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IRC 22 - Proposed Session - #HomeBasedFlexiworkInCovid19
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<b>Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.</b>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The objective of this session is to elicit how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected work for women in India and Sri Lanka, through the opportunities of remote and flexible work (centred around the home).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out unprecedented changes to the way we work. Some have lost jobs, while others have shifted to remote work. Some have seen their businesses stagnate while others have grown new ones from home. Undoubtedly digital connectivity has been crucial to continuity of work for many, through remote and flexible work opportunities, often centred around the home.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">But this kind of work is not without its own challenges; particularly for women. Women are increasingly absent from the formal labour market. Women have traditionally been marginalised when it comes to digital technology, in terms of access, affordability and skills. Women have also traditionally borne the larger share of the care burden in the home. Remote and flexible work have long been argued as significant enablers of womens sustained participation in the workforce, in addition to addressing the problem of women working below their skill grade. The COVID-19 pandemic has stress tested these so-called enabling work arrangements for women.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">This panel will seek to shed light on the experiences of women working remotely and flexibly in India and Sri Lanka during the pandemic. It will seek to answer questions such as:</p>
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<li>Who is able to work remotely and flexibly, and who faces barriers to do the same? </li>
<li>How do women (vis-a-vis men) perceive flexible and remote (home-based) work? </li>
<li>Do they see them as benefits or does this reinforce patriarchal mobility restrictions?</li>
<li>What are the challenges that women face in these kinds of work arrangements?</li>
<li>What is the role of the platform economy in enabling remote and flexible work options for women? </li>
<li>What are the analog complements for women to successfully work remotely and flexibly? </li>
<li>Which changes are likely to be sustained, and which will not</li></ul>
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<div>The session will take the form of a panel discussion led by the moderator. After they set the stage and context, the first panelist will discuss some of the high-level trends in digital access, skills and remote work disaggregated by gender from nationally representative survey findings in India and Sri Lanka. This will include discussion of the differential perceptions on remote work among men and women. The next two panelists will then discuss findings from ongoing research in India and Sri Lanka (respectively) on how digitally enabled work opportunities for women are contributing to the empowerment of women in the two countries. They will also discuss the specific challenges and opportunities that have been experienced by women during the pandemic, such as difficulties in balancing care work with paid work in the home, changing roles and dynamics between women and men in the home due to new digitally enabled work opportunities, inter alia. The next panelist will weigh in with findings from a study of digital opportunities in home-based work in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand. The last panelist, who runs a job search platform for blue collar workers, will bring in an industry perspective, shedding light on how employers view women as workers and how women might overcome challenges in finding jobs that match their skills and aspirations. </div>
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<div>The session focuses on women, and what is needed to facilitate their participation in the labour market through digitally enabled remote and flexible work opportunities. Women are increasingly absent from the formal labour market and face a number of challenges (precarity, discrimination, etc) to equal participation. Women have also traditionally been marginalised when it comes to digital technology, in terms of access, affordability and skills, which further contributes to economic marginalisation and disempowerment. The research that will be discussed in the session brings to the conversation, the voices, perspectives and lived experiences of women in India, Sri Lanka and other Asian countries through their survey responses and in-depth interviews with them.</div>
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<div><strong>Sabina Dewan</strong> is Founder and Executive Director of the JustJobs Network, which she began with John Podesta in 2013. She is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in India, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. Before this, Dewan served as a Senior Fellow and Director for International Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC. Dewan’s research focuses on delineating strategies for job creation and workforce development. She works closely with governments, businesses, multilateral and grassroots organisations providing critical labour market information to improve interventions aimed at generating more and better employment, and cultivating employability, especially for women, youth and marginalised groups.</div>
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<div>M<strong>ukta Naik, a Fellow at Centre for Policy Research</strong>, is an architect and urban planner. Her research interests include housing and urban poverty, urban informality, and internal migration, as well as urban transformations in small cities. At CPR, she focuses on understanding the links between internal migration and urbanisation in the Indian context. Recently, she has worked on gendered experiences of the labour market and related mobilities. She is currently involved with a project on examining the ways in which women’s platform work in India is impacted by corporate and government policy. </div>
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<div><strong>Ayesha Zainudeen </strong>is a Senior Research Manager at LIRNEasia. Her core areas of interest lie at the intersection of technology and inclusion in the Global South, with a current focus on the future of work. She has 17 years’ extensive experience in this field, having designed, managed, and led numerous research projects in the South and Southeast Asian region for clients such as IDRC (Canada), the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the GSM Association, inter alia. In her current research, she is documenting how digital technologies are changing work opportunities and contexts in particular for women in South Asia. She is also mapping online job portals in the Asia Pacific to understand their potential as a data source for near-real-time labour market analytics.</div>
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<div><strong>Gayani Hurulle</strong> is a Senior Research Manager at LIRNEasia, where she researches digital policy and regulation, digital inclusion and the future of work across South and Southeast Asia. She is currently assessing impacts of COVID-19 on labour markets in India and Sri Lanka, as well on technology adoption, platform use and education. She is also an external consultant at EY, where she is conducting World Bank Digital Economy Assessments. She has worked with varied clients such as the Ministry of Digital Infrastructure and Information Technology of Sri Lanka, IDRC, UNESCAP and Mozilla. </div>
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<div><strong>Hue-Tam Jamme </strong>is Assistant professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University. She studies urbanisms in transition from a comparative perspective. Using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods, she focuses on the lived experience of societal transformations. Her research explores in particular whether the development of information and communication networks shapes inclusive urban spaces. Jamme currently leads a research project centred on the gig economy and women’s upward mobility and in the capitals of Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand. In previous research, she investigated the socio-spatial consequences of the transition towards auto-mobility in Vietnam. </div>
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<div><strong>Devesh Taneja </strong> is the Co Founder of Vyre, an innovative hiring platform that uses a mix of technologies to facilitate early talent discovery and engagement for the service sector workers. His current research interest lies at the intersection of Technology, Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion and Impact Investing. He has several years of experience in investment banking in India and the United States wherein he has worked in fundraising for small businesses. He holds a Masters in Business Administration from Yale University. </div>
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No publisherAdminProposed SessionsIRC22Infrastructure StudiesInternet Researcher's Conference2022-04-25T12:57:33ZBlog EntryIRC 22 - Proposed Session - #HomeAndTheInternet
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<b>Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.</b>
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<p><strong>Session Type: </strong>Presentation and Discussion of Papers</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The COVID-19 pandemic left many of us stranded between homes – some were able to reach back to our natal homes while others had to make do with where we were then situated. This was a difficult journey of sudden confinement. In times like these when people ought to be with their families, many of us didn’t get the chance to be with them. There emerged new questions of what is home, where is our home.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Can there be a single home? Can people from the North Eastern belt call the mainland our home in times of crisis where racial discrimination was right on our face? Do meanings of home change for a person with psychosocial disabilities who relies on external communities for support system? What does this forced confinement inside the home bring for the queer subject for whom the public space was the only getaway to live our queer lives? </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">We understand that the pandemic opened up the canvas of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ by offering us alternative modes of socialization, thereby building communities within social movement which may not be tied to physical interaction. The internet in this context offered a temporary escape to many of us, while also latching on to our tendencies of addictive consumption. It was the only connection we had with the world outside. Issues that were previously overlooked gained attention as they reached to the level of crisis. Not only did educational learning suddenly shift to the digital space, we also witnessed a transition of the existing social movements into the digital landscape. This was obviously exclusionary for many without access, but also opened scope for a new accessibility of these existing modes of learning which the disabled population could better adapt to.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">This session is a presentation of two papers by the three team members on the theme of home and the internet for Dalit-Bahujan and Tribal students in India along the intersections of queer, disabled and North Eastern identity-based experiences. With qualitative interviews of women and queer students, and students with psychosocial disabilities in higher education, we bring out narratives of how the pandemic has affected the idea of home for them, how their cross-cutting intersectional identities have played a role in their experience of the real and the digital space, how the burden of labour has changed for women students in these times, how the social movements took shape within the contours of the home and on the internet, and what are the mental health impacts of these experiences on these students. The papers will be partly autoethnographic as the research questions have evolved from the personal experiences of the researchers themselves. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><strong style="text-align: start;">Keywords:</strong><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>Mental health, movement building, working from home, friendship, labour, discrimination, social media, internet</p>
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<p style="text-align: start;" dir="ltr"><strong>Bhanu Priya Gupta </strong>is a PhD scholar in Disability Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). Her research area is mental illness among Dalit-Bahujan women in the Hindi-speaking belt of India. She is a first-generation graduate who comes from the Bhadbunja community (most backward caste) of North India. She identifies as a Bahujan queer woman, a caregiver and person with mental illness. She has previously worked at National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) as a Research Associate. She is also a writer and has published her works at Mad in Asia, Velivada, In Plainspeak, and Gaysi Family.</p>
