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Nishant Shah
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17 Oct 2016
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Digital Native: The Future is NowThe digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good. There used to be a popular joke among technology geeks when Bluetooth arrived on our mobile devices — everything becomes better with Bluetooth.
18 Sep 2016
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Who Owns Your Phone?The capacity of companies to defy standards that work tells an alarming story of what we lose when we lose control of our devices.
9 Sep 2016
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Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this yearWith the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens.
7 Aug 2016
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Do I Want to Say Happy B’day?When it comes to greeting friends on their birthdays, social media prompts are a great reminder. So why does an online message leave us cold?
6 Aug 2016
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Book Review: Apocalypse Now ReduxMy review for Arundhati Roy and John Cusack's new book that captures their encounter with Edward Snowden, 'Things that can and cannot be said' is now out. It's an engaging, if somewhat freewheeling, political critique of the times we live …
25 Jul 2016
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The Gay Pride CharadeFor most of the milllenials, news is formed by trends, what goes viral, and often open to speculation, projection, manipulation and deceit.
25 Jul 2016
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One Pokémon to Rule Them AllAmerica’s head start on the augmented reality game Pokémon Go shows that the interweb is not an egalitarian space.
5 Jun 2016
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Digital native: Control A, BackspaceThe rewriting of textbooks should not be compared to the collaborations on Wikipedia, which only goes by evidence.
8 May 2016
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Facebook: A Platform with Little Less Sharing of Personal InformationAs Facebook becomes less personal, what happens to digital friendship?
17 Apr 2016
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Online Censorship on the Rise: Why I Prefer to Save Things OfflineAs governments use their power to erase what they do not approve of from the web, cloud storage will not be enough.
3 Apr 2016
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A Large Byte of Your LifeWith the digital, memory becomes equated with storage. We commit to storage to free ourselves from remembering.
20 Mar 2016
23 Nov 2015
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WhatsApps with fireworks, apps with diyas: Why Diwali needs to go beyond digitalThe idea of a 'digital' Diwali reduces our social relationships to a ledger of give and take. The last fortnight, I have been bombarded with advertisements selling the idea of a “Digital Diwali”. We have become so used to the idea that …
1 Oct 2014
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Big Data and Positive Social Change in the Developing World: A White Paper for Practitioners and ResearchersI was a part of a working group writing a white paper on big data and social change, over the last six months. This white paper was produced by a group of activists, researchers and data experts who met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s …
25 Jul 2014
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Asia in the Edges: A Narrative Account of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School in BangaloreThe Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School is a Biennial event that invites Masters and PhD students from around Asia to participate in conversations around developing and building an Inter-Asia Cultural Studies thought process. Hosted …
15 Jun 2014
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Not a Goodbye; More a ‘Come Again’: Thoughts on being Research Director at a moment of transitionAs I slowly make the news of my transition from being the Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, to taking up a professorship at the Leuphana University, Lueneburg, Germany, there is a question that I am often …
6 May 2014
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Networks: What You Don’t See is What You (for)GetWhen I start thinking about DML (digital media and learning) and other such “networks” that I am plugged into, I often get a little confused about what to call them.
4 Apr 2014
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Between the Local and the Global: Notes Towards Thinking the Nature of Internet PolicyThis post by Nishant Shah is part of a series related to the 2014 Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy: The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet in a Time Of Surveillance and Disclosure, which takes place in …
30 Mar 2014
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The Age of ShameThe ability to capture private images is breeding a dangerous form of digital shaming. Within the online space, where wonderments often run rife, and conspiracy theories travel at the speed of light, there are many dark recesses where …
20 Mar 2014
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Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology and PracticeDr. Nishant Shah was a panelist at a workshop jointly organized by HUMlab and UCGS (Umeå Centre for Gender Studies) at Umeå University from March 12 to 14, 2014. He blogged about the conference.
24 Feb 2014
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Defending the Humanities in the Digital AgeThe author says that he is trying to take the formulation of digital humanities as a history-in-making where we might still be able to salvage the humanities from being soft-skills and our pedagogies from becoming reduced to MOOCs.
18 Feb 2014
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Will You be Paid to Post a Picture?The wave of free information production on the web is on the wane.
14 Feb 2014
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The Internet WayDr. Nishant Shah's review of the book “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” by Bantam Press/Random House Group, London was published in Biblio Vol. 19 No.8 (1&2), January – February 2014.
31 Jan 2014
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Video Games: A Case Study of a Cross-cultural Video CollaborationA new book focusing on Palestinian artists’ video, edited by Bashir Makhoul and published by Palestinian Art Court- al Hoash, 2013, includes a chapter co-authored by Larissa Hjorth and Nishant Shah.
31 Jan 2014
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10 Ways to Say Nothing NewThe rise of the listicle, a safe, non-thinking information piece that tells us what we already know.
22 Dec 2013
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Digital NativeThe end of the year is supposed to be a happy, feel-good space for families, friends, societies and communities to come together and count our blessings. It is the time to look at things that have gone by and look forward to what the New …
30 Nov 2013
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I Just Pinged to Say HelloA host of social networks find us more connected than ever before, but leave us groping for words in the digital space.
30 Nov 2013
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How Can We Make Open Education Truly Open?I have spent the last month being unpopular. I have been in conversation with many ‘Open Everything’ activists and practitioners. At each instance, we got stuck because I insisted that we begin by defining what ‘Open’ means in the easy …
1 Nov 2013
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Open SecretsWe need to think of privacy in different ways — not only as something that happens between people, but between you and corporations.
25 Aug 2013
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Out of the BedroomWe have shared it with our friends. We have watched it with our lovers. We have discussed it with our children and talked about it with our partners. It is in our bedrooms, hidden in sock drawers. It is in our laptops, in a folder marked …