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Blog Entry Facebook sees its salvation with its cryptocurrency Libra by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 02, 2019 03:58 AM
Facebook’s Libra is designed to take control of our digital lives.
Blog Entry Unpacking video-based surveillance in New Delhi by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — last modified Jun 20, 2019 05:13 AM
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon presented at an international workshop on 'Urban Data, Inequality and Justice in the Global South', on 14 June 2019, at the University of Manchester. The agenda for the workshop and the slides from the presentation by Aayush and Ambika are available below.
Blog Entry Staying silent about cyberbullying is no longer an option by Nishant Shah — last modified Jul 02, 2019 03:52 AM
Cyberbullying is the dangerous new normal.
Blog Entry Data bleeding everywhere: a story of period trackers by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:03 AM
This is an excerpt from an essay by Sadaf Khan, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
Blog Entry Can data ever know who we really are? by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:02 AM
This is an excerpt from an essay by Zara Rahman, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
Blog Entry Digital Native: Three things we need to realise about what TikTok is doing to us by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 09, 2019 05:27 AM
Fifteen seconds is all that will take for TikTok to own you.
Blog Entry Digital Native: Narendra Modi’s interview by Akshay Kumar is a PR masterpiece by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 09, 2019 03:20 AM
How to spot the influencer in your politics.
April 2019 Newsletter by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 04, 2019 02:36 PM
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for April 2019.
Blog Entry Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gaze by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 28, 2019 04:12 AM
In the poll season, social media platforms thrive on wounded outrage disguised as politics.
Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession Apr 04, 2019 from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM CIS, first floor, B 1/8, Hauz Khas, by Sumandro Chattapadhyay
Join us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD), their current project at IoHO, explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance.

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