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Reaping the Benefits of Gamification
— by Dipali Sheth — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:24 PMAs a part of the Making Change blog-post series, in this post we will identify a new technique: gamification. This technique is being used for sustainable environment conservation by modern day change-makers. We interview two out of three co-founders of Reap benefit- Kamal Raj and Gautam Prakash who believe in the adoption of more sustained environmental practices that induce social change towards conserving the environment.
From Taboo to Beautiful - Menstrupedia
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:25 PMOn this post, we take a look at 'menstrual activism' -a movement that despite its trajectory in feminism, remains unnoticed in most accounts of traditional and digital activism. We interview Tuhin Paul, the artist and storyteller behind Menstrupedia, an India-based social venture creating comics to shatter the myths and misunderstandings surrounding menstruation around the world.
Multimedia Storytellers: Panel Discussion
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:26 PMThis post brings three storytellers together to find points of intersection between their methods. The format will be that of a panel discussion and it features: Arjun Srivathsa from Pocket Science India, Ameen Haque from the Storywallahs, and Ajay Dasgupta from The Kahani Project. They discuss technology, interpretation and action in storytelling.
Bridging the Information Divide - Political Quotient
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:28 PMOn this post, we will unpack 'information poverty'- a problem lying at the very foundation of the crises that inspired this project and a barrier impacting political action. We interview Surabhi HR, the founder director of the political consulting firm Political Quotient, an initiative that seeks to change how youth interacts with politics in India
Information Structures for Citizen Participation - Janaagraha
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:28 PMIn our efforts to understand how change is conceptualized in the digital era, we find a growing emphasis on the role of effective information structures to empower the citizen and the government. We interview Joylita Saldanha from Janaagraha to answer questions around information, participation and e-governance.
Digital Design: Human Behavior vs. Technology - Vita Beans
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:29 PMWhat comes first? Understanding human behavior and communication patterns to design digital technologies? Or should our technologies have the innate capacity to adapt to the profiles of all its potential users? This post will look at accessibility challenges for digital immigrants and the importance of behavioral science for the design of digital technologies. We interview Amruth Bagali Ravindranath from Vita Beans.
Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 2
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:30 PMThis post compares the method of storytelling with performances. To illustrate this, we explore the narratives of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian, two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. Part 2 looks at the role of actors and the stage in performances to explore the role of agency and the public space in storytelling.
Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 1
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:31 PMThis post compares the production behind a performance with the process of storytelling. To illustrate this analogy, we explore the stories of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian- two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. This post looks at the stages of pre-production and the screenplay to explore methods and narratives in storytelling.
10 Ways to Say Nothing New
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 14, 2015 01:17 PMThe rise of the listicle, a safe, non-thinking information piece that tells us what we already know.
Creative Activism - Voices of Young Change Makers in India (UDAAN)
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 14, 2015 01:21 PMThis post is a short account of what happened at UDAAN in December 2013 — a conference that gathered 100 youth from across the country to discuss pressing environmental issues and creative strategies to tackle them. We conducted a survey to map the perspectives of these young change-makers and get a glimpse of how India's youth is now framing and going about making 'change'
Information Design - Visualizing Action (TTC)
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:34 AMThis is the second part of the Making Change analysis on information activism. It explores the role of the presentation and design of information to translate information into action.
Information Activism - Tactics for Empowerment (TTC)
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:36 AMThis is the first of a two-part analysis of information activism for the Making Change project. This post looks at the benefits and limitations of increasing access to information to enable citizenship and political participation.
Digital Native
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:40 AMThe end of the year is supposed to be a happy, feel-good space for families, friends, societies and communities to come together and count our blessings. It is the time to look at things that have gone by and look forward to what the New Year will bring.
Methods for Social Change
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:42 AMOn this brief introduction, I outline the main targets of my research project for CIS and the HIVOS Knowledge Program. As a response to the thought piece ‘Whose Change is it Anyway’ I will explore civic engagement among middle class youth over the course of the next 9 months by interviewing change makers and collectives that are part of multi-stakeholder projects in Bangalore.
Public Art, Technology and Citizenship - Blank Noise Project
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:43 AMJasmeen Patheja speaks about the active citizen in the digital age, its challenges in the public and private spheres and interdisciplinary methods to overcome them.
