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Blog Entry Citizen Activism the Past Decade by Nilofar Ansher — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:52 AM
Call for Contributions to the ‘Digital Natives with a Cause?’ newsletter, ‘Citizen Activism the Past Decade’. Deadline: August 15, 2012.
Blog Entry Revisiting Techno-euphoria by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:53 AM
In 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.
Blog Entry Across Borders by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:55 AM
A 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.
Blog Entry The Bots That Got Some Votes Home by Nilofar Ansher — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:56 AM
Nilofar Ansher gives us some startling updates on the "Digital Natives Video Contest" voting results declared in May 2012, in this blog post.
Blog Entry Hyper-connected, Hyper-lonely? by Nilofar Ansher — last modified Apr 24, 2015 11:57 AM
The Digital Natives newsletter, part of the 'Digital Natives with a Cause?' project, invites contributions to its April-May 2012 double issue.
Blog Entry Digitally Analogue by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:00 PM
Why there is nothing strictly analogue anymore, examines Nishant Shah in this column that he wrote for the Indian Express.
Blog Entry We Are All Cyborgs by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 24, 2015 12:00 PM
The cyborg reminds us that who we are as human beings is very closely linked with the technologies we use.
Blog Entry Framing the Digital AlterNatives by Nilofar Ansher — last modified May 08, 2015 12:28 PM
They 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.
Blog Entry D:Coding Digital Natives by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 08, 2015 12:30 PM
Nishant 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.
Blog Entry Habits of Living: Global Networks, Local Affects by Wendy Chun, Kelly Dobson, Matthew Fuller and Eivind Rossaak — last modified Oct 24, 2015 01:38 PM
“Networks” have become a defining concept of our epoch. From high-speed financial networks that erode national sovereignty to networking sites like Facebook that transform the meaning of the word “friend,” from blogs that foster new political alliances to unprecedented globe-spanning viral vectors that threaten world-wide catastrophe, networks allegedly encapsulate what’s new and different.

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