Research
Locating Internets: Histories of the Internet(s) in India — Research Training and Curriculum Workshop: Call for Participation
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 21, 2011 06:00 AMDeadline for submission: 26th July 2011-06-08; When: 19th - 22nd August, 2011; Where: Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University, Ahmedabad; Organised by: Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Please Note: Travel support is only available for domestic travel within India.
No access to pornography in cyber cafes, declare new rules
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified May 01, 2011 01:09 AMFresh guidelines, which are part of Information Technology (guidelines for cyber cafe) Rules 2011, will require cyber cafe owners to "tell users" not to surf websites that contain "pornographic or obscene material". Experts termed the rule arbitrary, saying that watching pornography is not an offence in India. This article by Javed Anwer was published in the Times of India on April 26, 2011.
The Task of the Translator after Google
Apr 30, 2011 from 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM — CIS, Bangalore, — by Prasad KrishnaHans Verghese Mathews, a distinguished fellow with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) will give a public lecture on April 30, 2011.
Net cracker
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 05:11 PMIs Facebook taking over our lives? And if it is, so what? In email interviews with new media researcher and user control advocate Marc Stumpel who is conducting a Facebook Resistance workshop this fortnight, and artist and communication designer Tobias Leingruber, the originator of the FB Resistance idea, Akhila Seetharaman attempts to answer these questions. This article was published in Time Out Bengaluru Vol. 3 Issue 19, April 1 - 14, 2011.
A History of Transparency, Politics and Information Technologies in India
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 03, 2011 09:59 AMIn this blog post, Zainab Bawa reviews the different spectrums of information, transparency and politics.
Shadow Search Project (SSP) in CIS
Apr 18, 2011 from 12:30 PM to 04:30 PM — CIS, Bangalore, — by Prasad KrishnaCIS hosts an interesting line-up on the 18th of April with the Shadow Search Project (SSP).
Facebook Resistance Workshop at CIS, Bangalore
Apr 02, 2011 from 04:30 AM to 12:30 PM — Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, — by Prasad KrishnaFacebook designing your online identity is like designing your rooms with furniture from the bazaar. The only individuality lies in your family pictures standing on the shelves. On Saturday, April 2, 2011, CIS is organising a workshop for people to learn on how to think beyond the rules and limitations of Facebook, to tweak and play around the features and design to generate useful, creative, and funny concepts and explore how this creative intervention can be turned into a real software developed by the Facebook Resistance.
Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities - A Call for Peer Review
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 14, 2012 10:32 AMPratyush Shankar's research project on "Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. His monograph explores the trajectories of transformation and perception of cities in India in context with the rise of Information Technologies for communication and presence of an active digital space.
Myth/History/Irreverence: Flaneurs and Whores of Our Time
Jan 08, 2011 from 12:30 PM to 02:00 PM — Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, — by Prasad KrishnaAs part of a longer discovery and reading of Walter Benjamin's work, Atreyee Majumder constructs an argument that the turgid notions of the new, the contemporary and the important are endless repetitions of nothing-new. Atreyee will give a lecture on this on 8 January 2011 at the Centre for Internet and Society.
Pornography & the Law - A Call for Peer Review
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Dec 14, 2012 12:12 PMNamita Malhotra's research project on "Pornography & the Law". is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. Her monograph is an attempt to unravel the relations between pornography, technology and the law in the shifting context of the contemporary.
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