Centre for Internet and Society

Francis Jayakanth's Presentation

praskrishna — 2012-02-29T10:54:33Z

Dr. Jayakanth gave a presentation on Open Access.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/openness/francis-jayakanth-presentation

April 2011 Newsletter

praskrishna — 2011-06-15T10:55:26Z

newsletter issue of April 2011

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/publications-automated/april-2011.pdf

April Newsletter

praskrishna — 2011-06-03T09:52:27Z

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March 2011 Bulletin

praskrishna — 2011-05-03T07:19:30Z

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The Centre for Internet and Society - Bulletin - January 2011

praskrishna — 2011-03-11T07:30:57Z

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November 10 Bulletin

praskrishna — 2010-12-31T11:07:42Z

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August 2010 Bulletin

praskrishna — 2010-12-04T10:50:51Z

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September 2010 Bulletin

praskrishna — 2010-12-03T14:41:28Z

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Bridging the Divide: Opportunities and Challenges

admin — 2008-10-11T10:27:58Z

This paper by Nirmita Narasimhan approaches the digital divide from multiple perspectives, looking at what "access" means and the factors responsible for the digital divide (income, gender, ethnicity, literacy and education, disability, law, etc.), surveys some digital divide initiatives in India, and presents some suggestions to tackle the divide.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/publications-automated/cis/nirmita/Nirmita%20Narasimhan%20-%20Bridging%20the%20Divide

Public Access to the Internet

admin — 2008-10-11T10:25:41Z

Paper by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam. The advent of the Internet brought with it hitherto unheard of possibilities for human creativity, information access, and global communication. When did these possibilities actually translate into widespread public access to the Internet? It is difficult to specify a date, but possible to identify a few key developments and the key actors behind those developments.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/publications-automated/cis/sunil/Public-access-to-the-internet.pdf

Design in urban democracy: A question of survival

admin — 2008-10-11T09:49:21Z

Urban dynamics dissected by John Thackara and Sunil Abraham; questions and answers on the anatomy of cities. An article from the August issue of Cluster Magazine.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/publications-automated/cis/sunil/Thackara.pdf

Once Upon a Flash

nishant — 2008-11-03T20:25:38Z

The essay was published as a part of Sarai Annual Reader titled 'Turbulence' and explores the aesthetics, politics and form of the flashmobs and their manifestation in India. It looks at the potentials of the flashmob to produce turbulent physical spaces and identities and their encounter with legalities. The essay is also available at http://www.sarai.net/journal/06_pdf/03/04_nishant_shah.pdf

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/publications-automated/cis/nishant/Sarai%20turbulence.pdf

The Curious Incident of the People at the Mall

nishant — 2008-12-14T12:13:09Z

The first flash mob in India, in 2003, though short-lived and quickly declared illegal, brought to fore the idea that technology is constructing new sites of defining public participation and citizenship rights, forcing the State to recognise them as political collectives. As India emerges as an ICT enabled emerging economy, new questions of citizenship, participatory politics, social networking, citizenship, and governance are being posed. In the telling of the story of the flash-mob, doing a historical review of technology and access, and doing a symptomatic reading of the subsequent events that followed the ban, this paper evaluates the different ways in which the techno-narratives of an ‘India Shining’ campaign of prosperity and economic growth, are accompanied by various spaces of political contestation, mobilisation and engagement that determine the new public spheres of exclusion, marked by the aesthetics of cyberspatial matrices and technology enabled conditions of governance.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/publications-automated/cis/nishant/the%20curious%20incident%20of%20the%20people%20at%20the%20mall%20%20ACS%20Crossroads.pdf

Material Cyborgs; Asserted Boundaries

nishant — 2008-11-03T20:14:45Z

The essay was published in the European Journal of English Studies in a special issue on Multimedia Narratives. Emerging as an epistemological category with the rise of the Information and Communication Technologies, the cyborg leads to a complex set of negotiations about the production of a cyborg identity. This paper looks at the cyborg as a translator, to see the new mechanics of translation that come into play as the cyborg straddles multiple systems of making meaning and producing itself. Analysing the new social networking systems that have emerged in the last few years, the paper posits the cyborg as not only an author of translated texts but also as produced in the processes of translation. Focusing on one particular instance of the production of a cyborg identity, exploring the various players involved in the process of cyborgification and the material consequences of imagining the cyborg, the paper seeks to analyse the new incomprehensibility or illegalities that the cyborg, in its role as a translator, gets produced within.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/publications-automated/cis/nishant/material%20cyborgs%20ejes.pdf

Subject To Technology

nishant — 2009-07-06T12:06:10Z

This paper is an attempt to examine the production of illegalities with reference to cyberspace, to make a symptomatic reading of new conditions within which citizenships are enacted, in the specific context of contemporary India. Looking at one incident each, of cyber-pornography and cyber-terrorism, the paper sets out to look at the State’s imagination of the digital domain, the positing of the ‘good’ cyber citizen, and the production of new relationships between the state and the subject. This essay explores the ambiguities, the dilemmas and the questions that arise when Citizens become Subjects, not only to the State but also to the technologies of the State. The paper first appeared in the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Journal.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/publications-automated/cis/nishant/iacs%20article.pdf