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Digital Native: AI Manifesto
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 17, 2018 11:02 AMOur intention and government action will determine our relationship with AI.
Research Symposium on Digital Transitions in Cultural and Creative Industries in India, New Delhi, Feb 27-28
from Feb 27, 2018 10:00 AM to Feb 28, 2018 06:00 PM — UNESCO New Delhi - Conference Room, 1 San Martin Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, 110021, — by Sumandro ChattapadhyayIt is our privilege to collaborate with LabEx ICCA (Université Paris 13), UNESCO New Delhi, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), and Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS), to organise a Research Symposium on Digital Transitions in Cultural and Creative Industries in India. The symposium gathers researchers and practitioners engaging with the changing landscape of cultural and creative industries in India in the context of the rapid expansion of digital technologies and social media. We invite you to join us for a critical exploration of the prevalent discourse around cultural and creative industries, to identify what could be the different forms of digital creative and cultural industries developing in India, and how they problematise the questions of cultural expression, knowledge production, creativity, and labour.
Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline, February 22-24, Sambhaavnaa Institute
— by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Jul 02, 2018 06:30 PMWe are proud to announce that the third edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference series will be held at the Sambhaavnaa Institute, Kandbari (Himachal Pradesh) during February 22-24, 2018. This annual conference series was initiated by the Researchers@Work (RAW) programme at CIS in 2016 to gather researchers, academic or otherwise, studying internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward. The *offline* is the theme of the 2018 edition of the conference (IRC18), and the conference agenda will be shaped by nine sessions selected by all the teams that submitted session proposals, and an independent paper track consisting of six presentations.
January 2018 Newsletter
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 01, 2018 01:35 AMJanuary 2018 Newsletter
Life of a Tuple: National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Reform of Citizen Identification Infrastructure in Assam
— by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Apr 27, 2023 04:54 PMWe are proud to announce that a research grant from the Azim Premji University has enabled us to initiate a study of the updation process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and the resultant reform of citizen identification infrastructure in India. The study is being led by Khetrimayum Monish and Ranjit Singh, along with Sumandro Chattapadhyay.
Digital native: The age of consent
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Jan 10, 2018 02:17 AMJust like porn is not real life, all news is not real news. It’s time, therefore, to come of age in the 18th year of this century.
Digital native: Memory card is full
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Jan 10, 2018 02:08 AMWe train ourselves to forget as our devices store everything. How do we remember things that matter?
November 2017 Newsletter
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 10, 2018 01:57 AMNovember 2017 Newsletter
Digital native: Let there be life
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Jan 09, 2018 04:05 PMThe first robot citizen of the world is from Saudi Arabia, and she has the dubious fame of having more rights than human counterparts in the country.
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