Digitally Enhanced Civil Resistance
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:46 AMThis reflection looks at how civil disobedience unfolds in network societies. It explores the origins of nonviolence, describes digital and non-digital tactics of non-violent protest and participation and finally comments on the possibilities of this form of civil resistance to foster individual and collective civic engagement.
Bangalore + Sustainability Summit
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:48 AMThe power of technology to create youth engagement and positive social change were discussed at the Bangalore + Sustainability Summit on September 21, 2013 at the Centre for Internet and Society(CIS) , Bangalore. The event, in conjunction with the Social Good Summit that took place in New York during the same weekend, explored creative and tech-based avenues to solve sustainability challenges and promote social good.
Revealing Protesters on the Fringe: Crucifixion Protest in Paraguay
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:51 AMAn analysis of the crucifix protest in Paraguay in the light of Nishant Shah’s piece: Whose Change is it Anyway? The blog post looks at the physical and symbolic spaces in which narratives of change were conceived and the extent to which information circulating within activates citizen action.
Digital Humanities for Indian Higher Education
— by Sara Morais and Subhashish Panigrahi — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:53 AMThe digital age has had a huge impact on higher education in the last decade transforming the modalities of both teaching and research. To discuss these changes and what it means for research work, a multidisciplinary consultation was held at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore on July 13, 2013.
Whose Change is it Anyway?
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:56 AMThis thought piece is an attempt to reflect critically on existing practices of “making change” and its implications for the future of citizen action in information and network societies. It observes that change is constantly and explicitly invoked at different stages in research, practice, and policy in relation to digital technologies, citizen action, and network societies.
The Stranger with Candy
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 17, 2015 11:00 AMBeware of online threats, as the distinction between friends and foes is false on the internet.
It’s Common Practice
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:41 AMTechnologies are no longer abstract. They're habits. What constitutes a habit? The gestures that you make as you read this, the way your eyes flick when you encounter somebody you like, the way you stroke your chin in a moment of reflection, or the split second decisions that you make in times of crises — these are all habits. They are pre-thought, visceral, depending upon biological, social and collective memories that do not need rational thinking. Habits are the customised programming of human life.
Not Just Fancy Television
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:45 AMNishant Shah reviews Ben Hammersley's book "64 Things You Need to Know for Then: How to Face the Digital Future Without Fear ", published by Hodder & Stoughton
Whose Change Is It Anyway? | DML2013
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:47 AMAs a preparation for the DML conference, Nishant Shah had an interview with Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs. Nishant Shah is chair of 'Whose Change Is It Anyway? Futures, Youth, Technology And Citizen Action In The Global South (And The Rest Of The World)' track at DML2013. Here, he talks about shifts in citizen engagement in Indian politics and civics, and the underlying significance of these changes.
The Rules of Engagement
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:48 AMWhy the have-nots of the digital world can sometimes be mistaken as trolls. I am not sure if you have noticed, but lately, the people populating our social networks have started to be more diverse than before.
One. Zero.
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:50 AMThe digital world is the world of twos. All our complex interactions, emotional negotiations, business transactions, social communication and political subscriptions online can be reduced to a string of 1s and 0s, as machines create the networks for the human beings to speak. So sophisticated is this network of digital infrastructure that we forget how our languages of connection are constantly being transcribed in binary code, allowing for the information to be transmitted across the web.
Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:51 AMNishant Shah was invited to do a book review of a new anthology 'Deconstructing Digital Natives', edited by Michael Thomas. The review was published in Routledge's Journal of Children and Media on July 18, 2012.
Citizen Activism the Past Decade
— by Nilofar Ansher — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:52 AMCall for Contributions to the ‘Digital Natives with a Cause?’ newsletter, ‘Citizen Activism the Past Decade’. Deadline: August 15, 2012.
Revisiting Techno-euphoria
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:53 AMIn my last post, I talked about techno-euphoria as a condition that seems to mark much of our discourse around digital technologies and the promise of the future. The euphoria, as I had suggested, manifests itself either as a utopian view of how digital technologies are going to change the future that we inhabit, or woes of despair about how the overdetermination of the digital is killing the very fibre of our social fabric.
