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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.
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