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Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!
India’s digital landscape is dotted with vigilante voices that drown out people’s right to free speech. by Nishant Shah last modified Jun 08, 2017 01:16 AM — Filed under: , ,
Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leap
Creating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first. by Nishant Shah last modified Jun 08, 2017 01:22 AM — Filed under: , ,
'I feel the pain of having nowhere to go': A Manipuri Trans Woman Recounts Her Ongoing Lockdown Ordeal
"My life and work in Bengaluru came to an abrupt halt with the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown this March. We no longer had jobs and were forced to plan our ... by Santa Khurai last modified Jun 22, 2020 11:42 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
One. Zero.
The digital world is the world of twos. All our complex interactions, emotional negotiations, business transactions, social communication and political ... by Nishant Shah last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:50 AM — Filed under: , ,
Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 1
This post compares the production behind a performance with the process of storytelling. To illustrate this analogy, we explore the stories of the Blank Noise ... by Denisse Albornoz last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:31 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Studying Digital Creative Industries in India: Initial Questions
This brief overview of the discourse around creative industries is an attempt to explore some ways of identifying what could be digital creative industries in ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha last modified Mar 18, 2016 01:55 PM — Filed under: , , , ,
Making Voices Heard: Privacy, Inclusivity, and Accessibility of Voice Interfaces in India
We believe that voice interfaces have the potential to democratise the use of internet by addressing barriers such as accessibility concerns, lack of abilities ... by Shweta Mohandas last modified Dec 18, 2019 12:10 PM — Filed under: , , , , , , , ,
Digital Humanities and New Contexts of Digital Archival Practice in India
Puthiya Purayil Sneha attended and presented at a conference on 'The Arts, Knowledge, and Critique in the Digital Age in India: Addressing Challenges in the ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha last modified Dec 18, 2019 10:32 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?
In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon ... by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon last modified Dec 30, 2019 04:44 PM — Filed under: , , , , , , , , ,
Call for Researchers: Welfare, Gender, and Surveillance
We are inviting applications for two researchers. Each researcher is expected to write a narrative essay that interrogates the modes of surveillance that ... by Ambika Tandon last modified Feb 13, 2020 03:05 PM — Filed under: , , , ,
Digital Native: The e-wasteland of our times
How digitising isn’t necessarily a fast-track to a sustainable future. by Nishant Shah last modified May 06, 2018 03:21 AM — Filed under:
New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital (Paper)
The ubiquitous presence of the ‘digital’ over the couple of decades has brought with it several important changes in interdisciplinary forms of research and ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:03 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Digital Native: Cause an Effect
Aadhaar is a self-contained safe system, its interaction with other data and information systems is also equally safe and benign. by Nishant Shah last modified Jun 26, 2018 03:21 PM — Filed under: , ,
June 2018 Newsletter
CIS newsletter for the month of June 2018. by Prasad Krishna last modified Aug 11, 2018 02:52 AM — Filed under: , , ,
July 2018 Newsletter
CIS July 2018 newsletter. by Prasad Krishna last modified Aug 11, 2018 02:50 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Explainer | Tying and Bundling
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs released the draft Digital Competition Bill for public comment. Although much has been written about the ... by Abhineet Nayyar and Isha Suri last modified Oct 16, 2024 01:58 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Datafication of the Public Distribution System in India
In this study, we look into the datafication of social protection schemes with a special focus on the Public Distribution System in India. Proponents of ... by Sameet Panda last modified Feb 12, 2024 12:07 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Designing Domestic Work Platforms
This research was conducted by The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) with funding from Association for Progressive Communication (APC) through the Feminist ... by Divyansha Sehgal and Yathrath last modified Aug 13, 2022 06:31 AM — Filed under: , ,
Platforms, Power and Politics: Digital Labour in India
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) invites you to a webinar wherein it will launch and present four research reports on digital labour in India. The ... by Ambika Tandon last modified Jul 20, 2021 02:42 AM — Filed under: , ,
Data bleeding everywhere: a story of period trackers
This is an excerpt from an essay by Sadaf Khan, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:03 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Unpacking video-based surveillance in New Delhi
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon presented at an international workshop on 'Urban Data, Inequality and Justice in the Global South', on 14 June 2019, at the ... by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon last modified Jun 20, 2019 05:13 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Facebook sees its salvation with its cryptocurrency Libra
Facebook’s Libra is designed to take control of our digital lives. by Nishant Shah last modified Jul 02, 2019 03:58 AM — Filed under:
Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.ma
The growth of the internet and digital technologies in the last couple of decades, and the emergence of new ‘digital objects’ of enquiry has led to a ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha last modified Jun 25, 2018 12:50 PM — Filed under: , , , ,
Indic Scripts and the Internet
This post by Dibyajyoti Ghosh is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Dibyajyoti is a PhD student in the Department of English, Jadavpur ... by Dibyajyoti Ghosh last modified Jul 10, 2015 04:23 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Users and the Internet
This post by Purbasha Auddy is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Purbasha is a SYLFF PhD fellow at the School of Cultural Texts and Records ... by Purbasha Auddy last modified Jul 10, 2015 04:20 AM — Filed under: , ,
Effective Activism: The Internet, Social Media, and Hierarchical Activism in New Delhi
This post by Sarah McKeever is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Sarah is a PhD candidate at the India Institute, King’s College London, and ... by Sarah McKeever last modified Jul 16, 2015 08:22 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Studying the Internet Discourse in India through the Prism of Human Rights
This post by Deva Prasad M is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Deva Prasad is Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India ... by Deva Prasad M last modified Jul 22, 2015 04:18 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Digital Activism in Asia Reader
The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:36 PM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia - Open Review
This is a book section written for the third volume (2000-2010) of the Asia Internet History series edited by Prof. Kilnam Chon. The pre-publication text of ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:54 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in India - Open Review
This is a book section written for the third volume (2000-2010) of the Asia Internet History series edited by Prof. Kilnam Chon. The pre-publication text of ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:51 AM — Filed under: , , , ,