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The 'Beyond the Digital' Directory: by Maesy Angelina — published Nov 07, 2010 — last modified May 15, 2015 11:33 AM — filed under: Youth, Digital Activism, Digital Natives, Web Politics, Street sexual harassment, Blank Noise Project, Beyond the Digital, Communities, art and intervention, Researchers at Work
For the past few months, Maesy Angelina has been sharing the insights gained from her research with Blank Noise on the activism of digital natives. The ‘Beyond the Digital’ directory offers a list of the posts on the research based on the order of its publication.
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Digital Natives with a Cause?— Workshop in South Africa—FAQs: by Samuel Tettner — published Oct 11, 2010 — last modified May 15, 2015 11:35 AM — filed under: RAW Events, Digital Natives, Featured, Workshop, Researchers at Work, Event
The second international Digital Natives Workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" will be held in Johannesburg from 7 to 9 November 2010. Some frequently asked questions regarding the upcoming workshop are answered in this blog entry.
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Attentional Capital in Online Gaming : The Currency of Survival: by Prasad Krishna — published Aug 25, 2010 — last modified Apr 03, 2015 10:46 AM — filed under: Gaming, Gaming Economy, Internet Histories, Histories of Internet, Researchers at Work
This blog post by Arun Menon discusses the concepts of production, labour and race in virtual worlds and their influence on the production of attention as a currency. An attempt is made to locate attentional capital, attentional repositories and attention currencies within gaming to examine 'attention currencies and its trade and transactions in virtual worlds. A minimal collection of attention currencies are placed as central and as a pre-requisite for survival in MMOs in much the same way that real currency become a necessity for survival. The approach is to locate attentional capital through different perspectives as well as examine a few concepts around virtual worlds.
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Digital Natives : Talking Back: by Nishant Shah — published Aug 17, 2010 — last modified May 15, 2015 11:50 AM — filed under: Digital Activism, Digital Natives, Youth, Featured, Workshop, Digital subjectivities, Researchers at Work
One of the most significant transitions in the landscape of social and political movements, is how younger users of technology, in their interaction with new and innovative technologised platforms have taken up responsibility to respond to crises in their local and immediate environments, relying upon their digital networks, virtual communities and platforms. In the last decade or so, the digital natives, in universities as well as in work spaces, as they experimented with the potentials of internet technologies, have launched successful socio-political campaigns which have worked unexpectedly and often without precedent, in the way they mobilised local contexts and global outreach to address issues of deep political and social concern. But what do we really know about this Digital Natives revolution?
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The Attention Economy - A Brief Introduction: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 22, 2010 — last modified Apr 03, 2015 10:48 AM — filed under: Gaming, Gaming Economy, Internet Histories, Histories of Internet, Researchers at Work
This post examines attention economy as a brief prelude to a paper and monograph to be published on it. It examines the current theses on attention economy and a few approaches to reading attention economy in gaming besides foregrounding the attention economy and its functions and influence in MMORPGs.
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An Artist's Hunt for Lost Stepwells: by Prasad Krishna — published Jun 04, 2010 — last modified Oct 05, 2015 03:05 PM — filed under: Practice, Researchers at Work, Maps for Making Change
As part of the Maps for Making Change project, Kakoli Sen has brought to light some facts which she stumbled upon while mapping the stepwells in Vadodara. She mapped these and also discovered 14 such architectural heritage structures. The news was covered in the Times of 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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Their India has No Borders: by Anja Kovacs — published Apr 29, 2010 — last modified Oct 05, 2015 03:08 PM — filed under: Practice, Researchers at Work, Maps for Making Change
Bangalore felt far for them, they would mark it outside the country. India, for migrant labourers, is different from the India we know
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Digital Natives at Republica 2010: by Nishant Shah — published Apr 26, 2010 — last modified May 15, 2015 11:35 AM — filed under: Conference, Digital Activism, Digital Natives, Cybercultures, Digital subjectivities, Researchers at Work
Nishant Shah from the Centre for Internet and Society, made a presentation at the Re:Publica 2010, in Berlin, about its collaborative project (with Hivos, Netherlands) "Digital Natives with a Cause?" The video for the presentation, along with an extensive abstract is now available here.
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Public Event: Exploring Maps for Making Change: by Anja Kovacs — published Apr 24, 2010 — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:19 PM — filed under: RAW Events, Practice, Researchers at Work, Event, Maps for Making Change
The Centre for Internet and Society, in collaboration with Tactical Tech, would like to invite you to 'A Conversation on Maps for Making Change - Using Geographical Mapping Techniques to Support Struggles for Social Justice in India', at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore.
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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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