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Habits of Living: Global Networks, Local Affects: by Wendy Chun, Kelly Dobson, Matthew Fuller and Eivind Rossaak — published Mar 23, 2012 — last modified Oct 24, 2015 01:38 PM — filed under: Net Cultures, Researchers at Work, Research
“Networks” have become a defining concept of our epoch. From high-speed financial networks that erode national sovereignty to networking sites like Facebook that transform the meaning of the word “friend,” from blogs that foster new political alliances to unprecedented globe-spanning viral vectors that threaten world-wide catastrophe, networks allegedly encapsulate what’s new and different.
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Across Borders: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 11, 2012 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:55 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, 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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Digital Native: AI Manifesto: by Nishant Shah — published Feb 25, 2018 — last modified Mar 17, 2018 11:02 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
Our intention and government action will determine our relationship with AI.
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Digital native: Our lonely connected lives: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 25, 2018 — filed under: Researchers at Work
Even as the UK last month announced the appointment of Minister of Loneliness, which sounds more like the title of the next Arundhati Roy novel, it is worth examining why we are so alone in the age of hyperconnectivity.
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Digital Native: A new road to justice: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 25, 2018 — filed under: Researchers at Work
Making the List takes courage and strength. It involves the formation of a new collective of care.
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The Many Lives and Sites of Internet in Bhubaneswar: by Sailen Routray — published Sep 21, 2015 — filed under: City, Internet Studies, RAW Blog, Researchers at Work
This post by Sailen Routray is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Sailen is a researcher, writer, editor and translator who lives and works in Bhubaneswar. In this essay, he takes a preliminary step towards capturing some of the experiences of running and using internet cafes, experiences that lie at the interstices of (digital) objects and spaces, that are at the same time a history of the internet as well as a personal history of the city.
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Research Symposium on Digital Transitions in Cultural and Creative Industries in India, New Delhi, Feb 27-28: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Feb 11, 2018 — last modified Feb 26, 2018 11:04 AM — filed under: Digital News, RAW Events, Digital Economy, Digital Knowledge, Digital Media, Creative Industries, Researchers at Work
It is our privilege to collaborate with LabEx ICCA (Université Paris 13), UNESCO New Delhi, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), and Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS), to organise a Research Symposium on Digital Transitions in Cultural and Creative Industries in India. The symposium gathers researchers and practitioners engaging with the changing landscape of cultural and creative industries in India in the context of the rapid expansion of digital technologies and social media. We invite you to join us for a critical exploration of the prevalent discourse around cultural and creative industries, to identify what could be the different forms of digital creative and cultural industries developing in India, and how they problematise the questions of cultural expression, knowledge production, creativity, and labour.
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Celebrating 5 Years of CIS: by Prasad Krishna — published May 03, 2013 — last modified Feb 25, 2014 09:15 AM — filed under: Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Openness, Researchers at Work, Event
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is celebrating 5 years of its existence with an exhibition showcasing its activities and accomplishments. The exhibition will be held at its offices in Bangalore and Delhi from May 20 to 23, 2013.
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Digital Native: How free is the internet?: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 18, 2019 — last modified Sep 04, 2019 01:47 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
It is contradictory and confusing as it amplifies as well as destabilises the order of things.
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Kashmir’s digital blackout marks a period darker than the dark side of the moon: by Nishant Shah — published Sep 26, 2019 — filed under: Researchers at Work
While we mourn the loss of connection with the moon, remembering a digital blackout closer home.
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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.

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Dec 07, 2011 03:35 AM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Nov 28, 2011 08:50 AM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Nishant Shah at Dec 02, 2011 01:55 AM | Permalink

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