Across Borders
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:55 AMA friend and I were at a cafe in Bangalore the other day, when an acquaintance walked in. After the initial niceties, and invitation to join us for coffee, the new person looked at us and asked a question that sounded so archaic and so unexpected that we had no answers for it: How do you two know each other? This innocuous question threw us both off the loop because we didn’t have an immediate answer.
The Bots That Got Some Votes Home
— by Nilofar Ansher — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:56 AMNilofar Ansher gives us some startling updates on the "Digital Natives Video Contest" voting results declared in May 2012, in this blog post.
Hyper-connected, Hyper-lonely?
— by Nilofar Ansher — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:57 AMThe Digital Natives newsletter, part of the 'Digital Natives with a Cause?' project, invites contributions to its April-May 2012 double issue.
Digitally Analogue
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:00 PMWhy there is nothing strictly analogue anymore, examines Nishant Shah in this column that he wrote for the Indian Express.
We Are All Cyborgs
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:00 PMThe cyborg reminds us that who we are as human beings is very closely linked with the technologies we use.
Framing the Digital AlterNatives
— by Nilofar Ansher — last modified May 08, 2015 12:28 PMThey effect social change through social media, place their communities on the global map, and share spiritual connections with the digital world - meet the everyday digital native.
D:Coding Digital Natives
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 08, 2015 12:30 PMNishant Shah was invited for a public talk at the University of California, Los Angeles. He presented the work done on Digital Natives and spoke about questions of participation and resistance. The talk has been featured in the YouTube channel.
We Have the Answer for You. So, what's the Question?
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 08, 2015 12:30 PMThe Everyday Digital Native Video Contest invited everyone to send in videos that answered the question: who's the everyday digital native? Participants from all parts of the globe now have the answers.
Vote for the Everyday Digital Native Video Contest!
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 08, 2015 12:32 PMThe Centre for Internet & Society and Hivos are super excited to present the final videos in the Everyday Digital Native Video Contest. We invite readers to vote for the TOP 5 Videos. The finalists will each win EUR500! Voting closes March 31, 2012
Pinning the Badge
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 08, 2015 12:34 PMIn a world of competition, badging provides a holistic way of grading and learning, where individual talents are realised and the knowledge of the group is used.
Digital Natives Video Contest
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 08, 2015 12:35 PMThe Everyday Digital Native Video Contest has its top five winners through public voting.
The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 08, 2015 12:36 PMWhat 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.
The Digital Other
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:07 PMBased 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.
Technology, Social Justice and Higher Education
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 30, 2015 02:54 PMSince the last two years, we at the Centre for Internet and Society, have been working with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, on a project called Pathways to Higher Education, supported by the Ford Foundation.
Learn it Yourself
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:08 PMThe peer-to-peer world of online learning encourages conversations and reciprocal learning, writes Nishant Shah in an article published in the Indian Express on 30 October 2011.
In Search of the Other: Decoding Digital Natives
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:12 PMThis is the first post of a research inquiry that questions the ways in which we have understood the Youth-Technology-Change relationship in the contemporary digital world, especially through the identity of ‘Digital Native’. Drawing from three years of research and current engagements in the field, the post begins a critique of how we need to look at the outliers, the people on the fringes in order to unravel the otherwise celebratory nature of discourse about how the digital is changing the world.
Mobility Shifts 2011 — An International Future of Learning Summit
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 30, 2015 02:55 PMThe summit was organised by the New School and sponsored by MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. It was held from October 10 to October 16, 2011 at the New School, New York City.
On Fooling Around: Digital Natives and Politics in Asia
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:11 PMYouths are not only actively participating in the politics of its times but also changing the way in which we understand the political processes of mobilisation, participation and transformation, writes Nishant Shah. The paper was presented at the Digital Cultures in Asia, 2009, at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 10, 2015 09:22 AMHivos 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.
Between the Stirrup and the Ground: Relocating Digital Activism
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 14, 2015 12:14 PMIn this peer reviewed research paper, Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen draws on a research project that focuses on understanding new technology, mediated identities, and their relationship with processes of change in their immediate and extended environments in emerging information societies in the global south. It suggests that endemic to understanding digital activism is the need to look at the recalibrated relationships between the state and the citizens through the prism of technology and agency. The paper was published in Democracy & Society, a publication of the Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2011.
