Centre for Internet & Society

Kashmir’s digital blackout marks a period darker than the dark side of the moon

by Nishant Shah

While we mourn the loss of connection with the moon, remembering a digital blackout closer home.

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Essays on #List — Selected Abstracts

by Puthiya Purayil Sneha

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 [email protected] 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.

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Workshop on Archival Standards and Digitisation Workflow

by Admin

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.

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Digital Native: How free is the internet?

by Nishant Shah

It is contradictory and confusing as it amplifies as well as destabilises the order of things.

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Call for Contributions and Reflections: Your experiences in Decolonizing the Internet’s Languages!

by Puthiya Purayil Sneha

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.

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Why I’m not going to tell you about the dangers of apps like FaceApp

by Nishant Shah

Concerns about privacy, aimed solely at users, are better directed at owners of digital infrastructure.

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The worrying survival of moon landing conspiracy theorists

by Nishant Shah

The moon landing deniers were the original fake news propagandists. Only, they didn’t have the internet.

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July 2019 Newsletter

by Prasad Krishna

Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for July 2019.

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Call for Essays — #List

by Puthiya Purayil Sneha

The [email protected] 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.

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You auto-complete me: romancing the bot

by Sumandro Chattapadhyay

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.

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