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One For All
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Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 17, 2013
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Mar 04, 2013 04:13 AM
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Accessibility
The importance of making information accessible and universal.
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Back When the Past had a Future: Being Precarious in a Network Society
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 12, 2013
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Feb 12, 2013 06:16 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Habits of Living,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Humanities
We live in Network Societies. This phrase has been so bastardised to refer to the new information turn mediated by digital technologies, that we have stopped paying attention to what the Network has become. Networks are everywhere. They have become the default metaphor of our times, where everything from infrastructure assemblies to collectives of people, are all described through the lens of a network.
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Remembering Aaron Swartz, Taking Up the Fight
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 28, 2013
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Jan 28, 2013 04:51 AM
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filed under:
Openness
I encountered the Aaron Swartz memorial the other day that helps ‘liberate’ a randomly selected article from JSTOR, as an act of civil disobedience, to commemorate both the legacy that Swartz leaves behind, but also the high-profile witch-hunt case which was a crucial factor in him taking his own life.
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Habits of Living: Networked Affects, Glocal Effects
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 26, 2013
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filed under:
Habits of Living,
Digital Humanities
Brown University is organizing an international conference that elucidates the networked conditions of our times, how they produce ways, conditions, and habits of life and living, how they spread local actions globally. The conference will be held from March 21 to 23, 2013 at Brown University, Rhode Island.
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The Violence of Knowledge Cartels
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 18, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Access
We are all struck with a sense of loss, grief and shock since we heard of the death of Aaron Swartz, by suicide. People who have been his friends have written heart-felt obituaries, saluting his dreams and visions and unwavering commitment to a larger social good.
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Web of Sameness
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 18, 2013
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The social Web has been an ominous space at the start of 2013. It has been awash with horror, pain and grief. The recent gang rape and death of a medical student in Delhi prevents one from being too optimistic about the year to come. My live feeds on various social networks are filled with rue and rage at the gruesome incident and the seeming depravity of our society.
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Tomorrow, Today
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 29, 2012
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last modified
Jan 02, 2013 05:00 AM
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Our present is the future that our past had imagined. Around the same time last year, I remember taking stock of the technologies that we live with and wondering what 2012 would bring in.
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Not Just Fancy Television
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 08, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:45 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Book Review,
Digital Natives
Nishant Shah reviews Ben Hammersley's book "64 Things You Need to Know for Then: How to Face the Digital Future Without Fear ", published by Hodder & Stoughton
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So Much to Lose
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 02, 2012
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last modified
Dec 07, 2012 04:39 PM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have been a witness to the maelstrom of events that accompanied the death of the political leader Bal Thackeray.
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Alt needs to Shift
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 18, 2012
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:03 AM
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filed under:
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Humanities
People maybe talking more online, but they all seem to be talking about the same kind of thing.
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