<p style="text-align: start;" dir="ltr"><strong>Dona Biswas</strong> is a PhD candidate in Women’s and Gender Studies, studying in Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) and Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS). Her research area is social movement and women in movement, working on Bodoland Movement in Assam. She belongs to Namasudra (SC) Bengali community, migrated Agricultural labourer, in Assam. She has previously worked at Nirantar: A Centre for Gender and Education, Delhi as a Research Assistant on Early and Child Marriage in India. Her writings have been published at Feminism in India, Velivada, and Sanghaditha. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Ekta Kailash Sonawane</strong> belongs to Mahar (Dalit) community of Maharashtra. They did their Masters in Gender Studies from Ambedkar University Delhi wherein they wrote a dissertation on the intellectual history of class, caste and gender. They have worked as a journalist and researcher at Awaaz India TV and Institute of Human Development. Their work has been published at Dalit Camera, Indie Journal, Colour's Board, Feminist Collective. They have also published a feature article in Hindustan Times.</p>
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No publisherAdminProposed SessionsIRC22Internet StudiesInternet Researcher's Conference2022-05-19T15:21:27ZBlog EntryIRC 22 - Proposed Session - #COVID19VaccineDiscourse
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<b>Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.</b>
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<p><strong>Session Type: </strong>Panel Discussion <br /><strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">This panel discusses vaccine hesitancy in the Global North and the Global South as is evident through social media. It is common to talk about the differences between the Global North and the Global South regarding vaccine hesitancy (Makau, 2021). Past studies have looked at economic, social, technological and power gaps regarding the impact of COVID-19 (Makau, 2021). However, our preliminary research suggests there are several similar factors affecting public perceptions of the COVID-19 attitude to vaccines across contexts such as religious beliefs, education, age, lack of trust on public health systems, influence of opinion and religious leaders among others (ECDC, 2022; Kanozia & Arya, 2021; Arce, J.S.S. et. al., 2021).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic the notion of “home” has become a key space for individuals to feel safe and protected from the COVID-19 virus. Playing a vital role in the creation of this space is the use of social media and the ways in which it influences vaccine discourse in online spaces. The availability and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines provides people with the opportunity to return to the public space and embrace their communities outside of the physical space of home. Our concept of “home” encompasses the whole world. Though we will be discussing the similarities of the Global North and the Global South, we will be talking here of the “home” as a community space that makes us feel “home”, inclusive of the divisions that exist between the Global North and the Global South. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">World Health Organization has emphasized the significant role of vaccines for ending the pandemic (Dror et al., 2020). Despite the availability of various vaccines globally, vaccine hesitancy has led to visible protests and resistance against vaccine mandates internationally (Kelly, 2022; Ngo, M., Bednar & Ray 2022). There is a gap in understanding how vaccines are a universal need. Questions we raise are the following: If online communication opens dialogue about vaccine hesitancy or further polarizes it, how does it open access to information regarding COVID-19 vaccine availability? Do digital spaces provide a place for discourse and discussion about these topics?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The reasons behind vaccine hesitancy may vary from place to place. Even though geographical borders seem to blur due to the interconnections in the world by the arrival of internet technology and communication, the world order is still often viewed as being dichotomous Global North and Global South to point to the global socio-economic gaps (Roberts et. al., 2015). </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">This panel plans to study relevant twitter hashtags to understand how social media has been used to drive people towards/against vaccine hesitancy. The data is scraped using computational tools such as Gephi and Netlytic to identify trends such as #antivaksin, #vaccineSideEffects and #pfizer. We will do close readings of the textual data scraped along with an examination of visible networks and clusters within to see what discursive connections emerge across contexts. We therefore identify common and/or contrasting themes across the specific regional contexts from the global south and global north.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr"><strong>References:</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Dror et al. (2020). Vaccine hesitancy: the next challenge in the fight against COVID‑19.<em>European Journal of Epidemiology,</em> pp. 775-779.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Carpentier, N. (2017). Discourse. <em>In Keywords for Media Studies. </em>Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. Ed., New York: NYU Press, pp. 59-62.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Kanozia, R., & Arya, R. (2021). Fake news, religion, and covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Media Asia, 48(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.1921963, pp. 313–321.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Kelly, L. (2022, February 12). NZ, Australia vaccination mandates protests gain in numbers.<em> </em><span style="text-align: justify;"><em>Reuters.</em> Retrieved March 7, 2022, from https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/new-zealand-australia-vaccination-mandates-protests-gain-numbers-2022-02-12/</span></p>
<p dir="ltr">Roberts, J. Timmons, Amy Bellone Hite, and Nitsan Chorev, Eds. 2015. <em>The Globalization and Development Reader Perspectives on Development and Global Change.</em> Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Makau, W. M. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on the growing North-South divide.<em> E-international Relations, </em>15.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">ECDC. (2022, January 31). Overview of the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination strategies and deployment plans in the EU/EEA. Retrieved from European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/overview-implementation-covid-19-vaccination-strategies-and-deployment-plans</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ngo, M., Bednar, A., & Ray, E. (2022). Trucker Convoy Protesting Covid Mandates Slow Traffic Around Washington. The New York Times. Retrieved March 7, 2022, from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/us/trucker-convoy-dc-beltway.html.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Arce, J.S.S. et. al. (2021). COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low-andmiddle-income countries,<em> Nature Medicine,</em> VOL 27 1386, 1385–1394, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01454-y.</p>
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No publisherAdminProposed SessionsIRC22Internet StudiesInternet Researcher's Conference2022-03-18T10:16:55ZBlog EntryIRC 22 - Proposed Session - # ActFromHome
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<b>Details of a session proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.</b>
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<p><strong>Session Type:</strong> Workshop or Collaborative Working Session<br /><strong><br /></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, nations across the world instituted a range of public health measures that limited mobility in many areas, while confining families to homes for indefinite periods of time. Poverty, unemployment and other forms of inequality rose - both within and outside the home. Further, angst against various issues rose- worsening climate injustices, racial violence, gender discrimination, arbitrary layoffs across workplaces, and silencing of minority voices. In a pre-pandemic era, such issues would have elicited physical protest movements by the groups concerned, but with limited mobility - the digital space has become an arena for home-based protests and movements.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">This workshop seeks to answer a fundamental question: “Can democracies under crisis survive the home based protests across digital platforms?” It will highlight the role of emerging technologies in shaping the role of home-based digital protests across nations and cultures, with a specific focus on perspectives from Israel and India. Further, it will analyse the immense opportunities and pitfalls of driving home-based social movements on digital platforms. Moreover, the workshop will investigate the ambiguous positioning of online government surveillance and content moderation on collective human rights, with a specific focus on human rights within the home. In addition, it will examine the impact of digital home-based protests upon the aptness and scope of modern democratic regimes.</p>
<p><strong>Course of the Session and Work Division</strong></p>
<ol><li>Overview on the role of digital spaces and emerging technologies in promoting the role of the home as a space for protest</li><li>Thought exercise involving participants in analysing the merits and demerits of digitising home-based social movements.</li><li>Discussion on government surveillance and content moderation </li><li>Discussion on the impact of digital home-based protests </li><li>Group work involving participants in designing a digital social movement for a given cause (from a range of causes including climate action, gender equality, vaccine nationalism etc.) </li></ol>
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<div><strong>Maya Sherman</strong> is an Israeli Weidenfeld-Hoffmann leadership Scholar and MSc student of Social Sciences of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute, exploring the aptness of digital surveillance policies in democratic regimes. At Oxford, she was selected to represent the university in the Europaeum Policy Seminar, discussing data governance and stargu in the EU, as well as serving as one of 100 promising young leaders in the Global Leadership Challenge 2021. Maya is currently leading several research and policy projects and teams of AI for Good, cooperating with big tech companies as Dell and Microsoft in the UK.</div>
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<div><strong>Rai Sengupta</strong> is currently pursuing an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford. She is the recipient of the prestigious Weidenfeld Hoffmann Scholarship, a</div>
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No publisherAdminProposed SessionsIRC22Internet StudiesInternet Researcher's Conference2022-04-25T12:46:10ZBlog EntryInternet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22): #Home, May 25-27
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<b>We are excited to announce that the fifth edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference will be held online on May 25-27, 2022.This annual conference series was initiated by the researchers@work (r@w) programme at CIS in 2016 to gather researchers and practitioners engaging with the internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward. This year, the conference brings together a set of reflections and conversations on how we imagine and experience the home —as a space of refuge and comfort, but also as one of violence, care, labour and movement-building.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Venue: Online on Zoom</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Registration: <a class="external-link" href="https://tinyurl.com/reg-irc22">https://tinyurl.com/reg-irc22</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Code of Conduct:<a href="https://cis-india.org/IRC22_CoCFSP" class="external-link"> Download (PDF)</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Conference Programme: <a href="https://cis-india.org/IRC22.Programme.Final%20" class="external-link">Download (PDF)</a></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr">The ‘home’ has been a key line of defence in efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Public health recommendations and governmental measures have enforced numerous restrictions on daily living, including physical distancing and isolation, home confinement, and quarantining. These mandates to be at home have relied on the construction, and assumption, of home as a familiar, stable and safe space.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">However, home has always been a site of intense political contestation—be it through the temporal frames of belonging, ideas of citizenship and regionalism, role in the reproduction of capital accumulation, or as material signifiers of social status. Over the past 2 years, digital infrastructures have played an intensified role in the meaning making of the home. Coming to terms with the pandemic entailed an accelerated embedding of digital systems in many of our relationships. Be it with the state, educational institutions, workplaces, or each other. Solutions to the many challenges of infrastructure and mobility emerging over the last year have been sought in digital technologies. The digital mediation of the pandemic has ushered in visions of the ‘new normal’ as situated wholly in the digital.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">While the initial anxieties of living through the pandemic may have now eased, and we make forays into a changed world, the spectre of the ‘next normal’ awaits. As we continue to come to terms with, and find ways to reorient the disruption of life, being at home has acquired many new meanings. What has it meant to be at home, and what is home? What is and has been the role of the internet and digital media technologies in navigating the contours of a changing ‘normal’? How have/can digital technologies help overcome, or exacerbate existing social, economic and political challenges during the pandemic? What forms of digital infrastructure—tools, platforms, devices and services—help build, sustain and alter the notion of home?</p>
