Researchers At Work
CIS-RAW stands for Researchers at Work, a multidisciplinary research initiative by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. CIS firmly believes that in order to understand the contemporary concerns in the field of Internet and Society, it is necessary to produce local and contextual accounts of the interaction between the internet and socio-cultural and geo-political structures. The CIS-RAW programme hopes to produce one of the first documentations on the transactions and negotiations, relationships and correlations that the emergence of internet technologies has resulted in, specifically in the South. The CIS-RAW programme recognises ‘The Histories of the Internet and India’ as its focus for the first two years. Although many disciplines, organisations and interventions in various areas deal with internet technologies, there has been very little work in documenting the polymorphous growth of internet technologies and their relationship with society in India. The existing narratives of the internet are often riddled with absences or only focus on the mainstream interests of major stakeholders, like the state and the corporate. We find it imperative to excavate the three-decade histories of the internet to understand the contemporary concerns and questions in the field.
Filed under:
histories of internet in India,
internet and society,
geeks,
digital subjectives,
cyborgs,
cybercultures,
archives,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
research,
women and internet,
e-governance
- Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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CEPT to Set up Centre to Research Role of Internet in Social Development
Jun 20, 2011 06:25 AM
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Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities - A Call for Peer Review
Feb 15, 2011 01:25 PM
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Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities - A Call for Peer Review
Feb 14, 2011 06:30 PM
- The Last Cultural Mile
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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
Dec 14, 2010 01:55 PM
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A provisional definition for the Cultural Last Mile
Dec 10, 2009 04:45 PM
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Rethinking the last mile Problem: A cultural argument
Sep 02, 2009 08:25 AM
- Rewiring Bodies
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Asha Achuthan initiates a historical research inquiry to understand the ways in which gendered bodies are shaped by the Internet imaginaries in contemporary India. Tracing the history from nationalist debates between Gandhi and Tagore to the neo-liberal perspective based knowledge produced by feminists like Martha Nussbaum; Asha’s research offers a unique entry point into cyberculture studies through a feminist epistemology of science and technology.
The monograph establishes that there is a certain pre-history to the Internet that needs to be unpacked in order to understand the digital interventions on the body in a range of fields from social sciences theory to medical health practices to technology and science policy in the country.
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Re:wiring Bodies: Call for Review
Dec 17, 2009 05:25 AM
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Alternatives? From situated knowledges to standpoint epistemology
Jul 29, 2009 07:10 AM
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Rewiring Bodies: Methodologies of Critique - Responses to technology in feminist and gender work in India
Jul 20, 2009 11:00 AM
