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Essays on 'Offline' - Selected Abstracts
— by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Sep 06, 2018 02:14 PMIn response to a recent call for essays that explore various dimensions of offline lives, we received 22 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 10 pieces to be published as part of a series titled 'Offline' on the upcoming r@w blog. Please find below the details of the selected abstracts.
Digital Native: Playing God
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 04, 2018 04:43 PMGoogle’s home assistant can make you feel deceptively God-like as it listens to every command of yours. It is a device that never sleeps, and always listens, waiting for a voice to utter “Ok Google” to jump into life.
Digital Native: Double Speak
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 04, 2018 03:22 PMAadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards.
Call for Essays: Offline
— by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Aug 20, 2018 06:58 AMWho is offline, and is it a choice? The global project of bringing people online has spurred several commendable initiatives in expanding access to digital devices, networks, and content, and often contentious ones such as Free Basics / internet.org, which illustrate the intersectionalities of scale, privilege, and rights that we need to be mindful of when we imagine the offline. Further, the experience of the internet, for a large section of people is often mediated through prior and ongoing experiences of traditional media, and through cultural metaphors and cognitive frames that transcend more practical registers such as consumption and facilitation. How do we approach, study, and represent this disembodied internet – devoid of its hypertext, platforms, devices, it's nuts and bolts, but still tangible through engagement in myriad, personal and often indiscernible ways. The researchers@work programme invites abstracts for essays that explore dimensions of offline lives.
July 2018 Newsletter
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 11, 2018 02:50 AMCIS July 2018 newsletter.
Digital Native: Hashtag Along With Me
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:25 AMA hashtag that evolved with a movement.
Digital Native: How smart cities can make criminals out of denizens
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:19 AMPeople download information and share it without knowing about the intellectual property rights. On social media bullying, harassment and hate speech find easy avenues.
Digital Native: The bigger picture
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 01, 2018 12:11 AMFor all our sleek machines, we are slaves to the much larger Internet of Things.
June 2018 Newsletter
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 11, 2018 02:52 AMCIS newsletter for the month of June 2018.
Digital Native: Cause an Effect
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 26, 2018 03:21 PMAadhaar is a self-contained safe system, its interaction with other data and information systems is also equally safe and benign.
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