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Researchers at Work
Interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital media. 556 items.
19 May 2019
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Digital Native: Three things we need to realise about what TikTok is doing to usFifteen seconds is all that will take for TikTok to own you.
5 May 2019
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Digital Native: Narendra Modi’s interview by Akshay Kumar is a PR masterpieceHow to spot the influencer in your politics.
28 Apr 2019
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Digital Native: Getting through an election made for the social media gazeIn the poll season, social media platforms thrive on wounded outrage disguised as politics.
24 Mar 2019
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Digital Native: Lessons from Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp going downThe day when three social-media apps refused to load.
10 Mar 2019
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Digital Native: How an information overload affects what you forwardThe information overload of social media sharing can make us act against our better judgement.
24 Feb 2019
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What I learned from going offline for 48 hoursA weekend without the internet shows just how much control we surrender to online chatter.
14 Feb 2019
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Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” …
4 Feb 2019
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India’s proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese lawsThe proposed new internet bill is as repressive as the worst of Chinese restrictions. The new intermediaries liability and content monitoring act that will become a law in February, unquestioningly expand the remit of the government.
9 Jan 2019
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List, Jan 30 - Feb 1, LamakaanWho makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate …
2 Jan 2019
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Welcome to r@w blog!We from the researchers@work programme at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog, hosted on Medium. It will feature works by researchers and practitioners working in India and …
2 Jan 2019
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List - Selected Sessions and PapersHere is the list of selected sessions and papers for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19) - #List. IRC19 will be held in Lamakaan, Hyderabad, from Jan 30 to Feb 1, 2019. The conference announcement, along with the final agenda, …
31 Dec 2018
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Digital Native: System Needs a RebootIt’s time to replace the schizophrenic need for variety with ingenuity — the truthiness of the information.
19 Dec 2018
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Silicon Plateau: Volume TwoSilicon Plateau is an art project and publishing series that explores the intersection of technology, culture and society in the Indian city of Bangalore. Each volume of the series is a themed repository for research, artworks, essays and …
6 Dec 2018
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): #List - Call for PapersWho makes lists? How are lists made? Who can be on a list, and who is missing? What new subjectivities - indicative of different asymmetries of power/knowledge - do list-making, and being listed, engender? What makes lists legitimate …
28 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #StoriesRecordsLegendsRitualsDetails of a session proposed by Priyanka, Aditya, Bhanu Prakash GS, Aishwarya, and Dinesh for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #SocialMediationAsGenderedJusticeDetails of a session proposed by Esther Anne Victoria Moraes and Manasa Priya Vasudevan for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #PowerListingDetails of a session proposed by Dr. Shubhda Arora, Dr. Smitana Saikia, Prof. Nidhi Kalra, and Prof. Ravikant Kisana for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #LoSHAandWhatFollowedDetails of a session proposed by Anannya Chatterjee, Arunima Singh, Bhanu Priya Gupta, Renu Singh, and Rhea Bose for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #ListsAsDatabaseDetails of a session proposed by Ria De and Samata Biswas for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #ListInterfaceDetails of a session proposed by Bharath Sivakumar, Rakshita Siva, and Deepak Prince for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #LegitLists - Form follows function: List by designDetails of a session proposed by Akriti Rastogi, Ishani Dey, and Sagorika Singha for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #FOMODetails of a session proposed by Pritha Chakrabarti and Dr. Baidurya Chakrabarti for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #EnlistingPrivacyDetails of a session proposed by Pawan Singh and Pranjal Jain for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #DigitalPlatformAttributesDetails of a session proposed by Nandakishore K N and Dr. V. Sridhar for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #CallingOutAndInDetails of a session proposed by Usha Raman, Radhika Gajjala, Riddhima Sharma, Tarishi Varma, Pallavi Guha, Sai Amulya Komarraju, and Sugandha Sehgal for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #ButItIsNotFunnyDetails of a session proposed by Madhavi Shivaprasad and Sonali Sahoo for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - Proposed Session - #AyushmanBhavahDetails of a session proposed by Arya Lakshmi and Adrij Chakraborty for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
26 Nov 2018
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IRC19 - List of Proposed SessionsHere is the list of sessions proposed for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 - #List.
11 Nov 2018
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Digital Native: One Selfie Does a Tragedy MakeThe great find of this century – life’s worth just a selfie. Channeling the inner narcissus is now human hamartia.
1 Nov 2018
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Digital Native: Time to Walk the Talk#MeToo has turned victims into survivors, but social media remains an unsafe space.