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The Last Cultural Mile
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by
kaeru
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Dec 09, 2011
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Apr 03, 2015 10:59 AM
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Digital Governance,
Internet Histories,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Publications
Ashish’s monograph follows the career of a priori contradiction, one that only mandates a state mechanism to perform an act of delivery, and then disqualifies the state from performing that very act effectively. This contradiction which he names as the Last Mile problem is a conceptual hurdle, not a physical one and when put one way, the Last Mile is unbridgeable, when put another, it is being bridged all the time.
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The Last Cultural Mile
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Know your Users, Match their Needs!
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by
Rebecca Schild
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published
Nov 23, 2011
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last modified
Feb 27, 2012 03:06 PM
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Research,
Featured,
Open Access,
Openness,
Publications
As Free Access to Law initiatives in the Global South enter into a new stage of maturity, they must be certain not to lose sight of their users’ needs. The following post gives a summary of the “Good Practices Handbook”, a research output of the collaborative project Free Access to Law — Is it Here to Stay? undertaken by LexUM (Canada) and the South African Legal Institute in partnership with the Centre for Internet and Society.
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Material Cyborgs; Asserted Boundaries: Formulating the Cyborg as a Translator
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 07, 2011
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Oct 25, 2015 05:57 AM
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Body,
Research,
Cyborgs,
Net Cultures,
Publications,
Researchers at Work
In this peer reviewed article, Nishant Shah explores the possibility of formulating the cyborg as an author or translator who is able to navigate between the different binaries of ‘meat–machine’, ‘digital–physical’, and ‘body–self’, using the abilities and the capabilities learnt in one system in an efficient and effective understanding of the other. The article was published in the European Journal of English Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2008. [1]
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e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities (Russian Version)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 04, 2011
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last modified
Apr 26, 2012 10:04 AM
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Books,
Accessibility,
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The e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities is based upon the online ITU-G3ict e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities (www.e-accessibilitytoolkit.org) which was released in February 2010. This is the Russian translation of the same.
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Porn: Law, Video, Technology
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by
Namita A Malhotra
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published
Sep 28, 2011
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Apr 14, 2015 12:43 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Histories of Internet,
RAW Publications,
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Namita Malhotra’s monograph on Pornography and Pleasure is possibly the first Indian reflection and review of its kind. It draws aside the purdah that pornography has become – the forbidden object as well as the thing that prevents you from looking at it – and fingers its constituent threads and textures.
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Histories of the Internet
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Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities
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by
Pratyush Shankar
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published
Sep 28, 2011
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last modified
Jun 29, 2016 09:41 AM
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The Spaces of Digital,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Publications
The monograph on Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar, is an entry into 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. Going beyond the regular debates on the modern urban, the monograph deploys a team of students from the field of architecture and urban design to investigate how city spaces – the material as well as the experiential – are changing under the rubric of digital globalisation. Placing his inquiry in the built form, Shankar manoeuvres discourse from architecture, design, cultural studies and urban geography to look at the notions of cyber-publics, digital spaces, and planning policy in India. The findings show that the relationship between cities and cyberspaces need to be seen as located in a dynamic set of negotiations and not as a mere infrastructure question. It dismantles the presumptions that have informed public and city planning in the country by producing alternative futures of users’ interaction and mapping of the emerging city spaces.
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Histories of the Internet
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Re:Wiring Bodies
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by
Asha Achuthan
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published
Sep 28, 2011
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last modified
Apr 14, 2015 12:49 PM
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Internet Histories,
Histories of Internet,
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Asha Achuthan initiates a historical research inquiry to understand the ways in which gendered bodies are shaped by the Internet imaginaries in contemporary India. Tracing the history from nationalist debates between Gandhi and Tagore to the neo-liberal perspective based knowledge produced by feminists like Martha Nussbaum; Asha’s research offers a unique entry point into cyberculture studies through a feminist epistemology of science and technology. The monograph establishes that there is a certain pre-history to the Internet that needs to be unpacked in order to understand the digital interventions on the body in a range of fields from social sciences theory to medical health practices to technology and science policy in the country.
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Archives and Access
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 22, 2011
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 11:06 AM
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Internet Histories,
Archives
The monograph by Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto, is a material history of the Internet archives. It examines the role of the archivist and the changing relationship between the state and private archives for looking at the politics of subversion, preservation and value of archiving. By examining the Tamil Nadu and Goa state archives, along with the larger public and state archives in the country, the monograph looks at the materiality of archiving, the ambitions and aspirations of an archive, and why it is necessary to preserve archives, not as historical artefacts but as living interactive spaces of memory and remembrance. The findings have direct implications on various government and market impulses to digitise archives and show a clear link between opening up archives and other knowledge sources for breathing life into local and alternative histories.
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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,
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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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A Guide to the Proposed India-European Union FTA
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by
Glover Wright
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Aug 22, 2011 01:22 PM
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Publications,
Access to Knowledge
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