Blogs
- December 2016 Newsletter — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 28, 2017 12:02 PM
- Welcome to the December 2016 newsletter of the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
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P.P. Sneha - Mapping Digital Humanities in India
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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Dec 31, 2016 05:56 AM
- It gives us great pleasure to publish the second title of the CIS Papers series. This report by P.P. Sneha comes out of an extended research project supported by the Kusuma Trust. The study undertook a detailed mapping of digital practices in arts and humanities scholarship, both emerging and established, in India. Beginning with an understanding of Digital Humanities as a 'found term' in the Indian context, the study explores the discussion and debate about the changes in humanities practice, scholarship and pedagogy that have come about with the digital turn. Further it inquires about the spaces and roles of digital technologies in the humanities, and by extension in the arts, media, and creative practice today; transformations in the objects and methods of study and practice in these spaces; and the shifts in the imagination of the ‘digital’ itself, and its linkages with humanities practices.
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Digital Native: People Like Us
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Nishant Shah
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Dec 18, 2016 02:19 PM
- How the algorithm decides what you see on your timeline. If you have been hanging out on social media, there is one thing you can’t have escaped — a filter bubble. Be it demonetisation and its discontents, the fake news stories that seem to have ruined the US election, or the eternal conflict about the nature of Indian politics, your timeline must have been filled largely by people who think like you.
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Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and Countermeasures
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Vanya Rakesh
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Mar 16, 2019 04:34 AM
- This report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of UID-based verification for and distribution of welfare services.
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Indian Newspapers' Digital Transition
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Zeenab Aneez
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Dec 09, 2016 07:12 AM
- This report examines the digital transition underway at three leading newspapers in India, the Dainik Jagran in Hindi, English-language Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama in Malayalam. Our focus is on how they are changing their newsroom organisation and journalistic work to expand their digital presence and adapt to a changing media environment. The report comes out of a collaboration between the CIS and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, and was supported by the latter. The research was undertaken by Zeenab Aneez, with contributions from Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Vibodh Parthasarathi, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Digital native: The View from My Bubble
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Nishant Shah
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Dec 05, 2016 03:15 PM
- In the digital world, the privileged have the power to deny a devastating crisis for the poor.
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CFI-ACCION - Panel Discussion on 'Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?' (Delhi, December 06)
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Mar 16, 2019 04:41 AM
- The Centre for Financial Inclusion of ACCION International is organising a panel discussion on "Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?" as an associated event of the Inclusive Finance India Summit 2016, Hotel Ashok, Delhi, December 05-06. The discussion will be held at 12:30 on Tuesday, December 06. It will be moderated by Amy Jensen Mowl, CFI Fellow at IFMR, and M.S. Sriram, Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Development of Research in Banking Technology. Sumandro Chattapadhyay will participate as a panelist.
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Digital native: The Voices in Our Heads
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Nishant Shah
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Nov 22, 2016 02:23 AM
- What if our phones were to go silent? Would you be able to deal with the silence?
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of Sessions
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Dec 12, 2016 01:37 PM
- We have a wonderful range of session proposals for the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) to take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals, we will now select 10 to be part of the final Conference agenda. The selection will be done through votes casted by the teams that have proposed the sessions. This will take place in December 2016. Before that, we invite the session teams and other contributors to share their comments and suggestions on the submitted sessions. Please share your comments by December 14, either on session pages directly, or via email (sent to raw at cis-india dot org).
- CISxScholars Delhi - William F. Stafford (Nov 03, 6:30 pm) Nov 03, 2016 from 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM — CIS, First Floor, B 1/8, Hauz Khas, near G Block Market, afte Crunch, — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay
- We are delighted to have William F. Stafford, PhD candidate in UC Berkeley, present on "Public Measurements, Private Measurements, and the Convergence of Units" at the CIS office in Delhi on Thursday, Nov 03, at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP if you are joining us: <[email protected]>.
