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Cyberspace in its Plurality: Cybercultures Workshop at TISS, Mumbai
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<b>Cyberspace has become one of the most potent and persuasive metaphors of our times, enveloping and embracing a wide range and scope of areas across disciplines and perspectives. The cybercultures workshop is designed to be an introduction to the multiplicity of cyberspaces and internet technologies and the key questions which have emerged in the almost four decades of cyberculture theory. The workshop is designed across four days; each day dealing with a certain understanding of cyberspace – in its materiality, in its imagination, in its instrumentality – in order to present a comprehensive view of the vast terrain of cyberspace and its intersections with the contemporary worlds we live in.</b>
<h3>Workshop @ Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai<br /></h3>
<p>The four day workshop at the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.comminit.com/en/node/265160">Centre for Media and
Cultural Studies</a>, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, sees CIS engaging with one of the most exciting spaces in the Indian
academia; we design and administer an introduction course on
cyberspace and its plurality to students of media and cultural
studies. The workshop is a part of the Centre for Internet and
Society's larger concern on providing a multidisciplinary,
multi-media approach towards the internet and contextualising it in
India.</p>
<p>Structured on a seminar model, the workshop hopes to
bring together the questions in academic debate as well as in the
realm of cultural production, for students to understand the internet
technologies and cyberspaces as not only important cultural outputs
but also crucial forms that shape the world we live in.</p>
<p><strong>Objectives:</strong>
The four day cybercultures workshop hopes to achieve the following
objectives:</p>
<ol><li>To introduce the students
to the multiplicity and complexity of ‘cyberspace’.</li><li>To introduce ‘cyberspace’
as an epistemological category to emphasise the centrality of
cyberspaces in understanding the mechanics of urban survival in the
contemporary.</li><li>To orient the students
towards understanding the textuality of cyberspace; rescuing it from
the confines of digital networks and locating it in the transactions
of globalization and urbanization in Asia.</li><li>To introduce the key
debates in cybercultures theory: body, gender, sexuality, authorship,
ownership, access and information democratization.</li></ol>
<p><strong>Design:</strong>
The cybercultures workshop is designed to be conducted over four days with two
sessions (of three hours each) per day. Each day is thematically divided to
look at a particular idea of cyberspace; the sessions are further
sub-divided to introduce a particular perspective on the day’s
theme. Each session has its set of individual pre-readings which will
serve more as indicators of the stake of the debate rather than as texts around which the class will be centred. The readings shall remain as introductory
material, and the class room discussions, while referring to them,
will not concentrate on explaining the material.</p>
<h3>Day 1: Cyberspace – Form, Textuality and Frameworks</h3>
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<h3>Session 1: Exploring Cyberspace:</h3>
<p>Definitions, explanations, locations</p>
<p>Cyberspace and Digital Technologies</p>
<p>Form, text, textuality</p>
<p><strong>Pre-reading: </strong> Shah, Nishant, 2005. “Playblog:
Pornography, Performance, and Cyberspace” available<a class="external-link" href="http://www.cut-up.com/news/issuedetail.php?sid=413&issue=20"> here</a></p>
<h3>Session 2: The Digital DNA – Database, Networks,
Archives</h3>
<p>The Database Imperative: Sorting, information,
databases</p>
<p>The Networking Impulse: Social Networking Systems and
the condition of networking</p>
<p>The Archiving Aspirations: Intention, aspiration and
archiving the present</p>
<p><strong>Pre-reading:</strong> Manovich, Lev, 2001. “The
Database as a Symbolic Form” available <a class="external-link" href="http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/warner/english197/Schedule_files/Manovich/Database_as_symbolic_form.htm">here</a></p>
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<h3>Day 2: Information technology and
human engineering</h3>
<blockquote>
<h3><strong>Session 3 : Gender, Technology and Cyberspace</strong></h3>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Gendering of Technology; Gendered Technologies</p>
<p>The body and its boundaries</p>
<p>Physical bodies; Digital selves; cyborgs</p>
<p><strong>Pre-reading: </strong>Light, Jennifer, 1999. “When Computers Were Women” available<a class="external-link" href="http://tinyurl.com/Jennifer-light"> here</a></p>
<p>Dibbell, Julian, 1991. “A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a
Haitian Trickster, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a
Database into a Society” available <a class="external-link" href="http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html">here</a></p>
<h3> Session 4: Techno-social Worlds</h3>
<p> Orkut Deaths : The distributed self</p>
<p> Role playing and identity : The real and the authentic</p>
<p> DPS MMS: The trajectories of selves</p>
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<h3>Day 3- 4 : Cyberspace and the
Infobahn</h3>
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<h3>Session 5: Movie Screening: <a class="external-link" href="http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/">Good Copy, Bad Copy</a>
(followed by discussion) <br /></h3>
<h3>Session 6: Who owns Cyberspace?</h3>
<p>Ownership and Possession</p>
<p>Licensing and access</p>
<p>Open source and the gift economy</p>
<p><strong>Pre-reading:</strong> UNCTAD essay on copyright and related
questions, available <a class="external-link" href="http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/iteipc200610_en.pdf">here</a></p>
<h3>Session 7: 18 Reasons Why Piracy is Good for You</h3>
<p>The need for piracy</p>
<p>Piracy, theft, and property</p>
<h3>Session 8: The Cultural Value of Intellectual
Property</h3>
<p>The Digital Millenium Rights</p>
<p>The Copy Right and the Copy Left</p>
<p>Open Access and the Creative Commons</p>
</blockquote>
<p> Outputs</p>