<p dir="ltr">For IRC22, we invited sessions across a range of formats and themes to explore and challenge conceptions of the home. Different people imagine and experience the home in various ways—as a space of refuge and comfort, but also as one of violence, care, labour and/or movement-building. We invited contributions that speak to these provocations through one or more of the above thematic areas. A set of 12 sessions were finalised for the conference (including 4 individual presentations), based on peer selection by teams and presenters who proposed sessions as well as an external review.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-waitingforfood">#WaitingForFood</a> - Rhea Bose and Nisha Subramanian</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-thismightnotbeonline">#thismightnotbeonline</a> - Kaushal Sapre and Aasma Tulika</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-identitiesvulnerabilitiesopportunitiesdissentir">#IdentitesVulnerabilitiesOpportunitiesDissent</a> - Saumya Tewari, Manisha Madhava, Dhrupadi Chattopadhyay and Aparna Bose</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-homeandtheinternet">#HomeAndTheInternet</a> - Dona Biswas, Bhanu Priya Gupta and Ekta Kailash Sonwane </p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-letsmovein">#LetsMoveIn</a> - Arathy Salimkumar, Faheem Muhammed, Hazeena T and Manisha Madapathy</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-lockdownsandshutdowns">#LockdownsAndShutdowns</a> - Michael Collyer, Joss Wright, Andreas Tsamados, Marianne Díaz Hernández and Nathan Dobson</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-identifyingtheideaoflabourinteaching">#IdentifyingtheIdeaoflLaborinTeaching</a> - Sunanda Kar and Bishal Sinha</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-homebasedflexiworkincovid19">#HomeBasedFlexiworkInCovid19</a> - Sabina Dewan, Mukta Naik, Ayesha Zainudeen, Gayani Hurulle, Hue-Tam Jamme and Devesh Taneja</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-involutejaggedseamsofthedomesticandthevocational">#Involute:Jagged Seams of the Domestic and the Vocational -</a> Akriti Rastogi, Deepak Prince, Misbah Rashid and Satish Kumar</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-digitisingcrisesremakinghome">#DigitisingCrisesRemakingHome</a> - Vidya Subramanian, Kalindi Kokal and Uttara Purandare</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><br /></strong></p>
<h3><strong>Individual Presentations</strong></h3>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-goinghomeconstructionofadigitalurbanplatforminterfaceindelhincr">#GoingHome: Constructions of a Digital-Urban Platform Interface in Delhi-NCR</a> - Anurag Mazumdar</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-socialmediaactivism">#SocialMediaActivism</a> - Anushka Bhilwar</p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-transactandwhatfollowed">#TransActandWhatFollowed</a> - Brindaalakshmi K</p>
<h3><strong>About the IRC Series</strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">Researchers and practitioners across the domains of arts, humanities, and social sciences have attempted to understand life on the internet, or life after the internet, and the way digital technologies mediate various aspects of our being today. These attempts have in turn raised new questions around understanding of digital objects, online lives, and virtual networks, and have contributed to complicating disciplinary assumptions, methods, conceptualisations, and boundaries.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) initiated the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) series to address these concerns, and to create an annual temporary space in India, for internet researchers to gather and share experiences.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The IRC series is driven by the following interests:</p>
<ul>
<li>creating discussion spaces for researchers and practitioners studying internet in India and in other comparable regions,</li>
<li>foregrounding the multiplicity, hierarchies, tensions, and urgencies of the digital sites and users in India,</li>
<li>accounting for the various layers, conceptual and material, of experiences and usages of internet and networked digital media in India, and</li>
<li>exploring and practicing new modes of research and documentation necessitated by new (digital) objects of power/knowledge.</li></ul>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e32d113c-7fff-b48f-7af4-0a47077cf4a6"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;" dir="ltr">The<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc16"> first edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference</a> series was held in February 2016. It was hosted by the<a href="https://www.jnu.ac.in/SSS/CPS/"> Centre for Political Studies</a> at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and was supported by the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund. The<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc17"> second Internet Researchers' Conference</a> was organised in partnership with the<a href="http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/"> Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy</a> (CITAPP) at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) campus on March 03-05, 2017. The<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc18"> third Internet Researchers' Conference</a> was organised at the<a href="http://www.sambhaavnaa.org/"> Sambhaavnaa Institute</a>, Kandbari (Himachal Pradesh) during February 22-24, 2018, and the theme of the conference was *offline*. The<a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list"> fourth Internet Researcher's Conference </a>was held at <a class="external-link" href="https://digital.lamakaan.com/">Lamakaan, Hyderabad</a> from January 30 - February 01, on the theme of the 'list'.</p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/raw/irc-22-home'>https://cis-india.org/raw/irc-22-home</a>
</p>
No publisherPuthiya Purayil SnehaResearchers at WorkInternet Researcher's ConferenceFeaturedIRC22HomepageInternet Studies2022-05-24T14:38:57ZBlog EntryInternet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22) - Selected Sessions
https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-home-selected-sessions
<b>Here is the list of selected sessions and individual presentations for the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC22) - #Home. IRC22 will be held online from May 25-27, 2022. The conference announcement, along with details on registration will be published in the first week of May.
</b>
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<p><strong>Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home: <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/internet-researchers-conference-2022">Call for Sessions</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home: <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-sessions">List of Proposed Sessions</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Selected Sessions and Total Scores</strong> </p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-waitingforfood">#WaitingForFood </a>- Rhea Bose and Nisha Subramanian (85.00)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-thismightnotbeonline">#thismightnotbeonline </a>- Kaushal Sapre; Aasma Tulika (81.88)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-goinghomeconstructionofadigitalurbanplatforminterfaceindelhincr">#GoingHome: Constructions of a Digital-Urban Platform Interface in Delhi-NCR</a> - Anurag Mazumdar (80.63)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-covidconfessions">#CovidConfessions</a> - Indumathi Manohar (80.63)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-identitiesvulnerabilitiesopportunitiesdissentir">#IdentitesVulnerabilitiesOpportunitiesDissent </a>- Saumya Tewari; Manisha Madhava; Dhrupadi Chattopadhyay; Aparna Bose (79.38)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-homeandtheinternet">#HomeAndTheInternet </a>- Dona Biswas; Bhanu Priya Gupta (77.50)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-letsmovein">#LetsMoveIn </a>- Arathy Salimkumar; Faheem Muhammed; Hazeena T; Manisha Madapathy (76.25)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-lockdownsandshutdowns">#LockdownsAndShutdowns </a>- Michael Collyer; Joss Wright (73.75)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-actfromhome">#ActFromHome </a>- Maya Sherman; Rai Sengupta (73.75)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-socialmediaactivism">#SocialMediaActivism </a>- Anushka Bhilwar (69.38)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-transactandwhatfollowed">#TransActandWhatFollowed </a>- Brindaalakshmi K (68.75)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-identifyingtheideaoflabourinteaching">#IdentifyingtheIdeaoflLaborinTeaching </a>- Sunanda Kar; Bishal Sinha (68.75)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-homebasedflexiworkincovid19">#HomeBasedFlexiworkInCovid19 </a>- Sabina Dewan; Mukta Naik; Ayesha Zainudeen; Gayani Hurulle; Hue-Tam Jamme; Devesh Taneja (67.50)</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-involutejaggedseamsofthedomesticandthevocational">#Involute:Jagged Seams of the Domestic and the Vocational -</a> Akriti Rastogi; Deepak Prince; Misbah Rashid; Satish Kumar (65.63)</p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-digitisingcrisesremakinghome">#DigitisingCrisesRemakingHome </a>- Vidya Subramanian; Kalindi Kokal; Uttara Purandare (61.88)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span class="discreet"> Note: The total scores were derived from anonymous peer selection by all teams and scores by a panel of external reviewers, with both processes given a 50% weightage.</span></p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-home-selected-sessions'>https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-home-selected-sessions</a>
</p>
No publisherPuthiya Purayil SnehaIRC22Internet StudiesInternet Researcher's ConferenceResearchers at Work2022-04-26T07:00:30ZBlog EntryInternet Researchers' Conference 2022 (IRC22) - Proposed Sessions
https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-sessions
<b>Here is the list of sessions proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2022 - #Home.</b>
<p><strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Internet Researchers' Conference 2022</strong> - #<a class="external-link" href="https://cis-india.org/raw/internet-researchers-conference-2022">Home - Call for Sessions</a></p>
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<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-digitisingcrisesremakinghome" class="external-link">DigitisingCrisesRemakingHome</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-letsmovein" class="external-link">LetsMoveIn</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-thismightnotbeonline" class="external-link">ThisMightNotBeOnline</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-metaverseinquilab" class="external-link">MetaverseInquilab</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-identitiesvulnerabilitiesopportunitiesdissentir" class="external-link">IdentitesVulnerabilitiesOpportunitiesDissent</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-lockdownsandshutdowns" class="external-link">LockdownsAndShutdowns</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-actfromhome" class="external-link">ActFromHome</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-covid19vaccinediscourse" class="external-link">COVID19VaccineDiscourse</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-homebasedflexiworkincovid19" class="external-link">HomeBasedFlexiworkInCovid19</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-homeandtheinternet" class="external-link">HomeAndTheInternet</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-socialmediaactivism" class="external-link">SocialMediaActivism</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-goinghomeconstructionofadigitalurbanplatforminterfaceindelhincr" class="external-link">“Going Home”: Constructions of a Digital-Urban Platform Interface in Delhi-NCR</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-waitingforfood" class="external-link">WaitingForFood</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-transactandwhatfollowed" class="external-link">TransActandWhatFollowed - Access to care for transgender persons during the COVID-19 pandemic</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-covidconfessions" class="external-link">CovidConfessions: An internet art project</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-identifyingtheideaoflabourinteaching" class="external-link">Identifying the idea of labor in teaching – Negotiating pedagogy at home and inside classroom(s)</a></p>
