Centre for Internet and Society

The India Chronicles

praskrishna — 2011-10-14T09:13:15Z

Tory Read, a professional researcher, writer and journalist was commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation to create a vivid description of its work in India. This was done in the interest of transparency and to ensure that it captured lessons from this new approach. Tory travelled for a couple of weeks across Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and some towns in Kerala — attending community meet-ups speaking with a host of individual community members in these cities. Tory has given a journalistic account and analysis, based on document review, interviews and observations conducted between November 2010 and June 2011, including 16 days in India in June 2011.The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wikimedia Foundation.

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RTI Application, 30 June 2011

praskrishna — 2011-10-13T07:07:19Z

This RTI Application was filed by Sahana Sarkar on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society on 30 June 2011.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/rti-application-june-2011.pdf

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Porn: Law, Video, Technology

praskrishna — 2011-09-28T09:30:40Z

Namita Malhotra focuses on pornography, pleasure and law, where she finds a new point of entry into existing debates by looking at legal construction of pleasure through different technologies of mass consumption. She revisits the arguments around pornography, obscenity and affect in recent times. Malhotra produces a comprehensive over-view of different debates, both in the West and in India, to concentrate on how the visual aesthetics of pornography, the new circuits of pornographic consumption, the privilege of affect over regulation lead to possibilities of interaction and negotiation with heternormative power structures in the country. The monograph demonstrates how the grey zones of pornography and the law’s inability to deal with it, offer new conceptual tools of understanding the spaces of digital interaction and identity.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/porn-law.pdf

Seventh Open Letter to the Finance Committee

praskrishna — 2011-10-12T11:23:53Z

In the following I attempt, first, to characterize in an abstract way the situation being addressed by the questions that were asked by us of the UIDAI, in our RTI application of 30/06/2011. I try to make sense, then, of the replies we managed to elicit; and conclude with some elementary observations.

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/seventh-open-letter.pdf

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Re:Wiring Bodies

praskrishna — 2011-09-27T06:46:00Z

Asha’s monograph is a historical research inquiry to understand the ways in which gendered bodies are shaped by the Internet imaginaries in contemporary India.

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Right to Read Campaign - Delhi

praskrishna — 2010-01-22T10:05:50Z

Celebrating the Right to Read for persons with Disabilities

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Maureen Interview 2

praskrishna — 2011-08-23T07:05:57Z

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