What scares a Digital Native? Blogathon
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified May 14, 2015 12:16 PMWhat Scares technologized young people around the world? In an effort to present a view often not heard in traditional discourses, on Monday the 18th of April 2011, young people from across the world blogged about their fears in relation to the digitalisation of society.
Who the Hack?
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 14, 2015 12:16 PMA hacker is not an evil spirit, instead he can outwit digital systems to bring about social change, writes Nishant Shah in this column published in the Indian Express on April 24, 2011.
Cyber Fears: What scares Digital Natives and those around them
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified May 15, 2015 11:45 AMSocieties around the world are quickly digitising ...Twitter.... ...Facebook... ...Wireless accessible everywhere... “Digital Natives” are those who have figured how to use these technologies to their full potential But even they have real fears. If you are a Digital Native, are related to one or work with/alongside with one come share your fears with us! Blogathon: Many people bloging together at the same time on a shared topic Date: Monday April 18th, 2011 On http://digitalnatives.in
One for the avatar
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 14, 2015 12:19 PMWith increasing instances of online avatars being victimised, users who are part of these identities need to be protected against vicious attacks. A fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from 19 September 2010 onwards. This article was published on April 3, 2011.
I Believe that .......... should be a Right in the Digital Age
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified May 14, 2015 12:20 PMOn Monday March 21, 2011, people from three continents blogged about what they believe will/should/are rights in the digital age, as part of the "Digital Natives with a Cause?" project. From "free music" to "many identities", people have a varied and rich set of beliefs of what should constitute a right.
Reflecting from the Beyond
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified May 14, 2015 12:21 PMAfter going ‘beyond the digital’ with Blank Noise through the last nine posts, the final post in the series reflects on the understanding gained so far about youth digital activism and questions one needs to carry in moving forward on researching, working with, and understanding digital natives.
Science, Technology and Society International Conference – Some Afterthoughts
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified May 14, 2015 12:22 PMAn international conference on Science, Technology and Society was held at the Indore Christian College on March 12 and 13. It was sponsored by the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal and organized by the Indore Christian College. Samuel Tettner, Digital Natives Coordinator from the Centre for Internet and Society attended this conference and is sharing his experience about the workshop.
Watson knows the Question
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 14, 2015 12:24 PMNow that an algorithm has given humans a run for their money on a quiz show, it’s time to rethink the idea of a machine. A fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from 19 September 2010 onwards. This article was published on March 6, 2011.
Activism: Unraveling the Term
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified May 14, 2015 12:25 PMAfter discussing Blank Noise’s politics and ways of organizing, the current post explores whether activism is still a relevant concept to capture the involvement of people within the collective. I explore the questions from the vantage point of the youth actors, through conversations about how they relate with the very term of activism.
The Many Faces Within
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:41 AMBlank Noise, as many other digital native collectives, may seem to be complete horizontal at first glance. But, a closer look reveals the many different possibilities for involvement and a unique way the collective organize itself.
"Digital Natives with a Cause?" newsletter Volume I
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified May 15, 2015 11:44 AMFor everyone who is interested in learning more about the Digital Natives who form part of the "Digital Natives with a Cause?" community. The Newsletter includes opinion posts by participants from the three workshops, interview with them, comics and cartoons highlighting current issues affecting the community, as well as current news and discussions happening at the project website, www.digitalnatives.in
Pull the Plug
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:21 AMIs it time to start talking about the right to disconnect? There is so much expectation and focus on being connected to the internet, that it seems like we don't have a choice. This article by Nishant Shah was published in the Indian Express.
The Class Question
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:45 PMBlank Noise aims to be as inclusive as possible and therefore does not identify any specific target groups. Yet, the spaces and the methods they occupy do attract certain kinds of volunteers and public. This raises the class question: what are the dilemmas around class on digital interventions? Are they any different from the dilemmas on street interventions?
