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The power of the next click...
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Nishant Shah
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published
Jun 17, 2010
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last modified
Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Activism,
Gaming,
Digital Natives,
Cybercultures
P2P cameras and microphones hooked up to form a network of people who don't know each other, and probably don't care; a series of people in different states of undress, peering at the each other, hands poised on the 'Next' button to search for something more. Chatroulette, the next big fad on the internet, is here in a grand way, making vouyers out of us all. This post examines the aesthetics, politics and potentials of this wonderful platform beyond the surface hype of penises and pornography that surrounds this platform.
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Blog
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Separating the 'Symbiotic Twins'
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by
Nitya V
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published
Jun 17, 2010
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last modified
Sep 18, 2019 02:10 PM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
Cybercultures
This post tries to undo the comfortable linking that has come to exist in the ‘radical’ figure of the cyber-queer. And this is so not because of a nostalgic sense of the older ways of performing queerness, or the world of the Internet is fake or unreal in comparison to bodily experience, and ‘real’ politics lies elsewhere. This is so as it is a necessary step towards studying the relationship between technology and sexuality.
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Queer Histories of the Internet
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Digital Natives at Republica 2010
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 26, 2010
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last modified
May 15, 2015 11:35 AM
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Conference,
Digital Activism,
Digital Natives,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities,
Researchers at Work
Nishant Shah from the Centre for Internet and Society, made a presentation at the Re:Publica 2010, in Berlin, about its collaborative project (with Hivos, Netherlands) "Digital Natives with a Cause?" The video for the presentation, along with an extensive abstract is now available here.
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Critical Point of View: Videos
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 20, 2010
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filed under:
Conference,
Art,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
Communities,
CPOV
The Second event for the Critical Point of View reader on Wikipedia was held in Amsterdam, by the Institute of Network Cultures and the Centre for Internet and Society. A wide range of scholars, academics, researchers, practitioners, artists and users came together to discuss questions on design, analytics, access, education, theory, art, history and processes of knowledge production. The videos for the full event are now available for free viewing and dissemination.
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Meet the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Apr 08, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AM
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filed under:
Cyberspace,
Digital Natives,
Agency,
Cyborgs,
Cybercultures
Digital Natives live their lives differently. But sometimes, they also die their lives differently! What happens when we die online? Can the digital avatar die? What is digital life? The Web 2.0 Suicide machine that has now popularly been called the 'anti-social-networking' application brings some of these questions to the fore. As a part of the Hivos-CIS "Digital Natives with a Cause?" research programme, Nishant Shah writes about how Life on the Screen is much more than just a series of games.
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WikiWars - A report
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 23, 2010
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last modified
Oct 06, 2010 11:21 AM
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filed under:
Digital Governance,
Wikipedia,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
Workshop,
CPOV
The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, hosted WikiWars – an international event that brought together scholars, researchers, academics, artists and practitioners from various disciplines, to discuss the emergence and growth of Wikipedia and what it means for the information societies we inhabit. With participants from 15 countries making presentations about Wikipedia and the knowledge ecology within which it exists, the event saw a vigorous set of debates and discussions as questions about education, pedagogy, language, access, geography, resistance, art and subversion were raised by the presenters. The 2 day event marked the beginning of the process that hopes to produce the first critical reader – Critical Point of View (CPOV) - that collects key resources for research and inquiry around Wikipedia.
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IT, The City and Public Space
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Feb 22, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 06:07 AM
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Cyberspace,
City,
Cybercultures,
Architecture,
Communities
In the Introduction to the project, Pratyush Shankar at CEPT, Ahmedabad, lays out the theoretical and practice based frameworks that inform contemporary space-technology discourses in the fields of Architecture and Urban Design. The proposal articulates the concerns, the anxieties and the lack of space-technology debates in the country despite the overwhelming ways in which emergence of internet technologies has resulted in material and imagined practices of people in urbanised India. The project draws variously from disciplines of architecture, design, cultural studies and urban geography to start a dialogue about the new kinds of public spaces that inform the making of the IT City in India. You can also access his comic strip visual introduction to the project at http://www.isvsjournal.org/pratyush/internet/Dashboard.html
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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Fill The Gap: Global Discussion on Digital Natives
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 15, 2010
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last modified
Jan 22, 2010 10:54 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Digital Activism,
Digital Governance,
Digital Natives,
Agency,
Youth,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
New Pedagogies,
Digital subjectivities,
ICT
More often than not people don't understand the new practices inspired by Internet and digital technologies. As such a series of accusations have been leveled against the Digital Natives. Educators, policy makers, scholars, and parents have all raised their worries without hearing out from the people they are concerned about. Hivos has initiated an online global discussion about Digital Natives. So, to voice your opinion, start tweeting with us now #DigitalNatives.
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Digital Natives With a Cause?
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Inquilab 2.0? Reflections on Online Activism in India*
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 13, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 09:25 AM
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filed under:
histories of internet in India,
Social media,
Digital Activism,
Cyberspace,
Access to Medicine,
internet and society,
Research,
Cybercultures
Research and activism on the Internet in India remain fledgling in spite the media hype, says Anja Kovacs in her blog post that charts online activism in India as it has emerged.
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Revolution 2.0?
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A provisional definition for the Cultural Last Mile
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 10, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 08:57 AM
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filed under:
ICT4D,
Digital Governance,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Cybercultures,
Digital subjectivities
In the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he re-purposes the 'last mile' which is a communications problem, to make a cultural argument about the role and imagination of technology in India, and the specific ways in which this problem features in talking about Internet Technologies in contemporary India.
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The Last Cultural Mile