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Blog Entry Of Surrogate Futures and Scattered Temporalities
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 28, 2011 — last modified Dec 30, 2011 10:15 AM — filed under:
There can be no refuting Michael Edwards’ claim that the world we live in is not only thick with problems, but that the problems that we are collectively trying to address are ‘thick...complex, politicized and unpredictable...complicated and contested’.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Digitally Analogue
by Nishant Shah — published May 28, 2012 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:00 PM — filed under: , ,
Why there is nothing strictly analogue anymore, examines Nishant Shah in this column that he wrote for the Indian Express.
Located in Digital Natives
IT and the cITy
by Nishant Shah — published Sep 17, 2009 — last modified Sep 18, 2009 10:45 AM — filed under: , , , , , , ,
Nishant Shah tells ten stories of relationship between Internet Technologies and the City, drawing from his experiences of seven months in Shanghai. In this introduction to the city, he charts out first experiences of the physical spaces of Shanghai and how they reflect the IT ambitions and imaginations of the city. He takes us through the dizzying spaces of Shanghai to see how the architecture and the buildings of the city do not only house the ICT infrastructure but also embody it in their unfolding. In drawing the seductive nature of embodied technology in the physical experience of Shanghai, he also points out why certain questions about the rise of internet technologies and the reconfiguration of the Shanghai-Pudong area have never been asked. In this first post, he explains his methdologies that inform the framework which will produce the ten stories of technology and Shanghai, and how this new IT City, delivers its promise of invisibility.
Located in Research / Collaborative Projects Programme / The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
China's Generation Y : Youth and Technology in Shanghai
by Nishant Shah — published Sep 21, 2009 — last modified Sep 21, 2009 02:09 PM — filed under: , , , , ,
Within the context of internet technologies in China, Nishant Shah, drawing from his seven month research in Shanghai, looks at the first embodiment of these technologies in the urbanising city. In this post, he gives a brief overview of the public and academic discourse around youth-technology usage of China's Generation Y digital natives. He draws the techno-narratives of euphoria and despair to show how technology studies has reduced technology to tools and usage and hence even the proponents of internet technologies, often do a disservice to the technology itself. He poses questions about the politics, mechanics and aesthetics of technology and offers the premise upon which structures of reading resistance can be built. The post ends with a preview of the three stories that are to appear next in the series, to see how youth engagement and cultural production can be read as having the potentials for social transformation and political participation for the Digital Natives in China.
Located in Research / Collaborative Projects Programme / The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
Breaks and Ruptures: In the midst of IT
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 19, 2009
In this first story, Nishant looks at the ways in which internet technologies shape multiple imaginations. In the narration of the story, the contextualisation and the responses that the story-tellers make apparent, he located the internet in the midst of contestation, as it restructures social boundaries, traditions and communities. The story of an 'internet wedding' that stands as an iconic landmark for different generations, looking upon the Internet as a radical catalyst for change, lays out the first foundations for the framework of transformation and invisibility this project has embarked upon.
Located in Research / Collaborative Projects Programme / The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
10 Legendary Obscene Beasts
by Nishant Shah — published Feb 23, 2010 — last modified Mar 05, 2010 06:27 AM
In the second of his articles, Nishant Shah analyses a peculiar event of vandalism which has now become the core of free speech and anti-censorship debates in mainland China. Looking at the structure of user generated knowledge websites and the specific event on the Chinese language encyclopaedia, 'Baidu Baike', he shows how, in cities where spaces of political spectacle and public protest are quickly diminishing, the Internet has become a tool for producing new public spaces of demonstration and protest. The story about 'Cao Ni Ma' stands as an iconic representation of the playful processes by which young people in different contexts and cultures engage with the politics in their immediate environments.
Located in Research / Collaborative Projects Programme / The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
Blog Entry The Making of an Asian City
by Nishant Shah — published Jul 21, 2010 — last modified Aug 10, 2012 08:33 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Nishant Shah attended the conference on 'Pluralism in Asia: Asserting Transnational Identities, Politics, and Perspectives' organised by the Asia Scholarship Foundation, in Bangkok, where he presented the final paper based on his work in Shanghai. The paper, titled 'The Making of an Asian City', consolidates the different case studies and stories collected in this blog, in order to make a larger analyses about questions of cultural production, political interventions and the invisible processes that are a part of the IT Cities.
Located in Research / Collaborative Projects Programme / The promise of invisibility - Technology and the City
Fill The Gap: Global Discussion on Digital Natives
by Nishant Shah — published Jan 15, 2010 — last modified Jan 22, 2010 10:54 AM — filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,
More often than not people don't understand the new practices inspired by Internet and digital technologies. As such a series of accusations have been leveled against the Digital Natives. Educators, policy makers, scholars, and parents have all raised their worries without hearing out from the people they are concerned about. Hivos has initiated an online global discussion about Digital Natives. So, to voice your opinion, start tweeting with us now #DigitalNatives.
Located in Research / Collaborative Projects Programme / Digital Natives With a Cause?
Blog Entry Internet and Society in Asia: Challenges and Next Steps
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 23, 2011 — filed under: ,
The ubiquitous presence of internet technologies, in our age of digital revolution, has demanded the attention of various disciplines of study and movements for change around the globe. As more of our environment gets connected to the circuits of the World Wide Web, we witness a significant transformation in the way we understand the politics, mechanics and aesthetics of the world we live in, says Nishant Shah in this peer reviewed essay published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 11, Number 1, March 2010.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Out of the Bedroom
by Nishant Shah — published Aug 25, 2013 — last modified Sep 06, 2013 08:32 AM — filed under: ,
We have shared it with our friends. We have watched it with our lovers. We have discussed it with our children and talked about it with our partners. It is in our bedrooms, hidden in sock drawers. It is in our laptops, in a folder marked "Miscellaneous". It is in our cellphones and tablets, protected under passwords. It is the biggest reason why people have learned to clean their browsing history and cookies from their browsers.
Located in Internet Governance / Blog
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