Blogs

by Ben Bas last modified Dec 13, 2015 01:46 PM
Blog Entry IRC19 - Proposed Session - #AyushmanBhavah by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — last modified Nov 26, 2018 01:09 PM
Details of a session proposed by Arya Lakshmi and Adrij Chakraborty for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
Blog Entry Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy Make by Nishant Shah — last modified Dec 05, 2018 02:20 AM
The great find of this century – life’s worth just a selfie. Channeling the inner narcissus is now human hamartia.
Blog Entry Digital Native: Hashtag Fatigue by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 01, 2018 06:04 AM
It is easy to hijack hashtags by coupling them with others. It is equally easy to make hashtags die.
Blog Entry Digital Native: Time to Walk the Talk by Nishant Shah — last modified Nov 01, 2018 05:58 AM
#MeToo has turned victims into survivors, but social media remains an unsafe space.
Plenary Talk at Jyothi Nivas College Research Symposium by Sneha PP — last modified Oct 03, 2018 04:46 PM
I gave a plenary presentation on new reading and writing practices in the digital context, and emerging questions for digital humanities and literary studies at a research symposium organised by Jyothi Nivas College, Post Graduate Centre, on September 28, 2018.
Blog Entry Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): List - Call for Sessions by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Nov 05, 2018 09:15 AM
Who makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invite sessions that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list*.
Blog Entry Digital Native: Hardly Friends Like That by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:28 AM
Individual effort is far from enough to fool Facebook’s grouping algorithm.
Blog Entry The Right Words for Love by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:23 AM
Queer love is legal. Which means that all of us are finally free to find a language that can match our desires.
Blog Entry Digital Native: #MemeToo by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 02, 2018 06:20 AM
An old meme shows the need for emotional literacy in our digitally saturated age. Memes, like regrettable exes, have the habit of resurfacing at regular periods.
Blog Entry Essays on 'Offline' - Selected Abstracts by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Sep 06, 2018 02:14 PM
In 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.

Document Actions