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The Internet in the Indian Judicial Imagination
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by
Divij Joshi
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published
Sep 09, 2015
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filed under:
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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Studying the Internet Discourse in India through the Prism of Human Rights
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by
Deva Prasad M
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published
Jul 22, 2015
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filed under:
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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Users and the Internet
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by
Purbasha Auddy
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published
Jul 10, 2015
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last modified
Jul 10, 2015 04:20 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
This post by Purbasha Auddy is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Purbasha is a SYLFF PhD fellow at the School of Cultural Texts and Records (SCTR), Jadavpur University, with more than eight years of work experience in digital archiving. She has also been teaching for the last two years in the newly-started post-graduate diploma course in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics offered by the SCTR. In this essay, Purbasha explores the constructions of the ideas of the Indian Internet users through the advertisements that talk about data packages, mobile phones or apps.
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Studying Internet in India: Selected Abstracts
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
May 10, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 06:53 AM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies,
RAW Blog
We received thirty five engaging abstracts in response to the call for essays on 'Studying Internet in India.' Here are the ten selected abstracts. The final essays will be published from June onwards.
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Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Apr 06, 2015
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last modified
Aug 28, 2015 07:09 AM
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filed under:
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 – and even in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society invites abstracts for essays that explore what it means to study Internet(s) in India today.
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RAW
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Civil Society Organisations and Internet Governance in Asia and India – Section Outlines
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Mar 27, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:40 AM
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filed under:
Internet Studies,
Research,
Featured,
Internet Histories,
Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet and Society has been invited to contribute two sections to the Asia Internet History - Third Decade (2001-2010) book edited by Dr. Kilnam Chon. The sections will discuss the activities and experiences of civil society organisations in Asia and India, respectively, in national, regional, and global Internet governance processes. The draft outlines of the sections are shared here. Comments and suggestions are invited.
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WSIS+10 High Level Event: A Bird's Eye Report
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by
Geetha Hariharan
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published
Jun 20, 2014
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last modified
Jun 20, 2014 03:57 PM
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filed under:
WSIS+10,
Privacy,
Cybersecurity,
Human Rights Online,
Surveillance,
Freedom of Speech and Expression,
Internet Governance,
Facebook,
Data Protection,
Multi-stakeholder,
ICANN,
Internet Access,
ITU,
Internet Studies,
E-Governance,
ICT
The WSIS+10 High Level was organised by the ITU and collaborative UN entities on June 9-13, 2014. It aimed to evaluate the progress on implementation of WSIS Outcomes from Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005, and to envision a post-2015 Development Agenda. Geetha Hariharan attended the event on CIS' behalf.
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Internet Governance
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Blog
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Not a Goodbye; More a ‘Come Again’: Thoughts on being Research Director at a moment of transition
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jun 15, 2014
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Featured,
Internet Studies,
Research
As I slowly make the news of my transition from being the Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, to taking up a professorship at the Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany, there is a question that I am often asked: “Are you going to start a new research centre?” And the answer, for the most part, is “No.”
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10 Ways to Say Nothing New
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 31, 2014
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last modified
Apr 14, 2015 01:17 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
Internet Studies
The rise of the listicle, a safe, non-thinking information piece that tells us what we already know.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Internet Governance Forum
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by
Anirudh Sridhar
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published
Dec 03, 2013
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filed under:
Internet Studies
Anirudh Sridhar provides an analysis of the creation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), its structure, and the importance of IGF in this unit.
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Telecom
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Knowledge Repository on Internet Access