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Digital Native: Lessons from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp going down
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 03, 2019 01:19 AMThe day when three social-media apps refused to load.
Presentation at Global Digital Humanities Symposium
— by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified May 03, 2019 09:41 AMP.P. Sneha gave a virtual presentation of her work on digital cultural archives at the Global Digital Humanities Symposium organised by Michigan State University on March 21-22, 2019.
Digital Native: How an information overload affects what you forward
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 03, 2019 01:12 AMThe information overload of social media sharing can make us act against our better judgement.
What I learned from going offline for 48 hours
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Mar 14, 2019 04:21 PMA weekend without the internet shows just how much control we surrender to online chatter.
Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?
— by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — last modified Dec 30, 2019 04:44 PMIn order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” Casting a critical feminist lens, the historicity of surveillance practices unveils the gendered power differentials wedded into taken-for-granted “benign” monitoring processes. The unpacking of the Mother and Child Tracking System and the National Health Stack reveals the neo-liberal aspirations of the Indian state.
India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese laws
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Feb 04, 2019 02:05 AMThe proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese restrictions. The new intermediaries liability and content monitoring act that will become a law in February, unquestioningly expand the remit of the government.
January 2019 Newsletter
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Mar 03, 2019 04:34 PMThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) welcomes you to the first issue of its e-Newsletter for 2019.
Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List, Jan 30 - Feb 1, Lamakaan
— by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Jan 31, 2019 06:41 AMWho makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate information artifacts, and what makes their knowledge contentious? Much debate has emerged about specificities and implications of the list as an information artifact, especially in the case of #LoSHA and NRC - its role in creation and curation of information, in building solidarities and communities of practice, its dependencies on networked media infrastructures, its deployment by hegemonic entities and in turn for countering dominant discourses. For the fourth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC19), we invited sessions and papers that engage critically with the form, imagination, and politics of the *list* - to present or propose academic, applied, or creative works that explore its social, economic, cultural, material, political, affective, or aesthetic dimensions. IRC19 will be organised in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, during January 30 - February 1, 2019.
Welcome to r@w blog!
— by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Jan 02, 2019 11:48 AMWe from the researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog, hosted on Medium. It will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and elsewhere at the intersections of internet, digital media, and society; and highlights and materials from ongoing research and events at the researchers@work programme.
Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List - Selected Sessions and Papers
— by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — last modified Jan 21, 2019 12:11 PMHere is the list of selected sessions and papers for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19) - #List. IRC19 will be held in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, from Jan 30 to Feb 1, 2019. The conference announcement, along with the final agenda, will be published on Monday, January 7.
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