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User Experiences of Digital Financial Risks and Harms
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by
Amrita Sengupta, Chiara Furtado, Garima Agrawal, Nishkala Sekhar, Puthiya Purayil Sneha, and Yesha Tshering Paul
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published
Dec 15, 2023
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last modified
Dec 22, 2023 04:05 PM
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filed under:
Financial Technology,
Financial Platforms,
Digital Financial Harms,
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
RAW Blog,
Accessibility,
Digital Lending,
RAW Research,
Research,
Homepage
The reach and use of digital financial services has risen in recent years without a commensurate increase in digital literacy and access. Through this project, supported by a grant from Google(.)org, we will examine the landscape of potential risks and harms posed by digital financial services, and the disproportionate risk that information asymmetry and barriers to access pose for users, especially certain marginalised communities.
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Users and the Internet
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by
Purbasha Auddy
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published
Jul 10, 2015
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last modified
Jul 10, 2015 04:20 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
This post by Purbasha Auddy is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Purbasha is a SYLFF PhD fellow at the School of Cultural Texts and Records (SCTR), Jadavpur University, with more than eight years of work experience in digital archiving. She has also been teaching for the last two years in the newly-started post-graduate diploma course in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics offered by the SCTR. In this essay, Purbasha explores the constructions of the ideas of the Indian Internet users through the advertisements that talk about data packages, mobile phones or apps.
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War Driving in Lhasa Vegas
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by
Oxblood Ruffin
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published
Aug 17, 2015
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last modified
Aug 17, 2015 08:19 AM
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filed under:
Histories of Internet,
RAW Blog
This post by Oxblood Ruffin is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Oxblood Ruffin is a hacktivist and film maker. He joined the CULT OF THE DEAD COW in 1996 as its Foreign Minister. Colonel Ruffin is co-author of the Hacktivismo Enhanced Source Software Licencse Agreement (HESSLA), network curmudgeon, and line cook. He will publish a book on information warfare in 2016. In this essay, Colonel Ruffin traces the history of Internet access in Dharamsala, and the factors at play in shaping it - mundane and maverick, familiar and outlier.
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Welcome to r@w blog!
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jan 02, 2019
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last modified
Jan 02, 2019 11:48 AM
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filed under:
Homepage,
RAW Blog,
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies
We from the researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog, hosted on Medium. It will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and elsewhere at the intersections of internet, digital media, and society; and highlights and materials from ongoing research and events at the researchers@work programme.
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WhatsApp and the Creation of a Transnational Sociality
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by
Maitrayee Deka
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published
Jul 01, 2015
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last modified
Jul 10, 2015 04:22 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
This post by Maitrayee Deka is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Maitrayee is a postdoctoral research fellow with the EU FP7 project, P2P value in the Department of Sociology, University of Milan, Italy. Her broader research interests are New Media, Economic Sociology and Gender and Sexuality. This is the second of Maitrayee's two posts on WhatsApp and networks of commerce and sociality among lower-end traders in Delhi.
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WhatsApp and Transnational Lower-End Trading Networks
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by
Maitrayee Deka
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published
Jun 30, 2015
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last modified
Sep 13, 2015 10:44 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
This post by Maitrayee Deka is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Maitrayee is a postdoctoral research fellow with the EU FP7 project, P2P value in the Department of Sociology, University of Milan, Italy. Her
broader research interests are New Media, Economic Sociology and Gender and Sexuality. This is the first of Maitrayee's two posts on WhatsApp and networks of commerce and sociality among lower-end traders in Delhi.
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RAW