<ol><li><a class="external-link" href="http://community.livejournal.com/authenticpirate/">http://community.livejournal.com/authenticpirate/</a></li><li><a class="external-link" href="http://myspaceformusic.livejournal.com/">http://myspaceformusic.livejournal.com/</a></li><li><a class="external-link" href="http://jennyontherocks.livejournal.com/">http://jennyontherocks.livejournal.com/</a></li></ol>
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No publishernishantcyberculturesteachingcyberspacespedagogyeducationdigital pluralism2008-10-31T10:38:17ZBlog EntryResearchers At Work
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<b>CIS-RAW stands for Researchers at Work, a multidisciplinary research initiative by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. CIS firmly believes that in order to understand the contemporary concerns in the field of Internet and Society, it is necessary to produce local and contextual accounts of the interaction between the internet and socio-cultural and geo-political structures. The CIS-RAW programme hopes to produce one of the first documentations on the transactions and negotiations, relationships and correlations that the emergence of internet technologies has resulted in, specifically in the South. The CIS-RAW programme recognises ‘The Histories of the Internet and India’ as its focus for the first two years. Although many disciplines, organisations and interventions in various areas deal with internet technologies, there has been very little work in documenting the polymorphous growth of internet technologies and their relationship with society in India. The existing narratives of the internet are often riddled with absences or only focus on the mainstream interests of major stakeholders, like the state and the corporate. We find it imperative to excavate the three-decade histories of the internet to understand the contemporary concerns and questions in the field.</b>
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No publishernishanthistories of internet in Indiainternet and societygeeksdigital subjectivescyborgscyberculturesarchivescyberspacespedagogyresearchwomen and internete-governance2012-01-04T05:27:06ZPageHistories of the Internet
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<b>For the first two years, the CIS-RAW Programme shall focus on producing diverse multidisciplinary histories of the internet in India.</b>
<p><strong>Histories of internets in India</strong></p>
<p align="justify">The CIS-RAW programme is designed around two-year thematics. Every two years, we shall, looking at our engagement and the questions that are emerging around us, come up with new themes that we would like to commission, enable and encourage research on.</p>
<p align="justify">The selection of the theme of the History of Internet and Society is a unanimous decision made by our researchers in-house, the members of the Society, distinguished fellows, supporters, and peers who all gathered for a launch workshop for the CIS. There is a severe dearth of material on the histories of Internet and Society in India and we find it necessary to contextualise and historicise the contemporary in order to fruitfully and critically engage with the questions and concerns we are committed to. In the first two years of its programme, the CIS-RAW hopes to come up with alternative histories of the Internet and Society, which chart a wide terrain of the field that we are engaging with and produce one of the first such resources for researchers working in this field.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Scope of the Theme:</strong></p>
<p align="justify">We are looking at a wide range of accounts of the different forms, imaginations, materialities and interactions of the internets in India. As we excavate its three-decade growth in India, it becomes increasingly clear that there is no homogenised Internet that has evolved in the country; Instead, what we have is a technology, which, through its interactions and intersections with various objects, people, contexts and regulation, has emerged in many different ways. The theme of 'Histories of internets in India' hopes to address these pluralities of the internets and how they have been shaped in the unfolding of these technologies.</p>
<p align="justify">We have collaborated on the following histories with different researchers in India:</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<ol>
<li> <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/rewiring-bodies/" class="external-link">Rewiring Bodies</a> - Asha Achuthan, Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore.</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/archives-and-access/" class="external-link">Archive and Access</a> - Rochelle Pinto (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore; Aparna Balachandran, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore; and Abhijit Bhattacharya, Centre for Sudies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/law-video-technology/law-video-and-technology" class="external-link">Porn: Law, Video & Technology</a> - Namita Malhotra, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/transparency-and-politics/transparency-and-politics-blog" class="external-link">Transparency and Politics</a> - Zainab Bawa, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/the-last-cultural-mile/the-last-cultural-mile-blog" class="external-link">The Last Cultural Mile</a> - Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/revolution-2.0/revolution-2.0-blog" class="external-link">Using the Net for Social Change</a> - Anja Kovacs, (Research) Fellow, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore</li>
<li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/queer-histories-of-the-internet/queer-histories-of-the-internet-blog" class="external-link">Queer Histories of the Internet</a> - Nitya Vasudevan, Centre for Study of Culture and Society and Nithin Manayath, Mount Carmel College</li><li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/internet-society-and-space-in-indian-cities/internet-society-and-space-in-indian-cities-blog" class="external-link">Internet, Society and Space in Indian Cities</a> - Pratyush Shankar, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad</li><li><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/raw/histories-of-the-internet/blogs/gaming-and-gold/gaming-and-gold-blog" class="external-link">Gaming and Gold</a> - Arun Menon, Centre for Internet & Society<br /></li></ol>
