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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.
Read more →March 2019 Newsletter
- April 02, 2019
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for the month of March 2019.
Read more →Digital Native: Lessons from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp going down
- April 03, 2019
The day when three social-media apps refused to load.
Read more →Presentation at Global Digital Humanities Symposium
- April 12, 2019
P.P. Sneha gave a virtual presentation of her work on digital cultural archives at the Global Digital Humanities Symposium organised by Michigan State University on March 21-22, 2019.
Read more →Digital Native: How an information overload affects what you forward
- April 03, 2019
The information overload of social media sharing can make us act against our better judgement.
Read more →What I learned from going offline for 48 hours
- March 14, 2019
A weekend without the internet shows just how much control we surrender to online chatter.
Read more →Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?
- February 14, 2019
In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” Casting a critical feminist lens, the historicity of surveillance practices unveils the gendered power differentials wedded into taken-for-granted “benign” monitoring processes. The unpacking of the Mother and Child Tracking System and the National Health Stack reveals the neo-liberal aspirations of the Indian state.
Read more →India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese laws
- February 04, 2019
The proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese restrictions. The new intermediaries liability and content monitoring act that will become a law in February, unquestioningly expand the remit of the government.
Read more →January 2019 Newsletter
- February 04, 2019
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its e-Newsletter for 2019.
Read more →Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List, Jan 30 - Feb 1, Lamakaan
- January 09, 2019
Who makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invited sessions and papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list* - to present or propose academic, applied, or creative works that explore its social, economic, cultural, material, political, affective, or aesthetic dimensions. IRC19 will be organised in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, during January 30 - February 1, 2019.
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