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Studying the Internet Discourse in India through the Prism of Human Rights
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Deva Prasad M
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Jul 22, 2015
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Human Rights,
Internet Studies,
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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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Effective Activism: The Internet, Social Media, and Hierarchical Activism in New Delhi
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Sarah McKeever
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Jul 16, 2015
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Jul 16, 2015 08:22 AM
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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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Users and the Internet
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Purbasha Auddy
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Jul 10, 2015
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Jul 10, 2015 04:20 AM
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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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WhatsApp and the Creation of a Transnational Sociality
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Maitrayee Deka
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Jul 01, 2015
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Jul 10, 2015 04:22 AM
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Social Media,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
This post by Maitrayee Deka is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Maitrayee is a postdoctoral research fellow with the EU FP7 project, P2P value in the Department of Sociology, University of Milan, Italy. Her broader research interests are New Media, Economic Sociology and Gender and Sexuality. This is the second of Maitrayee's two posts on WhatsApp and networks of commerce and sociality among lower-end traders in Delhi.
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WhatsApp and Transnational Lower-End Trading Networks
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Maitrayee Deka
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Jun 30, 2015
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Sep 13, 2015 10:44 AM
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Social Media,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
This post by Maitrayee Deka is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Maitrayee is a postdoctoral research fellow with the EU FP7 project, P2P value in the Department of Sociology, University of Milan, Italy. Her
broader research interests are New Media, Economic Sociology and Gender and Sexuality. This is the first of Maitrayee's two posts on WhatsApp and networks of commerce and sociality among lower-end traders in Delhi.
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Indic Scripts and the Internet
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Dibyajyoti Ghosh
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Jun 30, 2015
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Jul 10, 2015 04:23 AM
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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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Mathematisation of the Urban and not Urbanisation of Mathematics: Smart Cities and the Primitive Accumulation of Data - Accepted Abstract
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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May 25, 2015
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Nov 13, 2015 05:47 AM
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Data Systems,
Space,
Research,
Smart Cities,
Researchers at Work
"Many accounts of smart cities recognise the historical coincidence of cybernetic control and neoliberal capital. Even where it is machines which process the vast amounts of data produced by the city so much so that the ruling and managerial classes disappear from view, it is usually the logic of capital that steers the flows of data, people and things. Yet what other futures of the city may be possible within the smart city, what collective intelligence may it bring forth?" The Fibreculture Journal has accepted an abstract of mine for its upcoming issue on 'Computing the City.'
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Making in the Humanities – Some Questions and Conflicts
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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May 22, 2015
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Nov 13, 2015 05:46 AM
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Digital Knowledge,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Research,
Featured,
Digital Humanities,
Researchers at Work
The following is an abstract for a proposed chapter on 'making' in the humanities, which has been accepted for publication in a volume titled 'Making Humanities Matter'. This is part of a new book series titled 'Debates in the Digital Humanities 2015' to be published by University of Minnesota Press (http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/cfps/cfp_2015_mhm). The first draft of the chapter will be shared by mid-August 2015.
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Book 1: To Be, Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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Nishant Shah
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May 15, 2015 12:08 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Publications,
Digital Natives
In this first book of the Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? Collection, we concentrate on what it means to be a Digital Native. Within popular scholarship and discourse, it is presumed that digital natives are born digital. Ranging from Mark Prensky’s original conception of the identity which marked all people born after 1980 as Digital Natives to John Palfrey and Urs Gasser’s more nuanced understanding of specific young people in certain parts of the world as ‘Born Digital’, there remains a presumption that the young peoples’ relationship with technology is automatic and natural. In particular, the idea of being ‘born digital’ signifies that there are people who, at a visceral, unlearned level, respond to digital technologies. This idea of being born digital hides the complex mechanics of infrastructure, access, affordability, learning, education, language, gender, etc. that play a significant role in determining who gets to become a digital native and how s/he achieves it. In this book, we explore what it means to be a digital native in emerging information societies. The different contributions in this book posit what it means to be a digital native in different parts of the world. However, none of the contribution accepts the name ‘Digital Native’ as a given. Instead, the different authors demonstrate how there can be no one singular definition of a Digital Native. In fact, they show how, contextualised, historical, socially embedded, politically nuanced understanding of people’s interaction with technology provide a better insight into how one becomes a digital native.
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March 2015 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
May 10, 2015
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last modified
May 12, 2015 01:36 AM
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Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
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