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November 2012 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Nov 30, 2012
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last modified
Jan 06, 2013 01:59 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
Welcome to the newsletter of November 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features an analysis of Section 66A of the IT Act by Pranesh Prakash, comments on the draft Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, an introduction to 12 mobile devices that we are researching as part of the Pervasive Technologies project, submissions of civil society in relation to the revision of International Telecommunication Regulations that are to take place at the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, updates from the Wikipedia community on Indic languages, and news and media coverage.
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Alt needs to Shift
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 18, 2012
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:03 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Digital Humanities
People maybe talking more online, but they all seem to be talking about the same kind of thing.
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Digital Humanities
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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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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:47 AM
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filed under:
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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October 2012 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Oct 31, 2012
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last modified
Nov 08, 2012 11:42 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Welcome to the newsletter of October 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features an analysis by Ujwala Uppaluri of the Delhi High Court’s judgment in Super Cassettes v. MySpace, announcement of public call for comments for reports on “Banking and Accessibility in India” and “Making TV Accessible in India”, and updates on Indic languages.
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The Rules of Engagement
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 29, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:48 AM
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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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One. Zero.
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:50 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Information Technology,
Digital Natives
The digital world is the world of twos. All our complex interactions, emotional negotiations, business transactions, social communication and political subscriptions online can be reduced to a string of 1s and 0s, as machines create the networks for the human beings to speak. So sophisticated is this network of digital infrastructure that we forget how our languages of connection are constantly being transcribed in binary code, allowing for the information to be transmitted across the web.
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Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies
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by
Nishant Shah
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Jul 24, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:51 AM
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Book Review,
Digital Natives
Nishant Shah was invited to do a book review of a new anthology 'Deconstructing Digital Natives', edited by Michael Thomas. The review was published in Routledge's Journal of Children and Media on July 18, 2012.
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Citizen Activism the Past Decade
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by
Nilofar Ansher
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published
Jul 19, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:52 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
Call for Contributions to the ‘Digital Natives with a Cause?’ newsletter, ‘Citizen Activism the Past Decade’. Deadline: August 15, 2012.
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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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Across Borders
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 11, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:55 AM
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Digital Natives
A friend and I were at a cafe in Bangalore the other day, when an acquaintance walked in. After the initial niceties, and invitation to join us for coffee, the new person looked at us and asked a question that sounded so archaic and so unexpected that we had no answers for it: How do you two know each other? This innocuous question threw us both off the loop because we didn’t have an immediate answer.
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