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Digital native: The Voices in Our Heads
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 22, 2016
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
What if our phones were to go silent? Would you be able to deal with the silence?
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Do I Want to Say Happy B’day?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Aug 07, 2016
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last modified
Aug 22, 2016 09:53 AM
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filed under:
Digital Media,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Social Media
When it comes to greeting friends on their birthdays, social media prompts are a great reminder. So why does an online message leave us cold?
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Effective Activism: The Internet, Social Media, and Hierarchical Activism in New Delhi
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by
Sarah McKeever
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published
Jul 16, 2015
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last modified
Jul 16, 2015 08:22 AM
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filed under:
Social Media,
Digital Activism,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
This post by Sarah McKeever is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Sarah is a PhD candidate at the India Institute, King’s College London, and her work focuses on the impact of social media on contemporary political
movements. In this essay, she explores the increasingly hierarchical system of activism on the Internet, based on Western corporate desire for data, and how it is shaping who is seen and heard on the Internet in India.
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Essays on #List — Selected Abstracts
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Sep 03, 2019
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last modified
Sep 03, 2019 01:38 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
List,
RAW Blog,
Featured,
Internet Studies
In response to a recent call for essays that social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the #List, we received 11 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 4 pieces to be published as part of a series titled #List on the
[email protected] blog. Please find below the details of the selected abstracts. The call for essays on #List remains open, and we are accepting and assessing the incoming abstracts on a rolling basis.
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Essays on 'Offline' - Selected Abstracts
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Sep 06, 2018
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last modified
Sep 06, 2018 02:14 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Offline,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
In response to a recent call for essays that explore various dimensions of offline lives, we received 22 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 10 pieces to be published as part of a series titled 'Offline' on the upcoming
[email protected] blog. Please find below the details of the selected abstracts.
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Governing Speech on the Internet: From the Free Marketplace Policy to a Controlled 'Public Sphere'
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by
Smarika Kumar
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published
Aug 28, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 05:57 AM
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filed under:
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Judiciary,
RAW Blog,
69A,
Censorship,
Section 66A,
Researchers at Work
This post by Smarika Kumar is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Smarika is a consultant with Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. She is interested in issues concerning law and technology. In this essay, Smarika explores how through the use of policy and regulation, the private marketplace of the internet is sought to be reined in and reconciled to the public sphere, which is mostly represented through legislations governing the internet.
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How Green is the Internet? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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by
Aishwarya Panicker
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published
Sep 23, 2016
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last modified
Sep 23, 2016 05:02 AM
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Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Environmental Impact
This essay by Aishwarya Panicker is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author draws attention to the fact that there is little data, debate, analysis, and examination of the environmental impact of the internet, which is true especially for India. She explores four central issue areas. First, as the third highest country in terms of internet use, what is the current environmental impact of internet usage in India? Second, are there any regulatory provisions that give prescriptive measures to data centres and providers? Third, do any global standards exist in this regard and finally, what future steps can be taken (by the government, civil society and individuals) to address this?
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Indic Scripts and the Internet
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by
Dibyajyoti Ghosh
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published
Jun 30, 2015
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last modified
Jul 10, 2015 04:23 AM
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filed under:
Language,
RAW Blog,
Indic Computing,
Researchers at Work,
Indic Scripts
This post by Dibyajyoti Ghosh is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Dibyajyoti is a PhD student in the Department of English, Jadavpur University. He has four years of full-time work experience in projects which dealt with digital humanities and specially with digitisation of material in Indic scripts. In this essay, Dibyajyoti explores the effects the English language has on the Internet population of India.
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Love in the Time of Tinder
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Oct 17, 2016
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
Service providers and information aggregators mine our information and share it in ways that we cannot imagine.
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Mobilizing Online Consensus: Net Neutrality and the India Subreddit
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by
Sujeet George
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published
Sep 27, 2016
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last modified
Sep 27, 2016 04:52 AM
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filed under:
Reddit,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Net Neutrality,
Researchers at Work
This essay by Sujeet George is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author offers a preliminary gesture towards understanding reddit’s usage and breadth in the Indian context. Through an analysis of the “India” subreddit and examining the manner and context in which information and ideas are shared, proposed, and debunked, the paper aspires to formulate a methodology for interrogating sites like reddit that offer the possibilities of social mediation, even as users maintain a limited amount of privacy. At the same time, to what extent can such news aggregator sites direct the ways in which opinions and news flows change course as a true marker of information generation responding to user inputs.
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