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Watson knows the Question
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Prasad Krishna
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published
Mar 11, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2015 12:24 PM
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filed under:
Cybercultures,
Researchers at Work
Now that an algorithm has given humans a run for their money on a quiz show, it’s time to rethink the idea of a machine. A fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from 19 September 2010 onwards. This article was published on March 6, 2011.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Re:wiring Bodies: Call for Review
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Dec 17, 2009
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 10:50 AM
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filed under:
Cyborgs,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories
Dr. Asha Achuthan's research project on "Rewiring Bodies" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. From her vantage position, straddling the disciplines of medicine an Cultural Studies, through a gendered perspective. Dr. Achutan historicises the attitudes, imaginations and policies that have shaped the Science-Technology debates in India, to particularly address the ways in which emergence of Internet Technologies have shaped notions of gender and body in India.
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Re:Wiring Bodies
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The Attention Economy - A Brief Introduction
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 22, 2010
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 10:48 AM
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filed under:
Gaming,
Gaming Economy,
Internet Histories,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work
This post examines attention economy as a brief prelude to a paper and monograph to be published on it. It examines the current theses on attention economy and a few approaches to reading attention economy in gaming besides foregrounding the attention economy and its functions and influence in MMORPGs.
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Blogs
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Gaming and Gold
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Attentional Capital in Online Gaming : The Currency of Survival
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Aug 25, 2010
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last modified
Apr 03, 2015 10:46 AM
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filed under:
Gaming,
Gaming Economy,
Internet Histories,
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work
This blog post by Arun Menon discusses the concepts of production, labour and race in virtual worlds and their influence on the production of attention as a currency. An attempt is made to locate attentional capital, attentional repositories and attention currencies within gaming to examine 'attention currencies and its trade and transactions in virtual worlds. A minimal collection of attention currencies are placed as central and as a pre-requisite for survival in MMOs in much the same way that real currency become a necessity for survival. The approach is to locate attentional capital through different perspectives as well as examine a few concepts around virtual worlds.
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Gaming and Gold
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Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities - A Call for Peer Review
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Feb 14, 2011
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last modified
Apr 06, 2015 03:52 PM
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filed under:
Histories of Internet,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Histories
Pratyush 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.
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Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities
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You auto-complete me: romancing the bot
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Jul 11, 2019
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last modified
Dec 06, 2019 05:00 AM
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filed under:
Bodies of Evidence,
Researchers at Work,
Research,
Publications,
BD4D,
Bots,
Big Data for Development
This is an excerpt from an essay by Maya Indira Ganesh, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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RAW
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Call for Essays — #List
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Jul 12, 2019
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last modified
Oct 11, 2019 05:07 PM
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filed under:
Researchers at Work,
List,
RAW Blog,
Research,
Featured,
Call for Essays,
Internet Studies
The researchers@work programme at CIS invites abstracts for essays that explore social, economic, cultural, political, infrastructural, or aesthetic dimensions of the ‘list’. We have selected 4 abstracts among those received before August 31, 2019, and are now accepting and evaluating further submissions on a rolling basis.
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RAW
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July 2019 Newsletter
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 30, 2019
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last modified
Aug 09, 2019 01:50 PM
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filed under:
Telecom,
Researchers at Work,
Internet Governance,
Access to Knowledge
Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for July 2019.
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About Us
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Newsletters
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The worrying survival of moon landing conspiracy theorists
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 31, 2019
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filed under:
Researchers at Work
The moon landing deniers were the original fake news propagandists. Only, they didn’t have the internet.
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RAW
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Why I’m not going to tell you about the dangers of apps like FaceApp
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jul 31, 2019
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filed under:
Researchers at Work
Concerns about privacy, aimed solely at users, are better directed at owners of digital infrastructure.
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RAW