Diving Into the Digital
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:39 AMPrevious posts in the ‘Beyond the Digital’ series have discussed the non-virtual aspects and presence of Blank Noise. However, to understand the activism of digital natives also require a look into their online presence and activities. This post explores how Blank Noise’s engagement with the public in their digital realm.
Computer Science & Society – The Roles Defined
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:39 AMComputer Science has had a big impact on the growth of modern society. In today’s world keeping in mind the intersection between society and technology, creating powerful machines alone isn’t enough rather the role of computer science in society is undergoing a change, says Samuel Tettner in this blog post.
Digital Natives with a Cause? —Workshop in Santiago — an Afterthought
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:16 AMThe Digital Natives had their third and final workshop in Santiago, Chile from 8 to 10 February 2011. Once again CIS and Hivos joined hands to organise the event. Samuel Tettner, Digital Natives Coordinator from CIS narrates his experiences from the workshop in this blog post.
A FLASH of Change
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:22 AMA fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from September 2010 onwards. In this article published on February 6, 2011, Nishant Shah writes that citizens are organising, congregating, acting and thereby creating revolutions.
Wiki changes the world
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:23 AMA fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from September 2010 onwards. This article was published in the Indian Express on January 23, 2011. In this Nishant Shah explains how Wiki changes the world by making the ordinary person the expert and knowledge free.
The Digital Tipping Point
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:36 AMIs Web 2.0 really the only reason why youth digital activism is so successful in mobilizing public engagement? A look into the transformation of Blank Noise’s blog from a one-way communication medium into a site of public dialogue and collaboration reveals the crucial factors behind the success.
Rising Voices Seeks Micro-Grant Proposals for Citizen Media Outreach
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:36 AMRising Voices is seeking project proposals from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or individuals for funding of up to $4,000 USD for digital media outreach projects around the world. Application Deadline: Friday, February 4, 2011 at 11:59 PM GMT.
Is That a Friend on Your Wall?
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:36 AMBefore you start reading today’s column, have a look at the person sitting next to you. It might be a family member if you are at home, a friend in the club, a stranger in a cafe or a fellow commuter on the bus. Now take a moment to figure out how much you trust that person. The intensity of your trust would depend upon your familiarity, your social relationship and the time you’ve known that person.
Make a Wish
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 16, 2013 06:37 AMIt is that time of the year again, where we ring in the new, ring out the old, and say goodbye to another year that has passed us by. The earnest will take the time to reflect on things gone by, the romantics will look forward with hope to the future and the realists will point out that we are now one decade into the 21st century, and the world is changing. However, if you are a true digital native, you are probably going to head over to a website that helps you figure out 43 things that you want to do, not just in the next year, but in your foreseeable future.
Digital Natives with a Cause? - workshop in Santiago Open Call
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified Sep 22, 2011 11:40 AMThe third and final workshop in the Digital Natives with a Cause? research project will take place in Santiago, Chile, from the 8 to 10 February. An open call for participation follows.
Digital Natives with a Cause? - Workshop in Santiago FAQs
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified May 15, 2015 11:46 AMThe third and final workshop of the Digital Natives with a Cause? research project will take place in Santiago, Chile, from 8 to 10 February 2011. Below are some frequently asked questions.
Play Station
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:36 AMParents needn’t panic, the internet can also be a haven for kids.
Digital Natives with a Cause? A Report
— by pushpa — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:28 AMYouth are often seen as potential agents of change for reshaping their own societies. By 2010, the global youth population is expected reach almost 1.2 billion of which 85% reside in developing countries. Unleashing the potential of even a part of this group in developing countries promises a substantially impact on societies. Especially now when youths thriving on digital technologies flood universities, work forces, and governments and could facilitate radical restructuring of the world we live in. So, it’s time we start listening to them.
Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon: Position Papers
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 15, 2015 11:34 AMThe Digital Natives with a Cause? Thinkathon conference co-organised by Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society is being held from 6 to 8 December at the Hague Museum for Communication. The position papers are now available online.
Just Where We Like It
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:25 AMThe micro space for status updates might become the new public space for discussion. Nishant Shah's column on Digital Natives was published in the Sunday Eye of the Indian Express on 21 November 2010.
