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- Digital Native: The bigger picture
- For all our sleek machines, we are slaves to the much larger Internet of Things. by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:11 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Digital Natives
- Digital Native: How smart cities can make criminals out of denizens
- People download information and share it without knowing about the intellectual property rights. On social media bullying, harassment and hate speech find easy ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:19 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Digital Natives
- Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from India
- This working paper by Ritam Sengupta, Dr. Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, and Dr. Christopher Foster draws from the field study undertaken by Ritam ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:33 AM — Filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Researchers at Work, Research, Featured, Publications, Big Data for Development
- We Are All Cyborgs
- The cyborg reminds us that who we are as human beings is very closely linked with the technologies we use. by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:00 PM — Filed under: Cyborgs, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy
- What happens when we look at the classroom as a space of social justice? What are the ways in which students can be engaged in learning beyond rote ... by Nishant Shah — last modified May 08, 2015 12:36 PM — Filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Featured, New Pedagogies, Researchers at Work, Digital Pluralism
- Platforms, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India
- CIS has been undertaking a two-year project studying the entry of digital platforms in the domestic and care work in India, supported by the Association for ... by Aayush Rathi, and Ambika Tandon — last modified Jul 07, 2021 03:19 PM — Filed under: Digital Economy, Researchers at Work, Platform-Work, Featured, RAW Research, Homepage, Digital Domestic Work
- Explainer | Predatory Pricing
- Who doesn't love discounts? After all, that is what got so many of us on the internet for the first time. And yet, earlier this year, the Ministry of Corporate ... by Abhineet Nayyar and Isha Suri — last modified Apr 23, 2025 01:50 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Competition, Antitrust
- Staying silent about cyberbullying is no longer an option
- Cyberbullying is the dangerous new normal. by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 02, 2019 03:52 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work
- Digital Native: On mute, the Voice of the People
- We are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 05, 2017 05:04 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- July 2017 Newsletter
- by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 23, 2017 02:03 AM — Filed under: Access to Knowledge, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Researchers at Work
- A Question of Digital Humanities
- The emergence of digital humanities as a new field of interdisciplinary research enquiry has also seen growth in literature around the problem of its ... by Sneha PP — last modified Mar 30, 2015 12:47 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Mapping Digital Humanities in India, Digital Humanities
- Reaping the Benefits of Gamification
- As a part of the Making Change blog-post series, in this post we will identify a new technique: gamification. This technique is being used for sustainable ... by Dipali Sheth — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:24 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Net Cultures, Making Change, Research
- In Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives
- This is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary ... by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:12 PM — Filed under: Digital subjectivities, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- Inputs to the public consultation on the draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020 - Joint submission by an alliance of trade unions and civil society organisations
- The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) contributed to a joint submission by IT for Change and various trade union and civil society organisations in ... by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 22, 2020 09:52 AM — Filed under: Submissions, Gig Work, Digital Labour, Researchers at Work
- Data Lives of Humanities Text
- The ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Dec 23, 2020 01:07 PM — Filed under: Research, Researchers at Work, Publications, Digital Humanities
- Inputs to the Report on the Non-Personal Data Governance Framework
- This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS) to the draft Report on Non-Personal Data Governance ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Dec 30, 2020 09:40 AM — Filed under: Data Systems, Privacy, Researchers at Work, Digital Economy, Data Governance, Submissions
- Reclaiming the right to privacy: Researching the intersection of privacy and gender
