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- Sense and censorship — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Mar 21, 2012 10:15 AM
- Sunil Abraham examines Google's crusade against censorship in China in wake of the attacks on its servers in this article published in the Indian Express.
- An open answer to Office — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:38 PM
- OpenOffice with its new features is giving Microsoft Word tough competition, says Deepa Kurup in this article published by The Hindu on March 14, 2010.
- CPOV : Wikipedia Research Initiative — by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 23, 2011 02:52 AM
- The Second event, towards building the Critical Point of View Reader on Wikipedia, brings a range of scholars, practitioners, theorists and activists to critically reflect on the state of Wikipedia in our contemporary Information Societies. Organised in Amsterdam, Netherlands, by the Institute of Network Cultures, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, the event builds on the debates and discussions initiated at the WikiWars that launched off the knowledge network in Bangalore in January 2010. Follow the Live Tweets at #CPOV
- Understanding Spectrum — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified May 10, 2012 10:48 AM
- What is spectrum and how do government and commercial decisions on this scientific phenomenon affect public facilities and costs? Shyam Ponappa examines this in his latest blog published in the Business Standard on March 4, 2010.
- Does the Social Web need a Googopoly? — by Rebecca Schild — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM
- While the utility of the new social tool Buzz is still under question, the bold move into social space taken last week by the Google Buzz team has Gmail users questioning privacy implications of the new feature. In this post, I posit that Buzz highlights two privacy challenges of the social web. First, the application has sidestepped the consensual and contextual qualities desirable of social spaces. Secondly, Google’s move highlights the increasingly competitive and convergent nature of the social media landscape.
- India Game Developer Summit Bangalore 2010 — by Arun Menon — last modified Mar 09, 2010 04:55 PM
- The India Game Developer Conference held at Nimhans Convention Centre on the 27th of February, 2010 was attended by Arun Menon who is working on The Gaming and Gold Project at The Centre for Internet and Society. The Developer forum brought together game developers from different sectors of the Game Production Cycle, with hardware manufacturers like Nvidia demonstrating their latest 3d technology and Software developers like Crytek and Adobe demonstrating the latest in developer tools for creating and editing games on multiple platforms.
- The (in)Visible Subject: Power, Privacy and Social Networking — by Rebecca Schild — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM
- In this entry, I will argue that the interplay between privacy and power on social network sites works ultimately to subject individuals to the gaze of others, or to alternatively render them invisible. Individual choices concerning privacy preferences must, therefore, be informed by the intrinsic relationship which exists between publicness/privateness and subjectivity/obscurity.
- Web Accessibility as a Government Mandate? — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:46 AM
- Is Web accessibility just a Government Mandate? Should private sites be ignored? Wesolowski examines this in light of the steps taken by ictQATAR to make its website accessible to W3C standards, and hopes that Qatar and eventually all other Arab nations will follow suit and make Web accessibility much more of a mandate.
- Narrative and Gameplay in Role Playing Games — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
- Not all games tell stories but narratives, gameplay, and their relational attributes are a relevant shift observed in the gaming scene, Arun Menon finds out.
- 10 Legendary Obscene Beasts — by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 05, 2010 06:27 AM
- In the second of his articles, Nishant Shah analyses a peculiar event of vandalism which has now become the core of free speech and anti-censorship debates in mainland China. Looking at the structure of user generated knowledge websites and the specific event on the Chinese language encyclopaedia, 'Baidu Baike', he shows how, in cities where spaces of political spectacle and public protest are quickly diminishing, the Internet has become a tool for producing new public spaces of demonstration and protest. The story about 'Cao Ni Ma' stands as an iconic representation of the playful processes by which young people in different contexts and cultures engage with the politics in their immediate environments.
- WikiWars - A report — by Nishant Shah — last modified Oct 06, 2010 11:21 AM
- The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, hosted WikiWars – an international event that brought together scholars, researchers, academics, artists and practitioners from various disciplines, to discuss the emergence and growth of Wikipedia and what it means for the information societies we inhabit. With participants from 15 countries making presentations about Wikipedia and the knowledge ecology within which it exists, the event saw a vigorous set of debates and discussions as questions about education, pedagogy, language, access, geography, resistance, art and subversion were raised by the presenters. The 2 day event marked the beginning of the process that hopes to produce the first critical reader – Critical Point of View (CPOV) - that collects key resources for research and inquiry around Wikipedia.
- Arguments Against Software Patents in India — by Pranesh Prakash — last modified Mar 13, 2012 10:43 AM
- CIS believes that software patents are harmful for the software industry and for consumers. In this post, Pranesh Prakash looks at the philosophical, legal and practical reasons for holding such a position in India. This is a slightly modified version of a presentation made by Pranesh Prakash at the iTechLaw conference in Bangalore on February 5, 2010, as part of a panel discussing software patents in India, the United States, and the European Union.
- Indians Get Particular about Online Marriage — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 04, 2011 06:48 AM
- The article quotes Nishant Shah's views on online behaviour of people seen elsewhere in the world.
- Your Signature Could Help 70 Million Read — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:10 PM
- A humble signature campaign in the city intends to take on a law that prevents the print-impaired from reading. You too can join in and support the cause.
- IT, The City and Public Space — by Nishant Shah — last modified Aug 02, 2011 06:07 AM
- In the Introduction to the project, Pratyush Shankar at CEPT, Ahmedabad, lays out the theoretical and practice based frameworks that inform contemporary space-technology discourses in the fields of Architecture and Urban Design. The proposal articulates the concerns, the anxieties and the lack of space-technology debates in the country despite the overwhelming ways in which emergence of internet technologies has resulted in material and imagined practices of people in urbanised India. The project draws variously from disciplines of architecture, design, cultural studies and urban geography to start a dialogue about the new kinds of public spaces that inform the making of the IT City in India. You can also access his comic strip visual introduction to the project at http://www.isvsjournal.org/pratyush/internet/Dashboard.html
- Free Copyright Control to Help Blind Students: Xavier's Resource Centre — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:10 PM
- This article throws light on the fact that even though technology has made it possible for visually challenged to access print material, there is little awareness among authors and publishers to make it accessible, and hence, only an amendment in copyright laws can bring about this awareness.
- Alternative Scenarios — by Shyam Ponappa — last modified May 10, 2012 10:49 AM
- Only about 48 per cent of India is covered by the telecom network with only 20 per cent rural coverage, says Shyam Ponappa. In his article published in the Business Standard on 4 February, 2010, he points out how alternative approaches may enhance extensive coverage.
- Right to Read, Now in Mumbai — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Aug 17, 2011 08:46 AM
- The third phase of the 'Right to Read' campaign in India held in Mumbai was coordinated by the Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC). The Mumbai Phase of the Right to Read Campaign was launched on 1st January 2010 and ran till the 27th of January 2010.
- The print-impaired millions and their right to read — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:10 PM
- Books, books everywhere, but not a word to read. This is the scenario for the approximately 70 million print-impaired in India, a sizeable population that includes the visually-impaired young people as well the elderly — whose vision depletes with advancing age.
- De facebook — by Prasad Krishna — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:41 PM
- Facebook used to be our playground but privacy concerns are now souring that fantasy. Why do we trust a clutch of new corporations with such phenomenal amounts of personal data?
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