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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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Vote for the Everyday Digital Native Video Contest!
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 20, 2012
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last modified
May 08, 2015 12:32 PM
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filed under:
Video,
Featured,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
The Centre for Internet & Society and Hivos are super excited to present the final videos in the Everyday Digital Native Video Contest. We invite readers to vote for the TOP 5 Videos. The finalists will each win EUR500! Voting closes March 31, 2012
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Digital Natives
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Watson knows the Question
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 11, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:24 PM
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filed under:
Cybercultures,
Researchers at Work
Now that an algorithm has given humans a run for their money on a quiz show, it’s time to rethink the idea of a machine. A fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from 19 September 2010 onwards. This article was published on March 6, 2011.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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We Are All Cyborgs
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
May 24, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 12:00 PM
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filed under:
Cyborgs,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
The cyborg reminds us that who we are as human beings is very closely linked with the technologies we use.
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Digital Natives
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We Have the Answer for You. So, what's the Question?
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 21, 2012
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last modified
May 08, 2015 12:30 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
The Everyday Digital Native Video Contest invited everyone to send in videos that answered the question: who's the everyday digital native? Participants from all parts of the globe now have the answers.
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Digital Natives
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
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by
kaeru
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published
Aug 02, 2011
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last modified
Apr 06, 2015 03:48 PM
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filed under:
Cyborgs,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories
The Cyborg - a cybernetique organism which is a combination of the biological and the technological – has been at the centre of discourse around digital technologies. Especially with wearable computing and ubiquitous access to the digital world, there has been an increased concern that very ways in which we understand questions of life, human body and the presence and role of technologies in our worlds, are changing. In just the last few years, we have seen extraordinary measures – the successful production of synthetic bacteria, artificial intelligence that can be programmed to simulate human conditions like empathy and temperament, and massive mobilisation of people around the world, to fight against the injustices and inequities of their immediate environments.
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Histories of the Internet
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We, the Cyborgs: Challenges for the Future of being Human
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by
Asha Achuthan
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published
Mar 22, 2012
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 01:42 PM
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filed under:
Cyborgs,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work,
Research
The Cyborg - a cybernetique organism which is a combination of the biological and the technological – has been at the centre of discourse around digital technologies. Especially with wearable computing and ubiquitous access to the digital world, there has been an increased concern that very ways in which we understand questions of life, human body and the presence and role of technologies in our worlds, are changing. In just the last few years, we have seen extraordinary measures – the successful production of synthetic bacteria, artificial intelligence that can be programmed to simulate human conditions like empathy and temperament, and massive mobilisation of people around the world, to fight against the injustices and inequities of their immediate environments.
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We, the Cyborgs
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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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What I learned from going offline for 48 hours
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 24, 2019
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last modified
Mar 14, 2019 04:21 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work
A weekend without the internet shows just how much control we surrender to online chatter.
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