last modified
Jan 22, 2015 02:54 PM
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filed under:
Banking,
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
To gain a practical perspective on the existing banking practices and policies in India in this project, an empirical study of five separate and diverse banks has been conducted. The forms, policy documents, and other relevant and available documents of these banks have been analysed in this project.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Multimedia Storytellers: Panel Discussion
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by
Denisse Albornoz
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published
Apr 16, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:26 PM
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filed under:
Making Change,
Net Cultures,
Research,
Featured,
Researchers at Work
This post brings three storytellers together to find points of intersection between their methods. The format will be that of a panel discussion and it features: Arjun Srivathsa from Pocket Science India, Ameen Haque from the Storywallahs, and Ajay Dasgupta from The Kahani Project. They discuss technology, interpretation and action in storytelling.
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Digital Natives
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Making Change
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Exploring the Digital Landscape: An Overview
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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last modified
Apr 14, 2014 03:48 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Digital Humanities
One component of the Digital Humanities mapping exercise was a series of six research projects commissioned by HEIRA-CSCS, Bangalore over November 2013-March 2014. These studies attempted to chart various aspects of the digital landscape in India today, with a focus on emerging forms of humanistic enquiry engendered by the Internet and new digital technologies. This blog post presents a broad overview of some of the key learnings from these projects.
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Digital Humanities
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Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy vs. The Leaked 2014 Privacy Bill
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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published
Apr 14, 2014
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filed under:
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
Following our previous post comparing the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill with the leaked 2011 Privacy Bill, this post will compare the recommendations provided in the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy by the Justice AP Shah Committee to the text of the leaked 2014 Privacy Bill. Below is an analysis of recommendations from the Report that are incorporated in the text of the Bill, and recommendations in the Report that are not incorporated in the text of the Bill.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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App Developers Series: Products-Services Dichotomy & IP (Part I)
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by
Samantha Cassar
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published
Apr 10, 2014
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last modified
Jul 21, 2014 01:43 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Access to Knowledge
Recently, the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) held a series of interviews in attempts to better understand the ecosystem in which India's mobile app industry is emerging, how it is governed by India's current laws, and how mobile app developers are affected as a result. The following written series maps out the given responses and presents our findings from these interviews and accompanying conversations.
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Access to Knowledge
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Blogs
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Leaked Privacy Bill: 2014 vs. 2011
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by
Elonnai Hickok
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published
Mar 31, 2014
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last modified
Apr 01, 2014 10:52 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The Centre for Internet and Society has recently received a leaked version of the draft Privacy Bill 2014 that the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India has drafted.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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India Access To Knowledge/Draft Work plan July 2014 - June 2015
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by
T. Vishnu Vardhan
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published
Mar 31, 2014
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last modified
Apr 08, 2014 09:51 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Openness
One of the key mandates of the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is to work towards catalysing the growth of the open knowledge movement in South-Asia and in Indic languages. CIS has been a steward of the Wikimedia movement in India since December 2008 when Jimmy Wales visited Bangalore. From September 2012 it has been actively involved in growing the movement in India through a grant received from the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF). Based on the 18-month experience of working with various Indic Wikimedia communities, CIS-A2K has developed its Work Plan for July 2014 to June 2015.
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Openness
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Blog
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Enabling Elections
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by
Nirmita Narasimhan
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published
Mar 24, 2014
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last modified
May 10, 2014 12:12 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Homepage,
Accessibility
For making the 2014 General Elections in India participatory and accessible for voters with disabilities the Centre for Law and Policy Research and the Centre for Internet and Society have come up with a report. The report addresses the barriers that people with disabilities face during elections and recommends solutions for the same.
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Accessibility
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Blog
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Institute for Internet & Society 2014, Pune
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by
Samantha Cassar
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published
Mar 07, 2014
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last modified
Apr 07, 2014 11:31 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Researchers at Work,
Wikipedia,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Wikimedia,
Openness,
Homepage
Last month, activists, journalists, researchers, and members of civil society came together at the 2014 Institute for Internet & Society in Pune, which was hosted by CIS and funded by the Ford Foundation. The Institute was a week long, in which participants heard from speakers from various backgrounds on issues arising out of the intersection of internet and society, such as intellectual property, freedom of expression, and accessibility, to name a few. Below is an official reporting summarizing sessions that took place.
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