Posts
RAW Lectures #01: Nishant Shah on 'Stories and Histories of Internet in India'
- April 06, 2015
Dr. Nishant Shah will give a talk on 'Stories and Histories of Internet in India' at the Centre for Internet and Society's office in Bangalore on March 6, 2015 at 6 p.m. Please join us for tea and coffee before the lecture at 5.30 p.m.
Read more →Figures of Learning: The Visual Designer
- February 12, 2015
As part of its Making Methods for Digital Humanities project, CIS-RAW organized two consultations on new figures of learning in the digital context. For a proposed journal issue on the theme of ‘bodies of knowledge’ which draws upon these conversations, participants were invited to write short sketches on these figures of learning. This abstract by Tejas Pande examines the figure of the visual designer, and emerging practices of mapmaking.
Read more →January 2015 Bulletin
- February 12, 2015
Our newsletter for the month of January can be accessed below.
Read more →December 2014 Bulletin
- December 31, 2014
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wishes you a very happy new year and welcomes you to the twelfth issue of the newsletter (December 2014).
Read more →The Spaces of Digital
- December 30, 2014
'The Spaces of Digital’ continues from the work done on the CIS-RAW monograph on the Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar at Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad. The premise of this monograph was the debates around making of IT Cities and public planning policies that regulate and restructure the city spaces in India with the emergence of internet technologies.
Read more →Mapping Digital Humanities in India - Concluding Thoughts
- December 09, 2014
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.
Read more →Rethinking Conditions of Access
- October 15, 2014
P. P. Sneha explores the possibilities of redefining the idea of access through the channels of education and learning.
Read more →Consultation on Figures of Learning in the Digital Context - Report
- September 30, 2014
The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society organised a consultation on ‘Figures of Learning in the Digital Context’ on September 22, 2014 in Bangalore.
Read more →Consultation on Figures of Learning in the Digital Context
- April 06, 2015
The Centre for Internet and Society welcomes you to a consultation on new figures of learning in the digital context at its office in Bangalore on September 22, 2014 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Read more →Digital Humanities and the Alt-Academy
- August 19, 2014
The emergence of Digital Humanities (DH) has been contemporaneous to the ‘crisis’ in the humanities, spurred by changing social and economic conditions which have urged us to rethink traditional methods, locations and concepts of research and pedagogy. This blog post examines the emergence of the phenomenon of the alt-academy in the West, and examines the nuances and possibilities of such a space in the Indian context.
Read more →