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Are India’s much-lauded startups failing their women workers?
Recent protests outside Urban Company’s head office highlight the gendered nature of work in the country’s digital economy. by Abhishek Sekharan and Ambika Tandon last modified Dec 06, 2021 04:24 PM — Filed under: , , ,
The State of the Internet's Languages Report
The first-ever State of the Internet’s Languages Report was launched by Whose Knowledge? on February 23, 2022 (just after the International Mother Language ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha last modified Mar 07, 2022 03:01 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Understanding Feminist Infrastructures: An Exploratory Study of Online Feminist Content Creation Spaces in India
This report explores the growth of feminist infrastructures (including the various interpretations of the term), through research on feminist publishing, ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha and Saumyaa Naidu last modified Mar 25, 2024 01:02 PM — Filed under: , ,
The Internet in the Indian Judicial Imagination
This post by Divij Joshi is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Divij is a final year student at the National Law School of India University, ... by Divij Joshi last modified Sep 09, 2015 05:26 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Procurement Through Digital Platforms
Procurement policies, both public and private, can play a significant role in determining inclusive market participation, particularly for informal women ... by SEWA Cooperative Federation and Centre for Internet & Society last modified Jul 26, 2022 02:35 PM — Filed under: ,
Essays on #List — Selected Abstracts
In response to a recent call for essays that social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the #List, we received 11 ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha last modified Sep 03, 2019 01:38 PM — Filed under: , , , ,
How Green is the Internet? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This essay by Aishwarya Panicker is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author draws attention to the fact that there is little data, debate, ... by Aishwarya Panicker last modified Sep 23, 2016 05:02 AM — Filed under: , ,
Mobilizing Online Consensus: Net Neutrality and the India Subreddit
This essay by Sujeet George is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author offers a preliminary gesture towards understanding reddit’s usage ... by Sujeet George last modified Sep 27, 2016 04:52 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Love in the Time of Tinder
Service providers and information aggregators mine our information and share it in ways that we cannot imagine. by Nishant Shah last modified Oct 17, 2016 02:07 AM — Filed under: ,
Digital native: Lie Me a River
The sea of social media around us often drowns the truth, exchanging misinformation for facts. by Nishant Shah last modified Mar 19, 2017 02:47 PM — Filed under: , ,
Datafication of the Public Distribution System in India
In this study, we look into the datafication of social protection schemes with a special focus on the Public Distribution System in India. Proponents of ... by Sameet Panda last modified Feb 12, 2024 12:07 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Designing Domestic Work Platforms
This research was conducted by The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) with funding from Association for Progressive Communication (APC) through the Feminist ... by Divyansha Sehgal and Yathrath last modified Aug 13, 2022 06:31 AM — Filed under: , ,
Indic Scripts and the Internet
This post by Dibyajyoti Ghosh is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Dibyajyoti is a PhD student in the Department of English, Jadavpur ... by Dibyajyoti Ghosh last modified Jul 10, 2015 04:23 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Users and the Internet
This post by Purbasha Auddy is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Purbasha is a SYLFF PhD fellow at the School of Cultural Texts and Records ... by Purbasha Auddy last modified Jul 10, 2015 04:20 AM — Filed under: , ,
Effective Activism: The Internet, Social Media, and Hierarchical Activism in New Delhi
This post by Sarah McKeever is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Sarah is a PhD candidate at the India Institute, King’s College London, and ... by Sarah McKeever last modified Jul 16, 2015 08:22 AM — Filed under: , , ,
Studying the Internet Discourse in India through the Prism of Human Rights
This post by Deva Prasad M is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Deva Prasad is Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India ... by Deva Prasad M last modified Jul 22, 2015 04:18 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
War Driving in Lhasa Vegas
This post by Oxblood Ruffin is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Oxblood Ruffin is a hacktivist and film maker. He joined the CULT OF THE DEAD ... by Oxblood Ruffin last modified Aug 17, 2015 08:19 AM — Filed under: ,
Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar
"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an ... by Geert Lovink and Ramesh Srinivasan last modified May 16, 2017 02:51 PM — Filed under: , , , ,
Call for Essays: Studying Internet in India
As Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges ... by Sumandro Chattapadhyay last modified Aug 28, 2015 07:09 AM — Filed under: , , , ,
Digital native: The Voices in Our Heads
What if our phones were to go silent? Would you be able to deal with the silence? by Nishant Shah last modified Nov 22, 2016 02:23 AM — Filed under: ,
Digital native: The View from My Bubble
In the digital world, the privileged have the power to deny a devastating crisis for the poor. by Nishant Shah last modified Dec 05, 2016 03:15 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Digital Native: People Like Us
How the algorithm decides what you see on your timeline. If you have been hanging out on social media, there is one thing you can’t have escaped — a filter ... by Nishant Shah last modified Dec 18, 2016 02:19 PM — Filed under: , ,
The Digital Humanities from Father Busa to Edward Snowden
What do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit, who worked for almost his ... by Puthiya Purayil Sneha last modified Oct 04, 2017 11:02 AM — Filed under: , ,
Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this year
With the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens. by Nishant Shah last modified Sep 16, 2016 01:25 PM — Filed under: ,
Digital Native: The Future is Now
The digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good. There used to be a popular joke among technology geeks when ... by Nishant Shah last modified Oct 17, 2016 02:12 AM — Filed under: , ,
Governing Speech on the Internet: From the Free Marketplace Policy to a Controlled 'Public Sphere'
This post by Smarika Kumar is part of the 'Studying Internets in India' series. Smarika is a consultant with Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. She is ... by Smarika Kumar last modified Aug 28, 2015 05:57 AM — Filed under: , , , , , ,
Between Platform and Pandemic: Migrants in India's Gig Economy
In response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, the central government announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020. by Kaarika Das and Srravya C last modified Dec 06, 2021 04:04 PM — Filed under: , , , , ,
Locating Migrants in India’s Gig Economy: A Scoping Report
Gig workers working for on-demand platform services have been adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. by Kaarika Das and Srravya C last modified Jan 04, 2022 03:06 PM — Filed under: , , ,
101 Ways of Starting an ISP:* No. 53 - Conversation, Content and Weird Fiction
This essay by Surfatial is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. It argues that the internet has created a space for philosophical questioning among ... by Surfatial last modified Aug 03, 2016 12:47 PM — Filed under: , , ,
Do I Want to Say Happy B’day?
When it comes to greeting friends on their birthdays, social media prompts are a great reminder. So why does an online message leave us cold? by Nishant Shah last modified Aug 22, 2016 09:53 AM — Filed under: , , ,