Blogs
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Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?
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Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon
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Dec 30, 2019 04:44 PM
- 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.
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India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese laws
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Nishant Shah
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Feb 04, 2019 02:05 AM
- 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.
- January 2019 Newsletter — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 03, 2019 04:34 PM
- The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its e-Newsletter for 2019.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List, Jan 30 - Feb 1, Lamakaan
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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Jan 31, 2019 06:41 AM
- 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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Welcome to r@w blog!
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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Jan 02, 2019 11:48 AM
- We from the researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog, hosted on Medium. It will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and elsewhere at the intersections of internet, digital media, and society; and highlights and materials from ongoing research and events at the researchers@work programme.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List - Selected Sessions and Papers
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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Jan 21, 2019 12:11 PM
- Here is the list of selected sessions and papers for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19) - #List. IRC19 will be held in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, from Jan 30 to Feb 1, 2019. The conference announcement, along with the final agenda, will be published on Monday, January 7.
- December 2018 Newsletter — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 08, 2019 04:15 PM
- We at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wish you all a great year ahead and welcome you to the twelfth issue of its newsletter (December) for the year 2018:
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Digital Native: System Needs a Reboot
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Nishant Shah
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Dec 31, 2018 02:06 AM
- It’s time to replace the schizophrenic need for variety with ingenuity — the truthiness of the information.
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Silicon Plateau: Volume Two
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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Mar 13, 2019 01:01 AM
- Silicon Plateau is an art project and publishing series that explores the intersection of technology, culture and society in the Indian city of Bangalore. Each volume of the series is a themed repository for research, artworks, essays and interviews that observe the ways technology permeates the urban environment and the lives of its inhabitants. This project is an attempt at creating collaborative research into art and technology, beginning by inviting an interdisciplinary group of contributors (from artists, designers and writers, to researchers, anthropologists and entrepreneurs) to participate in the making of each volume.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List - Call for Papers
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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Dec 06, 2018 07:00 AM
- 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 invite papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list*.
