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Nishant Shah
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13 Jan 2010
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Inquilab 2.0? Reflections on Online Activism in India*Research and activism on the Internet in India remain fledgling in spite the media hype, says Anja Kovacs in her blog post that charts online activism in India as it has emerged.
5 Jan 2010
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Wikiwars: 12th, 13th January, BangaloreThe Centre for Internet and Society and the Institute of Network Cultures brought together a critical range of scholars, academicians, practitioners, artists and researchers to inquire into the new conditions which emerge with the rise of …
28 Dec 2009
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Openness, Videos, ImpressionsThe one day Open Video Summit organised by the Centre for Internet & Society, iCommons, Open Video Alliance, and Magic Lantern, to bring together a range of stakeholders to discuss the possibilities, potentials, mechanics and politics of …
19 Dec 2009
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Breaks and Ruptures: In the midst of ITIn this first story, Nishant looks at the ways in which internet technologies shape multiple imaginations. In the narration of the story, the contextualisation and the responses that the story-tellers make apparent, he located the internet …
17 Dec 2009
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Re:wiring Bodies: Call for ReviewDr. Asha Achuthan's research project on "Rewiring Bodies" is a part of the Researchers @ Work Programme at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. From her vantage position, straddling the disciplines of medicine an Cultural …
10 Dec 2009
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A provisional definition for the Cultural Last MileIn the first of his entries, Ashish Rajadhyaksha gives his own spin on the 'Last Mile' problem that has been at the crux of all public technologies. Shifting the terms of debate away from broadcast problems of distance and access, he …
12 Nov 2009
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Digital Natives with a Cause?Digital Natives With A Cause? - a product of the Hivos-CIS collaboration charts the scholarship and practice of youth and technology with a specific attention for developing countries to create a framework that consolidates existing …
21 Sep 2009
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China's Generation Y : Youth and Technology in ShanghaiWithin the context of internet technologies in China, Nishant Shah, drawing from his seven month research in Shanghai, looks at the first embodiment of these technologies in the urbanising city. In this post, he gives a brief overview of …
17 Sep 2009
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IT and the cITyNishant Shah tells ten stories of relationship between Internet Technologies and the City, drawing from his experiences of seven months in Shanghai. In this introduction to the city, he charts out first experiences of the physical spaces of …
2 Sep 2009
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Rethinking the last mile Problem: A cultural argumentThis research project, by Ashish Rajadhyaksha from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, is mainly a conceptual-archival investigation into India’s history for what has in recent years come to be known as the ‘last mile’ problem. …
27 Aug 2009
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The new language of Internet: A report on the Chutnefying Hinglish ConferenceThe Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, was an institutional partner to India's first Global Conference on Hinglish - Chutnefying English, organised by Dr. Rita Kothari at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad. A …
27 Aug 2009
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Chutnefying English - ReportThe Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, was an institutional partner to India's first Global Conference on Hinglish - Chutnefying English, organised by Dr. Rita Kothari at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad. A …
10 Jul 2009
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CPOV: Critical Point of ViewThe Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) seek to bring together ideas, experiences and scholarship about Wikipedia in a reader that charts out detailed user …
10 Jul 2009
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Call for participation: Conference @ Bangalore - 'WikiWars'Call for Participation: Conferences and Reader on critical insights and experiences on the Wikipedia
10 Nov 2008
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The Future of the Moving ImageAll dissimilar technologies are the same in their own way, but all similar technologies are uniquely different. This was probably at the core of the zeitgeist at the international seminar on “The Future of Celluloid” hosted by the Media Lab …
3 Nov 2008
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Writing the Future - IIT DelhiThe First Ever Asia-Pacific Festival of Writing: An internationally-supported event for emerging and established writers, scholars of contemporary literature from Asia and the Pacific, publishers, and all those interested in new writing …
3 Nov 2008
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The Anxiety of the Future and Internet TechnologiesNishant Shah and Sunil Abraham attended the "Writing the Future" conference organised by the Humanities Department at the IIT Delhi, and supported by the CIS and the Kusuma Trust. Nishant made a presentation at the conference entitled "Some …
31 Oct 2008
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i4D Interview: Social Networking and Internet AccessNishant Shah, the Director for Research at CIS, was recently interviewed in i4D in a special section looking at Social Networking and Governance, as a lead up to the Internet Governance Forum in December, in the city of Hyderabad.
23 Sep 2008
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Cyberspace in its Plurality: Cybercultures Workshop at TISS, MumbaiCyberspace 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 …