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Blog Entry Studying the Emerging Database State in India: Notes for Critical Data Studies (Accepted Abstract) — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:54 AM
"Critical Data Studies (CDS) is a growing field of research that focuses on the unique theoretical, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by 'Big Data.' Rather than treat Big Data as a scientifically empirical, and therefore largely neutral phenomena, CDS advocates the view that data should be seen as always-already constituted within wider data assemblages." The Big Data and Society journal has provisionally accepted a paper abstract of mine for its upcoming special issue on Critical Data Studies.
Blog Entry Making in the Humanities – Some Questions and Conflicts — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:46 AM
The following is an abstract for a proposed chapter on 'making' in the humanities, which has been accepted for publication in a volume titled 'Making Humanities Matter'. This is part of a new book series titled 'Debates in the Digital Humanities 2015' to be published by University of Minnesota Press (http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/cfps/cfp_2015_mhm). The first draft of the chapter will be shared by mid-August 2015.
Blog Entry Studying Internet in India: Selected Abstracts — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Aug 28, 2015 06:53 AM
We received thirty five engaging abstracts in response to the call for essays on 'Studying Internet in India.' Here are the ten selected abstracts. The final essays will be published from June onwards.
Blog Entry Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Aug 28, 2015 07:09 AM
As Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges – and even in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society invites abstracts for essays that explore what it means to study Internet(s) in India today.
Blog Entry Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia and India – Section Outlines — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:40 AM
The Centre for Internet and Society has been invited to contribute two sections to the Asia Internet History - Third Decade (2001-2010) book edited by Dr. Kilnam Chon. The sections will discuss the activities and experiences of civil society organisations in Asia and India, respectively, in national, regional, and global Internet governance processes. The draft outlines of the sections are shared here. Comments and suggestions are invited.
Blog Entry Mapping Digital Humanities in India - Concluding Thoughts — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:36 AM
This final blog post on the mapping exercise undertaken by CIS-RAW summarises some of the key concepts and terms that have emerged as significant in the discourse around Digital Humanities in India.
Blog Entry Not a Goodbye; More a ‘Come Again’: Thoughts on being Research Director at a moment of transition — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 15, 2014 02:17 AM
As I slowly make the news of my transition from being the Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, to taking up a professorship at the Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany, there is a question that I am often asked: “Are you going to start a new research centre?” And the answer, for the most part, is “No.”
Blog Entry Digital Humanities and the Problem of Definition — by Sneha PP — last modified Mar 30, 2015 12:47 PM
The Digital Humanities as a field that still eludes definition has been the subject of much discourse and writing. This blog post looks at this issue as one of trying to approach the field from a disciplinary lens, and the challenges that this may pose to the attempts at a definition.
Blog Entry Exploring the Digital Landscape: An Overview — by Sneha PP — last modified 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.
Blog Entry Back When the Past had a Future: Being Precarious in a Network Society — by Nishant Shah — last modified 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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