- It was our privilege to be supported by Privacy International, UK, during 2019-2020, to undertake a research project focusing on reproductive health and data ... by Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi — last modified Jan 25, 2021 10:42 AM — Filed under: Data Systems, Reproductive and Child Health, Research, Gender, Welfare, and Privacy, Researchers at Work
- The Digital Classroom in the Time of Wikipedia
- The digital turn in education comes across a wide range of initiatives and processes. The Wikipedia which is the largest user generated content website stands ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 05, 2015 02:53 PM — Filed under: Wikipedia, Researchers at Work, Learning, Digital Classroom in the Time of Wikipedia
- CIS Featured in 'Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective' Report
- This report, authored by Vivian Lewis, Lisa Spiro, Xuemao Wang, and Jon E. Cawthorne, sheds light on the expertise required to support a robust and sustainable ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Oct 16, 2015 07:43 AM — Filed under: Digital Scholarship, Researchers at Work, Learning, Digital Humanities
- The Digital Humanities from Father Busa to Edward Snowden
- What do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit, who worked for almost his ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Oct 04, 2017 11:02 AM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, RAW Blog, Digital Humanities
- Pathways to Higher Education
- The Pathways Project to Higher Education is a collaboration between the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA) at the Centre for the ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 30, 2015 02:52 PM — Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge
- Navigating the Digitalisation of Finance: User experiences of risks and harms
- Our study unpacks the experiences of marginalised users navigating the digitalisation of finance. Through a survey of 3,784 users, 18 interviews and 7 focus ... by Amrita Sengupta, Chiara Furtado, Garima Agrawal, Nishkala Sekhar, Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and Vipul Kharbanda — last modified Apr 10, 2025 05:49 AM — Filed under: Financial Platforms, Digital Financial Harms, Homepage, Digital Financial Services, Featured, Researchers at Work
- Whose Technology is it Anyway? An exploratory essay on the political economy of India's digital revolution
- The story of India's digital journey has become an oft-cited tale of economic success across the globe, inspiring similar experiments in other nations in the ... by Abhineet Nayyar — last modified Apr 11, 2025 03:42 PM — Filed under: Telecom, Researchers at Work
- Buying into the Aakash Dream - A Tablet’s Tale of Mass Education
- The low-cost Aakash tablet and its previous iterations in India have gone through several phases of technological changes and ideological experiments. Did the ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Apr 25, 2016 08:04 AM — Filed under: Aakash, Research, Education Technology, Internet Histories, Researchers at Work
- Call for Proposal: Big Data for Development – Initial Field Studies
- The Centre for Internet and Society, as part of a project with the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield, is inviting calls from researchers to ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Apr 28, 2016 07:28 AM — Filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Big Data for Development, Research, Researchers at Work
- April 2016 Newsletter
- Welcome to the CIS newsletter for April 2016. The key issues we worked on this month included the Aadhaar Act 2016, Standard Essential Patents, cyber security ... by Sunil Abraham — last modified May 10, 2016 06:26 AM — Filed under: Access to Knowledge, Telecom, Accessibility, Internet Governance, Researchers at Work
- On Fooling Around: Digital Natives and Politics in Asia
- Youths are not only actively participating in the politics of its times but also changing the way in which we understand the political processes of ... by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:11 PM — Filed under: Digital Activism, Web Politics, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- DWRU, BBGS & MKU - The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Invisible Workers of the Household Economy
- Domestic Workers Rights Union (DWRU), Bruhat Bangalore Gruhakarmika Sangha (BBGS), and Manegelasa Kaarmikara Union (MKU) have prepared a report on the ... by Geeta Menon — last modified Jun 19, 2020 12:34 PM — Filed under: Covid19, Research, Network Economies, Researchers at Work, Digital Domestic Work
- Brindaalakshmi.K - Gendering of Development Data in India: Beyond the Binary
- This report by Brindaalakshmi.K seeks to understand the gendering of development data in India: collection of data and issuance of government (foundational and ... by Brindaalakshmi.K — last modified Jun 30, 2020 10:26 AM — Filed under: Welfare Governance, Data Systems, Big Data for Development, Research, Gender, Welfare, and Privacy, Transgender, Researchers at Work
- Raina Roy and Abhiraj Bag - Kolkata’s trans community has been locked out of healthcare and livelihood
- Over six months into the outbreak of Covid-19 in India, it has become clear that the pandemic does not affect everybody equally. It has amplified the ... by Raina Roy and Abhiraj Bag — last modified Aug 01, 2020 02:54 PM — Filed under: Gender, Covid19, Research, Gender, Welfare, and Privacy, Researchers at Work