<p>#<a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-session-involutejaggedseamsofthedomesticandthevocational" class="external-link">Involute - Jagged Seams of the Domestic and the Vocational</a></p>
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For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-sessions'>https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-proposed-sessions</a>
</p>
No publisherAdminProposed SessionsInfrastructure StudiesInternet Researcher's ConferenceIRC22Researchers at Work2022-04-26T07:07:52ZBlog EntryInternet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): List - Call for Sessions
https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-call
<b>Who makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invite sessions that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list*.</b>
<p> </p>
<h3 id="offline"><strong>IRC19: List</strong></h3>
<p>For the last several years, #MeToo and #LoSHA have set the course for rousing debates within feminist praxis and contemporary global politics. It also foregrounded the ubiquitous presence of the <em>list</em> in its various forms, not only on the internet but across diverse aspects of media culture. Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the <em>list</em> as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. Directed by the Supreme Court, the Government of India has initiated the National Register of Citizens process of creating an updated <em>list</em> of all Indian citizens in the state of Assam since 2015. This is a <em>list</em> that sets apart legal citizens from illegal immigrants, based on an extended and multi-phase process of announcement of draft <em>lists</em> and their revisions. NRC is producing a <em>list</em> with a specific question: who is a citizen and who is not? UIDAI has produced a <em>list</em> of unique identification number assigned to individuals: a <em>list</em> to connect/aggregate other <em>lists</em>, a <em>meta-list</em>.</p>
<p>From Mailing Lists to WhatsApp Broadcast Lists, <em>lists</em> have been the very basis of multi-casting capabilities of the early and the recent internets. The <em>list</em> - in terms of <em>list</em> of people receiving a message, <em>list</em> of machines connecting to a router or a tower, <em>list</em> of ‘friends’ and ‘followers’ ‘added’ to your social media persona - structures the open-ended multi-directional information flow possibilities of the internet. It simultaneously engenders networks of connected machines and bodies, topographies of media circulation, and social graphs of affective connections and consumptions. The epistemological, constitutive, and inscriptive functions of the <em>list</em>, as <a href="http://amodern.net/article/on-lists-and-networks/" target="_blank">Liam Young documents</a>, have been crucial to the creation of new infrastructures of knowledge, and to understand where the internet emerges as a challenge to these.</p>
<p>As a media format that is easy to create, circulate, and access (as seen in the number of rescue and relief lists that flood the web during national disasters) or one that is essential in classification and cross-referencing (such as public records and memory institutions), the <em>list</em> becomes an essential trope to understand new media forms today, as the skeletal frame on which much digital content and design is structured and consumed through.</p>
<ul>
<li>Who makes lists?</li>
<li>How are lists made?</li>
<li>Who can be on a list, and who is missing?</li>
<li>Who gets counted on lists, and who is counting?</li>
<li>What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender?</li>
<li>What modalities of creation and circulation of lists affords its authority, its simultaneous revelations and obfuscations?</li>
<li>What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious?</li>
<li>What makes lists ephemeral, and what makes their content robust?</li>
<li>What makes lists hegemonic, and what makes them intersectional?</li>
<li>What makes lists ordered, and what makes them unordered?</li>
<li>What do listicles do to habits of reading and creation of knowledge?</li>
<li>What new modes of questioning and meaning-making have manifested today in various practices of list-making?</li>
<li>How and when do lists became digital, and whatever happened to lists on paper?</li>
<li>Are there cultural economies of lists, list-making, and getting listed?</li>
<li>Are lists content or carriage, are they medium or message?</li></ul>
<h4>For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invite sessions that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list* - to present or propose academic, applied, or creative works that explore its social, economic, cultural, material, political, affective, or aesthetic dimensions.</h4>
<p> </p>
<h3 id="call"><strong>Call for Sessions</strong></h3>
<p>We invite teams of two or more members to propose sessions for IRC19. All sessions will be one and half hours long, and will be fully designed and facilitated by the team concerned, including moderation (if any). Please remember this when planning the session. Everything happening during the session, except for logistical support, will be led and managed by the session team.</p>
<p>The sessions are expected to drive conversations on the topic concerned. They may include presentation of research papers but this is not mandatory.</p>
<p>We look forward to sessions that involve collaborative work (either in groups or otherwise) - discussions, interactions, documentation, learning, and (list-)making are most welcome.</p>
<p>We also look forward to sessions conducted in Indian languages apart from English. The proposing team, in such a case, should consider how participants who do not understand the language concerned may engage with the session. IRC organisers and other participants shall help facilitate these sessions, say by offering translation support.</p>
<p>The only eligibility criteria for proposing sessions are that they must be proposed by a team of at least two members, and that they must engage with the *list*.</p>
<p>The deadline for submission of sessions proposals for IRC19 is <strong>Sunday, November 18 (extended)</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>To propose a session, please send the following documents (as attached text files) to raw@cis-india.org:</strong></p>
<ul><li><strong>Session Title:</strong> The session should be named in the form of a hashtag (check the <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/proposed-sessions.html" target="_blank">sessions proposed for IRC18</a> for example).</li>
<li><strong>Session Plan:</strong> This should describe the objectives of the session (the motivations and expectations driving it), what will be done and discussed during the session, and who among the people organising the session will be responsible for what. This note need not be more than 500 words long. If your session involves inviting others to present their work (say papers), then please provide a description and timeline of the process through which these people will be identified.</li>
<li><strong>Session Team Details:</strong> Please share brief biographical notes of each member of the session team, and their email addresses.</li></ul>
<p><strong>IRC19 will be organised in Hyderabad during January 31 - February 2, 2019.</strong> We will announce the venue of the conference in December 2018.</p>
<p>There is no registration fee for the conference, but participants are expected to pay for their own travel and accommodation (to be organised by CIS) expenses. Limited funding will be available to support travel and accommodation expenses of few participants who are unemployed or underemployed.</p>
<p><strong>Session selection process:</strong></p>
<ul><li><strong>November 18, 2018 (extended):</strong> Deadline of submission of session proposals. All submitted sessions will be posted on the CIS website, along with the names of the session team members.</li>
<li><strong>November 23 - December 07:</strong> Session selection process. All session teams will select 10 sessions to be included in the IRC19 programme. The votes will be anonymous, that is no session team will know which other session teams have voted for their session. The sessions with most votes will be selected for the final programme of IRC19.</li>
<li><strong>December 14:</strong> Announcement of selected sessions, and of travel grants available for members of selected session teams.</li>
<li><strong>January 31 - February 2, 2019:</strong> IRC19 in Hyderabad!</li></ul>
<p> </p>
<p>
For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-call'>https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-call</a>
</p>
No publishersneha-ppResearchers at WorkInternet StudiesInternet Researcher's Conference2018-11-05T09:15:35ZBlog Entry Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List, Jan 30 - Feb 1, Lamakaan
https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list
<b>Who makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invited sessions and papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list* - to present or propose academic, applied, or creative works that explore its social, economic, cultural, material, political, affective, or aesthetic dimensions. IRC19 will be organised in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, during January 30 - February 1, 2019.</b>
<p> </p>
<h4>Venue: <a href="http://www.lamakaan.com/" target="_blank">Lamakaan</a>, Off Road 1, Near GVK Mall, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034</h4>
<h4>Location: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/grVp3tKUGiu" target="_blank">Google Maps</a></h4>
<h4>Conference Programme: <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/CIS_India/irc19-list-conference-programme" target="_blank">Read</a> (SlideShare) and <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-conference-programme/at_download/file">Download</a> (PDF)</h4>
<h4>Code of Conduct and Friendly Space Policy: <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-code-of-conduct-and-friendly-space-policy/at_download/file" target="_blank">Download</a> (PDF)</h4>
<h4>Poster: <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list/image" target="_blank">Download</a> (JPG)</h4>
<h4>Registration: Directly at the venue, it is a free and open conference</h4>
<hr />
<h3><strong>IRC19: #List</strong></h3>
<p>For the last several years, #MeToo and #LoSHA have set the course for rousing debates within feminist praxis and contemporary global politics. It also foregrounded the ubiquitous presence of the <em>list</em> in its various forms, not only on the internet but across diverse aspects of media culture. Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the <em>list</em> as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. Directed by the Supreme Court, the Government of India has initiated the National Register of Citizens process of creating an updated <em>list</em> of all Indian citizens in the state of Assam since 2015. This is a <em>list</em> that sets apart legal citizens from illegal immigrants, based on an extended and multi-phase process of announcement of draft <em>lists</em> and their revisions. NRC is producing a <em>list</em> with a specific question: who is a citizen and who is not? UIDAI has produced a <em>list</em> of unique identification number assigned to individuals: a <em>list</em> to connect/aggregate other <em>lists</em>, a <em>meta-list</em>.</p>
<p>From Mailing Lists to WhatsApp Broadcast Lists, <em>lists</em> have been the very basis of multi-casting capabilities of the early and the recent internets. The <em>list</em> - in terms of <em>list</em> of people receiving a message, <em>list</em> of machines connecting to a router or a tower, <em>list</em> of ‘friends’ and ‘followers’ ‘added’ to your social media persona - structures the open-ended multi-directional information flow possibilities of the internet. It simultaneously engenders networks of connected machines and bodies, topographies of media circulation, and social graphs of affective connections and consumptions. The epistemological, constitutive, and inscriptive functions of the <em>list</em>, as <a href="http://amodern.net/article/on-lists-and-networks/" target="_blank">Liam Young documents</a>, have been crucial to the creation of new infrastructures of knowledge, and to understand where the internet emerges as a challenge to these.</p>
<p>As a media format that is easy to create, circulate, and access (as seen in the number of rescue and relief lists that flood the web during national disasters) or one that is essential in classification and cross-referencing (such as public records and memory institutions), the <em>list</em> becomes an essential trope to understand new media forms today, as the skeletal frame on which much digital content and design is structured and consumed through.</p>
<ul>
<li>Who makes lists?</li>
<li>How are lists made?</li>
<li>Who can be on a list, and who is missing?</li>
<li>Who gets counted on lists, and who is counting?</li>
<li>What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender?</li>
<li>What modalities of creation and circulation of lists affords its authority, its simultaneous revelations and obfuscations?</li>
<li>What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious?</li>
