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Digital Native: The Dream of the Cyborg
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Jan 08, 2017
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last modified
Feb 02, 2017 02:56 PM
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Researchers at Work,
Digital Natives
We have arrived at hybrid realities, where the technological and the human cannot be separated. The digital future we had once imagined is already here.
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Digital transitions in the newsroom: How are Indian language papers adapting differently?
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by
Zeenab Aneez
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published
Jan 16, 2017
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last modified
Feb 03, 2017 01:50 AM
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RAW Research,
RAW Publications,
Researchers at Work,
Research
In a new report published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Centre for Internet and Society, Zeenab Aneez explores how Indian newsrooms are adapting their workflow and processes to cater to an increasing digital audience and the implications these changes have on how journalists produce news.
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17)
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Feb 06, 2017
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last modified
Jul 02, 2018 06:29 PM
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filed under:
Internet Researcher's Conference,
Featured,
IRC17,
Researchers at Work,
Event
With great pleasure we announce the second edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC), an annual conference series initiated by the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at CIS to gather researchers, academic or otherwise, studying internet in/from India to congregate, share insights and tensions, and chart the ways forward. The Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) will be held at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) campus on March 03-05, 2017. It is being organised by the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP) at IIIT-B and the CIS.
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Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Sep 15, 2011
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last modified
Apr 10, 2015 09:22 AM
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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
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 book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”. This collaboratively produced collective, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, asks critical and pertinent questions about theory and practice around 'digital revolutions' in a post MENA (Middle East - North Africa) world. It works with multiple vocabularies and frameworks and produces dialogues and conversations between digital natives, academic and research scholars, practitioners, development agencies and corporate structures to examine the nature and practice of digital natives in emerging contexts from the Global South.
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Digital Natives
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Blog
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Book 1: To Be, Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
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by
Nishant Shah
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May 15, 2015 12:08 PM
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RAW Publications,
Researchers at Work,
Publications,
Digital Natives
In this first book of the Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? Collection, we concentrate on what it means to be a Digital Native. Within popular scholarship and discourse, it is presumed that digital natives are born digital. Ranging from Mark Prensky’s original conception of the identity which marked all people born after 1980 as Digital Natives to John Palfrey and Urs Gasser’s more nuanced understanding of specific young people in certain parts of the world as ‘Born Digital’, there remains a presumption that the young peoples’ relationship with technology is automatic and natural. In particular, the idea of being ‘born digital’ signifies that there are people who, at a visceral, unlearned level, respond to digital technologies. This idea of being born digital hides the complex mechanics of infrastructure, access, affordability, learning, education, language, gender, etc. that play a significant role in determining who gets to become a digital native and how s/he achieves it. In this book, we explore what it means to be a digital native in emerging information societies. The different contributions in this book posit what it means to be a digital native in different parts of the world. However, none of the contribution accepts the name ‘Digital Native’ as a given. Instead, the different authors demonstrate how there can be no one singular definition of a Digital Native. In fact, they show how, contextualised, historical, socially embedded, politically nuanced understanding of people’s interaction with technology provide a better insight into how one becomes a digital native.
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Digital Natives
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The Spaces of Digital
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Dec 30, 2014
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last modified
Oct 24, 2015 01:41 PM
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filed under:
The Spaces of Digital,
Net Cultures,
Researchers at Work,
Research
'The Spaces of Digital’ continues from the work done on the CIS-RAW monograph on the Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar at Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad. The premise of this monograph was the debates around making of IT Cities and public planning policies that regulate and restructure the city spaces in India with the emergence of internet technologies.
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January 2015 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jan 16, 2015
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last modified
Feb 26, 2015 05:02 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Wikipedia,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Digital Humanities,
NVDA,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of January can be accessed below.
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Newsletters
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Figures of Learning: The Pornographer
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by
Namita A. Malhotra
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published
Feb 28, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:32 AM
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Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Figures of Learning
As part of its Making Methods for Digital Humanities project, CIS-RAW organized two consultations on new figures of learning in the digital context. For a proposed journal issue on the theme of 'bodies of knowledge' which draws upon these conversations, participants were invited to write short sketches on these figures of learning. This abstract by Namita Malhotra examines the figure of the pornographer, as a mixed media figure entrenched in various networks of knowledge production, circulation and consumption.
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Whose Open Data Community is it? - Accepted Abstract
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by
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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published
Mar 31, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:41 AM
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Data Systems,
Open Data,
Research,
Open Data Community,
Researchers at Work
My paper titled 'Whose Open Data Community is it? Reflections on the Open Data Ecosystem in India' has been accepted for presentation at the Open Data Research Symposium to be held during the 3rd International Open Data Conference <http://opendatacon.org/> in Ottawa, Canada, on May 28-29 2015. The final paper will be shared by second week of May. Here is the accepted abstract.
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Figures of Learning: The Reader
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by
Puthiya Purayil Sneha
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published
Mar 24, 2015
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last modified
Nov 13, 2015 05:48 AM
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filed under:
Research,
Researchers at Work,
Digital Knowledge,
Figures of Learning
As part of its Making Methods for Digital Humanities project, CIS-RAW organized two consultations on new figures of learning in the digital context. For a proposed journal issue on the theme of ‘bodies of knowledge’ which draws upon these conversations, participants were invited to write short sketches on these figures of learning. This abstract by P.P Sneha examines the figure of the reader, and the manner in which it is redefined in as text and practices of reading are reconstituted in the digital context.
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