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- Death By WhatsApp — by Admin — last modified Jun 25, 2018 03:47 PM
- The fatal messages were both in text and in audio. They were in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Assamese and Gujarati among others.
- New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital (Paper) — by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:03 AM
- The ubiquitous presence of the ‘digital’ over the couple of decades has brought with it several important changes in interdisciplinary forms of research and knowledge production. Particularly in the arts and humanities, the role of digital technologies and internet has always been a rather contentious one, with more debate spurred now due to the growth of fields like humanities computing, digital humanities (henceforth DH) and cultural analytics. Even as these fields signal several shifts in scholarship, pedagogy and practice, portending a futuristic imagination of the role of technology in academia and practice on the one hand, they also reflect continuing challenges related to the digital divide, and more specifically politics around the growth and sustenance of the humanities disciplines. A specific criticism within more recent debates around the origin story of DH in fact, has been its Anglo-American framing, drawing upon a history in humanities computing and textual studies, and located within a larger neoliberal imagination of the university and academia. While this has been met with resistance from across different spaces, thus calling for more diversity and representation in the discourse, it is also reflective of the need to trace and contextualize more local forms of practice and pedagogy in the digital as efforts to address these global concerns. This essay by Puthiya Purayil Sneha draws upon excerpts from a study on the field of DH and related practices in India, to outline the diverse contexts of humanities practice with the advent of the digital and explore the developing discourse around DH in the Indian context.
- Is Privacy Obsolete? — by Admin — last modified Jun 23, 2018 05:01 AM
- Pranesh Prakash was a panelist at this event organized by TERI in Bangalore on June 22, 2018.
- Anushka finds support for her anti-litter tirade — by Admin — last modified Jun 23, 2018 01:11 AM
- She is well within her rights to shame the affluent man who threw plastic waste out of his swanky car, many say.
- Comments on the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations — by Sandeep Kumar, Torsha Sarkar, Swaraj Barooah, Gurshabad Grover — last modified Jun 23, 2018 12:44 AM
- This submission presents comments by the Centre for Internet & Society, India (“CIS”) on the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations which was released to the public by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on 29th May 2018 for comments and views.
- Workshop: IT/IT-es Sector and the Future of Work in India — by Pranav M B — last modified Jun 22, 2018 07:51 AM
- Comments on the Draft Digital Communications Policy — by Anubha Sinha, Gurshabad Grover and Swaraj Barooah — last modified Jun 14, 2018 12:43 PM
- This submission presents comments by the Centre for Internet & Society, India (“CIS”) on the Draft Digital Communications Policy which was released to the public by the Department of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Communications on 1st May 2018 for comments and views.
- NITI Aayog Discussion Paper: An aspirational step towards India’s AI policy — by Sunil Abraham, Elonnai Hickok, Amber Sinha, Swaraj Barooah, Shweta Mohandas, Pranav M Bidare, Swagam Dasgupta, Vishnu Ramachandran and Senthil Kumar — last modified Jun 13, 2018 01:08 PM
- The National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence — a discussion paper on India’s path forward in AI, is a welcome step towards a comprehensive document that reflects the government's AI ambitions. The 115-page discussion paper attempts to be an all encompassing document looking at a host of AI related issues including privacy, security, ethics, fairness, transparency and accountability.
- Why NPCI and Facebook need urgent regulatory attention — by Sunil Abraham — last modified Jun 12, 2018 02:07 AM
- The world’s oldest networked infrastructure, money, is increasingly dematerialising and fusing with the world’s latest networked infrastructure, the Internet.
- Network Disruptions Report by Global Network Initiative — by Akriti Bopanna — last modified Jun 12, 2018 01:31 AM
- Around 70% of all known shutdowns in the world took place in India in 2017. The same year Telecom Authority of India (TRAI) released the “Temporary Suspension of Internet Services” giving State and Central Government officials the power to terminate Internet services as per the guidelines.
- Citizens’ Draft Privacy Bill Seeks To Revolutionise Data Collection, Storage In India — by Admin — last modified Jun 11, 2018 02:47 AM
- A draft privacy bill proposes sweeping reforms to the way personal data is collected, processed and stored in India.
- Comments on the Draft National Policy on Official Statistics — by Gurshabad Grover and Sandeep Kumar — last modified Jun 07, 2018 02:54 AM
- This submission presents comments by the Centre for Internet & Society, India (“CIS”) on the Draft National Policy on Official Statistics which was released to the public by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on 17th May 2018 for comments and views.
- EC disables easy access to electoral data across states — by Admin — last modified Jun 29, 2018 01:59 AM
- The recently-concluded Assembly elections may have set more than just one precedent with implications for the entire nation.
- Allow admins to add users to online group chats only after permission: SFLC.in — by Admin — last modified Jun 26, 2018 02:03 AM
- SFLC.in -- a donor supported legal services organisation -- has written an open letter to messaging service providers like WhatsApp, Facebook and others, urging them to modify their platforms to ensure that users are not added to group chats without their permission.
- Patanjali's Kimbho swiftly retreats over security scare, ripped on Twitter — by Admin — last modified Jun 01, 2018 02:15 PM
- Swadeshi" messaging app targeted at WhatsApp taken off from app stores hours after launch.
- BIF Workshop on V Band-New Use Cases under 802.11ad &.11ay — by Admin — last modified Jun 01, 2018 12:13 AM
- The workshop organized by Broadband India was held on May 31, 2018 at Taj Mansingh (Long Champ) in New Delhi. Shyam Ponappa attended the workshop.
- Digital Native: Web of Wander — by Nishant Shah — last modified Jun 01, 2018 12:04 AM
- The idea of travel as a way of expanding our horizon has now been made redundant.
- Don't blindly forward WhatsApp messages. You could be sued — by Admin — last modified May 31, 2018 11:49 PM
- Never before in Bengaluru has the Internet and social media taken such a vicious and violent turn as it did last week.
- India Proposes Law to Give Indians Complete Control of their Digital Health Data — by Admin — last modified Jun 01, 2018 01:57 PM
- India’s health ministry has proposed a law to govern data security in the healthcare sector that would give individuals complete ownership of their health data.
- Election Experiment Proves Facebook Just Doesn't Care About Fake News In India — by Admin — last modified May 31, 2018 10:56 PM
- Much-hyped fact-checking initiative identified only 30 bits of fake news in month-long Karnataka campaign. Yup — 30!
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