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Digital Native: Web of Wander
- June 01, 2018
The idea of travel as a way of expanding our horizon has now been made redundant.
Read more →Digital Native: The e-wasteland of our times
- May 06, 2018
How digitising isn’t necessarily a fast-track to a sustainable future.
Read more →Digital Native: Delete Facebook?
- May 06, 2018
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Read more →Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.ma
- April 10, 2018
The growth of the internet and digital technologies in the last couple of decades, and the emergence of new ‘digital objects’ of enquiry has led to a rethinking of research methods across disciplines as well as innovative modes of creative practice. This chapter authored by Puthiya Purayil Sneha (published in 'Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities' edited by Jentery Sayers) discusses some of the questions that arise around the processes by which digital objects are ‘made’ and made available for arts and humanities research and practice, by drawing on recent work in text and film archival initiatives in India.
Read more →Designing Urban Nervous Systems
- March 26, 2018
Dr. Anupam Saraph will be holding a talk on 'Designing urban nervous systems' at the CIS on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 3:30 p.m. The talk will revolve around looking at cities as living organisms, with nervous systems at the center of their being.
Read more →Digital Native: A new road to justice
- March 25, 2018
Making the List takes courage and strength. It involves the formation of a new collective of care.
Read more →Digital native: Our lonely connected lives
- March 25, 2018
Even as the UK last month announced the appointment of Minister of Loneliness, which sounds more like the title of the next Arundhati Roy novel, it is worth examining why we are so alone in the age of hyperconnectivity.
Read more →Digital Native: AI Manifesto
- March 17, 2018
Our intention and government action will determine our relationship with AI.
Read more →Research Symposium on Digital Transitions in Cultural and Creative Industries in India, New Delhi, Feb 27-28
- February 11, 2018
It is our privilege to collaborate with LabEx ICCA (Université Paris 13), UNESCO New Delhi, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), and Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS), to organise a Research Symposium on Digital Transitions in Cultural and Creative Industries in India. The symposium gathers researchers and practitioners engaging with the changing landscape of cultural and creative industries in India in the context of the rapid expansion of digital technologies and social media. We invite you to join us for a critical exploration of the prevalent discourse around cultural and creative industries, to identify what could be the different forms of digital creative and cultural industries developing in India, and how they problematise the questions of cultural expression, knowledge production, creativity, and labour.
Read more →Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline, February 22-24, Sambhaavnaa Institute
- February 06, 2018
We are proud to announce that the third edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference series will be held at the Sambhaavnaa Institute, Kandbari (Himachal Pradesh) during February 22-24, 2018. This annual conference series was initiated by the Researchers@Work (RAW) programme at CIS in 2016 to gather researchers, academic or otherwise, studying internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward. The *offline* is the theme of the 2018 edition of the conference (IRC18), and the conference agenda will be shaped by nine sessions selected by all the teams that submitted session proposals, and an independent paper track consisting of six presentations.
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