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- Using Social Media for Mobilisation: Discussion with Dina Mehta and Peter Griffin
- Zainab Bawa reports on the discussion with Peter Griffin and Dina Mehta, hosted at CIS on 19 June 2009, on 'Using Social Media for Mobilisation'. by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 20, 2011 10:28 PM — Filed under: Social media, Digital Activism, Discussion
- Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Public Initiatives: A Report
- Zainab Bawa reports on the Round Table on Assessing the Efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies for Public Initiatives, hosted by the Centre for ... by Sanchia de Souza — last modified Aug 20, 2011 10:28 PM — Filed under: Social media, Digital Activism, Digital Access, Public Accountability, Discussion, Featured, Transparency, Politics
- Some ISPs block Wordpress domain across India
- Latest reports confirm that Tata Photon has blocked access to the Wordpress.com domain across India, following a government order to block web pages containing ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 03:16 PM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Social media, Internet Governance, Censorship
- India Blocks News Website Pages for 'Spreading Fear' over Assam Violence
- Access to more than 300 internet web pages including some published by Telegraph, Times of India and Al-Jazeera blocked. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 04:53 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- India faces Twitter backlash over Internet clampdown
- The Indian government faced an angry backlash from Twitter users on Thursday after ordering Internet service providers to block about 20 accounts that ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 06:56 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Indian mobiles go quiet amid SMS curbs
- India’s 900m-plus mobile telephones have fallen unusually quiet since Saturday, when the government curbed text and multimedia messages for 15 days in an ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 07:15 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Details emerge on government blockade of websites
- Facebook pages, Twitter handles among 300 unique web addresses blocked by ISPs. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 28, 2012 09:51 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Facebook's Delicate Dance With Delhi On Censorship
- At the end of last week, a hashtag briskly rose across India: #Emergency2012. It was a reference to the 21-month stint, beginning in the summer of 1975, when ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 03, 2012 04:39 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- The state. And the rage of the cyber demon
- The Internet might be a Pandora’s box. But should the government be wasting time regulating the cacophony? by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 03, 2012 11:03 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Social media, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Government to hold talks with stakeholders on Internet censorship
- In an unprecedented move, the government, through the Department of Telecommunications and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, has agreed ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 04, 2012 03:39 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Government asks Twitter to block fake 'PMO India' accounts; site fails to respond
- A standoff between the government and microblogging service Twitter, that has got India's online community up in arms, continues, as Twitter is still to act on ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 04, 2012 12:24 PM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Intermediary Liability, Censorship
- Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
- Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 10, 2015 09:22 AM — Filed under: Social media, Digital Activism, RAW Publications, Campaign, Digital Natives, Agency, Blank Noise Project, Featured, Cybercultures, Facebook, Publications, Beyond the Digital, Digital subjectivities, Books, Researchers at Work
- Analyzing the Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism and Rioting Edition) Part II
- Snehashish Ghosh does a further analysis of the leaked list of the websites blocked by the Indian Government from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 (“leaked ... by Snehashish Ghosh — last modified Sep 27, 2012 10:42 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Intermediary Liability, Social Networking
- Online Pre-Censorship is Harmful and Impractical
- The Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal wants Internet intermediaries to pre-censor content uploaded by their users. ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Dec 12, 2011 05:00 PM — Filed under: IT Act, Obscenity, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, YouTube, Social media, Internet Governance, Featured, Intermediary Liability, Censorship, Social Networking
- Pitroda seeks to put govt information in public domain
- In the first-ever Indian government press conference on Twitter, Sam Pitroda, adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on public information infrastructure and ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 27, 2012 05:13 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Social media
- Blocked websites: Where India flawed
- Apart from not giving 48 hours response time, the Indian government has blocked some websites which don't exist or don't have web addresses, says an analyst. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 03:00 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Indian government defends Internet blocking
- India on Friday defended itself against accusations of heavy-handed online censorship, saying it had been successful in blocking content blamed for fuelling ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 28, 2012 10:07 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Watch out for fettered speech
- The constant attempts at censorship in the name of national security should give all right-thinking Indians pause. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 02, 2012 09:30 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Social media, Internet Governance, Censorship
- India Blocks Facebook, Twitter, Mass Texts in Response to Unrest
- The Indian government has gone on the offensive against Internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, demanding hundreds of pages be removed or blocked ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 03, 2012 02:46 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Digital Native
- The end of the year is supposed to be a happy, feel-good space for families, friends, societies and communities to come together and count our blessings. It is ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:40 AM — Filed under: Social media, Web Politics, Researchers at Work, Digital Natives
- Women Arrested in Mumbai for Complaining on Facebook
- For over 30 hours following the death of the Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray on Saturday, stores throughout Mumbai closed their shutters and taxis and ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 21, 2012 11:32 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- China's Generation Y : Youth and Technology in Shanghai
- Within the context of internet technologies in China, Nishant Shah, drawing from his seven month research in Shanghai, looks at the first embodiment of these ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Sep 21, 2009 02:09 PM — Filed under: Cyberspace, Social media, Shanghai, Cyborgs, Cybercultures, Digital Natives
- Fill The Gap: Global Discussion on Digital Natives
- More often than not people don't understand the new practices inspired by Internet and digital technologies. As such a series of accusations have been leveled ... by Nishant Shah — last modified Jan 22, 2010 10:54 AM — Filed under: Social media, Digital Activism, Digital Governance, Digital Natives, Agency, Youth, Featured, Cybercultures, New Pedagogies, Digital subjectivities, ICT
- Invisible Censorship: How the Government Censors Without Being Seen
- The Indian government wants to censor the Internet without being seen to be censoring the Internet. This article by Pranesh Prakash shows how the government ... by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Jan 04, 2012 08:59 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Google, Access to Knowledge, Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Intellectual Property Rights, Intermediary Liability, Featured, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Censorship makes India fall two places on global internet freedom chart
- A recently released global report on the internet freedom rated India 39th in 2012, a slip from two places last year. by Prasad Krishna — last modified Sep 27, 2012 10:37 AM — Filed under: Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
- Analysing Latest List of Blocked Sites (Communalism & Rioting Edition)
- Pranesh Prakash does preliminary analysis on a leaked list of the websites blocked from August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012 by the Indian government. by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Sep 06, 2012 11:52 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Internet Governance, Featured, Censorship
- On social media, Modi goes soft
- “Truth stands on its own; it doesn’t need a prop.” Is this Mahatma Gandhi? No, it’s Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Twitter. Gujarat’s elections are ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Nov 02, 2012 06:20 AM — Filed under: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Social media, Internet Governance
- open video summit
- by Radha Rao — last modified Nov 19, 2009 07:04 AM — Filed under: Social media
- After Violence in India, a Crackdown Online
- The recent panic that led tens of thousands of Indians to flee their homes has largely subsided, leaving in its wake an uneven government crackdown on the ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 26, 2012 10:35 AM — Filed under: Social media
- India: Social Media Censorship to Contain ‘Cyber-Terrorism'?
- This is the second post in the 2-part series about the perceived role of social media in the wake of the Assam clashes that spilled across the country and ... by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 27, 2012 03:36 AM — Filed under: IT Act, Social media, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Public Accountability, Internet Governance, Censorship
