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Researchers at Work
Interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital media. 556 items.
1 Nov 2018
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Digital Native: Hashtag FatigueIt is easy to hijack hashtags by coupling them with others. It is equally easy to make hashtags die.
1 Oct 2018
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2019 (IRC19): List - Call for SessionsWho 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 …
30 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Hardly Friends Like ThatIndividual effort is far from enough to fool Facebook’s grouping algorithm.
23 Sep 2018
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The Right Words for LoveQueer love is legal. Which means that all of us are finally free to find a language that can match our desires.
9 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: #MemeTooAn old meme shows the need for emotional literacy in our digitally saturated age. Memes, like regrettable exes, have the habit of resurfacing at regular periods.
6 Sep 2018
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Essays on 'Offline' - Selected AbstractsIn response to a recent call for essays that explore various dimensions of offline lives, we received 22 abstracts. Out of these, we have selected 10 pieces to be published as part of a series titled 'Offline' on the upcoming r@w blog. …
4 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Playing GodGoogle’s home assistant can make you feel deceptively God-like as it listens to every command of yours. It is a device that never sleeps, and always listens, waiting for a voice to utter “Ok Google” to jump into life.
4 Sep 2018
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Digital Native: Double SpeakAadhaar’s danger has always been that it opens up individuals to high levels of vulnerability without providing safeguards.
9 Aug 2018
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Call for Essays: OfflineWho is offline, and is it a choice? The global project of bringing people online has spurred several commendable initiatives in expanding access to digital devices, networks, and content, and often contentious ones such as Free Basics / …
29 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018
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Digital Native: How smart cities can make criminals out of denizensPeople download information and share it without knowing about the intellectual property rights. On social media bullying, harassment and hate speech find easy avenues.
1 Jul 2018
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Digital Native: The bigger pictureFor all our sleek machines, we are slaves to the much larger Internet of Things.
26 Jun 2018
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Digital Native: Cause an EffectAadhaar is a self-contained safe system, its interaction with other data and information systems is also equally safe and benign.
26 Jun 2018
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Digital Humanities Alliance of India - Inagural Conference 2018 - Keynote by Puthiya Purayil SnehaThe inaugural conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance of India (DHAI) was held at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore on June 1-2, 2018. The event was co-organised by the IIM and the Indian Institute of Technology, …
25 Jun 2018
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New Contexts and Sites of Humanities Practice in the Digital (Paper)The ubiquitous presence of the ‘digital’ over the couple of decades has brought with it several important changes in interdisciplinary forms of research and knowledge production. Particularly in the arts and humanities, the role of digital …
1 Jun 2018
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Digital Native: Web of WanderThe idea of travel as a way of expanding our horizon has now been made redundant.
22 Apr 2018
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Digital Native: The e-wasteland of our timesHow digitising isn’t necessarily a fast-track to a sustainable future.
8 Apr 2018
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Digital Native: Delete Facebook?You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
31 Mar 2018
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Making Humanities in the Digital: Embodiment and Framing in Bichitra and Indiancine.maThe growth of the internet and digital technologies in the last couple of decades, and the emergence of new ‘digital objects’ of enquiry has led to a rethinking of research methods across disciplines as well as innovative modes of creative …
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.
7 Feb 2018
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline, February 22-24, Sambhaavnaa InstituteWe are proud to announce that the third edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference series will be held at the Sambhaavnaa Institute, Kandbari (Himachal Pradesh) during February 22-24, 2018. This annual conference series was initiated …
22 Jan 2018
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Life of a Tuple: National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Reform of Citizen Identification Infrastructure in AssamWe are proud to announce that a research grant from the Azim Premji University has enabled us to initiate a study of the updation process of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and the resultant reform of citizen …
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.