Centre for Internet and Society

Archives and Access

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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

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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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Panchayat Meeting

praskrishna — 2011-10-07T11:28:00Z

Panchayat meeting on Village Sanitation in Khera village, Budaun District, UP

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Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities

praskrishna — 2011-10-16T08:17:13Z

The monograph on Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities, by Pratyush Shankar, is an entry into 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. Going beyond the regular debates on the modern urban, the monograph deploys a team of students from the field of architecture and urban design to investigate how city spaces – the material as well as the experiential – are changing under the rubric of digital globalisation.

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Request for Blocking of Websites

praskrishna — 2011-10-21T12:57:51Z

The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) had filed a request for information under RTI Act, 2005 with the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India on 13 May 2011. CIS had requested the department to provide its reply on a number of issues concerning blocking of websites. CIS received replies from the DIT office to each of the questions raised in the application is produced below.

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Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities

praskrishna — 2011-09-27T10:07:24Z

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The India Chronicles

praskrishna — 2011-10-14T09:13:15Z

Tory Read, a professional researcher, writer and journalist was commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation to create a vivid description of its work in India. This was done in the interest of transparency and to ensure that it captured lessons from this new approach. Tory travelled for a couple of weeks across Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and some towns in Kerala — attending community meet-ups speaking with a host of individual community members in these cities. Tory has given a journalistic account and analysis, based on document review, interviews and observations conducted between November 2010 and June 2011, including 16 days in India in June 2011.The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wikimedia Foundation.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf

RTI Application, 30 June 2011

praskrishna — 2011-10-13T07:07:19Z

This RTI Application was filed by Sahana Sarkar on behalf of the Centre for Internet and Society on 30 June 2011.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/rti-application-june-2011.pdf