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December 2014 Bulletin by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jan 12, 2015 04:56 PM
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) wishes you a very happy new year and welcomes you to the twelfth issue of the newsletter (December 2014).
Blog Entry The Spaces of Digital by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Oct 24, 2015 01:41 PM
'The Spaces of Digital’ continues from the work done on the CIS-RAW monograph on the Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar at Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad. The premise of this monograph was the debates around making of IT Cities and public planning policies that regulate and restructure the city spaces in India with the emergence of internet technologies.
Blog Entry Mapping Digital Humanities in India - Concluding Thoughts by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:36 AM
This final blog post on the mapping exercise undertaken by CIS-RAW summarises some of the key concepts and terms that have emerged as significant in the discourse around Digital Humanities in India.
Blog Entry Rethinking Conditions of Access by Sneha PP — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:35 AM
P. P. Sneha explores the possibilities of redefining the idea of access through the channels of education and learning.
Blog Entry Consultation on Figures of Learning in the Digital Context - Report by Sneha PP — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:37 AM
The Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at the Centre for Internet and Society organised a consultation on ‘Figures of Learning in the Digital Context’ on September 22, 2014 in Bangalore.
Consultation on Figures of Learning in the Digital Context from Sep 22, 2014 02:00 PM to Sep 22, 2015 06:00 PM The Centre for Internet & Society, No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage, Bangalore 560071 (opposite Domlur Club and very near to TERI complex), by Prasad Krishna
The Centre for Internet and Society welcomes you to a consultation on new figures of learning in the digital context at its office in Bangalore on September 22, 2014 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Blog Entry Digital Humanities and the Alt-Academy by Sneha PP — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:29 AM
The emergence of Digital Humanities (DH) has been contemporaneous to the ‘crisis’ in the humanities, spurred by changing social and economic conditions which have urged us to rethink traditional methods, locations and concepts of research and pedagogy. This blog post examines the emergence of the phenomenon of the alt-academy in the West, and examines the nuances and possibilities of such a space in the Indian context.
July 2014 Bulletin by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 11, 2014 05:46 AM
Seventh issue of the newsletter (July 2014) below:
Blog Entry Asia in the Edges: A Narrative Account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in Bangalore by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 14, 2015 12:47 PM
The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School is a Biennial event that invites Masters and PhD students from around Asia to participate in conversations around developing and building an Inter-Asia Cultural Studies thought process. Hosted by the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society along with the Consortium of universities and research centres that constitute it, the Summer School is committed to bringing together a wide discourse that spans geography, disciplines, political affiliations and cultural practices for and from researchers who are interested in developing Inter-Asia as a mode of developing local, contextual and relevant knowledge practices.
Blog Entry Reading from a Distance — Data as Text by Sneha PP — last modified Nov 13, 2015 05:29 AM
The advent of new digital technologies and the internet has redefined practices of reading and writing, and the notion of textuality which is a fundamental aspect of humanities research and scholarship. This blog post looks at some of the debates around the notion of text as object, method and practice, to understand how it has changed in the digital context.

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