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October 2012 Bulletin — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 08, 2012 11:42 AM
Welcome to the newsletter of October 2012 from the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS). The present issue features an analysis by Ujwala Uppaluri of the Delhi High Court’s judgment in Super Cassettes v. MySpace, announcement of public call for comments for reports on “Banking and Accessibility in India” and “Making TV Accessible in India”, and updates on Indic languages.
Blog Entry The Rules of Engagement — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:48 AM
Why the have-nots of the digital world can sometimes be mistaken as trolls. I am not sure if you have noticed, but lately, the people populating our social networks have started to be more diverse than before.
Blog Entry One. Zero. — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:50 AM
The digital world is the world of twos. All our complex interactions, emotional negotiations, business transactions, social communication and political subscriptions online can be reduced to a string of 1s and 0s, as machines create the networks for the human beings to speak. So sophisticated is this network of digital infrastructure that we forget how our languages of connection are constantly being transcribed in binary code, allowing for the information to be transmitted across the web.
Blog Entry Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:51 AM
Nishant Shah was invited to do a book review of a new anthology 'Deconstructing Digital Natives', edited by Michael Thomas. The review was published in Routledge's Journal of Children and Media on July 18, 2012.
Blog Entry Citizen Activism the Past Decade — by Nilofar Ansher — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:52 AM
Call for Contributions to the ‘Digital Natives with a Cause?’ newsletter, ‘Citizen Activism the Past Decade’. Deadline: August 15, 2012.
Blog Entry Revisiting Techno-euphoria — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:53 AM
In my last post, I talked about techno-euphoria as a condition that seems to mark much of our discourse around digital technologies and the promise of the future. The euphoria, as I had suggested, manifests itself either as a utopian view of how digital technologies are going to change the future that we inhabit, or woes of despair about how the overdetermination of the digital is killing the very fibre of our social fabric.
Blog Entry Across Borders — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:55 AM
A friend and I were at a cafe in Bangalore the other day, when an acquaintance walked in. After the initial niceties, and invitation to join us for coffee, the new person looked at us and asked a question that sounded so archaic and so unexpected that we had no answers for it: How do you two know each other? This innocuous question threw us both off the loop because we didn’t have an immediate answer.
Blog Entry The Bots That Got Some Votes Home — by Nilofar Ansher — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:56 AM
Nilofar Ansher gives us some startling updates on the "Digital Natives Video Contest" voting results declared in May 2012, in this blog post.
Blog Entry Hyper-connected, Hyper-lonely? — by Nilofar Ansher — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:57 AM
The Digital Natives newsletter, part of the 'Digital Natives with a Cause?' project, invites contributions to its April-May 2012 double issue.
Blog Entry Digitally Analogue — by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:00 PM
Why there is nothing strictly analogue anymore, examines Nishant Shah in this column that he wrote for the Indian Express.
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