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Making in the Humanities – Some Questions and Conflicts: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published May 22, 2015 — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:46 AM — filed under: Digital Knowledge, Mapping Digital Humanities in India, Research, Featured, Digital Humanities, Researchers at Work
The following is an abstract for a proposed chapter on 'making' in the humanities, which has been accepted for publication in a volume titled 'Making Humanities Matter'. This is part of a new book series titled 'Debates in the Digital Humanities 2015' to be published by University of Minnesota Press (http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/cfps/cfp_2015_mhm). The first draft of the chapter will be shared by mid-August 2015.
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Making Voices Heard: Privacy, Inclusivity, and Accessibility of Voice Interfaces in India: by Shweta Mohandas — published Dec 05, 2019 — last modified Dec 18, 2019 12:10 PM — filed under: Voice User Interface, Language, Privacy, Accessibility, Research, Voice Assisted Interface, Featured, Researchers at Work, Making Voices Heard
We believe that voice interfaces have the potential to democratise the use of internet by addressing barriers such as accessibility concerns, lack of abilities of reading and writing on digital text interfaces, and lack of options for people to interact with digital devices in their own languages. Through the Making Voice Heard Project supported by Mozilla Corporation, we will examine the current landscape of voice interfaces in India.
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Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 01, 2019 — last modified Apr 01, 2019 08:00 AM — filed under: Practice, Art, RAW Events, Digital Labour, Researchers at Work, Event
Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD), their current project at IoHO, explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance.
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Mapping Digital Humanities in India - Concluding Thoughts: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Nov 30, 2014 — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:36 AM — filed under: Digital Knowledge, Mapping Digital Humanities in India, Research, Featured, Digital Humanities, Researchers at Work
This final blog post on the mapping exercise undertaken by CIS-RAW summarises some of the key concepts and terms that have emerged as significant in the discourse around Digital Humanities in India.
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Mapping the Things that Affect Us: by Prasad Krishna — published May 03, 2010 — last modified Oct 05, 2015 03:05 PM — filed under: Practice, Researchers at Work, Maps for Making Change
'Map for making change' is a project using geographical mapping techniques to support struggles for social justice in India
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Maps for Making Change - The First Workshop: by Anja Kovacs — published Dec 02, 2009 — last modified Oct 05, 2015 03:09 PM — filed under: RAW Events, Practice, Workshop, Researchers at Work, Event, Maps for Making Change
In this first workshop in a series of three, participants will think through the potential of mapping in the context of a project that they have suggested in their application and the preparations they need to make to make these ideas a reality.
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Maps for Making Change Kicks Off, and You Can Get Involved!: by Anja Kovacs — published Dec 02, 2009 — last modified Oct 05, 2015 03:03 PM — filed under: Digital Activism, Practice, Workshop, Researchers at Work, Maps for Making Change
A first in India, Maps for Making Change explores the use of geographical mapping techniques to support struggles for social justice in India. On 3 December, the project officially kicks off during a one-day workshop in Delhi. But even if you can not be there with us in Delhi, there are ways to get involved.
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Maps for Making Change Wiki Now Open to the Public: by Anja Kovacs — published Apr 01, 2010 — last modified Oct 05, 2015 03:05 PM — filed under: Practice, Researchers at Work, Maps for Making Change
Since December 2009, CIS has been coordinating and nurturing the Maps for Making Change project, organised in collaboration with Tactical Tech. During the past four months, participants have been on a challenging yet fertile and inspiring journey that is now slowly coming to an end. Would you like to know more about what has happened in the time that has passed? The Maps for Making Change wiki is a good place to start.
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March 2013 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 31, 2013 — last modified Apr 14, 2013 11:45 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Digital Humanities, Openness, Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the third issue of its newsletter for the year 2013. In this issue we bring you an overview of our research programs, updates of events organised by us, events we participated in, news and media coverage, and videos of some of our recent events.
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March 2015 Bulletin: by Prasad Krishna — published May 10, 2015 — last modified May 12, 2015 01:36 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Researchers at Work, Accessibility, Access to Knowledge
Newsletter for the month of March.
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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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