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Blog Entry Digital Native: How free is the internet?
by Nishant Shah published Aug 18, 2019 last modified Sep 04, 2019 01:47 AM — filed under:
It is contradictory and confusing as it amplifies as well as destabilises the order of things.
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Blog Entry Call for Contributions and Reflections: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages!
by Puthiya Purayil Sneha published Aug 07, 2019 last modified Aug 07, 2019 12:29 PM — filed under: , , , , , , , ,
Whose Knowledge?, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Centre for Internet and Society are creating a State of the Internet’s Languages report, as baseline research with both numbers and stories, to demonstrate how far we are from making the internet multilingual. We also hope to offer some possibilities for doing more to create the multilingual internet we want. This research needs the experiences and expertise of people who think about these issues of language online from different perspectives. Read the Call here and share your submission by September 2, 2019.
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Blog Entry Why I’m not going to tell you about the dangers of apps like FaceApp
by Nishant Shah published Jul 31, 2019 — filed under:
Concerns about privacy, aimed solely at users, are better directed at owners of digital infrastructure.
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Blog Entry The worrying survival of moon landing conspiracy theorists
by Nishant Shah published Jul 31, 2019 — filed under:
The moon landing deniers were the original fake news propagandists. Only, they didn’t have the internet.
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July 2019 Newsletter
by Prasad Krishna published Jul 30, 2019 last modified Aug 09, 2019 01:50 PM — filed under: , , ,
Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for July 2019.
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Blog Entry Call for Essays — #List
by Puthiya Purayil Sneha published Jul 12, 2019 last modified Oct 11, 2019 05:07 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
The researchers@work programme at CIS invites abstracts for essays that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the ‘list’. We have selected 4 abstracts among those received before August 31, 2019, and are now accepting and evaluating further submissions on a rolling basis.
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Blog Entry You auto-complete me: romancing the bot
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay published Jul 11, 2019 last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:00 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
This is an excerpt from an essay by Maya Indira Ganesh, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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#MappingDigitalLabour - Panel discussion on platform-work in Mumbai and New Delhi
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay published Jul 11, 2019 last modified Jul 20, 2019 11:58 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
With the rise and popularity of app-based platforms such as Ola, Uber, Swiggy Zomato, and others, there are growing public conversation about regulation of such 'gig-work' platforms and the work conditions of people who work for them. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invites you to a panel discussion on Friday, July 19 in our Bangalore office, where the researchers associated with the project will present preliminary findings, and ethical and methodological challenges of studying app-based platform-work in India. Panelists Anushree Gupta, Rajendra Jadhav, Sarah Zia and Simiran Lalvani, who have conducted field studies of ride-hailing and food-delivery work in Mumbai and New Delhi, will share their preliminary field insights along with reflections on what it meant to do such studies, how they went about studying gig-work, and challenges that arose in their work. The discussion will be moderated by Noopur Raval who co-led the project. We invite scholars, journalists, and all interested members of the public to join us for the event. Tea and snacks will be served at 5 pm.
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Blog Entry Facebook sees its salvation with its cryptocurrency Libra
by Nishant Shah published Jun 30, 2019 last modified Jul 02, 2019 03:58 AM — filed under:
Facebook’s Libra is designed to take control of our digital lives.
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Blog Entry Unpacking video-based surveillance in New Delhi
by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon published Jun 20, 2019 last modified Jun 20, 2019 05:13 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon presented at an international workshop on 'Urban Data, Inequality and Justice in the Global South', on 14 June 2019, at the University of Manchester. The agenda for the workshop and the slides from the presentation by Aayush and Ambika are available below.
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