Blogs
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Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon: Position Papers
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Prasad Krishna
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May 15, 2015 11:34 AM
- The Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon conference co-organised by Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society is being held from 6 to 8 December at the Hague Museum for Communication. The position papers are now available online.
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The 'Beyond the Digital' Directory
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Maesy Angelina
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May 15, 2015 11:33 AM
- For the past few months, Maesy Angelina has been sharing the insights gained from her research with Blank Noise on the activism of digital natives. The ‘Beyond the Digital’ directory offers a list of the posts on the research based on the order of its publication.
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Digital Natives with a Cause?— Workshop in South Africa—FAQs
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Samuel Tettner
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May 15, 2015 11:35 AM
- The second international Digital Natives Workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" will be held in Johannesburg from 7 to 9 November 2010. Some frequently asked questions regarding the upcoming workshop are answered in this blog entry.
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Attentional Capital in Online Gaming : The Currency of Survival
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Prasad Krishna
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Apr 03, 2015 10:46 AM
- This blog post by Arun Menon discusses the concepts of production, labour and race in virtual worlds and their influence on the production of attention as a currency. An attempt is made to locate attentional capital, attentional repositories and attention currencies within gaming to examine 'attention currencies and its trade and transactions in virtual worlds. A minimal collection of attention currencies are placed as central and as a pre-requisite for survival in MMOs in much the same way that real currency become a necessity for survival. The approach is to locate attentional capital through different perspectives as well as examine a few concepts around virtual worlds.
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Digital Natives : Talking Back
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Nishant Shah
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May 15, 2015 11:50 AM
- One of the most significant transitions in the landscape of social and political movements, is how younger users of technology, in their interaction with new and innovative technologised platforms have taken up responsibility to respond to crises in their local and immediate environments, relying upon their digital networks, virtual communities and platforms. In the last decade or so, the digital natives, in universities as well as in work spaces, as they experimented with the potentials of internet technologies, have launched successful socio-political campaigns which have worked unexpectedly and often without precedent, in the way they mobilised local contexts and global outreach to address issues of deep political and social concern. But what do we really know about this Digital Natives revolution?
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The Attention Economy - A Brief Introduction
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Prasad Krishna
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Apr 03, 2015 10:48 AM
- This post examines attention economy as a brief prelude to a paper and monograph to be published on it. It examines the current theses on attention economy and a few approaches to reading attention economy in gaming besides foregrounding the attention economy and its functions and influence in MMORPGs.
- An Artist's Hunt for Lost Stepwells — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 05, 2015 03:05 PM
- As part of the Maps for Making Change project, Kakoli Sen has brought to light some facts which she stumbled upon while mapping the stepwells in Vadodara. She mapped these and also discovered 14 such architectural heritage structures. The news was covered in the Times of India.
- Mapping the Things that Affect Us — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Oct 05, 2015 03:05 PM
- 'Map for making change' is a project using geographical mapping techniques to support struggles for social justice in India
- Their India has No Borders — by Anja Kovacs — last modified Oct 05, 2015 03:08 PM
- Bangalore felt far for them, they would mark it outside the country. India, for migrant labourers, is different from the India we know
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Digital Natives at Republica 2010
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Nishant Shah
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May 15, 2015 11:35 AM
- Nishant Shah from the Centre for Internet and Society, made a presentation at the Re:Publica 2010, in Berlin, about its collaborative project (with Hivos, Netherlands) "Digital Natives with a Cause?" The video for the presentation, along with an extensive abstract is now available here.
