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Researchers at Work
Interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital media. 556 items.
20 Sep 2017
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2018 (IRC18): Offline - Call for SessionsDoes being offline necessarily mean being disconnected? Beyond anxieties such as FOMO, being offline is also seen as disengagement from a certain milieu of the digital (read: capital), an impediment to the way life is organised by and …
10 Sep 2017
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Digital native: What’s in a name? PrivilegeAnonymity-based internet apps like Sarahah may not be as vicious for those surrounded by the comfort of social status. If your experience of Sarahah has been positive, it might be good to reflect on your own cultural and social capital.
4 Sep 2017
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The Digital Humanities from Father Busa to Edward SnowdenWhat do Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and Father Roberto Busa, an Italian Jesuit, who worked for almost his entire life on Saint Thomas Aquinas, have in common? The simple answer would be: the …
27 Aug 2017
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Digital native: You are not aloneAway from the guidance of adults, the internet can be a lonely place for youngsters, pushing them towards self-harm.
30 Jul 2017
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Digital native: Ever on the goIt is time to insist that the infrastructure of digital India is accompanied by the infrastructure of care for the digital Indian.When the telephone was first introduced as a mass communication tool, one of the biggest fears was that it …
16 Jul 2017
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Digital native: Not only wordsEmoticons, or if you prefer the original Japanese word emojis, are everywhere. We are used to emoticons in all shapes and sizes — from animated gifs jumping out at us on our social media feed to yellow-faced smileys that we use to add tone …
24 Jun 2017
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Digital Native: On mute, the Voice of the PeopleWe are at the mercy of trigger-happy governments and profit-hungry corporations that hold our digital lives ransom. They have the capacity to censor, contain, control and eradicate all our digital data without our consent and without …
11 Jun 2017
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Digital Native: In digiville attention is CurrencyThe increased importance on attention and the lack of it on social media gives all the more reason why we need to be discerning about what we invest our attention upon.
28 May 2017
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Digital native: Look before you (digitally) leapCreating a digital future is great, but there’s a serious need to secure the infrastructure first.
16 May 2017
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Tech Anthropology Today: Collaborate, Rather than Fetishize from Afar"That is why the 'offline' if you will is so critical to understanding the 'online'—because they do not exist in isolation and what we have constructed is an illusory binary between the two." In this interview, Geert Lovink discusses with …
14 May 2017
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Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!India’s digital landscape is dotted with vigilante voices that drown out people’s right to free speech.
5 May 2017
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Digital native: Snap out of outrage modeRage at the inequality of the digital world is good. But why stop at the Snapchat CEO?
17 Apr 2017
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Digital native: Are You Still Having Fun?Before you accept a fun app into your digital ecosystem, prepare yourself for the data you will be giving away.
2 Apr 2017
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Digital native: You can check out, you can never leaveAadhaar is not something you define and opt into, it is something that defines you.
29 Mar 2017
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Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from IndiaThis working paper by Ritam Sengupta, Dr. Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, and Dr. Christopher Foster draws from the field study undertaken by Ritam Sengupta, and is published by the Global Development Institute, University of …
27 Mar 2017
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Evaluating Safety Buttons on Mobile Devices: PreviewMuch technological innovation for women is aimed at addressing violence against women. One such ubiquitous intervention is mobile device-based safety applications, also known as emergency applications. Several police departments in India, …
19 Mar 2017
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Digital native: Lie Me a RiverThe sea of social media around us often drowns the truth, exchanging misinformation for facts.
3 Mar 2017
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Digital native: Who will watch the watchman?The state mining its citizens as data and suspending rights to privacy under the rhetoric of national security is alarming.
3 Mar 2017
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Digital Native: Do not go Gently into the Good NightIf there’s a lesson to be learned from the resistance to the Trump administration, it is this — patriotism is not a feeling, it is an action.
22 Jan 2017
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Digital native: Back at it AgainThe Indian digital landscape has put us in a loop of hashtags and outrage, a space where we have mastered the art of shame.
20 Jan 2017
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Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selected SessionsWith great pleasure we announce the eleven sessions selected for the Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) to be held at the IIIT Bangalore campus during March 03-05. The Conference is being organised by the Centre for Information …
16 Jan 2017
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Digital transitions in the newsroom: How are Indian language papers adapting differently?In a new report published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Centre for Internet and Society, Zeenab Aneez explores how Indian newsrooms are adapting their workflow and processes to cater to an increasing digital …
8 Jan 2017
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Digital Native: The Dream of the CyborgWe have arrived at hybrid realities, where the technological and the human cannot be separated. The digital future we had once imagined is already here.
30 Dec 2016
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P.P. Sneha - Mapping Digital Humanities in IndiaIt gives us great pleasure to publish the second title of the CIS Papers series. This report by P.P. Sneha comes out of an extended research project supported by the Kusuma Trust. The study undertook a detailed mapping of digital practices …
18 Dec 2016
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Digital Native: People Like UsHow the algorithm decides what you see on your timeline. If you have been hanging out on social media, there is one thing you can’t have escaped — a filter bubble. Be it demonetisation and its discontents, the fake news stories that seem to …
14 Dec 2016
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Workshop Report - UIDAI and Welfare Services: Exclusion and CountermeasuresThis report presents summarised notes from a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) on Saturday, August 27, 2016, to discuss, raise awareness of, and devise countermeasures to exclusion due to implementation of …
9 Dec 2016
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Indian Newspapers' Digital TransitionThis report examines the digital transition underway at three leading newspapers in India, the Dainik Jagran in Hindi, English-language Hindustan Times, and Malayala Manorama in Malayalam. Our focus is on how they are changing their …
5 Dec 2016
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Digital native: The View from My BubbleIn the digital world, the privileged have the power to deny a devastating crisis for the poor.
4 Dec 2016
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CFI-ACCION - Panel Discussion on 'Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?' (Delhi, December 06)The Centre for Financial Inclusion of ACCION International is organising a panel discussion on "Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?" as an associated event of the Inclusive Finance India Summit 2016, Hotel Ashok, Delhi, December 05-06. The …
22 Nov 2016
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Digital native: The Voices in Our HeadsWhat if our phones were to go silent? Would you be able to deal with the silence?