Author
Nishant Shah
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25 Mar 2018
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Digital native: Our lonely connected livesEven as the UK last month announced the appointment of Minister of Loneliness, which sounds more like the title of the next Arundhati Roy novel, it is worth examining why we are so alone in the age of hyperconnectivity.
25 Mar 2018
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Digital Native: A new road to justiceMaking the List takes courage and strength. It involves the formation of a new collective of care.
25 Feb 2018
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Digital Native: AI ManifestoOur intention and government action will determine our relationship with AI.
31 Dec 2017
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Digital native: The age of consentJust like porn is not real life, all news is not real news. It’s time, therefore, to come of age in the 18th year of this century.
3 Dec 2017
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Digital native: Memory card is fullWe train ourselves to forget as our devices store everything. How do we remember things that matter?
19 Nov 2017
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Digital native: Let there be lifeThe first robot citizen of the world is from Saudi Arabia, and she has the dubious fame of having more rights than human counterparts in the country.
5 Nov 2017
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Digital native: Rebellion by Google DocThe List is an example of the power of digital anonymity and solidarity. But we need to move beyond it.
22 Oct 2017
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Digital Native: Finger on the buzzerWhich Hogwarts House are you? No, you don’t really want to know.
9 Oct 2017
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Digital Native: There is no spoon, There is no privacyIt should be common knowledge by now, in our lived experiences of big data, that digital privacy is a battle ground.
10 Sep 2017
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Digital native: What’s in a name? PrivilegeAnonymity-based internet apps like Sarahah may not be as vicious for those surrounded by the comfort of social status. If your experience of Sarahah has been positive, it might be good to reflect on your own cultural and social capital.
27 Aug 2017
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Digital native: You are not aloneAway from the guidance of adults, the internet can be a lonely place for youngsters, pushing them towards self-harm.
30 Jul 2017
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Digital native: Ever on the goIt is time to insist that the infrastructure of digital India is accompanied by the infrastructure of care for the digital Indian.When the telephone was first introduced as a mass communication tool, one of the biggest fears was that it …
16 Jul 2017
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Digital native: Not only wordsEmoticons, or if you prefer the original Japanese word emojis, are everywhere. We are used to emoticons in all shapes and sizes — from animated gifs jumping out at us on our social media feed to yellow-faced smileys that we use to add tone …
24 Jun 2017
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Digital Native: On mute, the Voice of the PeopleWe are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, control and eradicate all our digital data without our consent and without …
11 Jun 2017
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Digital Native: In digiville attention is CurrencyThe increased importance on attention and the lack of it on social media gives all the more reason why we need to be discerning about what we invest our attention upon.
28 May 2017
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Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leapCreating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
14 May 2017
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Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!India’s digital landscape is dotted with vigilante voices that drown out people’s right to free speech.
5 May 2017
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Digital native: Snap out of outrage modeRage at the inequality of the digital world is good. But why stop at the Snapchat CEO?
17 Apr 2017
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Digital native: Are You Still Having Fun?Before you accept a fun app into your digital ecosystem, prepare yourself for the data you will be giving away.
2 Apr 2017
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Digital native: You can check out, you can never leaveAadhaar is not something you define and opt into, it is something that defines you.
19 Mar 2017
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Digital native: Lie Me a RiverThe sea of social media around us often drowns the truth, exchanging misinformation for facts.
3 Mar 2017
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Digital native: Who will watch the watchman?The state mining its citizens as data and suspending rights to privacy under the rhetoric of national security is alarming.
3 Mar 2017
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Digital Native: Do not go Gently into the Good NightIf there’s a lesson to be learned from the resistance to the Trump administration, it is this — patriotism is not a feeling, it is an action.
22 Jan 2017
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Digital native: Back at it AgainThe Indian digital landscape has put us in a loop of hashtags and outrage, a space where we have mastered the art of shame.
8 Jan 2017
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Digital Native: The Dream of the CyborgWe have arrived at hybrid realities, where the technological and the human cannot be separated. The digital future we had once imagined is already here.
18 Dec 2016
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Digital Native: People Like UsHow the algorithm decides what you see on your timeline. If you have been hanging out on social media, there is one thing you can’t have escaped — a filter bubble. Be it demonetisation and its discontents, the fake news stories that seem to …
5 Dec 2016
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Digital native: The View from My BubbleIn the digital world, the privileged have the power to deny a devastating crisis for the poor.
22 Nov 2016
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Digital native: The Voices in Our HeadsWhat if our phones were to go silent? Would you be able to deal with the silence?
9 Nov 2016
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Digital Native: Mind Your LanguageThe lack of localisation on the Internet is a symptom of a larger problem. It has been a festive season. Greetings are in the air. Well, realistically speaking, smoke-filled smog is in the air and greetings are all on social media. In a …
17 Oct 2016
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Love in the Time of TinderService providers and information aggregators mine our information and share it in ways that we cannot imagine.