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Studying Digital Creative Industries in India: Initial Questions
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Mar 17, 2016
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last modified
Mar 18, 2016 01:55 PM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
Digital Knowledge,
Research,
Creative Industries,
Researchers at Work
This brief overview of the discourse around creative industries is an attempt to explore some ways of identifying what could be digital creative industries in India, and the questions they raise and problematize for us in terms of cultural expression, knowledge production, creativity and labour. The term ‘creative industries’ has been around for a while now, but with the advent of the digital, and with interest from different sectors, especially with a focus on policy and economic development, it would be essential to critically examine the discourse around the term, and see where it may be changing to open up new possibilities, particularly for the arts, humanities and design.
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Studying Internet in India (2016): Selected Abstracts
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Jul 05, 2016
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last modified
Jul 06, 2016 06:24 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
We received some great submissions and decided to select twelve abstracts, and not only ten as we planned earlier. Here are the abstracts.
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Studying Internet in India: Selected Abstracts
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 10, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 06:53 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
We received thirty five engaging abstracts in response to the call for essays on 'Studying Internet in India.' Here are the ten selected abstracts. The final essays will be published from June onwards.
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Studying Platform Work in Mumbai & New Delhi
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by
Anushree Gupta, Rajendra Jadhav, Sarah Zia, Simiran Lalvani and Noopur Raval
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published
May 05, 2022
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filed under:
Platform Economy,
Gig Work,
Researchers at Work
A report by Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) and Azim Premji University (APU) maps platform work in India and notes from four studies of workers driving taxis and delivering food for platform companies.
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Studying the Emerging Database State in India: Notes for Critical Data Studies (Accepted Abstract)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Aug 02, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:54 AM
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filed under:
Big Data,
Data Systems,
Research,
Featured,
Aadhaar,
Researchers at Work,
E-Governance
"Critical Data Studies (CDS) is a growing field of research that focuses on the unique theoretical, ethical, and epistemological challenges posed by 'Big Data.' Rather than treat Big Data as a scientifically empirical, and therefore largely neutral phenomena, CDS advocates the view that data should be seen as always-already constituted within wider data assemblages." The Big Data and Society journal has provisionally accepted a paper abstract of mine for its upcoming special issue on Critical Data Studies.
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Studying the Internet Discourse in India through the Prism of Human Rights
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by
Deva Prasad M
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published
Jul 22, 2015
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filed under:
Human Rights,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Human Rights Online,
Researchers at Work
This post by Deva Prasad M is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Deva Prasad is Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore. In this essay, he analyses key public discussions around Internet related issues from the human rights angle, and explores how this angle may contribute to understanding the features of the Internet discourse in India.
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Talk on Game Studies by Dr. Souvik Mukherjee, July 28, 6 pm
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jul 20, 2016
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last modified
Sep 16, 2016 01:21 PM
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filed under:
Gaming,
Web Cultures,
Digital Knowledge,
Game Studies,
Digital Media,
Researchers at Work,
Event
This talk will explore the story-telling aspects of game studies and how it relates to discussions of other digital media, Internet cultures and also traditional Humanities. As an introduction, it also aims to open up discussions for Game Studies in India.
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Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar
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by
Geert Lovink and Ramesh Srinivasan
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published
May 16, 2017
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last modified
May 16, 2017 02:51 PM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Ethnography,
Offline,
Researchers at Work
"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an illusory binary between the two." In this interview, Geert Lovink discusses with Ramesh Srinivasan: “how can we embrace the realities of communities too-often relegated to the margins?”
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Technology, Social Justice and Higher Education
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Dec 07, 2011
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 02:54 PM
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filed under:
Featured,
Higher Education,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge
Since the last two years, we at the Centre for Internet and Society, have been working with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, on a project called Pathways to Higher Education, supported by the Ford Foundation.
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Pathways to Higher Education
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Blog
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That Is Not A Livelihood – That Is Helplessness”: Field notes from the Fraazo Delivery Workers Strike in Noida, Greater Noida, and Ghaziabad
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by
Rikta Krishnaswamy
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published
Apr 24, 2024
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filed under:
Labour Futures,
Digital Economy,
Gig Work,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work
In this essay, Rikta Krishnaswamy of the All India Gig Workers’ Union (AIGWU) narrates her experiences of organising and supporting delivery workers’ collective action against Fraazo (a now-defunct platform for produce and grocery delivery). Her essay sheds light on the challenges workers face in organising for better conditions of work. She describes how platforms hide behind legal smokescreens and threats of police action to shirk their responsibility as employers. To make matters worse, obscure employment terms and work management systems make it harder for workers to seek redress from the government through labour dispute resolution processes.
The essay is illustrative of how digital platforms have exploited and violated freedoms of the gig workers they employ, while facing no accountability. For this to change, gig workers have to be guaranteed employment rights along with collective rights to their data.
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