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Blog Entry Digital Native: The Future is Now — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 17, 2016 02:12 AM
The digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good. There used to be a popular joke among technology geeks when Bluetooth arrived on our mobile devices — everything becomes better with Bluetooth.
Blog Entry Love in the Time of Tinder — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 17, 2016 02:07 AM
Service providers and information aggregators mine our information and share it in ways that we cannot imagine.
Learning through Archives: A Colloquium on Digital Scholarship — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 05, 2016 11:27 AM
FLAME University had invited Centre for Internet & Society to join a colloquium to delve into the opportunities and challenges of digital studies in India, with particular emphasis on pedagogy and the archive.
Blog Entry Mobilizing Online Consensus: Net Neutrality and the India Subreddit — by Sujeet George — last modified Sep 27, 2016 04:52 AM
This essay by Sujeet George is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author offers a preliminary gesture towards understanding reddit’s usage and breadth in the Indian context. Through an analysis of the “India” subreddit and examining the manner and context in which information and ideas are shared, proposed, and debunked, the paper aspires to formulate a methodology for interrogating sites like reddit that offer the possibilities of social mediation, even as users maintain a limited amount of privacy. At the same time, to what extent can such news aggregator sites direct the ways in which opinions and news flows change course as a true marker of information generation responding to user inputs.
Blog Entry Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Call for Sessions — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Dec 12, 2016 01:40 PM
It gives us great pleasure to announce that the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) will take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. It will be organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in partnership with the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B). It is a free and open conference. Sessions must be proposed by teams of two or more members on or before Friday, October 28. All submitted session proposals will go though an open review process, followed by each team that has proposed a session being invited to select ten sessions of their choice to be included in the Conference agenda. Final sessions will be chosen through these votes, and be announced on January 09, 2017.
Blog Entry How Green is the Internet? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — by Aishwarya Panicker — last modified Sep 23, 2016 05:02 AM
This essay by Aishwarya Panicker is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author draws attention to the fact that there is little data, debate, analysis, and examination of the environmental impact of the internet, which is true especially for India. She explores four central issue areas. First, as the third highest country in terms of internet use, what is the current environmental impact of internet usage in India? Second, are there any regulatory provisions that give prescriptive measures to data centres and providers? Third, do any global standards exist in this regard and finally, what future steps can be taken (by the government, civil society and individuals) to address this?
Blog Entry Who Owns Your Phone? — by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 18, 2016 04:18 PM
The capacity of companies to defy standards that work tells an alarming story of what we lose when we lose control of our devices.
Blog Entry IIIT Delhi Workshop on Center for IT and Society — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Sep 17, 2016 02:40 PM
A workshop on the upcoming Center for IT and Society in IIIT-Delhi was organised today, September 17, in the institute. The workshop highlights on the process of establishing a center on IT and Society, which will focus on studying relationships and impact of ICTs and Internet on society and the role that society plays in shaping them, particularly in India. The center will bring together faculty in various humanities and social sciences disciplines, and would also initiate interdisciplinary taught programme in IT and Social Sciences. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was invited to participate in this workshop.
Blog Entry Sequoia India’s Designathon 2016 — by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Sep 17, 2016 01:39 PM
Along with their annual hackathon, Sequoia India organised a designathon in Bangalore on September 10-11, 2016. The participants picked one of three tracks - gamification, information visualisation, and smart acceleration - and developed an interface design or clickable prototype or a demo video. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was invited to participate as a mentor for the information visualisation track.
7 Ways to Con/fuse the Internet with Analogy (Intergalactic Mix) - Talk by Surfatial Sep 26, 2016 from 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM — The Centre for Internet and Society, No.194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bangalore 560071 (Near TERI Complex and Domlur Club), — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha
Surfatial, a trans-local collective that works with text and sound will talk about their essay which was recently published. The talk will also address concerns on how the internet can be used in alternate contexts including presenting work in alternative formats and using the internet for synchronous collaborative cultural production.
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