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Blog Entry Digital Native: The bigger picture
by Nishant Shah — published Jul 01, 2018 — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:11 AM — filed under: , ,
For all our sleek machines, we are slaves to the much larger Internet of Things.
Located in RAW
Blog Entry Digital Native: How smart cities can make criminals out of denizens
by Nishant Shah — published Jul 15, 2018 — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:19 AM — filed under: , ,
People download information and share it without knowing about the intellectual property rights. On social media bullying, harassment and hate speech find easy avenues.
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Blog Entry Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from India
by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Mar 29, 2017 — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:33 AM — filed under: , , , , , ,
This working paper by Ritam Sengupta, Dr. Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, and Dr. Christopher Foster draws from the field study undertaken by Ritam Sengupta, and is published by the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. The field study was commissioned by the CIS, with support from the University of Manchester and the University of Sheffield.
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Blog Entry We Are All Cyborgs
by Nishant Shah — published May 24, 2012 — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:00 PM — filed under: , ,
The cyborg reminds us that who we are as human beings is very closely linked with the technologies we use.
Located in Digital Natives
Blog Entry The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 23, 2011 — last modified May 08, 2015 12:36 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
What happens when we look at the classroom as a space of social justice? What are the ways in which students can be engaged in learning beyond rote memorisation? What innovative methods can be evolved to make students stakeholders in their learning process? These were some of the questions that were thrown up and discussed at the 2 day Faculty Training workshop for participant from colleges included in the Pathways to Higher Education programme, supported by Ford Foundation and collaboratively executed by the Higher Education Innovation and Research Application and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
Located in Digital Natives / Pathways to Higher Education
Blog Entry Platforms, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India
by Aayush Rathi, and Ambika Tandon — published Jun 27, 2021 — last modified Jul 07, 2021 03:19 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
CIS has been undertaking a two-year project studying the entry of digital platforms in the domestic and care work in India, supported by the Association for Progressive Communications as part of the Feminist Internet Research Network. Implemented through 2019-21, the objective of the project is to use a feminist lens to critique platform modalities and orient platformisation dynamics in radically different, worker-first ways. Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi led the research team at CIS. The Domestic Workers’ Rights Union is a partner in the implementation of the project, as co-researchers. Geeta Menon, head of DWRU, was an advisor on the project, and the research team consisted of Parijatha G.P., Radha Keerthana, Zeenathunnisa, and Sumathi, who are office holders in the union and are responsible for organising workers and addressing their concerns.
Located in RAW
Blog Entry Staying silent about cyberbullying is no longer an option
by Nishant Shah — published Jun 16, 2019 — last modified Jul 02, 2019 03:52 AM — filed under:
Cyberbullying is the dangerous new normal.
Located in RAW
Blog Entry Digital Native: On mute, the Voice of the People
by Nishant Shah — published Jun 24, 2017 — last modified Jul 05, 2017 05:04 PM — filed under: ,
We are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, control and eradicate all our digital data without our consent and without repercussions.
Located in RAW
July 2017 Newsletter
by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 31, 2017 — last modified Aug 23, 2017 02:03 AM — filed under: , , , ,
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Blog Entry A Question of Digital Humanities
by Sneha PP — published Mar 20, 2014 — last modified Mar 30, 2015 12:47 PM — filed under: , ,
The emergence of digital humanities as a new field of interdisciplinary research enquiry has also seen growth in literature around the problem of its definition. This blog-post lays out some of the conceptual frameworks for the mapping exercise taken up by CIS to look at digital humanities in India.
Located in RAW / Digital Humanities
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