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Blog Entry Our Internet and the Law
by Nishant Shah — published Jan 28, 2012 — last modified Mar 26, 2012 09:28 AM — filed under:
Nishant Shah was interviewed by the BBC Channel 5 (Radio) for its Outriders section. Jamillah Knowles reports this through this blog post published by BBC Radio on 24 January 2012.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Keeping it Private
by Nishant Shah — published Jan 16, 2012 — last modified Jan 27, 2012 03:50 AM — filed under: ,
As we disclose more information online, we must ask who might access it and why. This article by Nishant Shah was published in the Indian Express on Sunday, 15 January 2012.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Click to Change
by Nishant Shah — published Jan 03, 2012 — filed under:
From organising political protests and flash mobs to uploading their versions of Kolaveri Di, people brought about change with the help of the internet, writes Nishant Shah in this article published in the Indian Express on 1 January 2012.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry The Historian Wins Over the Biographer
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 31, 2011 — filed under:
In Walter Isaacson's eponymous biography of Steve Jobs, the multibillion dollar man who is credited with single handedly changing the face of computing and the digital media industry, we face the dilemma of a biographer: how do you make sense of a history that is so new, it is still unfolding? Nishant Shah's detailed review of Steve Jobs' biography is now out in the Biblio and is is available online (after a free registration) as a PDF.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Of Surrogate Futures and Scattered Temporalities
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 28, 2011 — last modified Dec 30, 2011 10:15 AM — filed under:
There can be no refuting Michael Edwards’ claim that the world we live in is not only thick with problems, but that the problems that we are collectively trying to address are ‘thick...complex, politicized and unpredictable...complicated and contested’.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Now Streaming on Your Nearest Screen
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 24, 2011 — last modified Dec 24, 2011 08:58 AM — filed under: ,
Digital cinema, especially the kinds produced using mobile devices and travelling on Internet social networking systems like YouTube and MySpace, are often dismissed as apolitical and ‘merely’ a fad. Moreover, content in the non-English language, due to incomprehensibility or lack of understanding of the cultural context of the production, is labeled as frivolous, or inconsequential, writes Nishant Shah in this peer reviewed essay published in the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Volume 3, Issue 1, June 2009.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry Internet and Society in Asia: Challenges and Next Steps
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 23, 2011 — filed under: ,
The ubiquitous presence of internet technologies, in our age of digital revolution, has demanded the attention of various disciplines of study and movements for change around the globe. As more of our environment gets connected to the circuits of the World Wide Web, we witness a significant transformation in the way we understand the politics, mechanics and aesthetics of the world we live in, says Nishant Shah in this peer reviewed essay published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 11, Number 1, March 2010.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 23, 2011 — last modified May 08, 2015 12:36 PM — filed under: , , , , , ,
What happens when we look at the classroom as a space of social justice? What are the ways in which students can be engaged in learning beyond rote memorisation? What innovative methods can be evolved to make students stakeholders in their learning process? These were some of the questions that were thrown up and discussed at the 2 day Faculty Training workshop for participant from colleges included in the Pathways to Higher Education programme, supported by Ford Foundation and collaboratively executed by the Higher Education Innovation and Research Application and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
Located in Digital Natives / Pathways to Higher Education
Blog Entry Spy in the Web
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 22, 2011 — last modified Mar 26, 2012 06:38 AM — filed under: , ,
The government’s proposed pre-censorship rules undermine the intelligence of an online user and endanger democracy.
Located in Internet Governance
Blog Entry The Digital Other
by Nishant Shah — published Dec 15, 2011 — last modified May 14, 2015 12:07 PM — filed under: , ,
Based on my research on young people in the Global South, I want to explore new ways of thinking about the Digital Native. One of the binaries posited as the Digital ‘Other’ -- ie, a non-Digital Native -- is that of a Digital Immigrant or Settler.
Located in Digital Natives
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