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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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Digital native: Let there be life: by Nishant Shah — published Nov 19, 2017 — last modified Jan 09, 2018 04:05 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work
The first robot citizen of the world is from Saudi Arabia, and she has the dubious fame of having more rights than human counterparts in the country.
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Digital native: Lie Me a River: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 19, 2017 — filed under: Researchers at Work, RAW Blog, Digital Natives
The sea of social media around us often drowns the truth, exchanging misinformation for facts.
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Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leap: by Nishant Shah — published May 28, 2017 — last modified Jun 08, 2017 01:22 AM — filed under: Biometrics, Researchers at Work, Aadhaar
Creating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
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Digital native: Memory card is full: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 03, 2017 — last modified Jan 10, 2018 02:08 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
We train ourselves to forget as our devices store everything. How do we remember things that matter?
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Digital Native: Narendra Modi’s interview by Akshay Kumar is a PR masterpiece: by Nishant Shah — published May 05, 2019 — last modified Jun 09, 2019 03:20 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work
How to spot the influencer in your politics.
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Digital native: Not only words: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 16, 2017 — last modified Aug 07, 2017 03:33 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
Emoticons, or if you prefer the original Japanese word emojis, are everywhere. We are used to emoticons in all shapes and sizes — from animated gifs jumping out at us on our social media feed to yellow-faced smileys that we use to add tone and feeling, nuance and layers to our text-heavy conversations in the digital world.
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Digital Native: On mute, the Voice of the People: by Nishant Shah — published Jun 24, 2017 — last modified Jul 05, 2017 05:04 PM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
We are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, control and eradicate all our digital data without our consent and without repercussions.
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Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy Make: by Nishant Shah — published Nov 11, 2018 — last modified Dec 05, 2018 02:20 AM — filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
The great find of this century – life’s worth just a selfie. Channeling the inner narcissus is now human hamartia.
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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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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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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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