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Locating Migrants in India’s Gig Economy: A Scoping Report
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Kaarika Das and Srravya C
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published
Jan 04, 2022
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filed under:
RAW Research,
Gig Work,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
Gig workers working for on-demand platform services have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Love in the Time of Tinder
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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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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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Mock-Calling – Ironies of Outsourcing and the Aspirations of an Individual
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Sreedeep
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published
Aug 06, 2015
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last modified
Aug 06, 2015 05:00 AM
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filed under:
Spaces of Digital,
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
This post by Sreedeep is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. He is an independent photographer and a Fellow at the Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi. In this essay, Sreedeep explores the anxieties and ironies of the unprecedented IT/BPO boom in India through the perspective and experiences of a new entrant in the industry, a decade ago. The narrative tries to capture some of the radical
hedonistic consequences of the IT-burst on our lifestyles, imagination and aspirations delineated and fraught with layers of conscious deception and prolonged probation.
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Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this year
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 09, 2016
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last modified
Sep 16, 2016 01:25 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
With the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens.
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Studying Internet in India (2016): Selected Abstracts
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Jul 05, 2016
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last modified
Jul 06, 2016 06:24 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
We received some great submissions and decided to select twelve abstracts, and not only ten as we planned earlier. Here are the abstracts.
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Studying Internet in India: Selected Abstracts
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 10, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 06:53 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
We received thirty five engaging abstracts in response to the call for essays on 'Studying Internet in India.' Here are the ten selected abstracts. The final essays will be published from June onwards.
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Studying the Internet Discourse in India through the Prism of Human Rights
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by
Deva Prasad M
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published
Jul 22, 2015
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filed under:
Human Rights,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
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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Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar
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by
Geert Lovink and Ramesh Srinivasan
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published
May 16, 2017
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last modified
May 16, 2017 02:51 PM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Ethnography,
Offline,
Researchers at Work
"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an illusory binary between the two." In this interview, Geert Lovink discusses with Ramesh Srinivasan: “how can we embrace the realities of communities too-often relegated to the margins?”
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The Curious Incidents on Matrimonial Websites in India
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by
Abhimanyu Roy
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published
Aug 30, 2016
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last modified
Aug 30, 2016 10:52 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
This essay by Abhimanyu Roy is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author explores how the curious interplays between the arranged marriage market in India the rise of matrimonial sites such as Jeevansathi.com and Shaadi.com. The gravity of the impact that such web-based services have on the lives of users is substantially greater than most other everyday web-enabled transactions, such as an Uber ride or a Foodpanda order. From outright fraud to online harassment, newspaper back pages are filled with nightmare stories that begin on a matrimonial website. So much so that the Indian government has set up a panel to regulate matrimonial sites. The essay analyses the role of matrimonial websites in modern day India, and the challenges this awkward amalgamation of the internet and love gives rise to.
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