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One for the avatar
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Apr 03, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:19 PM
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filed under:
Digital subjectivities,
Cybercultures,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
With increasing instances of online avatars being victimised, users who are part of these identities need to be protected against vicious attacks. A fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from 19 September 2010 onwards. This article was published on April 3, 2011.
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Blog
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One. Zero.
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2012
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last modified
Apr 24, 2015 11:50 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Information Technology,
Digital Natives
The digital world is the world of twos. All our complex interactions, emotional negotiations, business transactions, social communication and political subscriptions online can be reduced to a string of 1s and 0s, as machines create the networks for the human beings to speak. So sophisticated is this network of digital infrastructure that we forget how our languages of connection are constantly being transcribed in binary code, allowing for the information to be transmitted across the web.
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Digital Natives
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P.P. Sneha - Mapping Digital Humanities in India
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 30, 2016
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last modified
Dec 31, 2016 05:56 AM
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filed under:
Higher Education,
Digital Knowledge,
CIS Papers,
Digital Humanities,
Education Technology,
Mapping Digital Humanities in India,
Digitisation,
Digital Scholarship,
RAW Research,
Researchers at Work
It gives us great pleasure to publish the second title of the CIS Papers series. This report by P.P. Sneha comes out of an extended research project supported by the Kusuma Trust. The study undertook a detailed mapping of digital practices in arts and humanities scholarship, both emerging and established, in India. Beginning with an understanding of Digital Humanities as a 'found term' in the Indian context, the study explores the discussion and debate about the changes in humanities practice, scholarship and pedagogy that have come about with the digital turn. Further it inquires about the spaces and roles of digital technologies in the humanities, and by extension in the arts, media, and creative practice today; transformations in the objects and methods of study and practice in these spaces; and the shifts in the imagination of the ‘digital’ itself, and its linkages with humanities practices.
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Parichiti - Domestic Workers’ Access to Secure Livelihoods in West Bengal
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by
Anchita Ghatak
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published
Dec 30, 2020
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last modified
Dec 30, 2020 10:01 AM
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filed under:
Gig Work,
Research,
Network Economies,
Publications,
Gender, Welfare, and Privacy,
Researchers at Work
This report by Anchita Ghatak of Parichiti presents findings of a pilot study conducted by the author and colleagues to document the situation of women domestic workers (WDWs) in the lockdown and the initial stages of the lifting of restrictions. This study would not have been possible without the WDWs who agreed to be interviewed for this study and gave their time generously. We are grateful to Dr Abhijit Das of the Centre for Health and Social Justice for his advice and help. The report is edited by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon, and this work forms a part of the CIS’s project on gender, welfare and surveillance supported by Privacy International, United Kingdom.
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RAW
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Pathways to Higher Education
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 17, 2008
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last modified
Mar 30, 2015 02:52 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge
The Pathways Project to Higher Education is a collaboration between the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA) at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). The project is supported by the Ford Foundation and works with disadvantaged students in nine undergraduate colleges in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala, to explore relationships between Technologies, Higher Education and the new forms of social justice in India.
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Digital Natives
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Pinning the Badge
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Mar 19, 2012
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last modified
May 08, 2015 12:34 PM
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filed under:
Higher Education,
Researchers at Work,
digital pluralism,
Digital Natives
In a world of competition, badging provides a holistic way of grading and learning, where individual talents are realised and the knowledge of the group is used.
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Digital Natives
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Pathways to Higher Education
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Platformisation of Domestic Work in India: Report from a Multistakeholder Consultation
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by
Tasneem Mewa
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published
Feb 17, 2020
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last modified
Feb 17, 2020 09:46 AM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
RAW Events,
Digital Labour,
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Domestic Work
On November 16, 2019, The Centre for Internet and Society invited officials from the Department of Labour (Government of Karnataka), members of domestic worker unions, domestic workers, company representatives, and civil society researchers at the Student Christian Mission of India House to discuss preliminary findings of an ongoing research project and facilitate a multistakeholder consultation to understand the contemporaneous platformisation of domestic work in India. Please find here a report from this consultation authored by Tasneem Mewa.
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Platforms, Power and Politics: Digital Labour in India
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by
Ambika Tandon
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published
Dec 31, 2020
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last modified
Jul 20, 2021 02:42 AM
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filed under:
Digital Labour,
Researchers at Work,
Event
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) invites you to a webinar wherein it will launch and present four research reports on digital labour in India. The webinar will be hosted on July 28, 2021 at 5 p.m. (IST) / 11.30 a.m. (UTC)
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RAW
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Platforms, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India
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by
Aayush Rathi, and Ambika Tandon
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published
Jun 27, 2021
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last modified
Jul 07, 2021 03:19 PM
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filed under:
Digital Economy,
Researchers at Work,
Platform-Work,
Featured,
RAW Research,
Homepage,
Digital Domestic Work
CIS has been undertaking a two-year project studying the entry of digital platforms in the domestic and care work in India, supported by the Association for Progressive Communications as part of the Feminist Internet Research Network. Implemented through 2019-21, the objective of the project is to use a feminist lens to critique platform modalities and orient platformisation dynamics in radically different, worker-first ways. Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi led the research team at CIS. The Domestic Workers’ Rights Union is a partner in the implementation of the project, as co-researchers. Geeta Menon, head of DWRU, was an advisor on the project, and the research team consisted of Parijatha G.P., Radha Keerthana, Zeenathunnisa, and Sumathi, who are office holders in the union and are responsible for organising workers and addressing their concerns.
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RAW
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Plenary Talk at Jyothi Nivas College Research Symposium
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by
Sneha PP
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published
Oct 02, 2018
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last modified
Oct 03, 2018 04:46 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work
I gave a plenary presentation on new reading and writing practices in the digital context, and emerging questions for digital humanities and literary studies at a research symposium organised by Jyothi Nivas College, Post Graduate Centre, on September 28, 2018.
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