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- Love in the Time of Tinder
- Service providers and information aggregators mine our information and share it in ways that we cannot imagine. by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 17, 2016 02:07 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, RAW Blog
- Who Owns Your Phone?
- The capacity of companies to defy standards that work tells an alarming story of what we lose when we lose control of our devices. by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 18, 2016 04:18 PM — Filed under: Digital Governance, Research, Digital Media, RAW Research, Researchers at Work
- Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this year
- With the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens. by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 16, 2016 01:25 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, RAW Blog
- Do I Want to Say Happy B’day?
- When it comes to greeting friends on their birthdays, social media prompts are a great reminder. So why does an online message leave us cold? by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 22, 2016 09:53 AM — Filed under: Digital Media, Researchers at Work, RAW Blog, Social Media
- Book Review: Apocalypse Now Redux
- My review for Arundhati Roy and John Cusack's new book that captures their encounter with Edward Snowden, 'Things that can and cannot be said' is now out. It's ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 06, 2016 04:16 AM — Filed under: Internet Governance, Book Review
- One Pokémon to Rule Them All
- America’s head start on the augmented reality game Pokémon Go shows that the interweb is not an egalitarian space. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 25, 2016 01:16 AM — Filed under: Internet Governance
- The Gay Pride Charade
- For most of the milllenials, news is formed by trends, what goes viral, and often open to speculation, projection, manipulation and deceit. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 25, 2016 01:10 AM — Filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
- The Digital is Political
- To speak of technology is to speak of human life and living. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 05, 2016 03:58 AM — Filed under: Internet Governance
- A Large Byte of Your Life
- With the digital, memory becomes equated with storage. We commit to storage to free ourselves from remembering. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 05, 2016 03:35 AM — Filed under: Internet Governance
- Online Censorship on the Rise: Why I Prefer to Save Things Offline
- As governments use their power to erase what they do not approve of from the web, cloud storage will not be enough. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 05, 2016 03:26 AM — Filed under: Internet Governance, Censorship
- Facebook: A Platform with Little Less Sharing of Personal Information
- As Facebook becomes less personal, what happens to digital friendship? by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 05, 2016 02:38 AM — Filed under: Facebook, Internet Governance
- Digital native: Control A, Backspace
- The rewriting of textbooks should not be compared to the collaborations on Wikipedia, which only goes by evidence. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 05, 2016 02:25 AM — Filed under: Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Access to Knowledge
- WhatsApps with fireworks, apps with diyas: Why Diwali needs to go beyond digital
- The idea of a 'digital' Diwali reduces our social relationships to a ledger of give and take. The last fortnight, I have been bombarded with advertisements ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 23, 2015 01:27 PM — Filed under: Digital Media, Internet Governance
- Material Cyborgs; Asserted Boundaries: Formulating the Cyborg as a Translator
- In this peer reviewed article, Nishant Shah explores the possibility of formulating the cyborg as an author or translator who is able to navigate between the ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 25, 2015 05:57 AM — Filed under: Body, Research, Cyborgs, Net Cultures, Publications, Researchers at Work
- Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital Activism
- In this peer reviewed research paper, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen draws on a research project that focuses on understanding new technology, mediated ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 25, 2015 05:58 AM — Filed under: Digital Activism, Digital Natives, Research, Net Cultures, Publications, Researchers at Work
- Big Data and Positive Social Change in the Developing World: A White Paper for Practitioners and Researchers
- I was a part of a working group writing a white paper on big data and social change, over the last six months. This white paper was produced by a group of ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 01, 2014 03:52 AM — Filed under: Big Data, Privacy, Internet Governance, Featured, Openness, Homepage
- Asia in the Edges: A Narrative Account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore
- The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School is a Biennial event that invites Masters and PhD students from around Asia to participate in conversations around ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 14, 2015 12:47 PM — Filed under: Digital Knowledge, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Peer Reviewed Article, Publications, Researchers at Work
- Not a Goodbye; More a ‘Come Again’: Thoughts on being Research Director at a moment of transition
- As I slowly make the news of my transition from being the Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, to taking up a professorship at ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 15, 2014 02:17 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Featured, Internet Studies, Research
- The Body in Cyberspace
- Perhaps one of the most interesting histories of the cyberspace has been its relationship with the body. Beginning with the meatspace-cyberspace divide that ... by Nishant Shah — last modified May 13, 2014 10:13 AM — Filed under: Cyborgs, Cyberspace
- Networks: What You Don’t See is What You (for)Get
- When I start thinking about DML (digital media and learning) and other such “networks” that I am plugged into, I often get a little confused about what to call ... by Nishant Shah — last modified May 28, 2014 09:30 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
- The Age of Shame
- The ability to capture private images is breeding a dangerous form of digital shaming. Within the online space, where wonderments often run rife, and ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 04, 2014 04:05 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
- Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards Thinking the Nature of Internet Policy
- This post by Nishant Shah is part of a series related to the 2014 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy: The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 04, 2014 03:49 AM — Filed under: Internet Governance
- Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology and Practice
- Dr. Nishant Shah was a panelist at a workshop jointly organized by HUMlab and UCGS (Umeå Centre for Gender Studies) at Umeå University from March 12 to 14, ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 07, 2014 04:07 AM — Filed under: Gender, Digital Humanities
- Will You be Paid to Post a Picture?
- The wave of free information production on the web is on the wane. by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 06, 2014 11:58 AM — Filed under: Social Media, Internet Governance
- Defending the Humanities in the Digital Age
- The author says that he is trying to take the formulation of digital humanities as a history-in-making where we might still be able to salvage the humanities ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 06, 2014 11:40 AM — Filed under: Digital Humanities
- The Internet Way
- Dr. Nishant Shah's review of the book “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” by Bantam Press/Random House Group, London was published in ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Feb 14, 2014 06:59 AM — Filed under: Internet Governance
- 10 Ways to Say Nothing New
- The rise of the listicle, a safe, non-thinking information piece that tells us what we already know. by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 14, 2015 01:17 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Studies
- History of the Internet: Building Conceptual Frameworks
- In this module Nishant Shah analyses the understanding of the Internet, cyberspace and everyday life and why do we need to know the history of the internet. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jan 08, 2014 07:56 AM — Filed under: Internet Access
- 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: Social media, Web Politics, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?
- I have spent the last month being unpopular. I have been in conversation with many ‘Open Everything’ activists and practitioners. At each instance, we got ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 30, 2013 08:45 AM — Filed under: Openness, Open Content, Access to Knowledge