Centre for Internet & Society

Digital native: Lie Me a River

by Nishant Shah

The sea of social media around us often drowns the truth, exchanging misinformation for facts.

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Digital native: Who will watch the watchman?

by Nishant Shah

The state mining its citizens as data and suspending rights to privacy under the rhetoric of national security is alarming.

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Digital Native: Do not go Gently into the Good Night

by Nishant Shah

If there’s a lesson to be learned from the resistance to the Trump administration, it is this — patriotism is not a feeling, it is an action.

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January 2017 Newsletter

by Prasad Krishna

Welcome to the January 2017 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).

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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17)

by Sumandro Chattapadhyay

With great pleasure we announce the second edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC), an annual conference series initiated by the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at CIS to gather researchers, academic or otherwise, studying internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward. The Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) will be held at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) campus on March 03-05, 2017. It is being organised by the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP) at IIIT-B and the CIS.

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Digital native: Back at it Again

by Nishant Shah

The Indian digital landscape has put us in a loop of hashtags and outrage, a space where we have mastered the art of shame.

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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selected Sessions

by Sumandro Chattapadhyay

With great pleasure we announce the eleven sessions selected for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) to be held at the IIIT Bangalore campus during March 03-05. The Conference is being organised by the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP) at IIIT Bangalore and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).

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Digital transitions in the newsroom: How are Indian language papers adapting differently?

by Zeenab Aneez

In a new report published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Centre for Internet and Society, Zeenab Aneez explores how Indian newsrooms are adapting their workflow and processes to cater to an increasing digital audience and the implications these changes have on how journalists produce news.

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Digital Native: The Dream of the Cyborg

by Nishant Shah

We have arrived at hybrid realities, where the technological and the human cannot be separated. The digital future we had once imagined is already here.

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December 2016 Newsletter

by Prasad Krishna

Welcome to the December 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).

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