<li>What makes lists ephemeral, and what makes their content robust?</li>
<li>What makes lists hegemonic, and what makes them intersectional?</li>
<li>What makes lists ordered, and what makes them unordered?</li>
<li>What do listicles do to habits of reading and creation of knowledge?</li>
<li>What new modes of questioning and meaning-making have manifested today in various practices of list-making?</li>
<li>How and when do lists became digital, and whatever happened to lists on paper?</li>
<li>Are there cultural economies of lists, list-making, and getting listed?</li>
<li>Are lists content or carriage, are they medium or message?</li></ul>
<p>For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invited sessions and papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list* - to present or propose academic, applied, or creative works that explore its social, economic, cultural, material, political, affective, or aesthetic dimensions.</p>
<h3><strong>Sessions</strong></h3>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-ayushmanbhavah" target="_blank">#AyushmanBhavah</a></strong> - Arya Lakshmi and Adrij Chakraborty</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-butitisnotfunny" target="_blank">#ButItIsNotFunny</a></strong> - Madhavi Shivaprasad and Sonali Sahoo</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-callingoutandin" target="_blank">#CallingOutAndIn</a></strong> - Usha Raman, Radhika Gajjala, Riddhima Sharma, Tarishi Varma, Pallavi Guha, Sai Amulya Komarraju, and Sugandha Sehgal</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-enlistingprivacy" target="_blank">#EnlistingPrivacy</a></strong> - Pawan Singh and Pranjal Jain</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-fomo" target="_blank">#FOMO</a></strong> - Pritha Chakrabarti and Dr. Baidurya Chakrabarti</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-legitlists" target="_blank">#LegitLists - Form follows function: List by design</a></strong> - Akriti Rastogi, Ishani Dey, and Sagorika Singha</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-listinterface" target="_blank">#ListInterface</a></strong> - Bharath Sivakumar, Rakshita Siva, and Deepak Prince</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-loshaandwhatfollowed" target="_blank">#LoSHAandWhatFollowed</a></strong> - Anannya Chatterjee, Arunima Singh, Bhanu Priya Gupta, Renu Singh, and Rhea Bose</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-powerlisting" target="_blank">#PowerListing</a></strong> - Dr. Shubhda Arora, Dr. Smitana Saikia, Prof. Nidhi Kalra, and Prof. Ravikant Kisana</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-storiesrecordslegendsrituals" target="_blank">#StoriesRecordsLegendsRituals</a></strong> - Priyanka, Aditya, Bhanu Prakash GS, Aishwarya, and Dinesh</p>
<h3><strong>Papers</strong></h3>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-selected-sessions-papers#brindaalakshmi" target="_blank">Orinam: An online list archiving queer history, activism, support, experiences and literature</a></strong> - Brindaalakshmi.K</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-selected-sessions-papers#gayas" target="_blank">De-duplicating amidst disaster: how rescue databases were made during 2018 Kerala floods</a></strong> - Gayas Eapen</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-selected-sessions-papers#monish-ranjit" target="_blank">Making the ‘Other’ Count: Categorizing ‘Self’ using the NRC</a></strong> - Khetrimayum Monish Singh and Ranjit Singh</p>
<h3><strong>About the IRC Series</strong></h3>
<p>Researchers and practitioners across the domains of arts, humanities, and social sciences have attempted to understand life on the internet, or life after the internet, and the way digital technologies mediate various aspects of our being today. These attempts have in turn raised new questions around understanding of digital objects, online lives, and virtual networks, and have contributed to complicating disciplinary assumptions, methods, conceptualisations, and boundaries.</p>
<p>The researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) initiated the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) series to address these concerns, and to create an annual temporary space in India, for internet researchers to gather and share experiences.</p>
<p>The IRC series is driven by the following interests:</p>
<ul>
<li>creating discussion spaces for researchers and practitioners studying internet in India and in other comparable regions,</li>
<li>foregrounding the multiplicity, hierarchies, tensions, and urgencies of the digital sites and users in India,</li>
<li>accounting for the various layers, conceptual and material, of experiences and usages of internet and networked digital media in India, and</li>
<li>exploring and practicing new modes of research and documentation necessitated by new (digital) objects of power/knowledge.</li></ul>
<p>The <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc16" target="_blank">first edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference</a> series was held in February 2016. It was hosted by the <a href="https://www.jnu.ac.in/SSS/CPS/" target="_blank">Centre for Political Studies</a> at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and was supported by the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund. The <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc17" target="_blank">second Internet Researchers' Conference</a> was organised in partnership with the <a href="http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/" target="_blank">Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy</a> (CITAPP) at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) campus on March 03-05, 2017. The <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc18" target="_blank">third Internet Researchers' Conference</a> was organised at the <a href="http://www.sambhaavnaa.org/" target="_blank">Sambhaavnaa Institute</a>, Kandbari (Himachal Pradesh) during February 22-24, 2018, and the theme of the conference was *offline*.</p>
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No publishersneha-ppInternet StudiesInternet Researcher's ConferenceIRC19Researchers at WorkEvent2019-01-31T06:41:38ZBlog EntryInternet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List - Selected Sessions and Papers
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<b>Here is the list of selected sessions and papers for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19) - #List. IRC19 will be held in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, from Jan 30 to Feb 1, 2019. The conference announcement, along with the final agenda, will be published on Monday, January 7.</b>
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<h4>Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List - <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-call" target="_blank">Call for Sessions</a></h4>
<h4>Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List - <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-call-papers" target="_blank">Call for Papers</a></h4>
<h4>Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List - <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-sessions" target="_blank">List of Proposed Sessions</a></h4>
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<h4>Selected Sessions</h4>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-ayushmanbhavah" target="_blank">#AyushmanBhavah</a> - Arya Lakshmi and Adrij Chakraborty <strong>(9 votes)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-butitisnotfunny" target="_blank">#ButItIsNotFunny</a> - Madhavi Shivaprasad and Sonali Sahoo <strong>(9 votes)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-callingoutandin" target="_blank">#CallingOutAndIn</a> - Usha Raman, Radhika Gajjala, Riddhima Sharma, Tarishi Varma, Pallavi Guha, Sai Amulya Komarraju, and Sugandha Sehgal <strong>(9 votes)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-enlistingprivacy" target="_blank">#EnlistingPrivacy</a> - Pawan Singh and Pranjal Jain <strong>(9 votes)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-fomo" target="_blank">#FOMO</a> - Pritha Chakrabarti and Dr. Baidurya Chakrabarti <strong>(9 votes)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-legitlists" target="_blank">#LegitLists - Form follows function: List by design</a> - Akriti Rastogi, Ishani Dey, and Sagorika Singha <strong>(9 votes)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-listinterface" target="_blank">#ListInterface</a> - Bharath Sivakumar, Rakshita Siva, and Deepak Prince <strong>(7 votes)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-loshaandwhatfollowed" target="_blank">#LoSHAandWhatFollowed</a> - Anannya Chatterjee, Arunima Singh, Bhanu Priya Gupta, Renu Singh, and Rhea Bose <strong>(7 votes)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-powerlisting" target="_blank">#PowerListing</a> - Dr. Shubhda Arora, Dr. Smitana Saikia, Prof. Nidhi Kalra, and Prof. Ravikant Kisana <strong>(10 votes)</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-proposed-session-storiesrecordslegendsrituals" target="_blank">#StoriesRecordsLegendsRituals</a> - Priyanka, Aditya, Bhanu Prakash GS, Aishwarya, and Dinesh <strong>(11 votes)</strong></p>
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<h4>Selected Papers</h4>
<p id="brindaalakshmi"><strong>Brindaalakshmi.K</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Orinam: An online list archiving queer history, activism, support, experiences and literature</em></strong></p>
<p>In July 2009, the Delhi High Court legalised homosexual acts among consenting adults. However, in 2013, the Supreme Court of India held that homosexuality between two consenting adults was illegal and reinstated Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. This section was reinstated under the pretext of the LGBTIQA+ community being a minuscule minority. The Supreme Court saw this as insufficient for declaring that Section 377 as going against Article 14, 15 and 21. However, on September 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of India passed the historic verdict reading down Section 377 to decriminalise homosexuality in India. In the time between 2013 and 2018, the LGBTIQA+ community struggled to their presence and rights. Different groups and organisations have worked on this.</p>
<p>One such collectives has been Orinam, an all-volunteer unregistered Chennai-based collective. Started in 2003, Orinam among other things, has also been recording queer experiences on its website since Dec 2005. These experiences of queer people and their families have been recorded in Tamil and English on Orinam’s blog, Our Voices as poetry, fiction, news, views, podcasts and reviews. The website also archives queer events in India through The Orinam Photo archives. Orinam has also been archiving the legal developments with respect to the rights of LGBTIQA+ community. This included legal documents, landmark verdicts, letters written by the family of queer individuals in multiple Indian languages to the Supreme Court to read down Section 377, among others <strong>[1]</strong>. These listings along with others, in turn also contributed to building the case for the legal battle to eventually read down Section 377.</p>
<p>This paper looks specifically at the functioning of Orinam based in Chennai that uses lists in a way to support a marginalised community acknowledging their realities and also keeping them alive in different ways. This is being done through its support resources, peer support, activism or archiving queer experiences in the form of literature and other media, both online and offline. This paper will trace Orinam’s work through the fifteen years of its existence as a listing and archiving platform supporting the LGBTIQA+ community.</p>
<p><strong>[1]</strong> Orinam@15: talk delivered at 15th Anniversary Celebrations. Dec 23, 2018</p>
<p><em>Brindaalakshmi is a member/volunteer of the Chennai based queer collective, Orinam; and is currently working with the Centre for Internet and Society, India, on a study on 'Gendering of Development Data in India'.</em></p>
<p id="gayas"><strong>Gayas Eapen</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>De-duplicating amidst disaster: how rescue databases were made during 2018 Kerala floods</em></strong></p>
<p>Natural disasters can be crucial time for making lists: of people in need of assistance, rescue, support, relief and other similar disaster-related operations. In lists concerning rescue, being on the list and not being on it could mean the difference of life and death. In which case it is important to consider: how do the processes which make such lists possible come about? How do they ensure that people are not left out of these lists? How they do they sort out redundancies? I study the lists made during the Kerala floods of 2018 to attempt to answer some of these questions.</p>
<p>As rescue requests started piling up on social media, a group of volunteers set up the web portal, keralarerscue.in, which later became the central database of all the rescue requests. The portal was unique in two fronts. First, the developers building the portal were volunteers from the community instead of being the state employees, but, nonetheless, worked in coordination with the the government and rescue agencies along with the feedback they were getting from people. Second, the rescue requests were being crowdsourced from people directly. This led to the duplication of requests, it wasn’t until much later that it was realized that crowdsourced information was not coming directly from the victims, but from people who were placing requests on their behalf.</p>
