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Governing Speech on the Internet: From the Free Marketplace Policy to a Controlled 'Public Sphere'
This post by Smarika Kumar is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Smarika is a consultant with Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. She is ... by Smarika Kumar last modified Aug 28, 2015 05:57 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Comments to the United Nations Human Rights Commission Report on Gender and Privacy
This submission to UNHRC presents a response by researchers at the CIS to ‘gender issues arising in the digital era and their impacts on women, men and ... by Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon and Pallavi Bedi last modified Dec 30, 2019 05:40 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Is India's Digital Health System Foolproof?
This contribution by Aayush Rathi builds on "Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent ... by Aayush Rathi last modified Dec 30, 2019 05:58 PM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Announcing Selected Researchers: Welfare, Gender, and Surveillance
We published a Call for Researchers on January 10, 2020, to invite applications from researchers interested in writing a narrative essay that interrogates the ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Feb 13, 2020 03:04 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Platformisation of Domestic Work in India: Report from a Multistakeholder Consultation
On November 16, 2019, The Centre for Internet and Society invited officials from the Department of Labour (Government of Karnataka), members of domestic worker ... by Tasneem Mewa last modified Feb 17, 2020 09:46 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig Economy
In response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the central government announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020. by Kaarika Das and Srravya C last modified Dec 06, 2021 04:04 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
AI in the Future of Work
Artificial Intelligence and allied technologies form part of what is being called the fourth Industrial Revolution. by Ambika Tandon last modified Dec 07, 2021 01:51 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Locating Migrants in India’s Gig Economy: A Scoping Report
Gig workers working for on-demand platform services have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. by Kaarika Das and Srravya C last modified Jan 04, 2022 03:06 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Consultation on Figures of Learning in the Digital Context - Report
The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society organised a consultation on ‘Figures of Learning in the Digital Context’ on ... by Sneha PP last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:37 AM — Filed under: , , ,
December 2017 Newsletter
by Prasad Krishna last modified Mar 17, 2018 11:12 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Digital Native: There is no spoon, There is no privacy
It should be common knowledge by now, in our lived experiences of big data, that digital privacy is a battle ground. by Nishant Shah last modified Jan 10, 2018 12:27 AM — Filed under:
Digital Native: Finger on the buzzer
Which Hogwarts House are you? No, you don’t really want to know. by Nishant Shah last modified Jan 10, 2018 12:38 AM — Filed under:
Digital native: Memory card is full
We train ourselves to forget as our devices store everything. How do we remember things that matter? by Nishant Shah last modified Jan 10, 2018 02:08 AM — Filed under:
Life of a Tuple: National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Reform of Citizen Identification Infrastructure in Assam
We are proud to announce that a research grant from the Azim Premji University has enabled us to initiate a study of the updation process of the National ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Apr 27, 2023 04:54 PM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC)
This is the first of a two-part analysis of information activism for the Making Change project. This post looks at the benefits and limitations of increasing ... by Denisse Albornoz last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:36 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Digital Native
The end of the year is supposed to be a happy, feel-good space for families, friends, societies and communities to come together and count our blessings. It is ... by Nishant Shah last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:40 AM — Filed under: , , ,
January 2013 Bulletin
We at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wish you all a great year ahead and welcome you to the first issue of our newsletter for the year 2013. This ... by Prasad Krishna last modified Jun 11, 2013 11:56 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Back When the Past had a Future: Being Precarious in a Network Society
We live in Network Societies. This phrase has been so bastardised to refer to the new information turn mediated by digital technologies, that we have stopped ... by Nishant Shah last modified Feb 12, 2013 06:16 AM — Filed under: , , ,
D:Coding Digital Natives
Nishant Shah was invited for a public talk at the University of California, Los Angeles. He presented the work done on Digital Natives and spoke about ... by Prasad Krishna last modified May 08, 2015 12:30 PM — Filed under: , ,
We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
The Cyborg - a cybernetique organism which is a combination of the biological and the technological – has been at the centre of discourse around digital ... by kaeru last modified Apr 06, 2015 03:48 PM — Filed under: , , ,
#MappingDigitalLabour - Panel discussion on platform-work in Mumbai and New Delhi
With the rise and popularity of app-based platforms such as Ola, Uber, Swiggy Zomato, and others, there are growing public conversation about regulation of ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Jul 20, 2019 11:58 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Launch of Public Juris (An Online Archive of Legal Resources)
Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya announce the launch of Public Juris, an online archive of legal resources. by Aparna Balachandran last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:07 PM — Filed under: , ,
Archives and Access: Introduction
The members of this research project team are Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore and ... by Aparna Balachandran last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:05 PM — Filed under: , ,
Information Structures for Citizen Participation - Janaagraha
In our efforts to understand how change is conceptualized in the digital era, we find a growing emphasis on the role of effective information structures to ... by Denisse Albornoz last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:28 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Digital Humanities and the Problem of Definition
The Digital Humanities as a field that still eludes definition has been the subject of much discourse and writing. This blog post looks at this issue as one of ... by Sneha PP last modified Mar 30, 2015 12:47 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Digital Native: Double Speak
Aadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards. by Nishant Shah last modified Sep 04, 2018 03:22 PM — Filed under: ,
Plenary Talk at Jyothi Nivas College Research Symposium
I gave a plenary presentation on new reading and writing practices in the digital context, and emerging questions for digital humanities and literary studies ... by Sneha PP last modified Oct 03, 2018 04:46 PM — Filed under:
Digital Native: #MemeToo
An old meme shows the need for emotional literacy in our digitally saturated age. Memes, like regrettable exes, have the habit of resurfacing at regular ... by Nishant Shah last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:20 AM — Filed under: ,
The Right Words for Love
Queer love is legal. Which means that all of us are finally free to find a language that can match our desires. by Nishant Shah last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:23 AM — Filed under: ,
Digital Native: Hardly Friends Like That
Individual effort is far from enough to fool Facebook’s grouping algorithm. by Nishant Shah last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:28 AM — Filed under: ,