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Facebook sees its salvation with its cryptocurrency Libra
- July 02, 2019
Facebook’s Libra is designed to take control of our digital lives.
Read more →Unpacking video-based surveillance in New Delhi
- June 20, 2019
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon presented at an international workshop on 'Urban Data, Inequality and Justice in the Global South', on 14 June 2019, at the University of Manchester. The agenda for the workshop and the slides from the presentation by Aayush and Ambika are available below.
Read more →Staying silent about cyberbullying is no longer an option
- July 02, 2019
Cyberbullying is the dangerous new normal.
Read more →Data bleeding everywhere: a story of period trackers
- June 11, 2019
This is an excerpt from an essay by Sadaf Khan, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
Read more →Can data ever know who we really are?
- May 22, 2019
This is an excerpt from an essay by Zara Rahman, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
Read more →Digital Native: Three things we need to realise about what TikTok is doing to us
- June 09, 2019
Fifteen seconds is all that will take for TikTok to own you.
Read more →Digital Native: Narendra Modi’s interview by Akshay Kumar is a PR masterpiece
- June 09, 2019
How to spot the influencer in your politics.
Read more →April 2019 Newsletter
- May 02, 2019
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for April 2019.
Read more →Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gaze
- April 28, 2019
In the poll season, social media platforms thrive on wounded outrage disguised as politics.
Read more →Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession
- April 01, 2019
Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD), their current project at IoHO, explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance.
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