<p>In this paper I argue how feedback from the community, coupled with the personal investment of the programmers lead to improvements in the structuring and use of the database. I will delineate the concerns of de-duplication (process of removing redundancies) which posed a serious dilemma, of either deleting crucial information hence posing danger to people’s lives, or incurring loss of precious resources in chasing repeated rescue requests.</p>
<p>I argue that the streamlining of programming operations by developing methods such as ticketing system (of labelling the urgency or marking completion of rescue requests by telephonically confirming them) were made possible because of a participatory model of building lists. Those involved in the technical creation of the lists identified closely with the experiences of the people stuck in the flood. The solution, which involved not deleting names of people but instead undertaking another painstaking scrutinizing operation even in a time sensitive environment, can be placed in stark contrast to how lists have been created by state or corporate agencies in similar crucial situations.</p>
<p><em>Gayas is an assistant professor of English and Journalism (as part of the Resident Expert Panel, 2018-19) at Dayapuram Arts and Science College, Kozhikode, University of Calicut.</em></p>
<p id="monish-ranjit"><strong>Khetrimayum Monish Singh and Ranjit Singh</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Making the ‘Other’ Count: Categorizing ‘Self’ using the NRC</em></strong></p>
<p>This paper focuses on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) as a case study to discuss legal and administrative challenges in categorizing Assamese residents as citizens of India. At a fundamental level, lists manifest a binary of categories: people who are on the list and others who are not. However, the process of achieving this binary distinction, especially in the exercise of updating NRC, has required bureaucratic accounting of a wide variety of Assameseresidents who neither are completely on the list nor completely off it. This paper specifically focuses on instances of inclusion and exclusion of three categories of Assamese residents in the process of updating the NRC: (i) Original Inhabitants (OI), (ii) Doubtful Voters (D-Voters), and (ii) Women applicants who have been excluded from the list because of the lack of appropriate bureaucratic documents. As an administrative exercise, the NRC as a citizen identification project is a moment where temporalities of NRC as a classification system does not map onto the individual biographies of a variety of Assamese residents as outlined above. In such moments of ‘torque’ (Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Sorting things out: Classifications and its consequences, 2000), listing (or the process of making a list) is not simply bureaucratic accounting; it is also a lived experience of mismatch and the struggle that follows in efforts to secure representation through listing. We show that while the NRC update in
Assam may itself be driven by anxieties around illegal immigration, the attempts to technologically, legally, and politically categorize the ‘other’ using the information infrastructure of NRC have profound consequences on the ‘self’ of India as a nation state.</p>
<p><em>Monish is a Programme Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society, India; and Ranjit is a PhD candidate at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Internet and Society, India.</em></p>
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<h4>Notes</h4>
<p>The sessions have been selected based on the votes submitted by all the session teams (that proposed a session for IRC19). Please find details of this process in the <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc19-list-call" target="_blank">Call for Sessions</a> page. The papers have been selected by the researchers@work team.</p>
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No publishersneha-ppResearchers at WorkInternet StudiesInternet Researcher's ConferenceIRC192019-01-21T12:11:35ZBlog EntryInternet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List - Call for Papers
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<b>Who makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invite papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list*. </b>
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<h3><strong>Call for Papers</strong></h3>
<h4>For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invite papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list* - to present or propose academic, applied, or creative works that explore its social, economic, cultural, material, political, affective, or aesthetic dimensions.</h4>
<p>Paper abstracts (of not more than 500 words) are to be submitted by <strong>Sunday, December 23</strong> via email sent to <strong>raw@cis-india.org</strong>.</p>
<p>Authors of selected paper abstracts will be informed by Monday, December 31, and will be expected to present the full paper (either in person, or remotely) at the IRC19 - #List, to be held in Hyderabad during Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2019.</p>
<p>Selected paper authors, who are unemployed or underemployed, will be offered support to cover travel expenses fully/partially.</p>
<p>The only eligibility criteria for submitting papers is that they must engage with the thematic of the conference - *list*.</p>
<h3><strong>IRC19: List</strong></h3>
<p>For the last several years, #MeToo and #LoSHA have set the course for rousing debates within feminist praxis and contemporary global politics. It also foregrounded the ubiquitous presence of the list in its various forms, not only on the internet but across diverse aspects of media culture. Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. Directed by the Supreme Court, the Government of India has initiated the National Register of Citizens process of creating an updated list of all Indian citizens in the state of Assam since 2015. This is a list that sets apart legal citizens from illegal immigrants, based on an extended and multi-phase process of announcement of draft lists and their revisions. NRC is producing a list with a specific question: who is a citizen and who is not? UIDAI has produced a list of unique identification number assigned to individuals: a list to connect/aggregate other lists, a meta-list.</p>
<p>From Mailing Lists to WhatsApp Broadcast Lists, lists have been the very basis of multi-casting capabilities of the early and the recent internets. The list - in terms of list of people receiving a message, list of machines connecting to a router or a tower, list of ‘friends’ and ‘followers’ ‘added’ to your social media persona - structures the open-ended multi-directional information flow possibilities of the internet. It simultaneously engenders networks of connected machines and bodies, topographies of media circulation, and social graphs of affective connections and consumptions. The epistemological, constitutive, and inscriptive functions of the list, as Liam Young documents, have been crucial to the creation of new infrastructures of knowledge, and to understand where the internet emerges as a challenge to these.</p>
<p>As a media format that is easy to create, circulate, and access (as seen in the number of rescue and relief lists that flood the web during national disasters) or one that is essential in classification and cross-referencing (such as public records and memory institutions), the list becomes an essential trope to understand new media forms today, as the skeletal frame on which much digital content and design is structured and consumed through.</p>
<ul>
<li>Who makes lists?</li>
<li>How are lists made?</li>
<li>Who can be on a list, and who is missing?</li>
<li>Who gets counted on lists, and who is counting?</li>
<li>What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender?</li>
<li>What modalities of creation and circulation of lists affords its authority, its simultaneous revelations and obfuscations?</li>
<li>What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious?</li>
<li>What makes lists ephemeral, and what makes their content robust?</li>
<li>What makes lists hegemonic, and what makes them intersectional?</li>
<li>What makes lists ordered, and what makes them unordered?</li>
<li>What do listicles do to habits of reading and creation of knowledge?</li>
<li>What new modes of questioning and meaning-making have manifested today in various practices of list-making?</li>
<li>How and when do lists became digital, and whatever happened to lists on paper?</li>
<li>Are there cultural economies of lists, list-making, and getting listed?</li>
<li>Are lists content or carriage, are they medium or message?</li></ul>
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No publishersneha-ppResearchers at WorkInternet StudiesInternet Researcher's ConferenceIRC192018-12-06T07:00:30ZBlog EntryInternet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline, February 22-24, Sambhaavnaa Institute
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<b>We are proud to announce that the third edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference series will be held at the Sambhaavnaa Institute, Kandbari (Himachal Pradesh) during February 22-24, 2018. This annual conference series was initiated by the Researchers@Work (RAW) programme at CIS in 2016 to gather researchers, academic or otherwise, studying internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward. The *offline* is the theme of the 2018 edition of the conference (IRC18), and the conference agenda will be shaped by nine sessions selected by all the teams that submitted session proposals, and an independent paper track consisting of six presentations.</b>
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<h4>Venue: <a href="http://www.sambhaavnaa.org/" target="_blank">Sambhaavnaa Institute</a>, Kandbari, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, 176061</h4>
<h4>Travel Information: <a href="http://www.sambhaavnaa.org/contact/how-to-reach-us/" target="_blank">Getting to Sambhaavnaa</a> (Sambhaavnaa Institute)</h4>
<h4>Weather in Kandbari: <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/in/palampur/198333/daily-weather-forecast/198333?day=8" target="_blank">10°-20°c with possibility of light shower</a> (AccuWeather)</h4>
<h4>Registration: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/H4kYubotpBgN5hFE3" target="_blank">RSVP</a> (Google Drive)</h4>
<h4>Agenda: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KvfsYRCafNcjoGkocVRxbsH_N9dI51k7me7nC8R1LY4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Conference Programme</a> (Google Drive)</h4>
<h4>Poster: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cis-india/irc/master/irc18/IRC18_Poster.png" target="_blank">Download</a> (JPG)</h4>
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<img src="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc18-offline-call/image" alt="IRC18: Offline - Call for Sessions" width="45%" />
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<h3><strong>IRC18: Offline</strong></h3>
<p>Does being offline necessarily mean being disconnected? Beyond anxieties such as FOMO, being offline is also seen as disengagement from a certain milieu of the digital (read: capital), an impediment to the way life is organised by and around technologies in general. However, being offline is not the exception, as examples of internet shutdown and acts on online censorship illustrate the persistence and often alarming regularity of the offline even for the ‘connected’ sections of the population.</p>
<p>State and commercial providers of internet and telecommunication services work in tandem to produce both the “online” and the “offline” - through content censorship, internet regulation, generalised service provision failures, and so on. Further, efforts to prioritise the use of digital technologies for financial transactions, especially since demonetisation, has led to a not-so-subtle equalisation of the ‘online economy’ with the ‘formal economy’; thus recognising the offline as the zones of informality, corruption, and piracy. This contributes to the offline becoming invisible, and in many cases, illegal, rather than being recognised as a condition that necessarily informs what it means to be digital.</p>
<p>Who is offline, and is it a choice? The global project of bringing people online has spurred several commendable initiatives in expanding access to digital devices, networks, and content, and often contentious ones such as Free Basics / internet.org, which illustrate the intersectionalities of scale, privilege, and rights that we need to be mindful of when we imagine the offline. Further, the experience of the internet, for a large section of people is often mediated through prior and ongoing experiences of traditional media, and through cultural metaphors and cognitive frames that transcend more practical registers such as consumption and facilitation. How do we approach, study, and represent this disembodied internet – devoid of its hypertext, platforms, devices, it's nuts and bolts, but still tangible through engagement in myriad, personal and often indiscernible ways.</p>
For the third edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC18), we invite participants to critically discuss the *offline*. We invite sessions that present or propose academic, applied, creative, or technical works that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the *offline*.
