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A Compilation of Research on the Gig Economy
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Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 19, 2020
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filed under:
Gender,
Digital Labour,
Covid19,
Research,
Platform-Work,
RAW Research,
research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Domestic Work
Over the past year, researchers at CIS have been studying gig economies and gig workers in India. Their work has involved consultative discussions with domestic workers, food delivery workers, taxi drivers, trade union leaders, and government representatives to document the state of gig work in India, and highlight the concerns of gig workers.
The imposition of a severe lockdown in India in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 has left gig workers in precarious positions. Without the privilege of social distancing, these workers are having to contend with a drastic reduction in income, while also placing themselves at heightened health risks.
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Pleasure and Pornography: Initial Encounters with the Unknown
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by
Namita A. Malhotra
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published
Feb 03, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 08:37 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
Obscenity,
internet and society,
women and internet,
research,
Cyborgs,
digital subjectivities,
History
This blog entry is the first in a series by Namita Malhotra on her CIS-RAW project that is about pornography, Internet, sexuality, law, new media and technology. She aims for this to be a multi media and research project/journey which is able to cite and draw on various sources including legal studies, film studies and philosophy, academic and historical work on sexuality, art, film and pornography itself.
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Porn: Law, Video & Technology
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Researchers At Work
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2008
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last modified
Jan 04, 2012 05:27 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
internet and society,
geeks,
digital subjectives,
cyborgs,
cybercultures,
archives,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
research,
women and internet,
e-governance
CIS-RAW stands for Researchers at Work, a multidisciplinary research initiative by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. CIS firmly believes that in order to understand the contemporary concerns in the field of Internet and Society, it is necessary to produce local and contextual accounts of the interaction between the internet and socio-cultural and geo-political structures. The CIS-RAW programme hopes to produce one of the first documentations on the transactions and negotiations, relationships and correlations that the emergence of internet technologies has resulted in, specifically in the South. The CIS-RAW programme recognises ‘The Histories of the Internet and India’ as its focus for the first two years. Although many disciplines, organisations and interventions in various areas deal with internet technologies, there has been very little work in documenting the polymorphous growth of internet technologies and their relationship with society in India. The existing narratives of the internet are often riddled with absences or only focus on the mainstream interests of major stakeholders, like the state and the corporate. We find it imperative to excavate the three-decade histories of the internet to understand the contemporary concerns and questions in the field.
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Histories of the Internet
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2008
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 02:15 PM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
internet and society,
geeks,
digital subjectives,
cyborgs,
cybercultures,
archives,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
research,
women and internet,
e-governance
For the first two years, the CIS-RAW Programme shall focus on producing diverse multidisciplinary histories of the internet in India.
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Research Programmes
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2008
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last modified
Jan 15, 2009 12:02 PM
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filed under:
research,
cyborgs,
cybercultures,
digital pluralism,
digital subjectivities,
cyberspaces,
pedagogy,
e-governance
The Research Portfolio at the Centre for Internet and Society seeks to develop new pedagogic practices, plural and unique knowledges, multidisciplinary perspectives, and reflexive interventions in the field of Internet and Society.
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