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The Age of Shame
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Mar 30, 2014
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last modified
Apr 04, 2014 04:05 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
The ability to capture private images is breeding a dangerous form of digital shaming. Within the online space, where wonderments often run rife, and conspiracy theories travel at the speed of light, there are many dark recesses where netizens half-jokingly, self-referentially, in a spirit of part-truth, part-exaggeration, often wonder on what the real reason is for the internet to exist.
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Internet Governance
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Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards Thinking the Nature of Internet Policy
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 04, 2014
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filed under:
Internet Governance
This post by Nishant Shah is part of a series related to the 2014 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy: The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet in a Time Of Surveillance and Disclosure, which takes place in Vienna, Austria from March 30 – April 1, 2014.
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Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology and Practice
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Mar 20, 2014
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last modified
Apr 07, 2014 04:07 AM
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filed under:
Gender,
Digital Humanities
Dr. Nishant Shah was a panelist at a workshop jointly organized by HUMlab and UCGS (Umeå Centre for Gender Studies) at Umeå University from March 12 to 14, 2014. He blogged about the conference.
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RAW
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Digital Humanities
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Will You be Paid to Post a Picture?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 18, 2014
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last modified
Mar 06, 2014 11:58 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Internet Governance
The wave of free information production on the web is on the wane.
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Defending the Humanities in the Digital Age
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 24, 2014
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last modified
Mar 06, 2014 11:40 AM
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filed under:
Digital Humanities
The author says that he is trying to take the formulation of digital humanities as a history-in-making where we might still be able to salvage the humanities from being soft-skills and our pedagogies from becoming reduced to MOOCs.
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RAW
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Digital Humanities
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The Internet Way
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 14, 2014
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filed under:
Internet Governance
Dr. Nishant Shah's review of the book “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” by Bantam Press/Random House Group, London was published in Biblio Vol. 19 No.8 (1&2), January – February 2014.
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10 Ways to Say Nothing New
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 31, 2014
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last modified
Apr 14, 2015 01:17 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies
The rise of the listicle, a safe, non-thinking information piece that tells us what we already know.
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Digital Natives
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History of the Internet: Building Conceptual Frameworks
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 31, 2013
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last modified
Jan 08, 2014 07:56 AM
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filed under:
Internet Access
In this module Nishant Shah analyses the understanding of the Internet, cyberspace and everyday life and why do we need to know the history of the internet.
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Telecom
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Knowledge Repository on Internet Access
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Digital Native
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 22, 2013
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last modified
Apr 17, 2015 10:40 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Web Politics,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
The end of the year is supposed to be a happy, feel-good space for families, friends, societies and communities to come together and count our blessings. It is the time to look at things that have gone by and look forward to what the New Year will bring.
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Digital Natives
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How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 30, 2013
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filed under:
Openness,
Open Content,
Access to Knowledge
I have spent the last month being unpopular. I have been in conversation with many ‘Open Everything’ activists and practitioners. At each instance, we got stuck because I insisted that we begin by defining what ‘Open’ means in the easy abuse that it is subject to.
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