Centre for Internet and Society

The Last Cultural Mile

praskrishna — 2011-09-28T05:40:51Z

Ashish’s research inquiry is informed by the ‘last mile’ which has emerged as a central area of discussion in the domains of technology and governance from the 1940s in India. Starting from mapping technology onto developmentalist–democratic priorities which propelled communication technologies beginning with the invention of radio in India, the monograph conceives of the ‘last mile’ as a mode of techno-democracy, where connectivity has been directly translated into democratic citizenship.

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RTI Application, 30 June 2011

praskrishna — 2011-10-12T12:46:55Z

Information on the de-duplication process in the Aadhar Project. The RTI Application by Sahana Sarkar was filed on 30 June 2011 for providing information under the Right to Information Act 2005.

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Innovation and Public Interest

praskrishna — 2011-10-07T12:29:18Z

Design!publiC, second edition is now happening in Bangalore at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore, October 14, 2011.

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Design!publiC - II - Event in Bangalore

praskrishna — 2011-10-07T12:03:37Z

The Centre for Internet and Society in partnership with the Centre for Knowledge Societies, Confederation of Indian Industry, Venkataramanan Associates, LiveMint, Centre for Law & Policy Research and MXV Consulting is organising the second edition of Design Public on October 14, 2011 at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore. There will be a series of pre-conference research outings on October 13 for which participants may register in advance.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/design-public-bangalore.pdf

Archives and Access

praskrishna — 2011-09-27T09:40:58Z

Aparna and Rochelle’s research is a material history of the Internet archives. It examines the role of the archivist and the changing relationship between the state and private archives for looking at the politics of subversion, preservation and value of archiving.

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Porn: Law, Video, Technology

praskrishna — 2011-09-27T11:25:57Z

Namita’s legal inquiry into the relationship between technologies and the law finds a new point of entry into existing debates by looking at the legal construction of pleasure through different technologies of mass consumption in order to revisit the arguments around pornography and obscenity effect in recent times. She produces a comprehensive overview of different debates, both in the West and in India, to concentrate on how the visual aesthetics of pornography, the new circuits of pornographic consumption and the privilege of affect over regulation lead to possibilities of interaction and negotiation with heteronormative power structures in the country.

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