Programme
Researchers at Work
Interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital media. 556 items.
16 Nov 2016
Blog post
Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Selection of SessionsWe have a wonderful range of session proposals for the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) to take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. From the 23 submitted session proposals, we will now select 10 to be part of the final …
9 Nov 2016
Blog post
Digital Native: Mind Your LanguageThe lack of localisation on the Internet is a symptom of a larger problem. It has been a festive season. Greetings are in the air. Well, realistically speaking, smoke-filled smog is in the air and greetings are all on social media. In a …
17 Oct 2016
Blog post
Love in the Time of TinderService providers and information aggregators mine our information and share it in ways that we cannot imagine.
17 Oct 2016
Blog post
Digital Native: The Future is NowThe digital is not just an addition but the new norm in our lives, and it might not be all good. There used to be a popular joke among technology geeks when Bluetooth arrived on our mobile devices — everything becomes better with Bluetooth.
27 Sep 2016
Blog post
Mobilizing Online Consensus: Net Neutrality and the India SubredditThis essay by Sujeet George is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author offers a preliminary gesture towards understanding reddit’s usage and breadth in the Indian context. Through an analysis of the “India” subreddit and …
23 Sep 2016
Blog post
Internet Researchers' Conference 2017 (IRC17) - Call for SessionsIt gives us great pleasure to announce that the second Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC17) will take place in Bengaluru on March 03-05, 2017. It will be organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in partnership with the …
23 Sep 2016
Blog post
How Green is the Internet? The Good, the Bad, and the UglyThis essay by Aishwarya Panicker is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author draws attention to the fact that there is little data, debate, analysis, and examination of the environmental impact of the internet, which is …
18 Sep 2016
Blog post
Who Owns Your Phone?The capacity of companies to defy standards that work tells an alarming story of what we lose when we lose control of our devices.
17 Sep 2016
Blog post
Sequoia India’s Designathon 2016Along with their annual hackathon, Sequoia India organised a designathon in Bangalore on September 10-11, 2016. The participants picked one of three tracks - gamification, information visualisation, and smart acceleration - and developed an …
17 Sep 2016
Blog post
IIIT Delhi Workshop on Center for IT and SocietyA workshop on the upcoming Center for IT and Society in IIIT-Delhi was organised today, September 17, in the institute. The workshop highlights on the process of establishing a center on IT and Society, which will focus on studying …
9 Sep 2016
Blog post
Quarter Life Crisis: The World Wide Web turns 25 this yearWith the unexplained ban on websites, the state seems to have stopped caring for the digital rights of its citizens.
6 Sep 2016
Blog post
IIRC: Reflections on IRC16The first edition of the Internet Researchers' Conference (IRC) series was held on February 26-28, 2016. It was hosted by the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and was supported by the CSCS Digitial Innovation …
31 Aug 2016
Blog post
Report on Understanding Aadhaar and its New ChallengesThe Trans-disciplinary Research Cluster on Sustainability Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University collaborated with the Centre for Internet and Society, and other individuals and organisations to organise a two day workshop on “Understanding …
30 Aug 2016
Blog post
The Curious Incidents on Matrimonial Websites in IndiaThis essay by Abhimanyu Roy is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. The author explores how the curious interplays between the arranged marriage market in India the rise of matrimonial sites such as Jeevansathi.com and …
7 Aug 2016
Blog post
Do I Want to Say Happy B’day?When it comes to greeting friends on their birthdays, social media prompts are a great reminder. So why does an online message leave us cold?
