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Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 15, 2011
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Apr 10, 2015 09:22 AM
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Social media,
Digital Activism,
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Campaign,
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Blank Noise Project,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
Facebook,
Publications,
Beyond the Digital,
Digital subjectivities,
Books,
Researchers at Work
Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”. This collaboratively produced collective, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, asks critical and pertinent questions about theory and practice around 'digital revolutions' in a post MENA (Middle East - North Africa) world. It works with multiple vocabularies and frameworks and produces dialogues and conversations between digital natives, academic and research scholars, practitioners, development agencies and corporate structures to examine the nature and practice of digital natives in emerging contexts from the Global South.
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Blog
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Book 1: To Be, Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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by
Nishant Shah
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May 15, 2015 12:08 PM
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RAW Publications,
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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The Spaces of Digital
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 30, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 01:41 PM
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The Spaces of Digital,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work,
Research
'The Spaces of Digital’ continues from the work done on the CIS-RAW monograph on the Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar at Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad. The premise of this monograph was the debates around making of IT Cities and public planning policies that regulate and restructure the city spaces in India with the emergence of internet technologies.
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January 2015 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 16, 2015
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last modified
Feb 26, 2015 05:02 PM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikipedia,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Digital Humanities,
NVDA,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of January can be accessed below.
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Newsletters
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Figures of Learning: The Pornographer
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by
Namita A. Malhotra
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published
Feb 28, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:32 AM
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Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Figures of Learning
As part of its Making Methods for Digital Humanities project, CIS-RAW organized two consultations on new figures of learning in the digital context. For a proposed journal issue on the theme of 'bodies of knowledge' which draws upon these conversations, participants were invited to write short sketches on these figures of learning. This abstract by Namita Malhotra examines the figure of the pornographer, as a mixed media figure entrenched in various networks of knowledge production, circulation and consumption.
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Whose Open Data Community is it? - Accepted Abstract
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Mar 31, 2015
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Nov 13, 2015 05:41 AM
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Data Systems,
Open Data,
Research,
Open Data Community,
Researchers at Work
My paper titled 'Whose Open Data Community is it? Reflections on the Open Data Ecosystem in India' has been accepted for presentation at the Open Data Research Symposium to be held during the 3rd International Open Data Conference <http://opendatacon.org/> in Ottawa, Canada, on May 28-29 2015. The final paper will be shared by second week of May. Here is the accepted abstract.
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Figures of Learning: The Reader
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Mar 24, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:48 AM
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Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Figures of Learning
As part of its Making Methods for Digital Humanities project, CIS-RAW organized two consultations on new figures of learning in the digital context. For a proposed journal issue on the theme of ‘bodies of knowledge’ which draws upon these conversations, participants were invited to write short sketches on these figures of learning. This abstract by P.P Sneha examines the figure of the reader, and the manner in which it is redefined in as text and practices of reading are reconstituted in the digital context.
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Digital Activism in Asia Reader: Announcement
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Mar 17, 2015
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 02:22 PM
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Digital Activism,
Digital Activism in Asia Reader,
Research,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work
The CIS-RAW programme organized an editorial workshop on March 6-7, 2015, as part of its project on a Digital Activism in Asia Reader. The project is a collaborative effort of the Centre for Internet and Society and the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University, Germany, which aims to bring together local knowledge, debates and conversations around Digital Activism in Asia.
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Figures of Learning: The Visual Designer
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Feb 12, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:33 AM
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filed under:
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Figures of Learning
As part of its Making Methods for Digital Humanities project, CIS-RAW organized two consultations on new figures of learning in the digital context. For a proposed journal issue on the theme of ‘bodies of knowledge’ which draws upon these conversations, participants were invited to write short sketches on these figures of learning. This abstract by Tejas Pande examines the figure of the visual designer, and emerging practices of mapmaking.
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Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 06, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 07:09 AM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Featured,
Notices,
Researchers at Work
As Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges – and even in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society invites abstracts for essays that explore what it means to study Internet(s) in India today.
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