Centre for Internet and Society

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.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/internet-society.pdf

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.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/internet-governance/request-for-website-blocking.pdf

Internet, Society & Space in Indian Cities

praskrishna — 2011-09-27T10:07:24Z

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/internet-society-space.pdf

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

Maarten

praskrishna — 2011-09-21T07:57:10Z

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Porn: Law, Video, Technology

praskrishna — 2011-09-28T09:30:40Z

Namita Malhotra focuses on pornography, pleasure and law, where she finds a new point of entry into existing debates by looking at legal construction of pleasure through different technologies of mass consumption. She revisits the arguments around pornography, obscenity and affect in recent times. Malhotra produces a comprehensive over-view 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, the privilege of affect over regulation lead to possibilities of interaction and negotiation with heternormative power structures in the country. The monograph demonstrates how the grey zones of pornography and the law’s inability to deal with it, offer new conceptual tools of understanding the spaces of digital interaction and identity.

For more details visit http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/porn-law.pdf

Seventh Open Letter to the Finance Committee

praskrishna — 2011-10-12T11:23:53Z

In the following I attempt, first, to characterize in an abstract way the situation being addressed by the questions that were asked by us of the UIDAI, in our RTI application of 30/06/2011. I try to make sense, then, of the replies we managed to elicit; and conclude with some elementary observations.

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