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Data Lives of Humanities Text
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Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 23, 2020
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last modified
Dec 23, 2020 01:07 PM
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Research,
Researchers at Work,
Publications,
Digital Humanities
The ‘computational turn’ in the humanities has brought with it several questions and challenges for traditional ways of engaging with the ‘text’ as an object of enquiry. The prevalence of data-driven scholarship in the humanities offers several challenges to traditional forms of work and practice, with regard to theory, tools, and methods. In the context of the digital, ‘text’ acquires new forms and meanings, especially with practices such as distant reading. Drawing upon excerpts from an earlier study on digital humanities in India, this essay discusses how data in the humanities is not a new phenomenon; concerns about the ‘datafication’ of humanities, now seen prominently in digital humanities and related fields is actually reflective of a longer conflict about the inherited separation between humanities and technology. It looks at how ‘data’ in the humanities has become a new object of enquiry as a result of several changes in the media landscape in the past few decades. These include large-scale digitalization and availability of corpora of materials (digitized and born-digital) in an array of formats and across varied platforms, thus leading to also a steady prevalence of the use of computational methods in working with and studying cultural artifacts today. This essay also explores how reading ‘text as data’ helps understand the role of data in the making of humanities texts and redefines traditional ideas of textuality, reading, and the reader.
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Inputs to the Report on the Non-Personal Data Governance Framework
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Dec 30, 2020
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last modified
Dec 30, 2020 09:40 AM
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Data Systems,
Privacy,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Economy,
Data Governance,
Submissions
This submission presents a response by researchers at the Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS) to the draft Report on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework prepared by the Committee of Experts under the Chairmanship of Shri Kris Gopalakrishnan. The inputs are authored by Aayush Rathi, Aman Nair, Ambika Tandon, Pallavi Bedi, Sapni Krishna, and Shweta Mohandas (in alphabetical order), and reviewed by Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
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Reclaiming the right to privacy: Researching the intersection of privacy and gender
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Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi
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Jan 25, 2021 10:42 AM
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Data Systems,
Reproductive and Child Health,
Research,
Gender, Welfare, and Privacy,
Researchers at Work
It was our privilege to be supported by Privacy International, UK, during 2019-2020, to undertake a research project focusing on reproductive health and data surveillance, and to engage on related topics with national civil society groups. Our partner organisations who led some of the research as part of this project are grassroots actors - Domestic Workers Rights Union, Migrant Workers Solidarity Network, Parichiti, Samabhabona, Rainbow Manipur, and Right to Food Campaign. Here we are compiling the various works supported by this project co-led by Ambika Tandon, Aayush Rathi, and Sumandro Chattapadhyay at the Centre for Internet and Society, India.
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The Digital Classroom in the Time of Wikipedia
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Nishant Shah
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Mar 22, 2012
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last modified
Oct 05, 2015 02:53 PM
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Wikipedia,
Researchers at Work,
Learning,
Digital Classroom in the Time of Wikipedia
The digital turn in education comes across a wide range of initiatives and processes. The Wikipedia which is the largest user generated content website stands as a figurehead of such a digital turn, writes Nishant Shah.
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CIS Featured in 'Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective' Report
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Oct 16, 2015
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last modified
Oct 16, 2015 07:43 AM
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filed under:
Digital Scholarship,
Researchers at Work,
Learning,
Digital Humanities
This report, authored by Vivian Lewis, Lisa Spiro, Xuemao Wang, and Jon E. Cawthorne, sheds light on the expertise required to support a robust and sustainable digital scholarship (DS) program. It focuses first on defining and describing the key domain knowledge, skills, competencies, and mindsets at some of the world’s most prominent digital scholarship programs. It then identifies the main strategies used to build this expertise, both formally and informally. The work is set in a global context, examining leading digital scholarship organizations in China, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The report team visited and spoke to us last year, as part of the study. Here are the Executive Summary and link to the final report.
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The Digital Humanities from Father Busa to Edward Snowden
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Sep 04, 2017
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last modified
Oct 04, 2017 11:02 AM
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Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog,
Digital Humanities
What do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit, who worked for almost his entire life on Saint Thomas Aquinas, have in common? The simple answer would be: the computer. Things however are a bit more complex than that, and the reason for choosing these two people to explain what the Digital Humanities are, is that in some sense they represent the origins and the present consequences of a certain way of thinking about computers. This essay by Dr. Domenico Fiormonte, lecturer in the Sociology of Communication and Culture in the Department of Political Sciences at University Roma Tre, was originally published in the Media Development journal.
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Pathways to Higher Education
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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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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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Buying into the Aakash Dream - A Tablet’s Tale of Mass Education
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 25, 2016
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Aakash,
Research,
Education Technology,
Internet Histories,
Researchers at Work
The low-cost Aakash tablet and its previous iterations in India have gone through several phases of technological changes and ideological experiments. Did the government prioritise familiarity and literacy about personal technological devices over the promise of quality mass education generated by low-cost devices? This article by Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Jahnavi Phalkey (India Institute, King's College London) was published by EPW in the Web Exclusive section. Here is the unabridged version of the article.
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Call for Proposal: Big Data for Development – Initial Field Studies
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 28, 2016
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last modified
Apr 28, 2016 07:28 AM
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Big Data,
Data Systems,
Big Data for Development,
Research,
Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet and Society, as part of a project with the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield, is inviting calls from researchers to undertake a brief initial study of a specific instance of use of big data for development in India. This is an exercise to build preliminary understanding of the landscape of big data for development in India, identify key research questions and priorities, and start developing connections with researchers interested in the field. The studies will be 6 weeks long - running from May to June 2016 - and the researchers are expected to produce a 3,000 words long report. We will support three field studies.
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April 2016 Newsletter
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Apr 30, 2016
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last modified
May 10, 2016 06:26 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Researchers at Work
Welcome to the CIS newsletter for April 2016. The key issues we worked on this month included the Aadhaar Act 2016, Standard Essential Patents, cyber security of smart grids, and involvement of international agencies in the smart cities project in India.
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