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Courses Taught and Designed by CIS
not only introduce the area to students but also capture technology as crucial to the practices of producing knowledge and of class-room teaching. CIS hopes to ... by Nishant Shah last modified Aug 20, 2011 10:47 PM
The Digital is Political
Technologies are not just agents of politics, there is politics in their design, writes Nishant Shah in this article published in Down to Earth in the Issue of ... by Nishant Shah last modified Mar 21, 2012 09:14 AM — Filed under:
Say 'Password' in Hindi
English might be the language of the online world, but it’s time other languages had their say, writes Nishant Shah. The article was published in the Indian ... by Nishant Shah last modified Mar 21, 2012 09:18 AM — Filed under:
Power to the People
The digital revolution has helped make NGOs and civil society more influential, independent and transparent, writes Nishant Shah in this article published in ... by Nishant Shah last modified Mar 21, 2012 09:35 AM — Filed under:
Public Talk by Dr. Ian Brown on Privacy, Trust and Biometrics
Trust is hard to build, but easy to lose. What factors affect individuals' trust in new technologies? How can governments create citizen trust in biometric ... by Nishant Shah last modified Apr 04, 2011 07:15 AM — Filed under: ,
Clicktivism & a brave new world order
THE FIRST decade of this century has been one of accelerated change. The proliferation of the Internet has ushered in ubiquitous transformations in the way we ... by Nishant Shah last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:02 AM — Filed under:
Make a Wish
It is that time of the year again, where we ring in the new, ring out the old, and say goodbye to another year that has passed us by. The earnest will take the ... by Nishant Shah last modified Apr 16, 2013 06:37 AM — Filed under:
3G Life
You can video chat, stream music and watch TV on your phone. Offering high-speed internet access, 3G would change the world of mobile computing. Nishant Shah's ... by Nishant Shah last modified May 10, 2012 10:54 AM
Identity, Identification and Media Representation in Video Game Play: An Audience Reception Study
Adrienne Shaw from the Annenberg School for Communication, who is a visiting fellow at MICA is giving a public talk on research on representation in video ... by Nishant Shah last modified Apr 04, 2011 07:22 AM — Filed under:
Change has come to all of us
The general focus on a digital generational divide makes us believe that generations are separated by the digital axis, and that the gap is widening. There is ... by Nishant Shah last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
The Future of Journalism: EJC @ Picnic 2010
Nishant Shah was a speaker at the PICNIC 2010, in Amsterdam, where he made a presentation titled "Citizens in the time of Database Democracies : Information ... by Nishant Shah last modified Oct 13, 2010 07:13 AM — Filed under: , ,
Political is as Political does
The Talking Back workshop has been an extraordinary experience for me. The questions that I posed for others attending the workshop have hounded me as they ... by Nishant Shah last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:30 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , ,
Digital Natives : Talking Back
One of the most significant transitions in the landscape of social and political movements, is how younger users of technology, in their interaction with new ... by Nishant Shah last modified May 15, 2015 11:50 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
The Making of an Asian City
Nishant Shah attended the conference on 'Pluralism in Asia: Asserting Transnational Identities, Politics, and Perspectives' organised by the Asia Scholarship ... by Nishant Shah last modified Aug 10, 2012 08:33 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
The power of the next click...
P2P cameras and microphones hooked up to form a network of people who don't know each other, and probably don't care; a series of people in different states of ... by Nishant Shah last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Digital Natives at Republica 2010
Nishant Shah from the Centre for Internet and Society, made a presentation at the Re:Publica 2010, in Berlin, about its collaborative project (with Hivos, ... by Nishant Shah last modified May 15, 2015 11:35 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Critical Point of View: Videos
The Second event for the Critical Point of View reader on Wikipedia was held in Amsterdam, by the Institute of Network Cultures and the Centre for Internet and ... by Nishant Shah last modified Apr 20, 2010 08:04 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Colour Me Political
What are the tools that Digital Natives use to mobilise groups towards a particular cause? How do they engage with crises in their immediate environments? Are ... by Nishant Shah last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Meet the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
Digital Natives live their lives differently. But sometimes, they also die their lives differently! What happens when we die online? Can the digital avatar ... by Nishant Shah last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
CPOV : Wikipedia Research Initiative
The Second event, towards building the Critical Point of View Reader on Wikipedia, brings a range of scholars, practitioners, theorists and activists to ... by Nishant Shah last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:52 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , ,
10 Legendary Obscene Beasts
In the second of his articles, Nishant Shah analyses a peculiar event of vandalism which has now become the core of free speech and anti-censorship debates in ... by Nishant Shah last modified Mar 05, 2010 06:27 AM
WikiWars - A report
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, hosted WikiWars – an international event that brought ... by Nishant Shah last modified Oct 06, 2010 11:21 AM — Filed under: , , , , ,
IT, The City and Public Space
In the Introduction to the project, Pratyush Shankar at CEPT, Ahmedabad, lays out the theoretical and practice based frameworks that inform contemporary ... by Nishant Shah last modified Aug 02, 2011 06:07 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Topic Images
by Nishant Shah last modified Jul 29, 2010 05:43 AM
Fill The Gap: Global Discussion on Digital Natives
More often than not people don't understand the new practices inspired by Internet and digital technologies. As such a series of accusations have been leveled ... by Nishant Shah last modified Jan 22, 2010 10:54 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,
Inquilab 2.0? Reflections on Online Activism in India*
Research and activism on the Internet in India remain fledgling in spite the media hype, says Anja Kovacs in her blog post that charts online activism in India ... by Nishant Shah last modified Aug 02, 2011 09:25 AM — Filed under: , , , , , , ,
Wikiwars: 12th, 13th January, Bangalore
The Centre for Internet and Society and the Institute of Network Cultures brought together a critical range of scholars, academicians, practitioners, artists ... by Nishant Shah last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM — Filed under: ,
Critical Point of View: WikiWars
The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore), in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), brings together an international range of ... by Nishant Shah last modified Apr 05, 2011 04:18 AM — Filed under:
Openness, Videos, Impressions
The one day Open Video Summit organised by the Centre for Internet & Society, iCommons, Open Video Alliance, and Magic Lantern, to bring together a range of ... by Nishant Shah last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:23 PM — Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , ,
Breaks and Ruptures: In the midst of IT
In this first story, Nishant looks at the ways in which internet technologies shape multiple imaginations. In the narration of the story, the contextualisation ... by Nishant Shah last modified Dec 19, 2009 10:12 AM