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India Debates Misuse of Social Media
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 23, 2012
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last modified
Sep 04, 2012 12:13 PM
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
India has blocked more than 250 websites after provocative online content spread panic among people from the country's northeast, prompting some of them to flee Indian cities. The crackdown has sparked a debate about how the country will cope with misuse of social media.
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India limits social media after civil unrest
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 23, 2012
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last modified
Sep 04, 2012 11:59 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Intermediary Liability,
Censorship
Indian officials have gone too far in limiting text messages and pressuring local Internet firms as well as Twitter and others to block accounts, critics say.
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Government asks Twitter to block fake 'PMO India' accounts; site fails to respond
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 22, 2012
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last modified
Sep 04, 2012 12:24 PM
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Intermediary Liability,
Censorship
A standoff between the government and microblogging service Twitter, that has got India's online community up in arms, continues, as Twitter is still to act on India's requests to block some of the fake 'PMO India' accounts.
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Analysing Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism & Rioting Edition)
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Aug 22, 2012
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last modified
Sep 06, 2012 11:52 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Censorship
Pranesh Prakash does preliminary analysis on a leaked list of the websites blocked from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 by the Indian government.
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Internet Governance
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Internet Analysts Question India’s Efforts to Stem Panic
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 22, 2012
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last modified
Sep 04, 2012 11:46 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Indian government’s efforts to stem a weeklong panic among some ethnic minorities has again put it at odds with Internet companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter.
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Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Dec 14, 2011
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last modified
Jan 04, 2012 08:59 AM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Google,
Access to Knowledge,
Social media,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Intermediary Liability,
Featured,
Internet Governance,
Censorship
The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government has been able to achieve this through the Information Technology Act and the Intermediary Guidelines Rules it passed in April 2011. It now wants methods of censorship that leave even fewer traces, which is why Mr. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology talks of Internet 'self-regulation', and has brought about an amendment of the Copyright Act that requires instant removal of content.
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Internet Governance
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Online Pre-Censorship is Harmful and Impractical
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Dec 07, 2011
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last modified
Dec 12, 2011 05:00 PM
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filed under:
IT Act,
Obscenity,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Public Accountability,
YouTube,
Social media,
Internet Governance,
Featured,
Intermediary Liability,
Censorship,
Social Networking
The Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal wants Internet intermediaries to pre-censor content uploaded by their users. Pranesh Prakash takes issue with this and explains why this is a problem, even if the government's heart is in the right place. Further, he points out that now is the time to take action on the draconian IT Rules which are before the Parliament.
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Internet Governance
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Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 15, 2011
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last modified
Apr 10, 2015 09:22 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Digital Activism,
RAW Publications,
Campaign,
Digital Natives,
Agency,
Blank Noise Project,
Featured,
Cybercultures,
Facebook,
Publications,
Beyond the Digital,
Digital subjectivities,
Books,
Researchers at Work
Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”. This collaboratively produced collective, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, asks critical and pertinent questions about theory and practice around 'digital revolutions' in a post MENA (Middle East - North Africa) world. It works with multiple vocabularies and frameworks and produces dialogues and conversations between digital natives, academic and research scholars, practitioners, development agencies and corporate structures to examine the nature and practice of digital natives in emerging contexts from the Global South.
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open video summit
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by
Radha Rao
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last modified
Nov 19, 2009 07:04 AM
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filed under:
Social media
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Survey : Digital Natives with a cause?
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by
pushpa
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published
Jun 08, 2010
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last modified
Aug 04, 2011 10:35 AM
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filed under:
Social media,
Digital Natives,
Youth,
Featured,
Digital subjectivities,
Social Networking
This survey seeks to consolidate information about how young people who have grown up with networked technologies use and experience online platforms and tools. It is also one of the first steps we have taken to interact with Digital Natives from around the world — especially in emerging information societies — to learn, understand and explore the possibilities of change via technology that lie before the Digital Natives. The findings from the survey will be presented at a multi-stakeholder conference later this year in The Netherlands.
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