My Bubble, My Space, My Voice workshop - Perspective and future
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:32 AMThe second workshop for the “Digital Natives with a Cause?” research project named “My Bubble, My Space, My Voice” took place at the Link Center of Wits University, in Johannesburg, South Africa from 6 November 2010 to 9 November 2010. Samuel Tettner, Digital Natives Co-cordinator shares his perspective on the workshop.
Taking It to the Streets
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:33 AMThe previous posts in the Beyond the Digital series have discussed the distinct ways in which young people today are thinking about their activism. The fourth post elaborates further on how this is translated into practice by sharing the experience of a Blank Noise street intervention: Y ARE U LOOKING AT ME?
Talking Back without "Talking Back"
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified Sep 22, 2011 11:37 AMThe activism of digital natives is often considered different from previous generations because of the methods and tools they use. However, reflecting on my conversations with The Blank Noise Project and my experience in the ‘Digital Natives Talking Back’ workshop in Taipei, the difference goes beyond the method and can be spotted at the analytical level – how young people today are thinking about their activism.
The 'Beyond the Digital' Directory
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified May 15, 2015 11:33 AMFor the past few months, Maesy Angelina has been sharing the insights gained from her research with Blank Noise on the activism of digital natives. The ‘Beyond the Digital’ directory offers a list of the posts on the research based on the order of its publication.
First Thing First
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AMStudies often focus on how digital natives do their activism in identifying the characteristics of youth digital activism and dedicate little attention to what the activism is about. The second blog post in the Beyond the Digital series reverses this trend and explores how the Blank Noise Project articulates the issue it addresses: street sexual harassment.
Change has come to all of us
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AMThe general focus on a digital generational divide makes us believe that generations are separated by the digital axis, and that the gap is widening. There is a growing anxiety voiced by an older generation that the digital natives they encounter — in their homes, schools and universities and at workplaces — are a new breed with an entirely different set of vocabularies and lifestyles which are unintelligible and inaccessible. It is time we started pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a digital native.
A digital native coordinating digital natives
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified Sep 22, 2011 11:31 AMIt’s been about a month since I got to Bangalore, “The Garden City”, and I joined the Center for Internet and Society, with whom I had been talking since late April. At CIS, I’ve been coordinating a project called “Digital Natives with a Cause?”
You Are Here
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AMGeo-tagging applications are creating new and impromptu communities of true.
નિશાંત શાહ: ડિજિટલ પેઢીનો ઉદય
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AM‘ડિજિટલ નાગરિક’ તેમને કહેવામાં આવે છે જેણે સામાન્ય જનજીવનમાં ડિજિટલ ટેક્નોલોજીના પ્રવેશ થઈ ગયા બાદ જન્મ લીધો છે. ડિજિટલ નાગરિકો દરેક જગ્યાએ છે. હવે સમય આવી ગયો છે કે આપણે એ જાણવાનો પ્રયાસ કરીએ કે આ લોકો કોણ છે, તેઓ શું કરી રહ્યા છે, તેઓ પોતાના અંગે શું વિચારે છે અને કેવી રીતે તેઓ કશું પણ જાણ્યા વગર આપણા ભવિષ્યને નવો આકાર આપવાનું કામ કરી રહ્યા છે.
Digital Natives with a Cause?— Workshop in South Africa—FAQs
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified May 15, 2015 11:35 AMThe second international Digital Natives Workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" will be held in Johannesburg from 7 to 9 November 2010. Some frequently asked questions regarding the upcoming workshop are answered in this blog entry.
The silent rise of the Digital Native
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AMIn late August, this year, the world shook for many when they went online (on their computers, PDAs, iPads, laptops) and realised that the comfortable zone of talking, chatting, sharing and doing just about everything else, had suddenly, without a warning, changed overnight (or afternoon, or morning, depending upon the time-zone they lived in). With a single change in its privacy and location settings, Facebook, home to billions of internet hours consisting of relationships, friendships, professional networks, social gaming, entertainment trivia, memories and exchanges, allowed its users to geo-tag themselves when on-the-move.
The geek shall inherit the earth
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:34 AMDemystifying the mysterious -agents changing the world around you.
