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Porn: Law, Video, Technology
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 28, 2011 09:30 AM
Namita Malhotra focuses on pornography, pleasure and law, where she finds a new point of entry into existing debates by looking at legal construction of pleasure through different technologies of mass consumption. She revisits the arguments around pornography, obscenity
and affect in recent times. Malhotra produces a comprehensive over-view of different debates, both in the West and in India, to concentrate on how the visual aesthetics of pornography, the new circuits of pornographic consumption, the privilege of affect over regulation lead to possibilities of interaction and negotiation with heternormative power structures in the country. The monograph demonstrates how the grey zones of pornography and the law’s inability to deal with it, offer new conceptual tools of understanding the spaces of digital interaction and identity.
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RAW
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Histories of the Internet
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The Last Cultural Mile
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Sep 28, 2011 05:40 AM
Ashish’s research inquiry is informed by the ‘last mile’ which has emerged as a central area of discussion in the domains of technology and governance from the 1940s in India. Starting from mapping technology onto developmentalist–democratic priorities which propelled communication technologies beginning with the invention of radio in India, the monograph conceives of the ‘last mile’ as a mode of techno-democracy, where connectivity has been directly translated into democratic citizenship.
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RAW
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Histories of the Internet
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Porn: Law, Video, Technology
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by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Sep 27, 2011 11:25 AM
Namita’s legal inquiry into the relationship between technologies and the law finds a new point of entry into existing debates by looking at the legal construction of pleasure through different technologies of mass consumption in order to revisit the arguments around pornography and obscenity effect in recent times. She produces a comprehensive overview of different debates, both in the West and in India, to concentrate on how the visual aesthetics of pornography, the new circuits of pornographic consumption and the privilege of affect over regulation lead to possibilities of interaction and negotiation with heteronormative power structures in the country.
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RAW
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Histories of the Internet
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Re:Wiring Bodies
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 27, 2011 06:46 AM
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Research
Asha’s monograph is a historical research inquiry to understand the ways in which gendered bodies are shaped by the Internet imaginaries in contemporary India.
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RAW
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Histories of the Internet
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September 2011 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Sep 26, 2011
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Jul 30, 2012 06:34 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
CISRAW
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society! In this issue we are pleased to present you the latest updates about our research, upcoming events, and news and media coverage that happened in the month of September 2011.
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About Us
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Newsletters
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Re:wiring Bodies - Dr. Asha Achuthan
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 21, 2011 07:23 AM
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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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Book 3: To Act : Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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Nishant Shah
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Sep 15, 2011 02:40 PM
In Book 3 of the Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? collective, we enter into dialogue with some of the severest and most heated debates around digital natives and their ability to effect change. To Act collides with the discourse on young people’s ability and role in technology mediated processes of change, heads-on. It deliberates on some very dense questions about how digital natives execute their visions of change using new forms of mobilisation of resources and sharing/production of information.
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Digital Natives
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Book 2: To Think: Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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by
Nishant Shah
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Sep 15, 2011 02:35 PM
We started the Digital Natives with a Cause? Knowledge programme, with a series of questions, which were drawn from popular discourse, research, practice, policy and experiences of people engaging with questions of youth, technology and change. Our ambition was to consolidate existing knowledge and to look at knowledge gaps which can be addressed in order to build new frameworks to understand the role that digital natives see themselves playing in their own understanding and vision of change. This Book 2 To Think, takes up the challenge of constructing new approaches and each essay in this book, through case-studies, analyses and divergent perspectives, offers a novel way of understanding processes of technology mediated citizen-driven change.
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Digital Natives
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Internet Privacy and Surveillance
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Prasad Krishna
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Sep 08, 2011 03:16 AM
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Event Type
Caspar Bowden, Chief Privacy Adviser for Microsoft gave a public talk at TERI, Bangalore on 27 June 2011. The Centre for Internet and Society organised the event. The views expressed herein are his personal and not attributable to Microsoft.
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Internet Governance
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IISc students boycott UID, don’t want Big Brother to keep watch
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 23, 2011
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Privacy
The programme doesn’t have statutory backing. It is still in parliament
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News & Media
