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Interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital media. 556 items.
2 Dec 2009
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Maps for Making Change Kicks Off, and You Can Get Involved!A first in India, Maps for Making Change explores the use of geographical mapping techniques to support struggles for social justice in India. On 3 December, the project officially kicks off during a one-day workshop in Delhi. But even if …
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 …
30 Oct 2009
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Call for Applications: 'Maps for Making Change' - Using Geographical Mapping Techniques to Support Struggles for Social Justice in IndiaDeadline: 20 November 2009. Maps for Making Change is a two-month project specifically designed for activists and supporters of social movements and campaigns in India. It provides participants with an exciting opportunity to explore how a …
12 Sep 2009
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Negative of pornThe post deals with what has been written about Savita Bhabhi in an attempt to make sense of her peccadiloes and with the seeming futility of Porn studies located in America to our different reality. I take the liberty of exploring my own …
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. …
29 Jul 2009
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Alternatives? From situated knowledges to standpoint epistemologyThe previous post explored, in detail, responses to science and technology in feminist and gender work in India. The idea was, more than anything else, to present an 'attitude' to technology, whether manifested in dams or obstetric …
20 Jul 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Methodologies of Critique - Responses to technology in feminist and gender work in IndiaIn this post, part of her CIS-RAW 'Rewiring Bodies' project, Asha Achuthan records the arguments within feminism and gender work that critique the use of technology in the Indian context, and attempts to show continuities between these …
13 Jul 2009
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Archive and Access: Digitisation and Private Records--The Case of the Regional ArchiveThis is the first in a series of posts by CIS-RAW researcher Aparna Balachandran on the Tamil Nadu Archives (TNA), looking at different aspects of their functioning in order to think about the issue of access in relation to regional …
11 May 2009
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Pleasure and Pornography: Impassioned ObjectsIn this post, a third in the series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Pleasure and Pornography, Namita Malhotra explores the idea of fetish as examined by Anne McClintock (i) . This detour is an exploration of the notion of fetish, its …
5 May 2009
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Transparency and Politics: Politically Aware and Participatory CitizenryIn this, her fourth blog post on her CIS-RAW project, Zainab Bawa looks at the notions of Stakeholder and Participation.
2 May 2009
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Archive and Access: Documents in the Time of DemocracyThis is the seventh in a series of blog posts documenting Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijeet Bhattacharya's CIS-RAW project, Archive and Access. In this entry, Rochelle Pinto introduces a sub-set of posts that will look at …
27 Apr 2009
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Analysing Wikipedia: A First Attempt at ClusteringIn this, their second update on their Analysing Wikipedia project, Kiran Jonnalagadda and Hans Varghese Mathews discuss their first attempt at grouping the various editors of a frequently edited Wikipedia document, each distinguished from …
22 Apr 2009
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Transparency and Politics: Talk by Barun MitraA talk by Barun Mitra, Chairperson of the Liberty Institute, a Delhi-based think tank, was held at CIS recently, organised by Zainab Bawa in relation to her CIS-RAW project on 'Transparency and Politics'. In this post, the third in a series …
18 Apr 2009
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Archive and Access: The Inalienable Right to the Archives - Entering the CapitalThis entry complements the prior discussion by Aparna Balachandran of the Delhi State Archives and its status as a repository of records. Her discussion compares the place of the user and that of the document in the Delhi State Archives as …
18 Apr 2009
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Archive and Access: The Delhi State ArchivesIn this, the fifth entry in a series on the CIS-RAW Archive and Access project, Aparna Balachandran reports on two state archives located in Delhi, the National Archives of India, and the Delhi Archives.
15 Apr 2009
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Postcolonial Hybridity and the ‘Terrors of Technology’ ArgumentIn the last couple of posts, Asha Achuthan has been building towards an understanding of how the anti-technology arguments in India have been posed, in the nationalist and Marxist positions. She goes on, in this sixth post documenting her …
2 Apr 2009
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Pleasure and Pornography: Pornography and the Blindfolded Gaze of the LawIn the legal discourse, pornography as a category is absent, except as an aggravated form of obscenity. Does this missing descriptive category assist in the rampant circulation of pornography, either online or offline? Rather than ask that …
27 Mar 2009
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The (Postcolonial) Marxist Shift in Response to TechnologyIn her previous post, Asha Achuthan discussed, through the Gandhi-Tagore debates, the responses to science and technology that did not follow the dominant Marxist-nationalist positions. Later Marxist-postcolonial approaches to science and …
26 Mar 2009
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Analysing Wikipedia: An IntroductionKiran Jonnalagadda and Hans Varghese Matthews introduce their project, aimed at producing tools that will allow anyone to analyse editing behaviour on Wikipedia. This is the first in a series of posts documenting their work.
23 Mar 2009
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Transparency and Politics: An Introduction [II]In this post, the second in a series documenting her CIS-RAW project, Zainab Bawa explains how transparency is embedded in particular institutional contexts. This impacts the ways in which transparency materially manifests and also has …
25 Feb 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [2]This is the third in a series of posts on Asha Achuthan's Rewiring Bodies project. In this post, Asha looks at the Tagore-Gandhi debates on technology to throw some light on the question of whether there was a nationalist alternative to the …
17 Feb 2009
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Rewiring Bodies: Technology and the Nationalist Moment [1]This is the second post in a series by Asha Achuthan on her project, Rewiring Bodies. In this blog entry, Asha looks at the trajectory of responses to technology in India to understand the genesis of the assumption that the subjects of …
16 Feb 2009
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Archives and Access: Land, Museum, LegacyThis blog entry is the third in a series of posts on Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya's Archives and Access project. The entry, by Rochelle Pinto, describes her visit to a museum of agricultural implements in …
8 Feb 2009
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Transparency and Politics: An Introduction [I]This is the first in a series of blog posts documenting Zainab Bawa's CIS-RAW project on Transparency and Politics. This post briefly explains how the notion of transparency has developed over time, and the changes that it has been through.
3 Feb 2009
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Pleasure and Pornography: Initial Encounters with the UnknownThis blog entry is the first in a series by Namita Malhotra on her CIS-RAW project that is about pornography, Internet, sexuality, law, new media and technology. She aims for this to be a multi media and research project/journey which is …
11 Dec 2008
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Archives and Access: IntroductionThe members of this research project team are Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore and Abhijit Bhattacharya from the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta. This …
11 Dec 2008
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Archive and Access: The Archive and the Indian HistorianThis post is the second in a series by Aparna Balachandran and Rochelle Pinto. It comes to the question of how we can extend some of the questions and concerns that have arisen around contemporary archives to the documentary archive. It …
4 Dec 2008
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Justice and Difference - the first talk in 'the monster album of feminist stories'CIS and 'the monster album of feminist stories', in relation to the Rewiring Bodies project by Asha Achuthan, hosted the first of a series of talks on cognizing feminism at the CIS premises on Cunningham Road on 14th November, 2008.
10 Nov 2008
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Launch of Public Juris (An Online Archive of Legal Resources)Aparna Balachandran, Rochelle Pinto, and Abhijit Bhattacharya announce the launch of Public Juris, an online archive of legal resources.
5 Nov 2008
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of doctors and maps - Snippet twoThis may seem like a careless swipe at the volumes of critique of technology. And yet ... I need to know ...