Digital Natives Workshop in South Africa - Call for Participation
— by Samuel Tettner — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:31 AMThe African Commons Project, Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have joined hands for organising the second international workshop "My Bubble, My Space, My Voice" in Johannesburg from 07 to 09 November 2010. Send in your applications now!
On Talking Back: A Report on the Taiwan Workshop
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 03, 2012 10:35 AMWhat does it mean to Talk Back? Who do we Talk Back against? Are we alone in our attempts or a part of a larger community? How do we use digital technologies to find other peers and stake-holders? What is the language and vocabulary we use to successfully articulate our problems? How do we negotiate with structures of power to fight for our rights? These were the kind of questions that the Talking Back workshop held in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan from 16 to 18 August 2010 posed.
Political is as Political does
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:30 AMThe Talking Back workshop has been an extraordinary experience for me. The questions that I posed for others attending the workshop have hounded me as they went through the course of discussion, analysis and dissection. Strange nuances have emerged, certain presumptions have been questioned, new legacies have been discovered, novel ideas are still playing ping-pong in my mind, and a strange restless excitement – the kind that keeps me awake till dawning morn – has taken over me, as I try and figure out the wherefore and howfore of things. I began the research project on Digital Natives in a condition of not knowing, almost two years ago. Since then, I have taken many detours, rambled on strange paths, discovered unknown territories and reached a mile-stone where I still don’t know, but don’t know what I don’t know, and that is a good beginning.
Digital Natives : Talking Back
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 15, 2015 11:50 AMOne of the most significant transitions in the landscape of social and political movements, is how younger users of technology, in their interaction with new and innovative technologised platforms have taken up responsibility to respond to crises in their local and immediate environments, relying upon their digital networks, virtual communities and platforms. In the last decade or so, the digital natives, in universities as well as in work spaces, as they experimented with the potentials of internet technologies, have launched successful socio-political campaigns which have worked unexpectedly and often without precedent, in the way they mobilised local contexts and global outreach to address issues of deep political and social concern. But what do we really know about this Digital Natives revolution?
Beyond the Digital: Understanding Digital Natives with a Cause
— by Maesy Angelina — last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AMDigital natives with a cause: the future of activism or slacktivism? Maesy Angelina argues that the debate is premature given the obscured understanding on youth digital activism and contends that an effort to understand this from the contextualized perspectives of the digital natives themselves is a crucial first step to make. This is the first out of a series of posts on her journey to explore new insights to understand youth digital activism through a research with The Blank Noise Project under the Hivos-CIS Digital Natives Knowledge Programme.
Digital Natives Workshop in Taipei: Only a Few Seats Left!!!
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:29 AMThe Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration with the Frontier Foundation is holding a three day Digital Natives workshop in Taipei from 16 to 18 August, 2010. The three day workshop will serve as an ideal platform for the young users of technology to share their knowledge and experience of the digital and Internet world and help them learn from each other’s individual experiences.
The power of the next click...
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AMP2P 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.
Survey : Digital Natives with a cause?
— by pushpa — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:35 AMThis 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.
Digital Natives at Republica 2010
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 15, 2015 11:35 AMNishant 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.
Colour Me Political
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AMWhat are the tools that Digital Natives use to mobilise groups towards a particular cause? How do they engage with crises in their immediate environments? Are they using their popular social networking sites and web 2.0 applications for merely entertainment? Or are these tools actually helping them to re-articulate the realm of the political? Nishant Shah looks at the recent Facebook Colour Meme to see how new forms of political participation and engagement are being initiated by young people across the world.
Meet the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 04, 2011 10:34 AMDigital 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.
Digital Natives with a Cause?
— by Nishant Shah — last modified May 15, 2015 11:31 AMDigital Natives With A Cause? - a product of the Hivos-CIS collaboration charts the scholarship and practice of youth and technology with a specific attention for developing countries to create a framework that consolidates existing paradigms and informs further research and intervention within diverse contexts and cultures.
Storytelling and Technology - Sartaj Anand
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Mar 12, 2014 11:43 AMThis post outlines the general characteristics of storytelling. The second section is an interview with Sartaj Anand, the founder of EgoMonk and BIllion Strong, who talks about storytelling as a strategy to build trust at the intersections of business and technology. This is the first of a series of installments exploring the potential of storytelling for social change.
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