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Studying Internet in India (2016): Selected Abstracts
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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Jul 05, 2016
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Jul 06, 2016 06:24 AM
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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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Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 20, 2016
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last modified
Jul 04, 2016 12:48 PM
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Internet Studies,
RAW Blog,
Featured,
Notices,
Researchers at Work
As Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges – though no longer in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society invites abstracts for essays that explore how do we study internet in India today.
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The Many Lives and Sites of Internet in Bhubaneswar
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Sailen Routray
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Sep 21, 2015
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City,
Internet Studies,
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Researchers at Work
This post by Sailen Routray is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Sailen is a researcher, writer, editor and translator who lives and works in Bhubaneswar. In this essay, he takes a preliminary step towards capturing some of the experiences of running and using internet cafes, experiences that lie at the interstices of (digital) objects and spaces, that are at the same time a history of the internet as well as a personal history of the city.
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The Internet in the Indian Judicial Imagination
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Divij Joshi
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Sep 09, 2015
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Internet Studies,
Internet Law,
Judiciary,
RAW Blog,
Researchers at Work
This post by Divij Joshi is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Divij is a final year student at the National Law
School of India University, Bangalore and is a keen observer and researcher on issues of law, policy and technology. In this essay, he traces the history of the Internet in India through the lens of judicial trends, and looks at how the judiciary has defined its own role in relation to the Internet.
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Governing Speech on the Internet: From the Free Marketplace Policy to a Controlled 'Public Sphere'
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Smarika Kumar
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Aug 28, 2015
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Aug 28, 2015 05:57 AM
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Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Judiciary,
RAW Blog,
69A,
Censorship,
Section 66A,
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This post by Smarika Kumar is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Smarika is a consultant with Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. She is interested in issues concerning law and technology. In this essay, Smarika explores how through the use of policy and regulation, the private marketplace of the internet is sought to be reined in and reconciled to the public sphere, which is mostly represented through legislations governing the internet.
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War Driving in Lhasa Vegas
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Oxblood Ruffin
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Aug 17, 2015
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Aug 17, 2015 08:19 AM
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Histories of Internet,
RAW Blog
This post by Oxblood Ruffin is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Oxblood Ruffin is a hacktivist and film maker. He joined the CULT OF THE DEAD COW in 1996 as its Foreign Minister. Colonel Ruffin is co-author of the Hacktivismo Enhanced Source Software Licencse Agreement (HESSLA), network curmudgeon, and line cook. He will publish a book on information warfare in 2016. In this essay, Colonel Ruffin traces the history of Internet access in Dharamsala, and the factors at play in shaping it - mundane and maverick, familiar and outlier.
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Mock-Calling – Ironies of Outsourcing and the Aspirations of an Individual
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Sreedeep
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Aug 06, 2015
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Aug 06, 2015 05:00 AM
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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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'Originality,' 'Authenticity,' and 'Experimentation': Understanding Tagore’s Music on YouTube
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Ipsita Sengupta
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Jul 27, 2015
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Jul 07, 2016 02:18 AM
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Digital Media,
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RAW Blog
This post by Ipsita Sengupta is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. In this essay, she explores the responses to various renditions of songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore available on YouTube and the questions they raise regarding online listening cultures and ideas of authorship of music.
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Studying the Internet Discourse in India through the Prism of Human Rights
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Deva Prasad M
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Jul 22, 2015
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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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Effective Activism: The Internet, Social Media, and Hierarchical Activism in New Delhi
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Sarah McKeever
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Jul 16, 2015
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Jul 16, 2015 08:22 AM
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Social Media,
Digital Activism,
Researchers at Work,
RAW Blog
This post by Sarah McKeever is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Sarah is a PhD candidate at the India Institute, King’s College London, and her work focuses on the impact of social media on contemporary political
movements. In this essay, she explores the increasingly hierarchical system of activism on the Internet, based on Western corporate desire for data, and how it is shaping who is seen and heard on the Internet in India.
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