3 Aug 2016
Blog post
101 Ways of Starting an ISP:* No. 53 - Conversation, Content and Weird FictionThis essay by Surfatial is part of the 'Studying Internet in India' series. It argues that the internet has created a space for philosophical questioning among contemporary Indian participants which can develop further, despite common …
29 Jul 2016
Blog post
Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Recommendations by NASSCOM on Transfer Pricing, 2014-2016This is the final part of a series of three blog posts, authored by Pavishka Mittal, tracking the engagements by NASSCOM and iSPIRT in suggesting and shaping the IT industry policies in India during 2006-2016. This post aims to explain the …
19 Jul 2016
Blog post
Digital Transition in Newspapers in India: A Pilot StudyThis pilot study situates itself at the intersection of global trends in news and journalism, and emergent practises of legacy print media in India. Our aim is to explore how legacy print newspapers are transitioning to the online space. …
11 Jul 2016
Blog post
RBI and Regulation of Digital Financial Services in India, 2012-2016The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) published its first guideline on mobile banking in 2008, and the conversation on integrating Aadhaar numbers with bank account numbers on one hand and mobile numbers on the other started as soon as UIDAI was …
6 Jul 2016
Blog post
How are Indian Newspapers Adapting to the Rise of Digital Media?How are Indian newspapers adapting to the transition to digital news production, distribution, and consumption? How are they changing their journalistic work, their newsroom organisations, and their distribution strategies as digital media …
5 Jul 2016
Blog post
Studying Internet in India (2016): Selected AbstractsWe received some great submissions and decided to select twelve abstracts, and not only ten as we planned earlier. Here are the abstracts.
4 Jul 2016
Blog post
Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Comparative Analysis of Recommendations by NASSCOM and iSPIRT, 2013-2016This is the second of a series of three blog posts, authored by Pavishka Mittal, tracking the engagements by NASSCOM and iSPIRT in suggesting and shaping the IT industry policies in India during 2006-2016. This post conducts a detailed …
3 Jul 2016
Blog post
Data for Governance, Governance of Data, and Data AnxietiesThe Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) organised a panel discussion on 'The Data Explosion – How the Internet of Things will Affect Media Freedom and Communication Systems?' at Deutsche Welle's Global Media Forum 2016, held in …
1 Jul 2016
Blog post
Policy Shaping in the Indian IT Industry: Recommendations by NASSCOM, 2006-2012This is the first of a series of three blog posts, authored by Pavishka Mittal, tracking the engagements by NASSCOM and iSPIRT in suggesting and shaping the IT industry policies in India during 2006-2016. This posts focuses on the policy …
30 Jun 2016
Blog post
Digital Humanities in India – Concluding ThoughtsAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
16 Jun 2016
Blog post
Creativity, Politics, and Internet CensorshipIn collaboration with Karnataka for Kashmir, we organised a discussion on 'Creativity, Politics and Internet Censorship' on May 25, 2016. Mahum Shabir, a legal activist and artist, Mir Suhail, political cartoonist with Kashmir Reader and …
1 Jun 2016
Blog post
Comments on the RBI's Consultation Paper on Peer to Peer LendingThe Reserve Bank of India published a Consultation Paper on Peer to Peer Lending on April 28, 2016, and invited comments from the public. CIS submitted the following response, authored by Elonnai Hickok, Pavishka Mittal, Sumandro …
31 May 2016
Blog post
RBI Consultation Paper on P2P Lending: Data Security and Privacy ConcernsOn April 28, 2016 the Reserve Bank of India published a consultation paper on P2P Lending and invited comments from the public on the same. The Paper discusses what P2P lending is, the various regulatory practices that govern P2P lending in …
23 May 2016
Blog post
RBI Consultation Paper on P2P Lending: Legality and ImplicationsThe Reserve Bank of India published a Consultation Paper on Peer-to-Peer Lending on April 28, 2016. The Paper proposes to bring the P2P lending platforms under the purview of RBI’s regulation by defining P2P platforms as NBFCs under section …
20 May 2016
Blog post
Call for Essays: Studying Internet in IndiaAs Internet makes itself comfortable amidst everyday lives in India, it becomes everywhere and everyware, it comes in 40 MBPS Unlimited and in chhota recharges – though no longer in zero flavour – the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme at …