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Essays on #List — Selected Abstracts
- September 03, 2019
In response to a recent call for essays that social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the #List, we received 11 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 4 pieces to be published as part of a series titled #List on the r@w blog. Please find below the details of the selected abstracts. The call for essays on #List remains open, and we are accepting and assessing the incoming abstracts on a rolling basis.
Read more →Workshop on Archival Standards and Digitisation Workflow
- August 22, 2019
P.P. Sneha attended a workshop on Archival Standards and Digitization Workflow organised by the British Library at NCBS, Bangalore, on August 19 - 20, 2019.
Read more →Digital Native: How free is the internet?
- September 04, 2019
It is contradictory and confusing as it amplifies as well as destabilises the order of things.
Read more →Call for Contributions and Reflections: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages!
- August 07, 2019
Whose Knowledge?, the Oxford Internet Institute, and the Centre for Internet and Society are creating a State of the Internet’s Languages report, as baseline research with both numbers and stories, to demonstrate how far we are from making the internet multilingual. We also hope to offer some possibilities for doing more to create the multilingual internet we want. This research needs the experiences and expertise of people who think about these issues of language online from different perspectives. Read the Call here and share your submission by September 2, 2019.
Read more →Why I’m not going to tell you about the dangers of apps like FaceApp
- July 31, 2019
Concerns about privacy, aimed solely at users, are better directed at owners of digital infrastructure.
Read more →The worrying survival of moon landing conspiracy theorists
- July 31, 2019
The moon landing deniers were the original fake news propagandists. Only, they didn’t have the internet.
Read more →July 2019 Newsletter
- July 30, 2019
Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for July 2019.
Read more →Call for Essays — #List
- July 12, 2019
The researchers@work programme at CIS invites abstracts for essays that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the ‘list’. We have selected 4 abstracts among those received before August 31, 2019, and are now accepting and evaluating further submissions on a rolling basis.
Read more →You auto-complete me: romancing the bot
- July 11, 2019
This is an excerpt from an essay by Maya Indira Ganesh, 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 →#MappingDigitalLabour - Panel discussion on platform-work in Mumbai and New Delhi
- July 11, 2019
With the rise and popularity of app-based platforms such as Ola, Uber, Swiggy Zomato, and others, there are growing public conversation about regulation of such 'gig-work' platforms and the work conditions of people who work for them. The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) invites you to a panel discussion on Friday, July 19 in our Bangalore office, where the researchers associated with the project will present preliminary findings, and ethical and methodological challenges of studying app-based platform-work in India. Panelists Anushree Gupta, Rajendra Jadhav, Sarah Zia and Simiran Lalvani, who have conducted field studies of ride-hailing and food-delivery work in Mumbai and New Delhi, will share their preliminary field insights along with reflections on what it meant to do such studies, how they went about studying gig-work, and challenges that arose in their work. The discussion will be moderated by Noopur Raval who co-led the project. We invite scholars, journalists, and all interested members of the public to join us for the event. Tea and snacks will be served at 5 pm.
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