Details for Contributing Posts to RAW Blog
The RAW Blog hosts writings contributed by researchers, professionals, artists, workers, and others.
Themes
The posts may speak to the various interests of the the RAW programme and the Centre for Internet and Society: data systems, digital knowledge, internet histories, network economies, web cultures, indic computing, openness and accessibility, privacy and freedom of expression, methodologies of studying internet, etc.
Formats
The posts can be in the usual format of (hyper)text, or a combination of media and (hyper)text, or other web-based explorative formats. If you are planning to develop something of the latter kind, please let us know in advance, so that we can ensure that our blog will be able to host it. As for text-based posts, we prefer entries of 1500-3000 words length.
Style Guide
These instructions apply if you are submitting a post in (hyper)text, or in a combination of media and (hyper)text:
- Submit the post in .txt, .odt, or .docx format.
- Images, if any, should not be pasted within the document itself but be provided separately, with clear indication within the text about which image should be inserted where.
- If the post includes audio/video files, please mention the hyperlink to the audio/video file in the text where it is to be inserted.
- When inserting hyperlinks into the text, please do not use inline hyperlinks or footnotes, but use endnotes. That is, do not use "the Centre for Internet and Society" or "the Centre for Internet and Society1," but use "the Centre for Internet and Society [1]" with the hyperlink concerned given in endnote [1].
- For references, please use the Author-Date system.
Submission and Selection
Please send us the submission at [email protected], with the email header "Contribution for RAW Blog." Submitted posts are published after approval by the members of the RAW programme. We may send editorial comments to the author and ask for minor revisions, if needed.
Copyright and License
The posts are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, and the author retains the copyright.
Author
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
As a Director at CIS, I co-lead the researchers@work programme, and engage with academic and policy research on data governance and digital economy. I can be reached at sumandro[at]cis-india[dot]org.