<h3><strong>Sessions</strong></h3>
<p><strong>#OnlineGovernanceOfflineGovernment</strong> - Mohammad Javed Alam and Suman Mandal - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/sessions/onlinegovernanceofflinegovernment.html">Session Details</a></p>
<p><strong>#WomenInTech</strong> - Priyanka Chaudhuri and Tripti Jain - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/sessions/womenintech.html">Session Details</a></p>
<p><strong>#Cyberflesh</strong> - Akriti Rastogi, Ishani Dey, and Sagorika Singha - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/sessions/cyberflesh.html">Session Details</a></p>
<p><strong>#RethinkingTheVirtualPublic</strong> - Daisy Barman and Aamir Qayoom - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/sessions/rethinkingthevirtualpublic.html">Session Details</a></p>
<p><strong>#FeminismIRL</strong> - Mamatha Karollil, the SIVE Collective, and Tara Atluri - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/sessions/feminismirl.html">Session Details</a></p>
<p><strong>#ILoveYou</strong> - Dhiren Borisa and Dhrubo Jyoti - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/sessions/iloveyou.html">Session Details</a></p>
<p><strong>#CollectionAndIdentity</strong> - Ravi Shukla, Rajiv Mishra, and Mrutyunjay Mishra - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/sessions/collectionandidentity.html">Session Details</a></p>
<p><strong>#FollowUsOffline</strong> - Dinesh, Farah Yameen, Afrah Shafiq, and Bhanu Prakash GS - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/sessions/followusoffline.html">Session Details</a></p>
<p><strong>#OfSiegesAndShutdowns</strong> - Chinmayi S. K. and Rohini Lakshané - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/sessions/ofsiegesandshutdowns.html">Session Details</a></p>
<h3><strong>Papers</strong></h3>
<p><strong>Slow journalism and the temporalities of the offline</strong> - Akshata Pai - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/selected-papers.html#slow-journalism">Paper Abstract</a></p>
<p><strong>Campus campaigns: User perceptions in pre-digital and digital eras</strong> - Arjun Ghosh - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/selected-papers.html#campus-campaigns">Paper Abstract</a></p>
<p><strong>The many lives of food: Blogs to books and back</strong> - Dhrupadi Chattopadhyay - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/selected-papers.html#lives-of-food">Paper Abstract</a></p>
<p><strong>Feminism in digital age</strong> - Putul Sathe - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/selected-papers.html#feminism-digital">Paper Abstract</a></p>
<p><strong>Marathi literary criticism in the era of social media</strong> - Rajashree Patil - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/selected-papers.html#marathi-literary-social">Paper Abstract</a></p>
<p><strong>Taking open science offline</strong> - Shreyashi Ray - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/selected-papers.html#open-science">Paper Abstract</a></p>
<h3><strong>About the IRC Series</strong></h3>
<p>The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) initiated the <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/index.html">Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC)</a> series to address these concerns, and to create an annual temporary space in India, for internet researchers to gather and share experiences.</p>
<p>The IRC series is driven by the following interests:</p>
<ul><li>creating discussion spaces for researchers and practitioners studying internet in India and in other comparable regions,</li>
<li>foregrounding the multiplicity, hierarchies, tensions, and urgencies of the digital sites and users in India, accounting for the various layers, conceptual and material, of experiences and usages of internet and networked digital media in India, and</li>
<li>exploring and practicing new modes of research and documentation necessitated by new (digital) objects of power/knowledge.</li></ul>
<p>The <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc16">first edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference</a> series was held in February 2016. It was hosted by the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and was supported by the CSCS Digital Innovation Fund. The <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc17">second Internet Researchers' Conference</a> was organised in partnership with the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP) at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) campus on March 03-05, 2017.</p>
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No publishersumandroResearchers at WorkInternet StudiesEventInternet Researcher's Conference2018-07-02T18:30:52ZBlog EntryInternet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline - Call for Sessions
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<b>Does being offline necessarily mean being disconnected? Beyond anxieties such as FOMO, being offline is also seen as disengagement from a certain milieu of the digital (read: capital), an impediment to the way life is organised by and around technologies in general. However, being offline is not the exception, as examples of internet shutdown and acts on online censorship illustrate the persistence and often alarming regularity of the offline even for the ‘connected’ sections of the population. The *offline* is the theme of the third Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC18). We invite teams of two or more members to submit sessions proposals by Sunday, November 19 (final deadline). The session selection process is described below. The Conference will be hosted by the Sambhaavnaa Institute of Public Policy and Politics (Kandbari, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh) on February 22-24, 2018.</b>
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<h4><a href="#offline">IRC18: Offline</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#call">Call for Sessions</a></h4>
<h4><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/proposed-sessions.html" target="_blank">Proposed Sessions</a> (Conference Website)</h4>
<h4><a href="http://www.sambhaavnaa.org/" target="_blank">Sambhaavnaa Institute of Public Policy and Politics</a> (External Link)</h4>
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<h3 id="offline"><strong>IRC18: Offline</strong></h3>
<p>Does being offline necessarily mean being disconnected? Beyond anxieties such as FOMO, being offline is also seen as disengagement from a certain milieu of the digital (read: capital), an impediment to the way life is organised by and around technologies in general. However, being offline is not the exception, as examples of internet shutdown and acts on online censorship illustrate the persistence and often alarming regularity of the offline even for the ‘connected’ sections of the population.</p>
<p>State and commercial providers of internet and telecommunication services work in tandem to produce both the “online” and the “offline” - through content censorship, internet regulation, generalised service provision failures, and so on. Further, efforts to prioritise the use of digital technologies for financial transactions, especially since demonetisation, has led to a not-so-subtle equalisation of the ‘online economy’ with the ‘formal economy’; thus recognising the offline as the zones of informality, corruption, and piracy. This contributes to the offline becoming invisible, and in many cases, illegal, rather than being recognised as a condition that necessarily informs what it means to be digital.</p>
<p>Who is offline, and is it a choice? The global project of bringing people online has spurred several commendable initiatives in expanding access to digital devices, networks, and content, and often contentious ones such as Free Basics / internet.org, which illustrate the intersectionalities of scale, privilege, and rights that we need to be mindful of when we imagine the offline. Further, the experience of the internet, for a large section of people is often mediated through prior and ongoing experiences of traditional media, and through cultural metaphors and cognitive frames that transcend more practical registers such as consumption and facilitation. How do we approach, study, and represent this disembodied internet – devoid of its hypertext, platforms, devices, it's nuts and bolts, but still tangible through engagement in myriad, personal and often indiscernible ways.</p>
<h4>For the third edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC18), we invite participants to critically discuss the *offline*. We invite sessions that present or propose academic, applied, creative, or technical works that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the *offline*.</h4>
<p>For example, the sessions may explore one or more of the following themes:</p>
<ul><li>Geographies of internet access: Infrastructural, socio-political, and discursive forces and contradictions</li>
<li>Terms, objects, metaphors, and events of the internet and their offline remediation and circulation</li>
<li>Minimal computing, maker cultures, and digital collaboration and creativity in the offline</li>
<li>Offline economic cultures and transition towards less-cash economy</li>
<li>Offline as democratic choice: the right to offline lives in the context of global debates on privacy, surveillance, and data justice</li>
<li>Methodologies of studying the *offline* at the intersections of offline and online lives</li></ul>
<p><strong>Please note that the above are not sub-themes or tracks under which a session should be proposed, but are illustrations of possible session themes and concerns.</strong></p>
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<h3 id="call"><strong>Call for Sessions</strong></h3>
<p>We invite teams of two or more members to propose sessions for IRC18. All sessions will be one and half hours long, and will be fully designed and facilitated by the team concerned, including moderation (if any). Please remember this when planning the session. Everything happening during the session, except for logistical support, will be led and managed by the session team.</p>
<p>The sessions are expected to drive conversations on the topic concerned. They may include presentation of research papers but this is not mandatory.</p>
<p>We look forward to sessions that involve collaborative work (either in groups or otherwise), including discussions, interactions, documentation, learning, and making, are most welcome.</p>
<p>We also look forward to sessions conducted in Indic languages. The proposing team, in such a case, should consider how participants who do not understand the language concerned may engage with the session. IRC organisers and other participants shall help facilitate these sessions, say by offering translation support.</p>
<p>The only eligibility criteria for proposing sessions are that they must be proposed by a team of at least two members, and that they must engage with the *offline*.</p>
<p>The deadline for submission of sessions proposals for IRC18 is <strong>Sunday, November 19 (final deadline)</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>To propose a session, please send the following documents (as attached text files) to raw@cis-india.org:</strong></p>
<ul><li><strong>Title of the Session:</strong> The session should be named in the form of a hashtag (check the <a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/irc17-selected-sessions">IRC17 selected sessions</a> for example).</li>
<li><strong>Context of the Session:</strong> This should be a 300 words note discussing the context, the motivations, and the expectations behind the proposed session.</li>
<li><strong>Session Plan:</strong> This should describe the objectives of the session, what will be done and discussed during the session, and who among the people organising the session will be responsible for what. This note need not be more than 300 words long. If your session involves inviting others to present their work (say papers), then please provide a description and timeline of the process through which these people will be identified.</li>
