Programme
Digital Natives
Young people and digital technologies. 178 items.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17 Oct 2016
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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.
7 Jun 2014
Event
Production Sprint — A Public Exhibition at CISThe Making Change project invites you for a public exhibition of stories of change from all over Asia, where the first of its Production Sprints will take place. The exhibition will be held at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) …
30 Apr 2014
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Reaping the Benefits of GamificationAs a part of the Making Change blog-post series, in this post we will identify a new technique: gamification. This technique is being used for sustainable environment conservation by modern day change-makers. We interview two out of three …
30 Apr 2014
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From Taboo to Beautiful - MenstrupediaOn this post, we take a look at 'menstrual activism' -a movement that despite its trajectory in feminism, remains unnoticed in most accounts of traditional and digital activism. We interview Tuhin Paul, the artist and storyteller behind …