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No publishernishanthistories of internet in Indiainternet and societygeeksdigital subjectivescyborgscyberculturesarchivescyberspacespedagogyresearchwomen and internete-governance2015-03-30T14:15:10ZPageResearch Programmes
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<b>The Research Portfolio at the Centre for Internet and Society seeks to develop new pedagogic practices, plural and unique knowledges, multidisciplinary perspectives, and reflexive interventions in the field of Internet and Society. </b>
<h3><strong>Context</strong></h3>
<p align="left">We
work on the premise that very little work has gone into understanding
or exploring the internets in their plurality, leading to
simultaneous mythification and demonisation of the internet. However, instead
of trying to define what the internet means or enumerating its many
manifestations, the Centre for Internet and Society
is invested in producing new pedagogical devices and frameworks to
analyse the various layers of the internet as it interacts with
socio-cultural and geo-political contexts.</p>
<div align="left"> </div>
<p align="left">Most
frameworks that address questions of Internet and Society work with
borrowed terminologies (of older technologies and technological
forms) and institutional perspectives (arising out of traditional
disciplines and interventions of earlier paradigms) that are no
longer adequate for serious engagement with the complex relationship
between internet and society. We
recognise three dominant strains that are influential in most of the
research and intervention in the field of Internet and Society.</p>
<p align="left">The
first is a focus on the science and technologies of the internet -- looking at innovation, experimentation and development of the
technologies to build a faster, more effective and more robust web of
applications and protocols. The second is a sustained philosophical
engagement that explores the aesthetic and ethical implications of
the digital worlds, networks, communities and identities that cyberspaces evolve. The third is an instrumental approach to
technology that focuses on the effects of the internet and its growth as well as
the potential it has for further development and impact.</p>
<div align="left"> </div>
<p align="left">These
approaches create a schism between internet technologies and social structures, obscuring the inextricable nature of their
intertwining. The focus is either on the purely technological, where
the social fades into the background, or on the severely
socio-cultural, where internet technologies are looked upon
merely as instrumental in nature. The
Centre for Internet and Society, instead of making this either-or
choice, seeks to invest its energies in emphasising and excavating
the processes, transactions, negotiations and mechanics by which internet technologies engage with society.</p>
<div align="left"> </div>
<h3 align="left" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>CIS
Research Programmes</strong></h3>
<p align="justify">The
Research Portfolio currently houses three different research
programmes, each aimed at different audiences and researchers:</p>
<ol><li><strong><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/research/cis-raw" class="internal-link" title="CIS-RAW">The
CIS-RAW</a>:</strong> The Centre for Internet and Society’s Researchers At
Work programme encourages innovative ideas and perspectives that
emerge from dialogue and exchange, structured around a theme that
changes every two years. The CIS-RAW is targeted at <strong><em>established
scholars</em></strong> willing to engage with the specific themes that CIS is
immediately interested in. It offers full financial support towards
quantified academic productions. To know more about the CIS-RAW
programme, please <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/research/cis-raw" class="internal-link" title="CIS-RAW">click here</a>.</li><li><strong><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/research/ict4arts" class="internal-link" title="ICT4Arts">The ICT4A Fellowships</a>:</strong> The Centre for Internet and Society
recognises that some of the most innovative ideas and experiments
with philosophical concepts and practice based projects are in the
intersections between Information and Communication Technologies and
the Creative Arts. Artists experimenting with form, shape,
installations, processes and pedagogy create significant projects
with high intervention and public value while forcing us to revisit
the relationship between the internet and society. The ICT4A (Internet
and Creative Technologies of Art) Fellowships are for <strong><em>artists</em></strong>
who are interested in examining the
aesthetics, politics and pragmatics of internet technologies and
their relationships with different socio-cultural and geo-political
phenomena. To know more about the ICT4A Fellowships, please <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/research/ict4arts" class="internal-link" title="ICT4Arts">click
here</a>.</li><li><strong><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/research/projects-inception-grant" class="internal-link" title="Collaborative Projects Programme">Collaborative Projects Programme:</a></strong> CIS sees its role as that of an enabler and think
tank for new ideas, methods and frameworks within the field of Internet and Society. Given
the scope of internet technologies and the persuasive way in which
they embrace various facets of contemporary life, we envision various
disciplines engaging with the concerns of Internet and Society in the
future. The Collaborative Project Programme is structured to provide
initial head-space, ideation resources, and intellectual
infrastructure to <strong><em>senior researchers and/or practitioners</em></strong> to work
towards a larger project that intersects with our vision. The Collaborative Projects Programme offers CIS an opportunity to enter into a financial, intellectual and administrative collaboration for up to six months with individuals or organisations who are
looking at funding for the inception work towards a project
(research, intervention, or otherwise) in the field of Internet and
Society. To learn more about the modalities, CIS’ involvement and
the nature of support for the Collaborative Projects, please <a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/research/projects-inception-grant" class="internal-link" title="Projects Inception Grant">click
here</a>.</li></ol>
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