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‘Doing’ Digital Humanities: Reflections on a project on Online Feminism in India
— by Sneha PP — last modified Mar 30, 2015 12:48 PMA core concern of Digital Humanities research has been that of method. The existing discourse around the field of DH assumes a move away from traditional humanities and social sciences research methods to more open, collaborative and iterative forms of scholarship spanning some conventional and other not so conventional practices and spaces. In this guest blog post, Sujatha Subramanian reflects upon her experience of undertaking a research study on online feminist activism in India and its various challenges.
A Question of Digital Humanities
— by Sneha PP — last modified Mar 30, 2015 12:47 PMThe emergence of digital humanities as a new field of interdisciplinary research enquiry has also seen growth in literature around the problem of its definition. This blog-post lays out some of the conceptual frameworks for the mapping exercise taken up by CIS to look at digital humanities in India.
Information Structures for Citizen Participation - Janaagraha
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:28 PMIn our efforts to understand how change is conceptualized in the digital era, we find a growing emphasis on the role of effective information structures to empower the citizen and the government. We interview Joylita Saldanha from Janaagraha to answer questions around information, participation and e-governance.
Institute for Internet & Society 2014, Pune
— by Samantha Cassar — last modified Apr 07, 2014 11:31 AMLast month, activists, journalists, researchers, and members of civil society came together at the 2014 Institute for Internet & Society in Pune, which was hosted by CIS and funded by the Ford Foundation. The Institute was a week long, in which participants heard from speakers from various backgrounds on issues arising out of the intersection of internet and society, such as intellectual property, freedom of expression, and accessibility, to name a few. Below is an official reporting summarizing sessions that took place.
Digital Design: Human Behavior vs. Technology - Vita Beans
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:29 PMWhat comes first? Understanding human behavior and communication patterns to design digital technologies? Or should our technologies have the innate capacity to adapt to the profiles of all its potential users? This post will look at accessibility challenges for digital immigrants and the importance of behavioral science for the design of digital technologies. We interview Amruth Bagali Ravindranath from Vita Beans.
Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 2
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:30 PMThis post compares the method of storytelling with performances. To illustrate this, we explore the narratives of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian, two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. Part 2 looks at the role of actors and the stage in performances to explore the role of agency and the public space in storytelling.
Storytelling as Performance: The Ugly Indian and Blank Noise 1
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Oct 24, 2015 02:31 PMThis post compares the production behind a performance with the process of storytelling. To illustrate this analogy, we explore the stories of the Blank Noise project and The Ugly Indian- two civic groups from Bangalore making interventions in the public space. This post looks at the stages of pre-production and the screenplay to explore methods and narratives in storytelling.
10 Ways to Say Nothing New
— by Nishant Shah — last modified Apr 14, 2015 01:17 PMThe rise of the listicle, a safe, non-thinking information piece that tells us what we already know.
Creative Activism - Voices of Young Change Makers in India (UDAAN)
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 14, 2015 01:21 PMThis post is a short account of what happened at UDAAN in December 2013 — a conference that gathered 100 youth from across the country to discuss pressing environmental issues and creative strategies to tackle them. We conducted a survey to map the perspectives of these young change-makers and get a glimpse of how India's youth is now framing and going about making 'change'
Information Design - Visualizing Action (TTC)
— by Denisse Albornoz — last modified Apr 17, 2015 10:34 AMThis is the second part of the Making Change analysis on information activism. It explores the role of the presentation and design of information to translate information into action.
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