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March 2019 Newsletter: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2019 — last modified Jul 18, 2019 02:14 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for the month of March 2019.
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Digital Native: Lessons from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp going down: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 24, 2019 — last modified Apr 03, 2019 01:19 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
The day when three social-media apps refused to load.
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Presentation at Global Digital Humanities Symposium: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Mar 22, 2019 — last modified May 03, 2019 09:41 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
P.P. Sneha gave a virtual presentation of her work on digital cultural archives at the Global Digital Humanities Symposium organised by Michigan State University on March 21-22, 2019.
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Digital Native: How an information overload affects what you forward: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 10, 2019 — last modified Apr 03, 2019 01:12 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
The information overload of social media sharing can make us act against our better judgement.
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What I learned from going offline for 48 hours: by Nishant Shah — published Feb 24, 2019 — last modified Mar 14, 2019 04:21 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work
A weekend without the internet shows just how much control we surrender to online chatter.
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Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?: by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — published Feb 14, 2019 — last modified Dec 30, 2019 04:44 PM — filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Privacy, Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Research, BD4D, Healthcare, Surveillance, Big Data for Development
In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” Casting a critical feminist lens, the historicity of surveillance practices unveils the gendered power differentials wedded into taken-for-granted “benign” monitoring processes. The unpacking of the Mother and Child Tracking System and the National Health Stack reveals the neo-liberal aspirations of the Indian state.
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India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese laws: by Nishant Shah — published Feb 04, 2019 — filed under: Researchers at Work
The proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese restrictions. The new intermediaries liability and content monitoring act that will become a law in February, unquestioningly expand the remit of the government.
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January 2019 Newsletter: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 31, 2019 — last modified Mar 03, 2019 04:34 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its e-Newsletter for 2019.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List, Jan 30 - Feb 1, Lamakaan: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Jan 09, 2019 — last modified Jan 31, 2019 06:41 AM — filed under: Internet Studies, Internet Researcher's Conference, IRC19, Researchers at Work, Event
Who makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invited sessions and papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list* - to present or propose academic, applied, or creative works that explore its social, economic, cultural, material, political, affective, or aesthetic dimensions. IRC19 will be organised in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, during January 30 - February 1, 2019.
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Welcome to r@w blog!: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Jan 02, 2019 — last modified Jan 02, 2019 11:48 AM — filed under: Homepage, RAW Blog, Researchers at Work, Featured, Internet Studies
We from the researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog, hosted on Medium. It will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and elsewhere at the intersections of internet, digital media, and society; and highlights and materials from ongoing research and events at the researchers@work programme.
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Blogs: Technology, Social Justice and Higher Education
Since the last two years, we at the Centre for Internet and Society, have been working with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, on a project called Pathways to Higher Education, supported by the Ford Foundation.

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Filed under: Featured, Higher Education, Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge; Mobility Shifts 2011 — An International Future of Learning Summit
The summit was organised by the New School and sponsored by MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. It was held from October 10 to October 16, 2011 at the New School, New York City.

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Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge; Learn it Yourself
The peer-to-peer world of online learning encourages conversations and reciprocal learning, writes Nishant Shah in an article published in the Indian Express on 30 October 2011.

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