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Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gaze
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 28, 2019 04:12 AMIn the poll season, social media platforms thrive on wounded outrage disguised as politics.
Manuel Beltrán - Institute of Human Obsolescence - Cartographies of Dispossession
Apr 04, 2019 from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM — CIS, first floor, B 1/8, Hauz Khas, — by Sumandro ChattapadhyayJoin us at the Delhi office of CIS on Thursday, April 4, at 5 pm for a talk by Manuel Beltrán, founder of the Institute of Human Obsolescence (IoHO), which explores the future of labour and the changing relationship between humans and machine. Cartographies of Dispossession (CoD), their current project at IoHO, explores the forms of systematic data dispossession that different humans are subject to, and investigates how data becomes both the means of production as much as the means of governance.
March 2019 Newsletter
— by Prasad Krishna — last modified Jul 18, 2019 02:14 AMThe Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) newsletter for the month of March 2019.
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.
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