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Essays on 'Offline' - Selected Abstracts
- September 06, 2018
In response to a recent call for essays that explore various dimensions of offline lives, we received 22 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 10 pieces to be published as part of a series titled 'Offline' on the upcoming r@w blog. Please find below the details of the selected abstracts.
Read more →Digital Native: Playing God
- September 04, 2018
Google’s home assistant can make you feel deceptively God-like as it listens to every command of yours. It is a device that never sleeps, and always listens, waiting for a voice to utter “Ok Google” to jump into life.
Read more →Digital Native: Double Speak
- September 04, 2018
Aadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards.
Read more →Call for Essays: Offline
- August 09, 2018
Who is offline, and is it a choice? The global project of bringing people online has spurred several commendable initiatives in expanding access to digital devices, networks, and content, and often contentious ones such as Free Basics / internet.org, which illustrate the intersectionalities of scale, privilege, and rights that we need to be mindful of when we imagine the offline. Further, the experience of the internet, for a large section of people is often mediated through prior and ongoing experiences of traditional media, and through cultural metaphors and cognitive frames that transcend more practical registers such as consumption and facilitation. How do we approach, study, and represent this disembodied internet – devoid of its hypertext, platforms, devices, it's nuts and bolts, but still tangible through engagement in myriad, personal and often indiscernible ways. The researchers@work programme invites abstracts for essays that explore dimensions of offline lives.
Read more →Digital Native: Hashtag Along With Me
- August 01, 2018
A hashtag that evolved with a movement.
Read more →Digital Native: How smart cities can make criminals out of denizens
- August 01, 2018
People download information and share it without knowing about the intellectual property rights. On social media bullying, harassment and hate speech find easy avenues.
Read more →Digital Native: The bigger picture
- August 01, 2018
For all our sleek machines, we are slaves to the much larger Internet of Things.
Read more →Digital Native: Cause an Effect
- June 26, 2018
Aadhaar is a self-contained safe system, its interaction with other data and information systems is also equally safe and benign.
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