Research
Locating Internets: Histories of the Internet(s) in India — Research Training and Curriculum Workshop: Call for Participation
- June 11, 2011
Deadline for submission: 26th July 2011-06-08; When: 19th - 22nd August, 2011; Where: Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad; Organised by: Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Please Note: Travel support is only available for domestic travel within India.
Read more →No access to pornography in cyber cafes, declare new rules
- May 01, 2011
Fresh guidelines, which are part of Information Technology (guidelines for cyber cafe) Rules 2011, will require cyber cafe owners to "tell users" not to surf websites that contain "pornographic or obscene material". Experts termed the rule arbitrary, saying that watching pornography is not an offence in India. This article by Javed Anwer was published in the Times of India on April 26, 2011.
Read more →The Task of the Translator after Google
- April 28, 2011
Hans Verghese Mathews, a distinguished fellow with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) will give a public lecture on April 30, 2011.
Read more →Net cracker
- April 02, 2011
Is Facebook taking over our lives? And if it is, so what? In email interviews with new media researcher and user control advocate Marc Stumpel who is conducting a Facebook Resistance workshop this fortnight, and artist and communication designer Tobias Leingruber, the originator of the FB Resistance idea, Akhila Seetharaman attempts to answer these questions. This article was published in Time Out Bengaluru Vol. 3 Issue 19, April 1 - 14, 2011.
Read more →A History of Transparency, Politics and Information Technologies in India
- March 28, 2011
In this blog post, Zainab Bawa reviews the different spectrums of information, transparency and politics.
Read more →Shadow Search Project (SSP) in CIS
- March 28, 2011
CIS hosts an interesting line-up on the 18th of April with the Shadow Search Project (SSP).
Read more →Facebook Resistance Workshop at CIS, Bangalore
- March 09, 2011
Facebook designing your online identity is like designing your rooms with furniture from the bazaar. The only individuality lies in your family pictures standing on the shelves. On Saturday, April 2, 2011, CIS is organising a workshop for people to learn on how to think beyond the rules and limitations of Facebook, to tweak and play around the features and design to generate useful, creative, and funny concepts and explore how this creative intervention can be turned into a real software developed by the Facebook Resistance.
Read more →Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities - A Call for Peer Review
- February 15, 2011
Pratyush Shankar's research project on "Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. His monograph explores the trajectories of transformation and perception of cities in India in context with the rise of Information Technologies for communication and presence of an active digital space.
Read more →Myth/History/Irreverence: Flaneurs and Whores of Our Time
- January 04, 2011
As part of a longer discovery and reading of Walter Benjamin's work, Atreyee Majumder constructs an argument that the turgid notions of the new, the contemporary and the important are endless repetitions of nothing-new. Atreyee will give a lecture on this on 8 January 2011 at the Centre for Internet and Society.
Read more →Pornography & the Law - A Call for Peer Review
- December 21, 2010
Namita Malhotra's research project on "Pornography & the Law". is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. Her monograph is an attempt to unravel the relations between pornography, technology and the law in the shifting context of the contemporary.
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