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Exploring the Digital Landscape: An Overview
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Sneha PP
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Apr 14, 2014 03:48 PM
- One component of the Digital Humanities mapping exercise was a series of six research projects commissioned by HEIRA-CSCS, Bangalore over November 2013-March 2014. These studies attempted to chart various aspects of the digital landscape in India today, with a focus on emerging forms of humanistic enquiry engendered by the Internet and new digital technologies. This blog post presents a broad overview of some of the key learnings from these projects.
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Back When the Past had a Future: Being Precarious in a Network Society
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Nishant Shah
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Feb 12, 2013 06:16 AM
- We live in Network Societies. This phrase has been so bastardised to refer to the new information turn mediated by digital technologies, that we have stopped paying attention to what the Network has become. Networks are everywhere. They have become the default metaphor of our times, where everything from infrastructure assemblies to collectives of people, are all described through the lens of a network.
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Alt needs to Shift
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Nishant Shah
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Dec 14, 2012 10:03 AM
- People maybe talking more online, but they all seem to be talking about the same kind of thing.
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Negative of porn
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Namita A. Malhotra
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Aug 02, 2011 08:35 AM
- The post deals with what has been written about Savita Bhabhi in an attempt to make sense of her peccadiloes and with the seeming futility of Porn studies located in America to our different reality. I take the liberty of exploring my own experiential account of pornography since I feel that in that account (mine and others) when done seriously, certain aspects of pornography emerge that address questions that are about cinema, images, sex, philosophy and how desire works. The title is mischeviously inspired from Dr. Pek Van Andel's recent video of MRI images of people having sex.