<li><strong>Session Team Details:</strong> Please share brief biographic notes of each member of the session team, and contact details.</li></ul>
<p>There is no registration fee for the Conference, but participants are expected to pay for their own travel and accommodation (to be organised by CIS) expenses. Limited funding will be available to support travel and accommodation expenses of few participants who are unemployed or under-employed.</p>
<p><strong>Session selection process:</strong></p>
<ul><li><strong>November 19:</strong> Deadline of submission of session proposals.All submitted sessions will be posted on the CIS website, along with the names and details of the session team members.</li>
<li><strong>November 20 - December 17:</strong> Open review period. All session teams, as well as other interested contributors, are invited to review and comment upon each other's submitted proposals and revise their own. Read the proposed sessions here: <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc18/proposed-sessions.html">Conference Website</a>.</li>
<li><strong>December 18-31:</strong> The selection process takes place. All session teams will select 10 sessions to be included in the IRC18 programme. The votes will be anonymous, that is no session team will know which other sessions have voted for their session.</li>
<li><strong>January 08:</strong> Announcement of selected sessions.</li>
<li><strong>February 22-24:</strong> IRC18 at Sambhaavnaa Institute!</li></ul>
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No publishersneha-ppResearchers at WorkInternet Researcher's ConferenceIRC18RAW Events2017-11-29T12:30:13ZBlog Entry Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of Sessions
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<b>We have a wonderful range of session proposals for the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) to take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals, we will now select 10 to be part of the final Conference agenda. The selection will be done through votes casted by the teams that have proposed the sessions. This will take place in December 2016. Before that, we invite the session teams and other contributors to share their comments and suggestions on the submitted sessions. Please share your comments by December 14, either on session pages directly, or via email (sent to raw at cis-india dot org).</b>
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<p>The Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) will be organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in partnership with the <a href="http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/">Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy</a> at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B).</p>
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<h3><strong>Proposed Sessions</strong></h3>
<h4>01. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/notfewnotweird.html" target="_blank">#NotFewNotWeird</a> (Surfatial: Malavika Rajnarayan, Prayas Abhinav, and Satya Gummuluri)</h4>
<h4>02. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/virtualfringe.html" target="_blank">#VirtualFringe</a> (Ritika Pant, Sagorika Singha, and Vibhushan Subba)</h4>
<h4>03. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/studentindicusageonline.html" target="_blank">#StudentIndicUsageOnline</a> (Shruti Nagpal and Sneha Verghese)</h4>
<h4>04. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/speakmylanguageinternet.html" target="_blank">#SpeakMyLanguageInternet</a> (Anubhuti Yadav, Sunetra Sen Narayan, Shalini Narayanan, Anand Pradhan, and Shashwati Goswami)</h4>
<h4>05. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/archivesforstorytelling.html" target="_blank">#ArchivesForStorytelling</a> (V Jayant, Venkat Srinivasan, Chaluvaraju, Bhanu Prakash, and Dinesh)</h4>
<h4>06. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/selfiesfromthefield.html" target="_blank">#SelfiesFromTheField</a> (Kavitha Narayanan, Oindrila Matilal and Onkar Hoysala)</h4>
<h4>07. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/openaccessscholarlypublishing.html" target="_blank">#OpenAccessScholarlyPublishing</a> (Nirmala Menon, Abhishek Shrivastava and Dibyaduti Roy)</h4>
<h4>08. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalpedagogies.html" target="_blank">#DigitalPedagogies</a> (Nidhi Kalra, Ashutosh Potdar, and Ravikant Kisana)</h4>
<h4>09. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalmusicanddigitalreactions.html" target="_blank">#DigitalMusicAndDigitalReactions</a> (Shivangi Narayan and Sarvpriya Raj)</h4>
<h4>10. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/renarrationweb.html" target="_blank">#RenarrationWeb</a> (Dinesh, Venkatesh Choppella, Srinath Srinivasa, and Deepak Prince)</h4>
<h4>11. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/indiclanguagesandinternetcohabitation.html" target="_blank">IndicLanguagesAndInternetCoHabitation</a> (Sreedhar Kallahalla, Ranjeet Kumar, Mohan Rao, and Anjali K. Mohan)</h4>
<h4>12. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalpedagogy.html" target="_blank">#DigitalPedagogy</a> (Padmini Ray Murray and Dibyaduti Roy)</h4>
<h4>13. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/copyleftrightleft.html" target="_blank">#CopyLeftRightLeft</a> (Ravishankar Ayyakkannu and Srikanth Lakshmanan)</h4>
<h4>14. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/objectsofdigitalgovernance.html" target="_blank">#ObjectsofDigitalGovernance</a> (Marine Al Dahdah, Rajiv K. Mishra, Khetrimayum Monish Singh, and Sohan Prasad Sha)</h4>
<h4>15. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/materializingwriting.html" target="_blank">#MaterializingWriting</a> (Sneha Puthiya Purayil, Padmini Ray Murray, Dibyadyuti Roy, and Indrani Roy)</h4>
<h4>16. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/dotbharatadoption.html" target="_blank">#DotBharatAdoption</a> (V. Sridhar and Amit Prakash)</h4>
<h4>17. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitaldesires.html" target="_blank">#DigitalDesires</a> (Dhiren Borisa, Akhil Kang, and Dhrubo Jyoti)</h4>
<h4>18. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/thedigitalcommonplace.html" target="_blank">#TheDigitalCommonplace</a> (Ammel Sharon and Sujeet George)</h4>
<h4>19. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalidentities.html" target="_blank">#DigitalIdentities</a> (Janaki Srinivasan, Savita Bailur, Emrys Schoemaker, Jonathan Donner, and Sarita Seshagiri)</h4>
<h4>20. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/toolstoamultitextuniverse.html" target="_blank">#ToolsToAMultitextUniverse</a> (Spandana Bhowmik and Sunanda Bose)</h4>
<h4>21. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalisingknowledge.html" target="_blank">#DigitalisingKnowledge</a> (Sneha Ragavan)</h4>
<h4>22. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/ICTDethics.html" target="_blank">#ICTDEthics</a> (Bidisha Chaudhuri, Andy Dearden, Linus Kendall, Dorothea Kleine, and Janaki Srinivasan)</h4>
<h4>23. <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/representationandpower.html" target="_blank">#RepresentationAndPower</a> (Bidisha Chaudhuri, Andy Dearden, Linus Kendall, Dorothea Kleine, and Janaki Srinivasan)</h4>
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No publishersumandroInternet StudiesInternet Researcher's ConferenceResearchers at WorkFeaturedLearningIRC17Homepage2016-12-12T13:37:23ZBlog EntryInternet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selected Sessions
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<b>With great pleasure we announce the eleven sessions selected for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) to be held at the IIIT Bangalore campus during March 03-05. The Conference is being organised by the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP) at IIIT Bangalore and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).</b>
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<h3><strong>Session Selection Process</strong></h3>
<p>A total of 23 session proposals were submitted for IRC17, which were <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/proposed-sessions.html">published online</a>. All the session teams, as well as any interested persons, were invited on November 16 to submit comments on the initial session proposals. We closed accepting comments on December 23, and the sessions teams had up to December 30 to re-submit their proposals. On January 01, we invited each team to nominate 10 sessions to be included in the final agenda of the Conference, and this nomination process ended on January 19.</p>
<p>We received 200 nominations from 20 teams. Two teams retracted their session proposals during the selection process - <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/copyleftrightleft.html">#CopyLeftRightLeft</a> and <a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalisingknowledge.html">#DigitalisingKnowledge</a>. And one team proposed two sessions, and so it only submitted one set of nominations.</p>
<h3><strong>Selected Sessions</strong></h3>
<p>The following 11 sessions have received 10 or more nominations:</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/archivesforstorytelling.html">05. #ArchivesForStorytelling</a></strong> - 11 nominations<br />
<strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/selfiesfromthefield-revised.html">06. #SelfiesFromTheField</a></strong> - 10 nominations<br />
<strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/openaccessscholarlypublishing.html">07. #OpenAccessScholarlyPublishing</a></strong> - 11 nominations<br />
<strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalpedagogies.html">08. #DigitalPedagogies</a></strong> - 10 nominations<br />
<strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/renarrationweb.html">10. #RenarrationWeb</a></strong> - 14 nominations<br />
<strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/indiclanguagesandinternetcohabitation.html">11. #IndicLanguagesAndInternetCoHabitation</a></strong> - 12 nominations<br />
<strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/objectsofdigitalgovernance.html">14. #ObjectsofDigitalGovernance</a></strong> - 10 nominations<br />
<strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/materializingwriting.html">15. #MaterializingWriting</a></strong> - 10 nominations<br />
<strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/dotbharatadoption.html">16. #DotBharatAdoption</a></strong> - 14 nominations<br />
<strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/hookingup-revised.html">17. #HookingUp</a></strong> - 11 nominations<br />
<strong><a href="https://cis-india.github.io/irc/irc17/sessions/digitalidentities.html">19. #DigitalIdentities</a></strong> - 13 nominations</p>
<h3><strong>Dates and Venue</strong></h3>
<p>The IRC17 will take place during March 03-05, 2017 at the <a href="http://iiitb.ac.in/">International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B)</a> campus. It is being organised by the <a href="http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/">Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP)</a> at IIIT-B and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).</p>
<h3><strong>Conference Programme</strong></h3>
<p>The IRC17 programme will be published in early February. Please join the <a href="https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/researchers">researchers@cis-india</a> mailing list to get updates about IRC17 and to take part in the pre-conference conversations.</p>
<h3><strong>Accommodation and Travel</strong></h3>
<p>Accommodation of all non-Bangalore-based team members of the selected sessions, during the days of the Conference, will be organised by CIS. We will write to the teams concerned directly regarding this.</p>
<p>Separately, CIS will offer 10 travel grants, up to Rs. 10,000 each, for within-India travel. Participants who are unemployed or semi-employed, including students, would be given priority.</p>
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