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Blog Entry Digital Native: Hardly Friends Like That — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:28 AM
Individual effort is far from enough to fool Facebook’s grouping algorithm.
Blog Entry The Right Words for Love — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:23 AM
Queer love is legal. Which means that all of us are finally free to find a language that can match our desires.
Blog Entry Digital Native: #MemeToo — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:20 AM
An old meme shows the need for emotional literacy in our digitally saturated age. Memes, like regrettable exes, have the habit of resurfacing at regular periods.
Blog Entry Essays on 'Offline' - Selected Abstracts — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Sep 06, 2018 02:14 PM
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.
Blog Entry Digital Native: Playing God — by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 04, 2018 04:43 PM
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.
Blog Entry Digital Native: Double Speak — by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 04, 2018 03:22 PM
Aadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards.
Blog Entry Call for Essays: Offline — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Aug 20, 2018 06:58 AM
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.
July 2018 Newsletter — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 11, 2018 02:50 AM
CIS July 2018 newsletter.
Blog Entry Digital Native: Hashtag Along With Me — by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:25 AM
A hashtag that evolved with a movement.
Blog Entry Digital Native: How smart cities can make criminals out of denizens — by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:19 AM
People download information and share it without knowing about the intellectual property rights. On social media bullying, harassment and hate speech find easy avenues.
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