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The 'Dark Fibre' Files: Interview with Jamie King and Peter Mann: by Siddharth Chadha — published Mar 27, 2009 — last modified Aug 04, 2011 04:41 AM — filed under: histories of internet in India, internet and society, Digital Access, Intellectual Property Rights, YouTube, art and intervention, Piracy, Open Access, innovation, digital artists
Film-makers Jamie King (producer/director of the 'Steal This Film' series) and Peter Mann, in conversation with Siddharth Chadha, on 'Dark Fibre', their latest production, being filmed in Bangalore
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CPOV: Critical Point of View: by Nishant Shah — published Jul 10, 2009 — last modified Jul 13, 2009 09:07 AM — filed under: Wikipedia, art and intervention, cybercultures, digital subjectives, Vandalism, digital art, digital pluralism
The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) seek to bring together ideas, experiences and scholarship about Wikipedia in a reader that charts out detailed user stories as well as empirical and analytical work to produce.. The organisations will jointly host two separate conferences aimed at building a Wikipedia Knowledge Network and charting scholarship and stories about The Wikipedia from around the world.
Located in Research / Conferences & Workshops / Conference Blogs
The 'Beyond the Digital' Directory: by Maesy Angelina — published Nov 07, 2010 — last modified May 15, 2015 11:33 AM — filed under: Youth, Digital Activism, Digital Natives, Web Politics, Street sexual harassment, Blank Noise Project, Beyond the Digital, Communities, art and intervention, Researchers at Work
For the past few months, Maesy Angelina has been sharing the insights gained from her research with Blank Noise on the activism of digital natives. The ‘Beyond the Digital’ directory offers a list of the posts on the research based on the order of its publication.
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Talking Back without "Talking Back": by Maesy Angelina — published Nov 07, 2010 — last modified Sep 22, 2011 11:37 AM — filed under: Cyberspace, Digital Activism, Eve teasing, Digital Natives, Youth, Research, Blank Noise Project, art and intervention, Beyond the Digital, Communities, cyberspaces, Street sexual harassment
The activism of digital natives is often considered different from previous generations because of the methods and tools they use. However, reflecting on my conversations with The Blank Noise Project and my experience in the ‘Digital Natives Talking Back’ workshop in Taipei, the difference goes beyond the method and can be spotted at the analytical level – how young people today are thinking about their activism.
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