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The Leap of Rhodes or, How India Dealt with the Last Mile Problem - An Inquiry into Technology and Governance: Call for Review
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 14, 2010
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 10:55 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Histories of Internet,
Internet Studies
Re-thinking the Last Mile Problem research project by Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. The ‘last mile’ is a communications term which has a specific Indian variant, where technology has been mapped onto developmentalist–democratic priorities which have propelled communications technologies since at least the invention of radio in the 1940s. For at least 50 years now, the ‘last mile’ has become a mode of a techno-democracy, where connectivity has been directly translated into democratic citizenship. It has provided rationale for successive technological developments, and produced an assumption that the final frontier was just around the corner and that Internet technologies now carry the same burden of breaching that last major barrier to produce a techno-nation. The project has fed into many different activities in teaching, in examining processes of governance and in looking at user behaviour.
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The Last Cultural Mile
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Production Sprint — A Public Exhibition at CIS
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 03, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:23 PM
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RAW Events,
Making Change,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work,
Event
The Making Change project invites you for a public exhibition of stories of change from all over Asia, where the first of its Production Sprints will take place. The exhibition will be held at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) office in Bangalore on June 7, 2014 between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
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Events
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January 2017 Newsletter
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 01, 2017
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Welcome to the January 2017 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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Newsletters
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Digital native: Back at it Again
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Nishant Shah
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Jan 22, 2017
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Feb 02, 2017 03:04 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
The Indian digital landscape has put us in a loop of hashtags and outrage, a space where we have mastered the art of shame.
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Combinations and Competition: Why the draft DCB must account for digital mergers and acquisitions
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Abhineet Nayyar and Isha Suri
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published
Aug 05, 2024
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last modified
Aug 08, 2024 07:47 AM
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Researchers at Work,
Digital Markets,
Competition,
Antitrust
Mergers and Acquisitions (collectively, M&As or Combinations) have been a common practice in industry consolidation for many years now. In fact, as Zuckerberg’s infamous quote suggests, it might be one of the central pillars of today’s internet economy.
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Gig and platform workers’ perspectives on worker collectives
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by
Shaik Salauddin
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published
Aug 13, 2024
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy
This report highlights findings from a survey conducted by the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers’ Union on platform workers’ perspectives around various worker collectives, particularly platform worker unions and cooperative societies. The survey was conducted with workers working for app-based platform companies like Ola, Uber, InDriver, Swiggy, Zomato, and Flipkart.
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Porn: Law, Video, Technology
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Namita A Malhotra
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published
Sep 28, 2011
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last modified
Apr 14, 2015 12:43 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Histories of Internet,
RAW Publications,
Publications
Namita Malhotra’s monograph on Pornography and Pleasure is possibly the first Indian reflection and review of its kind. It draws aside the purdah that pornography has become – the forbidden object as well as the thing that prevents you from looking at it – and fingers its constituent threads and textures.
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Histories of the Internet
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The Bots That Got Some Votes Home
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by
Nilofar Ansher
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Jun 20, 2012
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Apr 24, 2015 11:56 AM
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Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
Nilofar Ansher gives us some startling updates on the "Digital Natives Video Contest" voting results declared in May 2012, in this blog post.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22) - Selected Sessions
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Apr 25, 2022
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last modified
Apr 26, 2022 07:00 AM
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IRC22,
Internet Studies,
Internet Researcher's Conference,
Researchers at Work
Here is the list of selected sessions and individual presentations for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC22) - #Home. IRC22 will be held online from May 25-27, 2022. The conference announcement, along with details on registration will be published in the first week of May.
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Digital Native: Delete Facebook?
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Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 08, 2018
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last modified
May 06, 2018 03:08 AM
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Social Media,
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Facebook,
Researchers at Work
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
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